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Who, What, Where, When, more importantly Why???? All questions that have an answer.... maybe one day I'll have the time to provide you with those answers. But, for now, life goes on, or rather, it doesn't !!! Soapy's Useless Facts1 St. Johns Wood is the only station on the London Underground that does not contain any letters of the word 'Mackrel'.
2 Ants always fall over to the right when intoxicated.
3 All porcupines float in water.
4 Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.
5 A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
6 The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is ' uncopyrightable'.
7 A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
8 EMU's and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
9 The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
10 An ostrich's eye is bigger that its brain.
11 A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
12 No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver and purple.
13 A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.
14 Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
15 Every year, parks in London alone are doused in one million gallons of dog urine.
16 If your body's natural defences failed, the bacteria in your gut would consume you within 48 hours, literally eating you from the inside out
17 Parasites count for 0.01% of your body weight
18 The longest recorded tapeworm found in the human body was 33 metres in length
19 Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
20 Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
21 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
22 If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die, they need gravity to swallow.
23 More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
24 Certain frogs can be frozen solid, then thawed, and survive.
25 Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
26 To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs - it will let you go instantly.
27 Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
28 A whale's penis is called a dork.
29 The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
30 Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson".
31 In "Casablanca", Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam".
32 The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
33 A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
34 Swindon Town" is the only team in the entire football league, and Scottish FA which shares no letters with "Mackrel".
35 The echidna and platypus are the only mammals which don't experience REM sleep
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