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- The
war of 1812 is the only war in American history which congress debated the
merits of.
- There
are 2.5 million new gonorrhea cases a year among Americans
- If
you could magnify an apple to the size of the earth, the atoms in the
original apple would each be about the size of an apple.
- Every
second, 10 billion neutrinos pass through every square centimeter of your
body.
- A
rope woven from the hair of one person's head is strong enough to lift 10
cars.
- In
its 120 day life span, each of your red blood cells makes 75,000 round-trips
to the lungs
- According
to relativity theory, a transatlantic Concorde flight leaves you two
millionths of a second younger than your earthbound pals (submitted by
'Green Arm')
- "Kemo
Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.
- For
two years, during the 1970s, Mattel marketed a doll called "Growing Up
Skipper." Her breasts grew when her arm was turned.
- A
Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee
- The
soldiers of World War I were the first people to use the modern flushing
toilet. The inventor: Thomas Crapper.
- The
condom - made originally of linen - was invented in the early 1500's.
- In
1898, Bayer was advertising cough medicine containing heroin.
- Camel
hair brushes are made from squirrel hair.
- Donald
Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
- Swans
are the only birds with penises
- Rats
can't throw-up.
- An
ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
- Ants
don't sleep.
- A
cat's jaws cannot move sideways.
- A
cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
- Blondes
have more hair than dark-haired people
- The
average human body contains enough: iron to make a 3 inch nail, sulfur to
kill all fleas on an average dog, carbon to make 900 pencils, potassium to
fire a toy cannon, fat to make 7 bars of soap, phosphorous to make 2,200
match heads, and water to fill a ten-gallon tank.
- Every
time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
- In
Texas, it's illegal to put graffiti on someone else's cow.
- 1/100
of a second is called a "jiffy".
- Bone
is stronger, inch for inch, than the steel in skyscrapers.
- The
phrase "rule of thumb" is taken from an old English law stating
that a husband could not beat his wife with anything thicker than his thumb
- Hollowed
out lemon halves were used as a primitive diaphragm in the Middle Ages.
- Ants
do not sleep.
- A
can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds.
- In
Brazil, Pinto, the same name as the Ford car, is a slang term meaning a
small male appendage.
- Fresca,
the soft drink, had problems when it was sold in Mexico. Fresca is slang for
lesbian.
- In
Germany, Sunbeam's Mist-Stick curling iron was translated into manure wand.
- Spam
was invented in 1937
- 95%
of the worlds population regularly suffers from Bellybutton lint at any
given time.
- Dirty
snow melts faster than clean snow
- Lightening
can strike the earth with a force as great as 100 million volts.
- The
white part of your fingernail is called the lunula.
- Emus
cannot walk backwards.
- Cats
have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs have about ten.
- Our
eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop
growing.
- There
are only three animals with blue tongues - the Black Bear, the Chow Chow Dog
and the blue tongue lizard.
- Camel's
milk does not curdle.
- Hamsters
love to eat crickets.
- An
animal epidemic is called an epizootic.
- Murphy's
Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.
- Barbie's
measurements, if she were life size, are 39-22-33.
- The
ridges on the sides of coins are called reeding.
- Very
small clouds that look like they have broken off of bigger clouds are called
scuds.
- Giraffes
have no vocal cords.
- Cat's
urine glows under a black light.
- A
dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
- Race
Car is a palindrome.
- Avocado
is derived from the Spanish word "aguacate" which is derived from
"ahuacatl" meaning testicle.
- I
like writing and reading useless information.
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