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Trivia
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In this area of the site, I found some trivia facts that I
thought were interesting and worth being on my site. So, enjoy!
- Every citizen of Kentucky is required by law to take a bath
once a year.
- Your skin weighs twice as much as your brain.
- Woodpeckers don't get headaches.
- A mosquito's favorite aroma is aftershave.
- The most commonly used word in the English language is "the."
- There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
- Shirley Temple had exactly 56 curls in her hair.
- A dog's nose print is as individual as a person's fingerprint.
- There's a club in the U.S. whose only membership requirement
is that your name be Jim Smith. 781 members were last counted.
- The only animal with four knees is the elephant.
- Albert Einstein was four years old before he could talk.
- A duck has three eyelids.
- It is impossible to sneeze while keeping your eyes open.
- Massachusetts' official state beverage is cranberry juice.
- Butterflies taste with their feet.
- A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
- On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
- 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.
- A snail can sleep for three years.
- No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."
- Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
- 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.
- All polar bears are left handed.
- In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
- TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
- "Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
- A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
- The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
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