Some Things You Probably Didn't Know

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• Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
• Starfish don't have brains.
• If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee
• Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour
• The ant can lift 50 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
• A cockroach will live nine days without it's head before it starves to death.
• A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
• Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks, otherwise it will digest itself.
• The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
• A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
• On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
• John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Licoln's son
• Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
• Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
• Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
• American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.
• Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
• Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.
• By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.
• In Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did this more than 100 years before either moon was discovered.
• Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
• Cats have over 100 vocal sounds, while dogs have only about ten.
• Everytime you lick a stamp, you are consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
• In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
• Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.

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