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Did you know that...
Kermit the Frog is left-handed.
The lifespan of a tastebud is ten days.
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."
Camel's milk does not curdle.
The only nation whose name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in an
"A" is Afghanistan.
The Bible has been translated into Klingon.
If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be "heads" 5000 times,
but more like 4950 times. The "heads" picture weighs more, so it ends
up on the bottom.
A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle; a group of geese in the
air is a skein. A group of unicorns is called a blessing whereas twelve
or more cows are known as a flink. A group of frogs is called an army.
A group of rhinos is called a crash. A group of whales is called a pod.
A group of kangaroos is called a mob. A group of officers is called a
mess. A group of ravens is called a murder. A group of larks is called
an exaltation, and a group of owls is called a parliament.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.
Three quarters of household water is used to flush the toilet and take
baths and showers.
Sex for one hour will burn off 11 Hershey Kisses, or 360 calories.
15% of U.S. women send themselves flowers on Valentine's Day.
Parthenophobia is the fear of virgins.
In the Brazilian jungle, women of the Apinaye tribe bite off portions
of their mates' eyebrows during intercourse.
In Vermont, USA, it is illegal for women to wear false teeth without
the written permission of their husbands.
Doctors around the World expected April 9th, 1999 to be a record-
setting day for SEXUAL activity. Reason? Chances are the best that
your child, if conceived that day, will be born on January 1, 2000.
Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth.
The average life span of an umbrella is 1½ years.
Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. president to have been born in a
hospital.
Normally there are born 94 females to 100 males.
But among quadruplets there are 156 females for every 100 males.
The slipper-shelled snail starts life as a male and gradually turns
female as it grows up.
Fingernails have a life span of three to six months. That's how long
it takes them to grow from base to tip, progressing at the pace of
1.5 inches a year -- or 0.000000047 inches a second.
John Wilkes Booth's brother saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son.
Neutering a cat extends its life span by two or three years.
The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves
to death.
A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896.
Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why
Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron; in honour of his brother.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered
blood donors.
Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in
plane crashes.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
It was Shakespeare who invented the words "assassination" and "bump."
Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than
left-handed people do.
The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they
start with.
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.
The word "racecar" and "kayak" are the same whether they are read left
to right or right to left, and that's known as a "palindrome".
If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line
would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
China has more English speakers than the United States.
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, with a population
of 1000 and a size 108.7 acres.
No president of the United States was an only child.
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one-mile in every five
must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in
times of war or other emergencies.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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