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• The typewriter was invented by Hungarian immigrant; Qwert Yuiop, who left his signature on the keyboard
• Thomas Edison; the light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark
• Over 10,000 Birds a year die from flying into windows
• Hummingbirds can weigh less than a Penny
• You're born with 300 bones but when you grow up to an adult, you only have 206
• A Hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average
• The Electric Chair was invented by a Dentist
• Cat urine glows under a black-light
• The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the Alphabet
• Porcupines can float in water
• Over 2,500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people
• The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is the word uncopyrightable
• The first product to have a bar code was the Wrigley's gum
• Chewing gum while peeling onions will make you not cry
• In Singapore, it is illegal to chew gum
• The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old
• It takes Glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times
• The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad
• The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off
• A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top
• The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000
• The Venezuelan Brown Bat can detect and dodge individual raindrops in mid-flight, arriving safely back at his cave completely dry
• Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years
• A Monkey was once convicted for smoking a Cigarette in South Bend, Indiana
• A peanut is neither a Pea nor a Nut
• A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee
• A snail can have about 25,000 teeth
• A snail can also sleep for three years
• A Whale's heart beats only nine times a minute
• The Blue Whale can produce sounds up to 188 decibels. This is the loudest sound produced by a living animal and has been detected as far away as 530 miles
• Anteaters prefer Termites over Ants
• Astronauts are not allowed to eat Beans because passing wind in a Spacesuit damages them
• All 17 children of Queen Anne died before she did
• According to Genesis 7:2, God told Noah to take 14 of each kind of 'clean' animal in to the ark
• Catgut comes from Sheep not Cats
• Assuming you could walk to the Sun, it would take about 2000 years
• If you are chased by a Crocodile, run in zigzags because a Crocodile is not good at making sharp turns
• A Shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes
• There are more Chickens than people in the world
• According to Genesis 1:2022, the Chicken came before the egg
• The longest one-syllable word in the English language is the word "screeched"
• An Ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain
• A Dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours
• A Goldfish has a memory span of 3 Sec.
• It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
• In Calama, a town in the Atacama Desert of Chile. It has never rained
• In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when&which patients would die
• In the 19th Century, the British Navy attempted to dispel the superstition that Friday was an unlucky day to embark on a ship. The Keel of a new ship was laid on a Friday, she was named HMS Friday, commanded by a Captain by the name of James Friday, and finally went to sea on a Friday. Neither the ship nor her crew were ever heard of again
• In the country of Turkey, in the 16th and 17th Centuries. Anyone caught drinking coffee was put to death
• In the middle Ages, the highest court in France ordered the execution of a cow for injuring a human
• It has been calculated that in the last 3,500 years, there have only been 230 years of Peace throughout the civilized world
• The winter in Canada of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid
• It is physically impossible for Pigs to look up into the sky
• David Bowie thinks he is being stalked by someone who is dressed like a giant pink rabbit. Bowie has noticed the fan at several recent concerts but he became alarmed when he got on a plane and the giant pink rabbit was on board
• The remains of 125 people will be launched into space where they will orbit the Earth for Centuries
• The Eiffel Tower shrinks 6 inches in Winter
• A snowflake can take up to a hour to fall from the cloud to the surface of the Earth
• More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world
• A Giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch Tongue
• The Poison-Arrow Frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people
• In Missouri, a man must have a permit to shave
• Many Hamsters only blink one eye at a time
• It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by Squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they buried them
• It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear
• Dogs can hear sounds that Humans can't
• Some Ribbon Worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food
• Oprah Winfrey and Elvis Presley are distant Cousins
• Each year, more people are killed by Teddy Bears than by Grizzly Bears
• A lump of pure Gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court
• The opposite sides of a dice cube always adds up to seven
• Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States
• A strand from the web of a Golden Spider is as strong as a steel wire of the same size
• The Pentagon in Washington, D. C. has five sides, five stories, and five acres in the middle
• Newborn babies are given to the wrong Mother in the hospital 12 times a day Worldwide
• The largest McDonald's is in Beijing, China - measuring 28,000 square feet. It has twenty nine cash registers
• When Mahatma Gandhi died, an autopsy revealed five gold Krugerrands in his small intestine
• Hawaii is moving toward Japan 4 inches every year
• If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white
• In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak
• Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words. None of them with the letter E
• Dolphins sleep with one eye open
