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- 1.It is impossible to lick your elbow (busted)
2.A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out.
3. A shrimp's heart is in it's head.
4. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze,your heart stops for a mili-second.
5.In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand.
6.It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
7.More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
8.Rats and horses can't vomit.
9.Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
10. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
11.Over 50% of people who read this will take out their headphones.
12.The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
13.Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
14.A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
15. In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.
16.Most lipstick contains fish scales.
17.Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
18.Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.
19.A crocodile can't move its tongue and cannot chew. Its digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail.
20.Money notes are not made from paper, they are made mostly from a special blend of cotton and linen. In 1932, when a shortage of cash occurred in Tenino, Washington, USA, notes were made out of wood for a brief period.
21.Tea is said to have been discovered in 2737 BC by a Chinese emperor when some tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water. The tea bag was introduced in 1908 by Thomas Sullivan of New York.
22.A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water. If the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1%, you'll feel thirsty. If it's reduced by 10%, you'll die.
23.Camels are called "ships of the desert" because of the way they move, not because of their transport capabilities. A Dromedary camel has one hump and a Bactrian camel two humps. The humps are used as fat storage. Thus, an undernourished camel will not have a hump.
24.Uranus' orbital axis is tilted at 90 degrees.
25.Outside the USA, Ireland is the largest software producing country in the world.
26. Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
27.Every year about 98% of atoms in your body are replaced.
28.Hot water is heavier than cold.
29.If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
30.Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through the air.
31.On average, half of all false teeth have some form of radioactivity.
32.Only one satellite has been ever been destroyed by a meteor: the European Space Agency's Olympus in 1993.
33.Starch is used as a binder in the production of paper. It is the use of a starch coating that controls ink penetration when printing. Cheaper papers do not use as much starch, and this is why your elbows get black when you are leaning over your morning paper.
34.A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber. A ball of solid steel will bounce higher than one made entirely of glass.
35.Ostriches are often not taken seriously. They can run faster than horses, and the males can roar like lions.
36.Seals used for their fur get extremely sick when taken aboard ships.
37.Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.
38.Guinea pigs and rabbits can't sweat.
39.Sharks and rays are the only animals known to man that don't get cancer. Scientists believe this has something to do with the fact that they don't have bones, but cartilage.
40.The porpoise is second to man as the most intelligent animal on the planet.
41.Young beavers stay with their parents for the first two years of their lives before going out on their own.
42.Skunks can accurately spray their smelly fluid as far as ten feet.
43. Deer can't eat hay.
44.Gopher snakes in Arizona are not poisonous, but when frightened they may hiss and shake their tails like rattlesnakes.
45.On average, dogs have better eyesight than humans, although not as colorful.
46.The duckbill platypus can store as many as six hundred worms in the pouches of its cheeks.
47.The lifespan of a squirrel is about nine years.
48.North American oysters do not make pearls of any value.
49.Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
50.Many sharks lay eggs, but hammerheads give birth to live babies that look like very small duplicates of their parents. Young hammerheads are usually born headfirst, with the tip of their hammer-shaped head folded backward to make them more streamlined for birth.
51.Gorillas sleep as much as fourteen hours per day.
52.A biological reserve has been made for golden toads because they are so rare.
53.There are more than fifty different kinds of kangaroos.
54.Jellyfish like salt water. A rainy season often reduces the jellyfish population by putting more freshwater into normally salty waters where they live.
55.The female lion does ninety percent of the hunting.
56.The odds of seeing three albino deer at once are one in seventy-nine billion, yet one man in Boulder Junction, Wisconsin, took a picture of three albino deer in the woods.
57.A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink.
58.Cats sleep up to eighteen hours a day, but never quite as deep as humans. Instead, they fall asleep quickly and wake up intermittently to check to see if their environment is still safe.
59.The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans ages the equivalent of five human years for every day they live, so they usually die after about fourteen days. When stressed, though, the worm goes into a comatose state that can last for two or more months. The human equivalent would be to sleep for about two hundred years.
60.You can tell the sex of a horse by its teeth. Most males have 40, females have 36.
61.Money isn't made out of paper; it's made out of cotton.
62.The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the varieties of pickle the company once had.
63.Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks - otherwise it will digest itself.
64.A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
65.Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.
66.Every person has a unique tongue print as well as fingerprints.
67.On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
68.Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
69.Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
70.Most lipstick contains fish scales.
