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- Porcupines can float.
- Cat urine glows under a black light.
- Red is the most commonly colored vehicle involved in accidents each year.
- Cows have four stomachs.
- Cows and horses sleep standing up.
- If you get the recommended 8 hours of sleep each night you will sleep over 2,900 hours each year.
- The average family will spend $250,000 (that's a quarter million dollars) on each child from the time he/she is born until he/she turns 18.
- The oldest person to live was Jeanne Louise Calment, she lived for a whopping 122 years until she died of smoking related complications. Don't Smoke!
- If your like Jeanne Calment and live over 100, you are considered a Centurian.
- Christopher Columbus was the greatest explorer NEVER to discover America. In fact, he didn't even come close.
- There are, on average, 259 raisins in a box of Raisin Bran and 388 in a box of Premium Raisin Bran.
- There is no ice covering Iceland.
- McDonalds fries are made with beef flavoring. mmmmmmm.
- The internet is NOT FREE, a group of companies actually own the internet.
- Latin is a dead language.
- Dolphins are the only other mammals besides humans that have sex for fun.
- Dogs can't decipher size. That's why little dogs are mean.
- The swastika was originally a symbol of peace and honor and is still used by Buddhists today.
- Bart Simpson's voice on the Simpson's is actually done by a woman, Nancy Cartwright.
- Giraffe's tongues are 22 inches long and black with pink dots.
- There are only 3 words in the English language that begin with the letters DW...dwindle, dwarf, dwell.
- The average cough comes out of your mouth at 60MPH.
- Twinkies have a shelf life of about 25 years.
- Raindrops aren't actually tear-drop shaped. They are rounded at the top and flat on the bottom.
- When the Titanic sunk there was 7,500 lbs. of ham on it.
- A broken clock is right at least twice a day.
- American car horns beep in the tone of F.
- Playing cards in India are round.
- The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
- Each human generates about 3.5 pounds of rubbish a day, mostly paper.
- The condensed water vapor in the sky left behind by jets is called a contrail.
- Children grow faster in the springtime.
- The most collect calls are made on Father's Day.
- No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times.
- Due to precipitation, for a few weeks K2 was bigger than Mt Everest.
- The U.S. standard railroad gauge (distance between rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches.
- Most gemstones contain several elements; except the diamond, it's all carbon.
- The smoke detector was invented in 1969.
- Barbie's measurements if she were life-size are: 39-29-33.
- More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
- One in every four Americans has appeared on television.
- You are born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult you only have 206.
- You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
- The Pacific Ocean fills nearly a complete hemisphere of the earth's surface.
- There are ten human body parts that are only three letters long: eye, hip, arm, leg, ear, toe, jaw, rib, lip, and gum.
- If you go blind in one eye, you only lose about one fifth of your vision, but all your sense of depth.
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