DON'T YOU KNOW THAT....
A cockroach will live
nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
A crocodile cannot
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A pig's orgasm lasts
for 30 minutes.
A snail can sleep for
three years.
All Polar bears are left-handed.
American Airlines
saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in
first-class.
Americans on average
eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
An ostrich's eye is
bigger than its brain.
Babies are born
without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of
age.
Banging your head
against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
Butterflies taste with
their feet.
Cats have over one
hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.
Cat's urine glows
under a black light.
China has more English
speakers than the United States.
Donald Duck comics
were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
Dueling is legal in
Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
Elephants are the only
animals that can't jump.
Every time you lick a
stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
February 1865 is the
only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
Humans and dolphins
are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
I am. is the shortest
complete sentence in the English language
If Barbie were
life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two
inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.
If the population of
China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the
rate of reproduction.
If you fart
consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the
energy of an atomic bomb.
If you keep a goldfish
in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.
If you yelled for 8
years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat
one cup of coffee.
In ancient Egypt,
priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and
eyelashes.
In the last 4000
years, no new animals have been domesticated.
It's impossible to
sneeze with your eyes open.
Leonardo Da Vinci
invented the scissors.
Michael Jordan makes
more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia
combined.
More people are killed
by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
No word in the English
language rhymes with month.
Nutmeg is extremely
poisonous if injected intravenously.
On average, people
fear spiders more than they do death.
One of the reasons
marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the '30s lobbied
against hemp farmers, they saw it as competition.
Only one person in two
billion will live to be 116 or older.
Our eyes are always
the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Right-handed people live,
on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
Shakespeare invented
the word "assassination" and "bump."
Some lions mate over
50 times a day.
Starfish haven't got
brains.
Stewardesses is the
longest word typed with only the left hand.
The ant always falls
over on its right side when intoxicated.
The average human eats
eight spiders in their lifetime at night.
The catfish has over
27,000 taste buds.
The cruise liner,
Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The electric chair was
invented by a dentist.
The human heart
creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
The male praying
mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female
initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
The most common name
in the world is Mohammed.
The name of all the
continents end with the same letter that they start with.
The name Wendy was
made up for the book "Peter Pan."
The Pentagon, in
Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was
built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring
separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
The sentence,
"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the
English language.
The shortest war in
history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38
minutes.
The strongest muscle
in the body is the tongue.
The word
"lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the
word you want.
The word racecar and
kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
There are two credit
cards for every person in the United States.
TYPEWRITER is the
longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the
keyboard.
Women blink nearly
twice as much as men.
You are more likely to
be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
You can't kill
yourself by holding your breath.
You share your
birthday with at least nine million other people in the world.
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