Fun Facts
Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.
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Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
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Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
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Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33
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Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were all invented by women
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Butterflies taste with their feet.
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Cat's urine glows under a black light.
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Certain frogs can be frozen solid, then thawed, and survive.
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Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
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Coca Cola was originally green.
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Cost of raising a medium-sized dog to the age of 11: £4000
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Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.
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Dogs have four toes on their hind feet, and five on their front feet
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Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear trousers.
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During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance.
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Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great; Hearts - Charlemagne; and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
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Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.
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Elephants are the only mamals that can't jump.
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Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
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Every day more money is printed for monopoly than the US Treasury.
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Every person has a unique tongue print.
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Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie
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First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer
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Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.
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If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.
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If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
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If you spell out consecutive numbers, you have to go up to one thousand until you would find the letter "a"
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If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times,but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
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In "Casablanca", Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam".
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In the TV series I Love Lucy, Ricki Ricardo never actually said "Lucy you have some 'splaining to do"
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Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
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The youngest Pope was 11 years old
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Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
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To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs - it will let you go instantly.
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Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself
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Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.
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The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
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The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
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The strongest muscle in proportion to its size in the human body is the tongue.
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If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
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An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain
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"I am" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
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40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.
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A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
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A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.
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A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
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A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
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A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.
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A person cannot taste food unless it is mixed with saliva. For example, if strong-tasting substance like salt is placed on a dry tongue, the taste buds will not be able to taste it. As soon as a drop of saliva is added and the salt is dissolved, however, a definite taste sensation results. This is true for all foods. Try it!
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A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
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A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
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A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
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All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
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It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth.Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
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It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
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James Doohan, who played Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott on Star Trek, was missing the entire middle finger of his right hand.
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Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
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Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
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Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
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Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better than men.
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Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
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More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in aircrashes
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Most lipstick contains fish scales.
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No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
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Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
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Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
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Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into to shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
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Pearls melt in vinegar.
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Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
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Polar bears are left handed.
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Porcupines float in water.
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Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson".
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Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating
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Starfish don't have brains.
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Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
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Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building, it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realise what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
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Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
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The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
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The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
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The US Interstate road system was designed so that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
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The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)
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The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
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The city with the most Roll Royces per capita: Hong Kong
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The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of fuel that it burns.
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The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
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The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
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The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
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The mask used by Michael Myers in the original film "Halloween" was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
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The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
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The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
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The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
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The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".
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The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
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The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
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The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet. (Developed by Western Union to Test telex/two communications
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The term "whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got the "whole 9 yards."
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The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo
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The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
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