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Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than center handed people do.

The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the english language.

Rap and hip hop was invented in the South Bronx,New york city by the rap group RunDMC.

No president of the United States was an only child.

The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

TYPEWRITER, is one of the longest words that can be made using the letters only one row of the keyboard.

Queens, New York City is the most cutural diversied place on the earth, one in every third person is and immgrant in qnz.

If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction

The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read center to right or right to center.

A snail can sleep for 3 years.

India produces more movies than hollywood, it's annually production is 800 indian flims a year

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

China has more English speakers than the United States.

A japanese tolet has more Technology than any other tolet's in the world.

New York City is the richest city in the world, it has and economy equal to some countries.

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.

Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, with a population of 1000 and a size 108.7 acres.

China has the fastest growing economy in the world.

When Coca-Cola began to be sold in China, they used characters that would sound like "Coca-Cola" when spoken. Unfortunately, what they turned out to mean was "Bite the wax tadpole". It did not sell well.

The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.

California invented gangsters, New York invented thugs.

The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

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 an 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' center name was spelled Aron; in honor 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 one of the longest words typed with only the center hand.

Shakespeare invented the word "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.

The longest town name in the world has 167 letters.

Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world.

"Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.

The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is one of the few places in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears. never stop growing.

David Prowse, was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.

Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.

In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.

Feb 1865 and Feb 1999 are the only months in recorded history not to have a full moon.

Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonald's.

The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.

Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.

Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.

If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It to Beaver".

In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured

Frank Lloyd Wright's son invented Lincoln Logs.

One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers -- they saw it as competition. It is not chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.

The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-Star Game.

The Hawaiian alphabet only has 12 letters.

A duck�s quack doesn�t echo, and no one knows why.

Pepsi originally contained pepsin, (the same stuff in pepcid AC) thus the name.

Coca-Cola once contained cocaine in the early 1900's, hence the name.

The volume of the earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.

Spiral staircases in medieval castles are running clockwise. This is because all knights used to be right-handed. When the intruding army would climb the stairs they would not be able to use their right hand which was holding the sword because of the difficulties of climbing the stairs. center-handed knights would have had no troubles, except center-handed people could never become knights because it was assumed that they were descendants of the devil.

Chinese Crested dogs can get acne.

Hydrogen gas is the least dense substance in the world, at 0.08988g/cc.

Hydrogen solid is the most dense substance in the world, at 70.6g/cc.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Hummingbirds are the only animal that can fly backwards.

A cat's jaw cannot move sideways.

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

Almonds are members of the peach family.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

A rainbow can occur only when the sun is 40 degrees or less above the horizon.

Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.

There are only four words in the English language which end in"-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.

The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life"

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper right-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.

In 1949, forecasting the relentless march of science, Popular Mechanics said "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."

Polar bears are center-handed.

Heinz Catsup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles per year.

Charles de Gaulle's final words were, "It hurts."

Alexander the Great was an epileptic.

Cat's urine glows under a black light.

Back in the mid to late 80's, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.

The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot.

The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."

Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.

In Michigan, USA, a man legally owns his wife's hair.

Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.

"Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.

A blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant.

There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee. Of these, only 26 have been tested, and half-caused cancer in rats.

The waste produced by one chicken in its lifetime can supply enough electricity to run a 100-watt bulb for five hours.

55,700 people in the US are injured by jewelry each year.

In the past 60 years, the groundhog has only predicted the weather correctly 28% of the time. The rushing back and forth from burrows is believed to indicate sexual activity, not shadow seeking.

In Miami, Florida, roosting vultures have taken to snatching poodles from rooftop patios.

The average human has about 20 square feet of skin weighing about 6 pounds.

The actor who played the T-1000 in Terminator 2 (Robert Patrick) and the lead singer of Filter are brothers.

The letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements.

A top freestyle swimmer achieves a speed of only 4 miles per hour. Fish, in contrast, have been clocked at 68 mph.

500,000 tons of dog excrement are dumped annually on the streets of Paris.

The average US worker toils for two hours and 47 minutes of each working day just to pay income tax. Indeed, the average American pays more in taxes than for food, clothing and shelter put together.

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.

Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.

In the U.S. there is, on average, three sex change operations per day.

It only takes a male horse 14 seconds to copulate.

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.

A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.

Elephants are the only mammal that can't jump.

In L.A., U.S.A., a man may legally beat his wife with a leather strap, as long as it is less than 2 inches wide.

Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

The palms of your hands and the soles of your feet cannot tan, or grow hair.

Tomatoes and cucumbers are fruits.

There is a town in Norway called "Hell".

The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons.

The list of ingredients that make up lipstick include fish scales.

Ants do not sleep.

In Texas, it's illegal to put graffiti on someone else's cow.

The USA bought Alaska from Russia for 2 cents an acre.

No other animal gives us more by-products than the hog. These by-products include pig suede, buttons, glass, paint brushes, crayons, chalk, and insulation to name a few.

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

The flatulation from domesticated cows produce about 30% of the methane on this planet.

Hitler and Napolean both had only one testical.

Some toothpastes contain antifreeze.

A whale's penis is called a dork.

In Kentucky, it is illegal to carry ice cream in your back pocket.

Everyday, more money is printed for Monopoly than the U.S. Treasury.

In 1681, the last dodo bird died.

Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself."

"Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive double letters.

There are more Barbie dolls in Italy than there are Canadians in Canada.

Emus cannot walk backwards.

It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

The YKK on the zipper of your Levis stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the worlds largest zipper manufacturer.

97% of all paper money in the US contains traces of cocaine.

It is estimated that Americans will consume 10 million tons of Turkey on Thanksgiving day. Due to turkey's high sulphur content, Americans will also produce enough gas to fly a fleet of 75

Hindenbergs from L.A. to New York in 24 hours.

If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create explosion that is equal to an atomic bomb.

You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are radioactive -- so much so that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear reactor.

A bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed every animal in the Berlin Zoo except the elephant, which escaped and roamed the city. When a Russian commander saw hungry Germans chasing the elephant and trying to kill it, he ordered his troops to protect it and shoot anyone who tried to kill it.

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs-it will let you go instantly.

Reindeer like to eat bananas.

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows."

2.5 cans of Spam are consumed every second in the United States.

Every continent begins and ends in the same letter. eg AfricA, EuropE.

Every continent has a city called Rome.

The word "sophomore" means "sophisticated moron."

Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.

When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

Approximately 97.35618329% of all statistics are made up.