• Replying more than 100 times to the same piece of spam e-mail will overwhelm the sender's system and interfere with their ability to send any more spam
• Urine from a male Cape Water Buffalo is so flammable that some tribes use it for lantern fuel
• In 1843, a Parisian street Mime got stuck in his imaginary box and consequently died of starvation
• Due to the angle at which the optic nerve enters the brain, staring at a blue surface during sex greatly increases the intensity of orgasms
• Centuries ago, purchasing real estate often required having one or more limbs amputated in order to prevent the purchaser from running away to avoid repayment of the loan. Hence an expensive purchase was said to cost "an arm and a leg"
• Mailmen in Russia now carry revolvers after a recent decision by the Government
• Actor Bruce Willis has filed a lawsuit against the movie studio that produced his film "Tears of the Sun", alleging he was struck in the forehead by a fake bullet. Since 2002 (when the movie was in production), the lawsuit claims he has endured "extreme mental, physical, and emotional pain and suffering"
• An employee of the Alabama Department of Transportation installed spyware on his boss's computer and proved that the boss spent 10% of his time working (20% of time checking stocks and 70% of the time playing solitaire). The employee was fired, the boss kept his job
• Richard Versalle, a tenor performing at New York's Metropolitan Opera House, suffered a heart attack and fell 10 feet from a ladder to the stage just after singing the line "You can only live so long"
• Romanian Firefighters could not get their trucks close enough to a burning building, so they put out the fire by throwing snowballs at it
• The UK's best selling hiking magazine published faulty coordinates for descending Scotland's tallest peak (Ben Nevis), and recommended a route that leads climbers off the edge of a cliff
• A Dutch court ruled that a bank robber could deduct the 2,000 Euros he paid for his pistol from the 6,600 Euros he has to return to the bank he robbed
• A Brussels Airlines flight to Vienna was aborted because the pilot was attacked in the cockpit. The attacker was a passenger's Cat, who got out of its travel bag
• If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee
• Li is the family name for over 87 million People in China
• It is possible to lead a Cow upstairs but not downstairs
• It is illegal to be a prostitute in Siena, Italy, if your name is Mary
• Some Dogs can predict when a Child will have an epileptic seizure, and even protect the Child from injury. They're not trained to do this, they simply learn to respond after observing at least one attack
• Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time
• It is illegal to own a Dog in Reykjavik
• In North Carolina, it is against the law for Dogs and Cats to fight
• Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine
• In Oklahoma, no baseball team can hit the ball over the fence or out of a ballpark
• In Texas, it's against the law for anyone to have a pair of pliers in his or her possession
• Never hold your nose and cover your mouth when sneezing, as it can blow out your eyeballs
• The Arteries and Veins surrounding the Brain Stem called the "Circle of Willis" looks like a stick person with a large head
• 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 Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building
• Beethoven dipped his head in cold water before he Composed
• All Polar Bears are left handed
• San Francisco cable cars are the only National Monuments that move
• American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served first class
• Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Halley's Comet came into view. When he died in 1910, Halley's Comet was in view again
• An average American will spend an average of 6 months during his lifetime waiting at red lights
• Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to Carrots
• 85% of the men who cheat on their wives die while having sex
• In Georgia, it's against the law to spread a false rumor
• In Phoenix, Arizona, you can't walk through a hotel lobby with Spurs on
• Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was the host of; Lorne Green's Wild Kingdom
• In the state of Colorado, a pet cat, if loose, must have a tail-light
• In Rochester, Michigan, the law is that anyone bathing in public must have thier bathing suit inspected by a police officer
• In Michigan, married couples must live together or be imprisoned
• Alaska law says that you can't look at a Moose from an airplane
• In the Caribbean there are Oysters that can climb trees
• The drive-through line on opening day at the Mc Donald's restaurant in Kuwait City, was at times seven miles long
• Human thigh bones are stronger than Concrete
• In Utah, Birds have the right of way on any public highway
• Homing Pigeons use roads where possible to help find their way home. In fact, some Pigeons followed roads so closely that they actually flew around traffic circles before choosing the exit that led them home
• The Hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards
• 65% of Elvis impersonators are of Asian descent
• There is a bar in London that sells vaporized Vodka, which is inhaled instead of sipped
• Lightning strikes the Earth about 6,000 times per minute on this Planet
• The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons
• You can get blood from a stone, but only if contains at least 17 percent Bauxite
• Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than Women
• A Rhinoceros' horn is made of compacted hair
• A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
• Lobsters have blue blood
• A Kangaroo can't jump unless its tail is touching the ground
• Male Rhesus Monkeys often hang from tree branches by their amazing Prehensile Penises
• Smelling Bananas and/or Green Apples can help you lose weight
• By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into Quicksand
• It is impossible to lick your elbow
• Jimmy Carter once reported a UFO in Georgia which leads to this; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCkVkFIKMxA

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