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"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.",
"There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.",
"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 (at least before that chicken-flu thing).",
"Two-thirds of the world’s eggplant is grown in New Jersey.",
"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.",
"No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.",
"\"Dreamt\" is the only English word that ends in the letters \"mt\".",
"All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.",
"Almonds are members of the peach family.",
"Winston Churchill was born in a ladies’ room during a dance.",
"Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.",
"There are only four words in the English language which end in \"dous\": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.",
"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.",
"An ostrich’s eye is bigger than it’s brain.",
"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.",
"The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.",
"When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers plays 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\"",
"A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.",
"A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.",
"A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.",
"On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the \"1\" encased in the \"shield\" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.",
"It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.",
"The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.",
"Who’s that playing the piano on the \"Mad About You\" theme? Paul Reiser himself.",
"The male gypsy moth can \"smell\" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away (pretty good trick).",
"In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.",
"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.",
"Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.",
"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 \"pound\" key on your keyboard (#) is called an octotroph.",
"The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.",
"The \"dot\" over the letter \"i\" is called a tittle.",
"Table tennis balls have been known to travel off the paddle at speeds up to 160 km/hr.",
"Pepsi originally contained pepsin, thus the name.",
"The original story from \"Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights\" begins, \"Aladdin was a little Chinese boy.\"",
"Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.",
"Honey is the only natural food that is made without destroying any kind of life. What about milk you say? A cow has to eat grass to produce milk and grass are living.",
"Hawaiian alphabet only has 12 letters: A, E, I, O, U, H, K, L, M, N, P, W",
"Honey is the only food that does not spoil.",
"One single teaspoon of honey represents the life work of 12 bees.",
"Flamingos only can eat with their heads upside down.",
"The lighter was invented ten years before the match was.",
"It’s physically impossible for a pig to look up at the sky.",
"The first internet domain name to ever be registered is Symbolics.com on March 15th, 1985.",
"Humans are born with 350 bones in their body, but when reaching adulthood, we only 260.",
"There are 150 verses in Greek national anthem which making it the longest national anthem in the world.",
"This is impossible to tickle yourself.",
"A typical pencil can draw a line that is 35 miles long.",
"Astronauts get taller in space due to the lack of gravity.",
"The total surface area of human lungs is 750 square feet. That’s roughly the same area as one-side of a tennis court.",
"Mosquitos have contributed to more deaths than any animals on earth.",
"An octopus has 3 hearts, 9 brains & blue blood.",
"The hair on a polar bear is actually not white but clear. They appear white because it reflects light.",
"A chameleon can move its eyes in two different directions at the same time.",
"Buttermilk does not contain any butter and actually low in fat.",
"A giraffe can go longer without water than a camel can.",
"Australia has the biggest camel population in the world.",
"Snails can sleep up to 3 years.",
"Methane gases produced by cow products as much pollution as cars do.",
"The majority of the dust in your house is made up from your own dead skin.",
"Most lipstick contains fish scales.",
"Most ice-cream contains pig skins (Gelatin).",
"The Philippine island of Luzon contains a lake that contains an island that contains a lake that contains another island.",
"Hudson Bay Area in Canada had less gravity than rest of the world and scientists do not know why.",
"Only one to two percent of the entire world population are natural redheads.",
"Sloppy handwriting has doctors kills more than 7,000 people and injures more than 1.5 million people annually due to getting the wrong medication.",
"Putting sugar on a wound or cut will greatly reduce pain and shorten healing process.",
"Real diamonds do not show up in X-ray.",
"Due to extreme pressure and weather conditions, it literally rains diamonds on Neptune and Uranus.",
"There are 7 different kinds of twins: Identical, Fraternal, Half-Identical, Mirror Image Twins, Mixed Chromosome Twins, Superfecundation and Superfetation.",
"Before the 17th century, carrots were actually purple. They didn’t get their orange color until mutation occupied.",
"If the sun is scaled down to the size of a white blood cell, the Milky Way would be equal the size of the United States.",
"A grammatical pedantry syndrome is a form of OCD in which suffers feel the need to correct every grammatical error that they see.",
"Scorpions can hold their breath underwater for up to 6 days.",
