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Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.

Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a “Friday the 13th.”

Coca-Cola would be green if coloring weren’t added to it.

On average a hedgehog’s heart beats 300 times a minute.

More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.

The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.

More people are allergic to cow’s milk than any other food.

Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.

The placement of a donkey’s eyes in its’ heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!

The six official languages of the United Nations are: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.

Earth is the only planet not named after a god.

It’s against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.

You’re born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206.

Some worms will eat themselves if they can’t find any food!

Dolphins sleep with one eye open!

It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open

The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old!

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds

Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it or not

Slugs have 4 noses.

Owls are the only birds who can see the color blue.

A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years!

A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!

The average person laughs 10 times a day!

An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

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The word “queue” is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.

Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.

Of all the words in the English language, the word ‘set’ has the most definitions!

What is called a “French kiss” in the English speaking world is known as an “English kiss” in France.

“Almost” is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

“Rhythm” is the longest English word without a vowel.

In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child

A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath

There is a city called Rome on every continent.

Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!

Horatio Nelson, one of England’s most illustrious admirals was throughout his life, never able to find a cure for his sea-sickness.

The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London

Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people

Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe!

The elephant is the only mammal that can’t jump!

One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!

Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different!

The first known transfusion of blood was performed as early as 1667, when Jean-Baptiste, transfused two pints of blood from a sheep to a young man

Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!

The present population of 5 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle.

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Stuff You Did Not Know!

One kilogram of butter stores as much energy between its atoms as the same quantity of TNT.

Men are six times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.

The Moon is gradually moving away from the Earth and the tides are to blame. Every year, the Moon moves a further 3.82cm from the Earth.

Gold leaf is pure gold, but you can cover large areas with it very cheaply because it is very thin. Gold leaf is less than 0.00008 millimetres thick – which is only about 300 atoms thick.

Every rainbow is unique – each rainbow is formed from light hitting your eye at a very precise angle. Someone standing next to you will see light coming from a slightly different angle than you and therefore see a different rainbow.

A bolt of lightning contains enough energy to toast 160,000 pieces of bread. Unfortunately the bolt only takes 1/10,000 of a second – so turning the bread over might prove difficult.

If 10 kilograms of matter spontaneously turned into energy there would be enough energy to power a 100 Watt light bulb for 300 million years – a harrowing thought for all weight watchers.

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The Meaning of Life!

February 8, 2000, was the day we found out what the meaning of life cost!

It was auctioned on eBay.

The winning bid was $3.26.

Not Much…

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The Federal Reserve is refusing to identify the recipients of almost $2 trillion of emergency loans from American taxpayers or the troubled assets the central bank is accepting as collateral.

How much is that in volume?

$1 million is a stack of $100 bills about 50 inches high. If you don’t believe me, try it in your living room tonight. As irony would have it, if you stacked the $2 trillion just loaned by the Fed, it would equal exactly 15,000 Washington Monuments of $100 bills. If that is just too much to imagine with your morning coffee, we can reduce it to one stack of $100 bills that reaches more than 1,578 miles into space.

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Did You Know?

Just to count to a trillion would take. (at a second for each number)

1,000,000,000,000 seconds
or
16,666,666,666 minuites
or
277,777,777hours
or
11,574,074 days
or
385,802 months
or
32,150 years
or
3,215 decades
or
about 321 generations
so if you started now you would be done in about the year 34156 AD!

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Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.

Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

Upper and lower case letters are named ‘upper’ and ‘lower’ because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the ‘upper case’ letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the smaller, ‘lower case’ letters.

There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

The mask used by Michael Myers in the original “Halloween” was a Captain Kirk mask painted white.

The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.

You can test positive for drug use after eating poppy seed bagels.

Veal has less fat than boneless, skinless chicken breast.

The largest operational pipe organ in the world is located in a department store in Philadelphia.

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There are 230 joints in the human body.

The average human head weighs about eight pounds.

The kidneys filter over 400 gallons of blood each day.

J. Edgar Hoover wouldn’t let his drivers make left turns.

Penguins have an organ above their eyes that converts salt water to fresh water.

The metal band that connects the pencil eraser to the end of the pencil is called a Ferrule.

The little piece of cartilage that sticks out at the front side of your ear is called the Tagus.

The points of light that you see behind your eyelids when you shut your eyes really hard are called Phosphines.

There are 104 stitches on a baseball.

A boomerang will return to the thrower even in space.

The top of the Empire State building was built to anchor blimps.

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Did You Know?

# The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
# There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
# Stewardesses’ is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
# The average secretary’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
# A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
# There are more chickens than people in the world.
# Two-thirds of the world’s eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
# A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
# A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
# If you are a goldfish, you probably won’t even remember what website brought you to this page.

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