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Interesting Facts
(These facts have not been verified. So if you find any of them to be untrue, well, I warned you.)
Honey is the only natural food that is made without destroying any kind of life.
The most common name is the world is Mohommad.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
A cat's jaw cannot move sideways.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
Camel's milk does not curdle.
All porcupines float in water.
When opossums are playing possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
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.
When you hear the crack of a whip you hear a mini sonic boom. It actually travels faster than the speed of sound!
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
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 realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself
Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."
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.
Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the deaths of their cats.
Reindeer like to eat bananas.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
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.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die, they need gravity to swallow.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's A Wonderful Life"
Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on his famous transatlantic flight.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been overmixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since.
Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.
Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.
A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.
Dr. Seuss coined the word "nerd" in his 1950 book titled "If I Ran the Zoo"
It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1
Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars
When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per year.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
The Bible has been translated into Klingon.
Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants
On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
Reno, Nevada is west of Los Angeles, California.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Five Jell-O flavors that flopped: celery, coffee, cola, apple, and chocolate.
Internationally, Baywatch is the most popular TV show in history.
Ben and Jerry's send the waste from making ice cream to local pig farmers to use as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor: Mint Oreo.
To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs -- it will let you go instantly.
A study in 1993 found that 1/4 of Americans over the age of 18 say they would not give up TV, even for a million dollars.
A study in the 1980's offered four and five year olds the choice of giving up TV or their fathers. 1/3 said they would give up their fathers.
A Los Angeles taxi company can be fined up to $1,500 if its drivers are found wearing anything plaid.
57% of cat owners say they confide in their cats about important matters.
The average American drinks 3.4 cups of coffee daily.
16,000,000,000 prizes have been given away in boxes of Cracker Jacks since 1912.
There is a 99 in 100 chance that a deep breath inhaled today will contain a molecule from Julius Caesar's dying breath.
50% of Americans believes that "there are people somewhat like ourselves living on other planets in the universe."
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
You can tell whether an egg is fresh by putting it in a pan of cool, salted water. Fresh eggs will sink to the bottom, bad eggs will rise to the water's surface.
Ants will not cross a chalk line.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
Americans consumed 40 million gallons of soy sauce in 1998-that's 19.2 ounces for every man, woman, and child.
The average person swallows between 7 and 10 spiders during his/her lifetime, usually while sleeping.
365 words in the Webster 1996 edition where spelt wrong.
A year is a leap year if it is divisible by 4, although not if it is divisible by 100. It is a leap year if it's divisible by 1000, but not if it is divisible by 4000
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Some types of snails can sleep for three years without eating.
In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase "goodnight, sleep tight."
Every time you laugh you burn 3 calories
Copyright info: These facts were taken from...
206 True but Useless Facts. 2001. March 31 2002 <http://unhindered.com/insp/humor/index.html?list=37>.
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