The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night. That's it. I'm never sleeping again.
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A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually
clear. That way it can absorb the sun. I knew that.
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Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand. Stewardesses smile a lot.
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Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump." And a lot of other things, like Jack-a-nap.
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If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white. Then it's a white fish! Sweet!
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Women blink nearly twice as much as men. That's because we flirt so much, duh.
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Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than
left-handed people do. Burn!
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The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which
they start. Huh, it's true. What'd you know.
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Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or
it will digest itself. I'm not sure which half of that statement grossed me out more.
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The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle. He he.
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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. That's because it's had too much to drink. If you put it in a microwave it'll spark (not the champagne, the grape).
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A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why. WOW! THAT'S CRAZY!!!!
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On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily! I hope they're given back!
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Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear
pants. Huh. So the Finish have pants issues? Does that mean they banned Squidward too.
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There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple
and silver. Florange, gurple, and milver. Duh.
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The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan". There was
never a recorded Wendy before. No way! That's so cool! So square burgers must have come after Captain Hook...
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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. THOSE FIENDS!
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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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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. I've heard that before. How awful, right?!?
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By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot
Sink into quicksand. Very good to know.
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Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin
Look-alike contest. Third prize? What the heck?!?!
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Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying. Also good to know. Does the flavor matter?
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Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Elementary, my dear Watson". Oh. Way to kill my fun. Sigh...
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The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book
most often stolen from Public Libraries. Why would you steal from a library?
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Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!! What if the cave has two exits? Do they run into eachother?
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The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred
and Wilma Flintstone. So porn originates form the stone age...
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Coca-Cola was originally green. Ewww.
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Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better. Men don't know how to listen. That's the root of the problem.
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The state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska Sounds cold.
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The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% And decreasing steadily.
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The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38% Ditto.
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The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400 Don't tell my parents that or I'll never have another dog again!
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Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair. So I must be zinceriffic! Just kidding.
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The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910. Okay. There are a lot of things I could say here but I'm gonna keep my mouth shut.
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The youngest pope was 11 years old. But I thought they always chose old popes so that they'd die fast and not change too much in between.
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The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer. I knew that.
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111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 I knew this! I do that on my calculator all the time in math when I'm bored (thats always).
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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. Are there statues of people on horses who aren't dead?
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Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John
Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2,but the
last signature wasn't added until 5 years later. I knew that.
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"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. Unless you're a teenager, in which case the shortest sentence is "whatever."
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Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that make them
looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt. I could say something, but I won't
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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". So knew that. BURN!
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It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month
after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all
the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was
lunar based, this period was called the honey month or what we
know today as the honeymoon. The meaning has certainly changed... Although, once the groom got good and drunk... so maybe not so much...
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In ancient England a person could not have sex unless you had consent
of the King (unless you were in the Royal Family). When anyone wanted to
have a baby, they got consent of the King, the King gave them a placard that
they hung on their door while they were having sex. The placard had
F.*.*.*. (Fornication Under Consent of the King) on it. Now you know where
that came from. Oh. My. God. Now that I had never heard. Wow. Um. Okay...
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In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only
Ladies Forbidden.... and thus the word GOLF entered into the English
language. I don't mind. Golf is boring.
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Q. What occurs more often in December than any other month?
A. Conception. It's Christmas time, snow is falling, it's all very romantic you know.
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Q. What separates "60 Minutes," on CBS from every other TV show?
A. No theme song Yeah, they just have that stupid ticking.
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Q. Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat Name
requested?
A. Obsession Our boat is named Slipaway.
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Q. What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and
laserprinters all have in common?
A. All invented by women. GIRL POWER!
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Q. What is the only food that doesn't spoil?
A. Honey So you can eat really old honey and not get food poisning!
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Q. There are more collect calls on this day than any other day of the year?
A. Father's Day That's becausse on Mother's Day people actaully bother to drive home.
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Q. What trivia fact about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) is the Most
ironic?
A. He was allergic to carrots. I heard that he just didn't like them. What he'd do is bite it, than say the line, then immediatly spit it out.
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Q. What is an activity performed by 40% of all people at a party?
A. Snoop in your medicine cabinet. How rude.
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60 % of statistics are made up..... I believe that.
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Dragon boat racing is the 8th most popular sport in the world! Ummm... okay...
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998 million people play Volleyball And I'm not one of them!
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If you yelled for 8 years ,7 months and 6 days you would have produced
enough energy to heat a cup of coffee. But you'd rather have tea with lemon to heal your aching throat.
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Banging your head off a wall uses 150 calories an hour! I wonder if that differs from baging our head on the table during english class?
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There are more plastic lawn flamingos in the US than real ones. I love flamingos! In the Dosney movie they play with yo-yos!)
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Chickens can't swallow while they are upside down. How did the chicken get upside down?
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There are more chickens in the world than people. Yet we eat them.
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The Roman Catholic Church did not acknowledge that the earth revolves around the
sun until the mid 1990’s. That'sbecause they hate to admit that they were wrong.
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The average life span of an umbrella is under two years. Less is you use it in a hurricane, or you get fired from the Daws Tombs Mousley Grubbs Fedility Feduciary Bank (every seen Marry Poppins)?
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The first non-human to win an Oscar was Mickey Mouse. How on Earth did he accept it?!
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A donkey will sink in quick sand, while a mule will not. Why would you test this theory?
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Every year more people are killed by donkeys, than in aircraft crashes. But not by mules.
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In an average day, a four year old child will ask 437 questions. And 433 of them are, "why?"
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4,000 people are injured by tea pots every year. HOW?
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Every year, the moon moves 1/2 an inch further from the earth. Oh no! Where will we get our cheese in a million years?
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In 50 million years, it is likely that Mars will have a ring around it. That's cause Mercury will finally break down and propose.
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Despite a population of over a billion, China has only about 200 family names Ummmm...
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If you told someone that they were one in a million, you'd be saying
there were 1,800 of them in China Making fun of China is fun.
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In 1892, Italy raised the minimum age for marriage for girls to 12
RAISED?
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In downtown Lima, Peru, there is a large brass statue dedicated to Winnie-the-Pooh. Where are you going, I'm going to LLAMA! You remember that, Kor?
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The Boston University Bridge is the only place in the world where a
boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane That would take a whole lot of coordination.
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The number of births in India each year is greater
than the entire population of Australia. Lack of elephant dung (see Random Facts 1).
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Two objects have struck the earth with enough force to destroy
a whole city. Each object, one in 1908 and again in 1947, struck
regions of Siberia. Not one human being was hurt either time. That's because no one in their right mond would live in Siberia.
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We are in the middle of an ice age. Ice ages include both
cold and warm periods; at the moment we are experiencing a
relatively warm span of time known as an interglacial period.
Geologists believe that the warmest part of this period occurred
from 1890 through 1945 and that since 1945 things have slowly
begun freezing up again. And global warming fits into this, how? QUICK! Somebody tell Al Gore!
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A jogger's heel strikes the ground 1,500 times per mile.
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A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years.
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A red-haired man is more likely to go bald than anyone else.