"In zero gravity, a candle’s flame is round and blue.",
"Only 8 percent of the world’s money exists in physical form, the rest is in computers.",
"Crows are able to recognize human faces and even hold grudges against ones that they don’t like.",
"Your cellphone carries up to ten times more bacteria than a toilet seat.",
"Humans and bananas share about 50 percent of the same DNA.",
"Humans have fewer chromosomes than a potato.",
"An American Pharmacist named John Pemberton invented Coca-Cola who advertises it as a nerve tonic for curing headaches and fatigue.",
"Statistically, you are more likely to die on the way to buy a lottery ticket than you are to win the lottery itself.",
"The word checkmate comes from the Arabic شاه مات (šāh māt) which means \"the king is dead.\"",
"Hot water turns to ice faster than cool water. This is known as the Mpemba effect.",
"Apollo 7 Mission was the first time \"astronaut ice cream\" flew in space. However, it was so unpopular among astronauts and was retired from the menu after only one trip into space.",
"Apollo 8 astronauts were the first to celebrate Christmas in space.",
"IV Is The Roman Numeral designation for 4 everywhere. However, on the clock face, 4 is displayed as IIII.",
"The Apple Macintosh had the signatures Of its design team engraved inside its case.",
"Japan has the most vending machines per capita, a staggering 1:23.",
"A study by University Chicago in 1915, it concluded that the easiest color to spot at a distance is the color yellow. Which is why the most popular color for taxi cabs are yellow.",
"Japanese police declare murders that they cannot solve as suicides, in order to save faces and keep crime rate artificially low.",
"The smallest poisonous frogs only 10 millimeters (0.393701 inch) in length.",
"Farting helps to reduce blood pressure and is good for your overall health.",
"In 1994, the US Air Force did research on creating a gay bomb (are informal names for theoretical non-lethal chemical weapon) which is a non-lethal bomb containing very strong human sexual pheromones that would make the enemy forces attracted to each other.",
"There are around 1,584 people in the United States named \"Seven\".",
"The classic heart shape that we all know was meant to be two hearts fused together.",
"The water we drink is older than the sun. The sun is 4.6 billion years old.",
"The water on our planet is very old. The water we have now is the same water that existed hundreds of millions of year ago. The next time you drink a glass of water, you could be about to sip on dinosaur pee.",
"Meanwhile, about 40% of Americans think humans and dinosaurs existed at the same time.",
"Nobody knows who named our planet \"Earth\".",
"Michael Nicholson from Michigan. He has one bachelor’s degree, two associate’s degrees, 22 master’s degrees, three specialist degrees and one doctoral degree, making him the most credentialed person in history.",
"Practicing a kill in your head will make you better at it, but only if you’re already good at it.",
"If two identical twins have children with another pair of identical twins, then their children will genetically be full siblings.",
"In Biertan village (located in Transylvania, Romania) the church had a \"divorce-reconciliation room.\" Couples that wanted to get a divorce had to live in a room for two weeks with one small bed, one chair, one table, one plate and one spoon. In 300 years, they only had one divorce.",
"Killing a panda in China is a seriously crime. It is punishable by death.",
"December 4th is the National Cookie Day!",
"Beards can slow the aging process by stopping water from leaving the skin, keeping it moisturized.",
"A survey found that 33% of men and 43% of women claimed that they had fallen in love with someone they did not initially find attractive.",
"Most people dream in color, but those who grow up watching television in black and white are more likely to dream in black and white.",
"Mixing your drinks with diet soda can get you drunk about 18% faster than regular soda. Hummm…",
"The number of H2O molecules in 10 drops of water is roughly equal to the total amount of stars in the universe.",
"Octopuses have copper-based blood instead of iron-based blood, which is why their blood is blue rather than red.",
"Also, they have three hearts and nine brains",
"The hormones responsible for your growth are only produced when you sleep.",
"You touch your face an average of once every three minutes. And you properly touched your face after you read it.",
"People who sleep less than six hours a night are 4.2 times more likely to catch a cold compared those who get more than seven hours of sleep.",
"Dogs can make about 100 different facial expressions.",
"Iceland has no army as is often recognized as the most peaceful country in the world.",
"Shigeru Miyamoto – maker of Super Mario Bros. and Donkey Kong – is not allowed to bike to work because his safety is too important to Nintendo.",
"Every year, women lose approximately 1.73 billion bobby pins.",
"Dolphins give each other \"names\" – Specific sounds that they use to call friends and family.",
"Chimpanzee babies like to play with dolls – They’ll make dolls out of sticks and rocks for themselves.",
"Squirrels plant thousands of trees every year, simply by forgetting where they put their acorns.",
"Koalas can sleep for up to 20 hours a day.",
"The average woman will spend one full year of her life trying to decide what to wear.",
"The average woman owns eight times more makeup than she actually uses.",
"Rainbows that appear at night are called \"moonbows.\"",
"100 million years ago, crocodiles had long legs and could gallop after their prey.",
"The real Top Gun school give a $5 fine to any staff member that quotes the movie.",
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