Did you know ......... People who live in the city have longer, thicker nose hairs than people who live in the country. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every 2 weeks; otherwise it will digest itself. Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands. The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet. We shed an average of 40 pounds of dead skin in a lifetime. When we blush, our stomach lining also turns red. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath. Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint. We get goose bumps where our ancestors used to have hair. On a square inch of our skin, there are 20 million micro- scopic animals. Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age. Turtles can breathe through their butts. It is impossible to lick your elbow. Cattle are the only mammals that pee backwards. All babies are color blind when they are born. Europe is the only continent without a desert. Frozen lobsters can come back to life when thawed! Washington, D.C. has one lawyer for every 19 residents! A coffee tree yields about one pound of coffee in a year. A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out. A shrimp's heart is in their head. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. Over 50% of people have never made or received a telephone call. Rats and horses can't vomit. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. , if you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. 35% of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married. A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts. Most lipstick contains fish scales. Cat's urine glows under a black-light. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different. Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow. (You tried it... I saw you.) A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death. Butterflies taste their own feet. ( Something I always wanted to know. ) Elephants are the only animal that cannot jump. Polar bears are left handed. All porcupines float in water. More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes. Certain frogs can be frozen solid, then thawed, and survive. There are 13,092 pieces of silverware in the White House. Armadillos are the only animals besides humans that can get leprosy. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is'uncopyrightable'. The first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. The longest recorded flight of a chicken as 13 seconds. Australia has 114,584,000 more sheep that it has people. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum you burn more calories sleeping then by watching tv Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reinade los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size,L.A. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable. Coca-Cola was originally green. In 1845 Boston has an ordinance banning bathing unless you had a doctors prescription. Seaweed is used to thicken icecream. In many countries, urine was used as a detergent for washing. In France, it is legal to marry a dead person! There are 92 cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea. The average person spends three years of his or her life on the toilet. Some species of fish have voices! Women end up digesting most of the lipstick they apply. Bananas aren't fruits! They are a type of herb. The number of births that occur in India each year is higher than the entire population of Australia. There are no penguins in the North Pole. A spider's silk is stronger than steel. Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters. The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910. The youngest pope was 11 years old. First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 . Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. There are more chickens than people in the world. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched." All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, or purple. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt." All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill. Almonds are a member of the peach family. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life." A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. Mr. Rogers was an ordained Presbyterian minister. John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin. The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer. So did the "marlboro man." The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca Cola, and Budweiser, in that order It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs. walt disney was afraid of mice pearls melt in vinegar Turtles can breathe through their butts. On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year. Women blink nearly twice as much as men. A snail can sleep for three years. No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH." Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. The electric chair was invented by a dentist. The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma. No piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven (7) times. In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes. Most oysters are ambisexual. They begin life as males, then become females, then change back and forth many times. KOTEX was first manufactured as bandages during WWI. A French Kiss in America is an English Kiss in France. A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off. Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark. The most common name in the world is Mohammed. The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung used by Egyptians in 2000 BC. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere. Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave. To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe. Canadians can send letters with personalized postage stamps showing their own photos on each stamp. It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979. Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants watered with cold water. There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year. In Calama, a town in the Atacama Desert of Chile, it has never rained. Cats, camels and giraffes are the only animals in the world that walk right foot, right foot, left foot, left foot, rather than right foot, left foot... In most watch advertisements the time displayed on the watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch and make it look like it's smiling. Leonardo da Vinci could write with the one hand and draw with the other simultaneously. Now we know why his pictures were exquisite!! The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and parrot. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled with out repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable". The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and Purple. The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night. A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes. A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear. Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother. Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand. Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump". I f you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white. Women blink nearly twice as much as men. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do. The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the english language. The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want. TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters only one row of the keyboard. A snail can sleep for 3 years. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class. China has more English speakers than the United States. The electric chair was invented by a dentist. "I am" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. Cats have over 100 vocal sounds, dogs only have about 10. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our noses and ears never stop growing. Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere. Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon. Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. State capital without a McDonald's. The Pentagon in Arlington, VA, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940's, Virginia still had segregation laws requiring seperate toilet facilities for blacks and whites. No word in the English language rhymes with month. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns. There are 2 credit cards for every person in the United States. The first Ford cars had Dodge engines. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. It takes about a 1/2 gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot. The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously. Who would try? If you have three quarters, four dimes and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount in coins, without having change for a dollar. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined. No NFL team which plays it's home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl. The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave it to Beaver". In the great fire of London in 1666, half of London was burnt out but only 6 people were injured. Frank Lloyd Wright's son invented Lincoln Logs. Only one person in 2 billion will live to be 116 or older. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan". If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death!!! The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath. Dragonflies can travel up to 60mph. ---- An iceberg contains more heat than a lit match. --- In ancient China, people committed suicide by eating a pound of salt. --- 80% of millionaires drive used cars. --- In ancient England a person could not have sex unless you had consent of the king. ---- Some lions mate over 50 times a day. In 2004, 8 out of 10 shoppers bought foods for the purpose of preventing disease. 22.7% of American adults are obese. The average adult has 100 billion brain cells. We lose 85,000 of these every day! Everyday the average person takes around 8,000 steps. Depending on whether you are male or female and how much you weigh -- that translates into between 4-12 tons of impact a day! The word "polish," with a lowercased "p," is one of the few (and perhaps the only) words in the English language that is pronounced differently when it is capitalized. The onion is named after a Latin word meaning large pearl. In France, people eat approximately 500,000,000 snails per year. Salt, our oldest preservative, was extremely rare in the past. So rare, in fact, that it was often used as pay. So why do we need ear wax? First, it contains special chemicals that fight off in- fections that could hurt the skin inside the ear canal. Second, it acts as a shield between the outside world and the eardrum. When dust, dirt, and other things enter your ear, the earwax traps them so they can't travel any further. The average human body contains enough: iron to make a 3 inch nail, sulfur to kill all fleas on an average dog, carbon to make 900 pencils, potassium to fire a toy can-non, fat to make 7 bars of soap, phosphorous to make 2,200 match heads, and water to fill a ten-gallon tank. The base of the Great Pyramid of Egypt is large enough to cover 10 football fields. In 1970, a group of people were arrested at Highgate cemetery for intent to harm...a vampire! The vampire is rumored to still be around today. Prisoners in a California jail were so spooked by the Ouija board they made that Priests were called in to cast out the demons. The convicts had summoned up spirits, including a woman who told them how she was murdered. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death. The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds. Starfish haven't got brains. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. The average secretary's left hand does 56% of the typing. There are more chickens than people in the world. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple. In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call. Nearly a third of all bottled drinking water purchased in the US is contaminated with bacteria. Homely criminals get 50% longer jail sentences, on average, than good-looking criminals. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere. A shrimp's heart is in its head. In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand. On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year. Butterflies taste with their feet. More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes. In 1994, electromagnetic interference (EMI) from a nearby cellular telephone captivated a power wheelchair at a scenic vista in Colorado, sending the passenger over a cliff. Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age. A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death. On average people fear spiders more than they do death. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs. Women blink nearly twice as much as men. Eyes are always the same size from birth but nose and ears never stop growing. The electric chair was invented by a dentist. All polar bears are left handed.. The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. "Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours. A baby octopus is about the size of a flea when it is born. In the 1990's more than 30 people were axed, hung, burned and mobbed to death in the USA for practicing witchcraft. Unusual deaths have plagued the cast of the Poltergeist trilogy of films including 12-year-old actress Heather O'Rourke, who died of septic shock. The theory is that the set was cursed by evil. If all the salt were to be extracted from the Earth's oceans, you would have enough salt to cover all of the continents five feet deep. Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined. The colours yellow, red, and orange are used in fast food restaraunts because those are the colours that stimulate hunger.  
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