few cool facts I heard...
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2. By law, every child in Belgium must take harmonica lessons at primary school
When you disturb an ant, it secrets a gas into the air so that ants in a certain radius gets the signal to "Attack!" But outside that radius, it means "Flee!"
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When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop, including your heart
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It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circulate through your whole body
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If you heat a diamond to 1400 degrees Fahrenheit, it will vanish leaving nothing behind, even ashes.
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Nutmeg is extremely dangerous it injected intravenously
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All clams start out as males, but some turn into females
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Mammals have red blood, insects have yellow blood, and lobsters have clear blood that turns blue when it's exposed to oxygen
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It is physically impossible to lick your elbow
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Almost everyone who reads all these facts will try to lick their elbow
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When bats fly out of a cave, they always turn left
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A snail can live three years without food
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The fastest speed recorded for a garden snail was .0313 mph
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A frozen pea will explode if it comes in contact with Pepsi
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Every Labrador retriever dreams about bananas
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You can't kill yourself by holding your breath
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In every episode of Seinfeld, there is a Superman somewhere
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23% of all photocopier faults are caused by people sitting on a photocopier and copying their buttocks
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Mosquito repellents don't repell. Instead thay hide you so that the mosquitos' sensor's don't "see" you
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Turtles can breathe through their butts
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Elephants are the only animals that can't jump
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When a possom "plays possom", it really passed out in terror
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Real diamonds can be made from peanut butter
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You can start a fire with ice
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In 2003, the U.S. Government spent about $2,000,000.000 on potato research
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Apple seeds are poisonous
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In India, people are legally allowed to marry a dog
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In France, it's legal to marry a dead person
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A recent study by Harvard proved that eating chocolate can make you live longer
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In a year, the average person will walk 4 miles to make their bed
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All polar bears are left-handed
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Smelling green apples and/or bananas can help you lose weight
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The phrase "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog" uses every letter in the alphabet
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Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead
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There's a city in Texas called Ding Dong
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In 1976, a Los Angeles secretary named Jannene Swift officially married a fifty pound rock. More than twenty people witnessed the ceremony
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A goldfish has a memory span of about three second.
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A snail can sleep for three years.
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Almonds are a member of the peach family
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If the population of China walked past you, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction
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Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite
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Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long words
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Bibliophobia- Fear of books
44. Men’s shirts have the buttons on the right, but women’s shirts have the buttons on the left.
45. The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.
46. Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die
47. When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red
48. Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros
49. Most soccer players run 7 miles in a game
50. Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command “go hang yourself.”
51. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair
52. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
53. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
54. A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
55. A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
56. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. The only thing they remember for 48 hours at the most is where they are.
57. A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
58. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
59. A snail can sleep for three years.
60. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
61. All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
62. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
63. Butterflies taste with their feet.
64. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds Dogs only have about 10.
65. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
66. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full
moon.
67. In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
68. If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line
would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
69. If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an
average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
70. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
71. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
72. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
73. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or
purple.
74. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament
building is an American flag.
75. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears
never stop growing.
76. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
77. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
78. "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and
"lollipop" with your right.
79. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
80. The cruise liner, QE2, moves only twenty-six feet for each gallon of diesel
that it burns.
81. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and
a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
82. The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every
letter of the alphabet.
83. The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are
read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
84. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
85. There are more chickens than people in the world.
86. There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous":
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
87. There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in
order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
88. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
89. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only
on one row of the keyboard.
90. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
91. A rat can last longer without water than a camel
92. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
93. Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to digest a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
94. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson."
