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Animals

• The daddy long legs spider has a venom more potent than the Black Widow spider. It's
  just that it's fangs are so short the cannot penetrate human flesh.
• A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
• A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
• If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
• A snail can sleep for 3 years.
• Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.
• Cat's urine glows under a black light.
• A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
• The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
• Polar bears are left-handed.
• The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having
  the most taste buds.
• A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
• 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
• Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
• Butterflies taste with their feet.
• Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
• An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
• Starfish haven't got brains
• In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

 

People

• The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
• Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
• Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
• Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
• Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name
  was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.
• Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
• The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
• Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
• The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
• The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30
  feet.
• Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
• Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
• On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
• The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.
• It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
• You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
• More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
• Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world.
• Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years
  of age.
• Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers
  in Malaysia combined.
• If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound
  energy to heat one cup of coffee.
• If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the
  energy of an atomic bomb.
• Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
• Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
• You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider

 

Geographic

• China has more English speakers than the United States.
• Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
• The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar
  surrendered after 38 minutes.
• The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
• There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
• Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
• In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows
  and eyelashes.

 

General

• The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
• If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end
  because of the rate of reproduction
• American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served
  in first-class.
• The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
• In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
• 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.
• Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
• 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 cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel
  that it burns.
• Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
• Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
• One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s
  lobbied against hemp farmers-they saw it as competition.

 

Language

• The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to
  left.
• The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter
  in the English language.
• Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump".
• Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
• "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
• The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a
  distinct part of DNA.
• The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the
  word you want.
• TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of
  the keyboard.
• No word in the English language rhymes with month.