[b][color="black"][size="3"][b]The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
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A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually
clear.
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Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
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Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."
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If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
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Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
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Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than
left-handed people do.
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The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which
they start.
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Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or
it will digest itself. (YUCK!)
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The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
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A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and
down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.(who leaves
champers in their glass long enough to find out?)
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A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
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On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!
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Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear
pants.
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There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple
and silver.
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The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan". There was
never a recorded Wendy before
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The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War 2
killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
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If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will
instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
(Who was the sadist who discovered this??)
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Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w the film down
so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
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The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which
stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your
thumb.(WHAT???)
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By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot
Sink into quicksand. (GOOD FACT TO REMEMBER?? )
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Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin
Look-alike contest.
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Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
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Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Elementary, my dear Watson".
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The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book
most often stolen from Public Libraries.
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Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space
because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them. (Not to mention the
other drawbacks to farting in such a confined space....)
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Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!!
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The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred
and Wilma Flintstone.
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Coca-Cola was originally green.
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Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
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Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.
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The state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
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The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
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The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
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The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
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The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000
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Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
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The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
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The youngest pope was 11 years old.
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The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
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Those San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
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Each king in a deck of playing cards represents! a great king from
history:
Spades - King David
Hearts - Charlemagne
Clubs -Alexander, the Great
Diamonds - Julius Caesar
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111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
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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.
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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-stars Game.
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In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes.
When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed Firmer
to sleep on. Hence the phrase "goodnight, sleep tight".
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