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-The first Ford cars had Dodge engines
-Leonardo DiVinci invented the scissors
-Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't develope till around 2-6 years of age.
-Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during WWI.
-Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.
-In 1983, a Japanese artist made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out of
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-The first-known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
-America's first nudist organization was founded in 1929, by 3 men
-A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
-Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
-Most American car horns honk in the key of F.
-Most lipstick contains fish scales.
-Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
-The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
-Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.
-"Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.
-There are twice as many kangaroos in Australia as there are people. The kangaroo population is estimated at about 40 million.
-During his entire lifetime, Herman Melville's timeless classic of the sea, 'Moby Dick', only sold 50 copies.
-The liver, not the heart, is the sign of romance in northern Morocco.... When a Moroccan girl falls in love she says, "Darling, you have stolen my liver."
-The host team in an NFL football game must have 26 footballs inflatedand ready to play.
-The world's greatest lover was King Mongut of Siam. He had 9,000 wives.... Before dying of syphilis he was quoted as saying he only loved the first 700.
-Jim Morrison, of the 60's rock group The Doors, was the first rock star to be arrested on stage.
-Barbie's full name is "Babara Millicent Roberts."
-Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
-If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand 7 feet (2 m) 2 inches (5 cm) tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.
-Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
-Marilyn Monroe had 6 toes on one foot.
-Anne Boleyn, Queen Elizabeth I's mother, had six fingers on one hand.
-Elvis had a twin brother named Jesse, who died at birth.
-Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words none of them with the letter "E."
-The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.
-If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
-A polar bears skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
-A cockroach can live 9 days without its head before it starves to death.
-A hippo can run faster than a man can.
-A starfish can turn its stomach inside out.
-When sharks take a bite, their eyes roll back and their teeth jut out.
-In 1681, the last dodo bird died.
-An adult hippo can bite a 12-foot (3.6 m) adult male crocodile in half.
-The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.
-Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
-Jeremy Bentham, a British philosopher who died in 1832, left his entire estate to the London Hospital provided that his body be allowed to preside over its board meetings. His skeleton was clothed and fitted with a wax mask of his face. It was present at the meeting for 92 years.
-A broken clock is right at least twice a day.
-Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
-The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.
-A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
-The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
-Tom Sawyer was the first novel written on a typewriter.
-Just 20 seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon.
-If you lock your knee while standing long enough, you will pass out.
-The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.
-The first music video was aired on August 1, 1981 "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Bugles on MTV.
-At -40 degrees Centigrade/Fahrenheit, a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.
-The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
-The average woman consumes 6 pounds of lipstick in her lifetime.
-It only takes 7 pounds of pressure to rip your ear off.
-13 people are killed each year by vending machine's falling on them.
-If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
-If you multiply 111,111,111 by 111,111,111, you get 12,345,678,987,654,321.
-August 8th is the start of "National Pickle Week."
-Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
-The white trail that follows a plane is actually ice.
-If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
-The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
-The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
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