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TRUE, BUT FUNNY, FACTS
- Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump." Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot. Women blink nearly twice as much as men. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do. The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it. The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night. A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair. It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched." All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".. Almonds are members of the peach family. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance. The youngest pope was 11 years old. The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910. A snail can sleep for 3 years. China has more English speakers than the United States. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes. A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear. The electric chair was invented by a dentist. Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world? Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death. The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE. "I am." 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. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath. Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie. You know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider. 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. Cat's urine glows under a black light. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated. Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously. 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. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. 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 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon. The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. Polar bears are left-handed. The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable. First novel ever written on a typewriter is Tom Sawyer. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors. Donald Duck comics were once banned in Finland because he doesn't wear trousers. More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with. The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want. TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard. 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 left to right or right to left. A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death. Butterflies taste with their feet. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. Starfish haven't got brains. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses. Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula". And can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "L.A." A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. 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. When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city. 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". The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N and O-Z, hence "Oz." The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles. 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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