71.Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear any pants.
72.Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
73. 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.
74.Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
75.There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
76.The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan, there was never a recorded Wendy before!
77.There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver!
78.Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors.
79.A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
80.Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. It's the same with apples!
81.Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
82.Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
83.Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages them.
84.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.
85.Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.
86.Of all the words in the English language, the word ’set’ has the most definitions!
87.What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.
88."Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
89."Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.
90.In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child
91.A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.
92.Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
93.Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.
94.Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe!
95.The elephant is the only mammal that can’t jump!
96.One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!
97.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
98.Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
99.Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
100.The present population of 5 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080.
101.Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
102.Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle.
103.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.
104.Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
105.Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it.
106.On average a hedgehog’s heart beats 300 times a minute.
107.More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.
108.The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.
109.More people are allergic to cow’s milk than any other food.
110.Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
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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 colour 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
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
The human heart! creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death!
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories a hour
The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
A cat's urine glows under a black light.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Starfish have no brains, thats why patrick is stupid
Polar bears are left-handed.
Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
Kangaroos can not walk backwards.
California has issued at least 6 drivers licenses to people named Jesus Christ.
According to a recent survey, more than half of British adults have had sex in a public place!
Most alcoholic beverages contain all 13 minerals necessary to sustain human life.
Most dreams last only 5 to 20 minutes.
The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
U.S. President Calvin Coolidge liked to eat breakfast while having his head rubbed with Vaseline. When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise
The creator of the NIKE Swoosh symbol was paid only $35 for the design.
How does a shark find fish? It can hear their hearts beating.
Penguins can convert salt water into fresh water.
There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
Avocados have more protein than any other fruit.
In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die!
If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
In India, people are legally allowed to marry a dog!
You are more likely to get attacked by a cow than a shark.
One in three male motorists picks their nose while driving.
It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.
Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.
The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
The tooth is the only part of the human body that can’t repair itself.
Bone is stronger than some steel.
Three hundred million cells die in the human body every minute.
Your body has enough iron in it to make a nail 3 inches long.
The most common blood type in the world is Type O.
The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you’ll have a bad dream.
It is not possible to tickle yourself.
Humans are the only animals to produce emotional tears.
A cat can run about 20 kilometres per hour (12 miles per hour) when it grows up. This one is going nowhere today - it is too lazy !.
Some scientists believe that the earth began billions of years ago as a huge ball of swirling dust and gases. If you dig in your backyard, don’t worry about running into the earth’s core. You’d have to dig a hole 4,000 miles (6,437 kilometers) deep!
The largest land animal in the world is the Kodiak bear. It weighs about 862 kilograms, which is roughly the same as 14 male gymnasts.
All clams are born as males. A clam can change to become a female, but only once, and the change is irreversible.
A bird called the great tit produces its waste in enclosed sacs that it later removes from its nest. The average great tit removes approximately 500 sacs of manure from its nest each week.
Frogs cannot vomit. Whenever a frog absolutely has to vomit, it vomits its entire stomach.
Can you walk underwater? Well, here is one animal that can – the Armadillos.
There are no vocal chords in a giraffe.
Its been 4,000 years and no new animal-species has been domesticated.
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off !
Mammals are the only animals with flaps around the ears.
A house fly lives only 14 days.
A dog was the first in space and a sheep, a duck and a rooster the first to fly in a hot air balloon.
The oldest breed of dog is the Saluki.
The pig is rated the fourth most intelligent animal but are mentioned only twice in the Bible.
Dinosaurs did not eat grass: there weren’t any at that time.
The slowest fish is the Sea Horse, which moves along at about 0.01 mph (0.016 km/h).
The heart of a blue whale is the size of a small car.
The tongue of a blue whale is as long as an elephant.
A blue whale weighs as much as 40 rhinos.
Millions of trees are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them.
A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.
A zebra is white with black stripes.
Beaver teeth are so sharp that Native Americans once used them as knife blades.
Every year, $1.5 billion is spent on pet food. This is four times the amount spent on baby food
Moles are able to tunnel through 300 feet of earth in a day.
Rats are omnivorous, eating nearly any type of food, including dead and dying members of their own species.
Swans are the only birds with penises.
The blood of mammals is red, the blood of insects is yellow, and the blood of lobsters is blue.
Fastest Insect Runner Cockroach at 3MPH
Largest Insect Egg Malaysian stick insect (Heteropteryx dilitata) at .05 inches.
