1. The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it
2. The average human eats 8 spiders in thier lifetime.
3. A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
4. The shortest war in history was between Zanibar and Britian in 1896. Zanibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
5. A polar bear's skin is black. It's fur is not white, but clear.
*******6. 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.
7. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
8. Donald duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
9. More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes (that was changed as of september 11)
10. "stewardesses" is the longest  word typed with the left hand.
11. Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump".
12. Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one of her feet.
13. If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.
14. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
15. Right handed people live, on average, 9 years longer than left handed people.
16. The sentence, 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' uses ever letter in the English language.
17. The names of all continentsend with the same letter they begin with.
18. The word 'lethogica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
19. 'Typewriter' is the longest word that can be made using hte letters on only one row of the keyboard.
20. If the population of china walked past you in single file line, the like would never end because of the rate or reproduction. 
21. The words 'racecar' and 'kayak' are the rame whether they are read from left to right or right to left.
22. A snail can sleep for 3 years.
23. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.
24. China has more English speakers than the United States.
25. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
26. Did you know that you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world? (kinda makes ya feel unspecial huh,)
27. 'I am' is the shortest complete sentence in the English Language.
28. The longest word in the English Language is 1909 characters long and refers to a part of the DNA chain.
29. Cats have over 100 vocal sounds, dogs have only about 10.
30. Our eyes are the same size from birth but our nose and ears never stop growing.
31. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
32. If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand 7 feet, 2 inches tall and have a neck twice the size of a normail humans neck.
33. In every episode of Seinfeld, there is a Superman somewhere.
34. The flea can jump 350 times it's body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
35. No word in English rhymes with 'month', 'orange', 'silver' or 'purple'
36. The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II moves only 6 inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
37. There are 2 credit cards for every person in the USA.
38. Cat's urine glows under a black light.
39. Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors.
40. In the last 4000 years, no new animal has been domesticated.
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