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*** The Human Body ***
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| Men can read smaller print than women.
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| Women can hear better than men.
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| Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
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| Our eye muscle moves about 1,00,000 times a day!
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| The brain has no sensation of pain even when it is cut!
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| The longest human bone is the femur or thigh bone which is 48 cms long.
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| It is so strong that it can support 30 times the weight of a man!
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| Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.
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| When you sneeze, all your bodily functions stops even your heart.
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| The lifespan of a taste bud is ten days.
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| Our eyes never grow our nose and ears never stop growing.
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| The pop you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually a bubble of gas bursting.
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| It requires the use of 72 muscles to speak a single word.
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| It takes 17 facial muscles to smile but 42 to frown.
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| The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
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| Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
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| If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced
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| to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
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| If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you will have produced
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| enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
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| Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
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| You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
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*** Entertainment ***
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| The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
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| Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33
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| Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
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| Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
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| What separates "60 Minutes" on CBS from every other TV show - No theme song.
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| What fact about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) is most ironic? - He was allergic to carrots.
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| All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
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| Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? Paul Reiser himself.
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| Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
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| John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
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| Michael Jordan has more money from Nike annually than all the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
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| The name Wendy was made up for the book 'Peter Pan'.
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| The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the
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| taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's A Wonderful Life."
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| The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum,
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| looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
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*** Food Fight ***
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| Coca Cola was originally green.
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| The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were
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| 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.
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| Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them look
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| like it is kissing the conveyor belt.
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| Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
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| The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
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| American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.
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| The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
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| Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
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| Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight!
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| When the Titanic sunk there was 7,500 lbs of ham on it.
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| The world's largest McDonalds is located on I-44 at Vinita, Oklahoma. It goes from one side
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| of the interstate to the other, passing over the interstate.
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| What is the only food that doesn't spoil? - HONEY
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| Almonds are a member of the peach family.
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| Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
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| Two-thirds of the world's eggplants are grown in New Jersey.
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*** Wild Kingdom ***
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| Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so
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| they don't know you're there.
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| A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.
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| It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
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| It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.
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| Butterflies taste with their feet
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| Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about 10.
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| Cats urine glows under a black light.
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| All polar bears are left handed.
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| A snail can sleep for three years.
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| A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
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| The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
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| A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
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| Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
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| An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
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| A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
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| There are more chickens than people in the world.
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| Cost of raising a medium sized dog to the age of 11: $6,400.
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| Black Lemurs are the only primates that have blue eyes.
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| A full grown bear can run as fast as a horse.
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| A typical double-bed mattress contains as many as 2 million dust-mites(Demodex Folliculorom).
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| The Great White shark is the world's largest flesh eating fish.
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| The Worlds Largest frog is the Goliath frog.
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| The Worlds Largest animal is the Blue whale
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| The Worlds Largest fish is the Whale shark
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| The Worlds Largest snake is the Anaconda
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| The Worlds Fastest running animal is the Cheetah
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| The Worlds Slowest animal is the Snail
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| The Worlds Smallest animal is the Pygmy shrew
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| The Worlds Tallest mammal is the Giraffe
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| The Worlds Largest marsupial is the Kangaroo
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| The Worlds Longest survival is the Tortoise
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| The Worlds Heaviest land mammal is the African elephant
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| In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
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| The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
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| The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
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*** Famous Places ***
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| City with the most Roll Royce's per capita: Hong Kong
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| Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
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| Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
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| The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
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| Atacama desert of Chile never had any rainfall for about 400 years until 1971.
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| It is considered as the driest plateau across the world.
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| Pizza originated in the famous Italian city of Naples.
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| The top three cork producing countries in the world are Spain, +++++ and Algeria.
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| The height of the 984-foot-tall Eiffel Tower varies, depending on
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| the temperature, by as much as 6 inches.
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| In the city of Washington D.C., no building may be built taller
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| than the Washington Monument.
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| TEXAS is the only state in U.S.A. which is allowed to fly it's flag
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| at the same height as the U.S.A's Flag.
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| The dominican republic is the only country in the world with a Bible in it's flag.
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*** Numbers & Words ***
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| TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
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| The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
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| 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321.
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| "I am" is the shortest complete sentence in the english language.
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| First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
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| Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions!
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| Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!
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| The word "live" spelled backward is "evil.
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| The word "dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in the letters 'mt'.
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| The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced
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| the same way when the last four letters are removed.
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| No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
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| The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
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| "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
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| Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
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| The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
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*** Miscellaneous ***
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| Every day more money is printed for monopoly than the US Treasury.
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| Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
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| The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
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| The youngest Pope was 11 years old.
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| Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:
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| Spades-King David, Clubs-Alexander the Great, Hearts-Charlemagne, and
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| Diamonds-Julius Caesar.
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| The Italian flag was designed by Napoleon Bonaparte.
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| Astronaut Neil Armstrong first stepped on the moon with his left foot .
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| Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John
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| Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the
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| last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
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| The term "whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming
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| their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly
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| 27 feet. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got the "whole 9 yards".
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| The only U.S. president born on the Fourth of July was Calvin Coolidge.
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| The three presidents who've died on the Fourth of July were Thomas Jefferson and
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| John Adams (both died in 1826), and James Monroe in 1831.
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