In Washington D.C., no building can be taller than the capitol.
M&M's were introduced in 1940 for U.S. soldiers, so their hands would not get sticky.
China has more English speakers than the United States (OMG)
Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
Turtles can breathe through their butts.
The game of GOLF was invented in Scotland, and for Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden.
Willard Scott was the first Ronald McDonald.
Black-eyed peas are seeds of the tropical vine Vigna Sinensis.
More than 75 different kinds of bacteria are found in human feces.
Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.
Man is the only animal that sleeps on its back.
Sherlock Holmes was not a real person.
The first animal in space was a dog named Laika, November 3, 1957.
Manhole covers are round so that they don't fall in the hole.
It is possible for hot water to freeze faster than cold water.
You can test positive for drug use after eating poppy seed bagels.
Yams and sweet potatoes are actually unrelated vegetables.
In the year 2160, there will be two lunar eclipses and five solar eclipses.
Although they won't admit it, women fart as much as men.
33 + 43 + 53 = 63
On average, there are about 100 lightning strikes every second worldwide.
Basketball was invented in the United States in 1891
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies bathroom.
If a starfish is cut into pieces, each piece will grow into a whole starfish.
Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel.
Dirty snow melts faster than clean snow.
Coca-cola was originally sold as a brain tonic.
A regulation soccer game is 90 minutes.
England is smaller than New England.
The moon is one million times drier than the Gobi Desert.
Earth is gradually slowing down. Every few years, an extra second is added to make up for lost time. Millions of years ago, a day on Earth will have been 20 hours long. It is believed that, in millions of years time, a day on Earth will be 27 hours long.
You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
Today, only one in two billion people will live to be 116 or older.
Your statistical chance of being murdered is 1 in 20,000.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
When Thomas Edison died in 1941; Henry Ford captured his last dying breath in a bottle.
Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
We forget 80 percent of what we learn everyday.
Your nose and ears never stop growing.
Men get hiccups more often than women.
Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.
A kangaroo can't jump unless its tail is touching the ground
A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
About 85% of the plant life on the Earth is in the ocean.
All 17 children of Queen Anne dies before she did.
Children grow more in the springtime.
'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English
If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
When asked to name a colour, three out of five people will say red.
President Lyndon Johnson ran away from home at the age of 15. He didn’t go back for two years.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
On average, we spend 12 years of our life watching TV.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!
The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on its fur!
The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30!
More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones!
In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!
Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!
Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States!
Japan Laws Women are legally obliged to wear bra's in buildings with air conditioning. Because men get too aroused looking at their hard nipples.
You are about 1 centimetre taller in the morning than in the evening!
The first time the word 'hell' was spoken on TV was in an original 'STAR TREK' episode entitled 'City on the Edge of Forever'. The exact quote was '...let's get the hell out of here...', spoken by William Shatner.
Male and female rats may have sex twenty times a day.
22% of American women aged 20 gave birth while in their teens. In Switzerland and Japan, only 2% did so.
For every 'normal' webpage, there are five porn pages.
The word "gymnasium" comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means "to exercise naked."
In Hong Kong, a betrayed wife is legally allowed to kill her adulterous husband, but may only do so with her bare hands.
In india it is cheaper to have sex with a prostitue than buy a condom!
Sex burns 360 calories per hour
Women are twice as likely to be diagnosed with depression than men in the United States.
Males, on average, think about sex every 7 seconds.
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
The greatest recorded number of children one mother had was 69 children. Do the math!
Turkeys can reproduce without having sex. It's called parthenogenesis.
Snakes have two sex organs.
85% of men who die of heartattacks during intercourse, are found to have been cheating on their wives.
During the female orgasm, endorphines are released, which are powerful painkillers. So headaches are in fact a bad excuse not to have sex.
All babies are colour blind when they are born.
KIWIS are the only birds, which hunt by sense of smell.
Cockroaches & Lobsters are kissing cousins.
A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't.
Do not make direct eye contact with Monkey for more than 4 seconds
Monkeys have no patience
Ants never sleep!
An Albatross can sleep while it is flying.
All electronic speakers are actually microphones.
It is impossible to kill yourself by holding your breath.
And last on the list, wasps taste like pine nuts, beetles taste like an apple and best of all… if you run out of bacon for Sunday breakfast you can eat worms from the garden because they taste like bacon.
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