1.The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
2. The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
3. A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves
to death.
4. A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
5. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in
1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
6. A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually
clear.
7. Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is
why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.
8. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are
registered blood donors.
9. Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear
pants.
10. More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in
plane crashes.
11. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
12. Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
13. Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
14. If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn
white.
15. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
16. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than
left- handed people do.
17. The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses
every letter in the English language.
18. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they
start with.
19. The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to
remember the word you want.
20. TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the
letters on only one row of the keyboard.
21. If the population of China walked past you in single file, the
line would never end because of the rate of reproduction
22. The words racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read
left to right or right to left.
23. A snail can sleep for 3 years.
24. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive
from each salad served in first-class.
25. China has more English speakers than the United States.
26. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
27. Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, with a population
of 1000 and a size 108.7 acres.
28. The longest town name in the world has 167 letters.
29. Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million
other people in the world.
30. "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
31. The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and
it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
32. No president of the United States was an only child.
33. 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.
Linx
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