Interesting Facts
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- The venom in a Daddy Long-legs spider is more poisnous
than a Black Widow's or a Brown Recluse, but they cannot
bite humans because their jaws won't open wide enough.
- If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads
5,000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture wieghs
more, so it ends up on the bottom.
- Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
- Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to
carrots.
- The pop you get when you crack your knuckles is actually
a bubble of gas bursting.
- 101 Dalmations and Peter Pan are the only two Disney
cartoon features with both parents who are present and
don't die throughout the movie.
- The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze
completely solid.
- There's no Betty Rubble in Flinstones Chewable Vitamins.
- In Minnesota it is illegal to cross state lines with a duck on your head.
- In Indiana it is illegal to ride public transportation for at least 30 minutes after eating garlic.
- A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
- Polar bears are left-handed.
- 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.
- 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.
- Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."
- Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
- If you keep a Goldfish in a dark room , it will eventually
turn white.
- Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
- The name of all the continents end with the same letter
that they start with.
- TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters
on only one row of the keyboard.
- If the population of China walked past you in single
file, the line would never end because of the rate of
reproduction.
- A snail can sleep for 3 years.
- American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating
one olive from each salad served in first-class.
- China has more people that speak English than the
United States.
- The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
- Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, with
a population of 1,000 and a size of 108.7 acres.
- You share your birthday with at least 9 million other
people in the world.
- 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.