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Crazy facts
A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out.
A shrimp's heart is in their head.
People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a mili-second.
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 (or attempted to do so).
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphabetti Spaghetti
especially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta
swastikas.
More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a
telephone call.
Rats and horse can't vomit.
The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest
tongue twister in the English language.
If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die, if you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out.
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a
million descendants.
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
If the government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title 14,Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles?
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are
already married.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.
In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70
assorted insects and 10 spiders.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
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In Kentucky, 50 percent of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.
Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during W.W.I.
Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.
In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.
About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.
An average person laughs about 15 times a day.
Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
The average person is half an inch taller upon rising in the morning.
Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.
A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
A Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones - Bhutan.
Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.
Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
Pollsters say that 40 percent of dog and cat owners carry pictures of the pets in their wallets.
Bubble gum contains rubber.
You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.
Only 55 percent of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in Jello.
If you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for weeks.
The world population of chickens is about equal to people.
In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.
A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.
Some toothpaste brands contain antifreeze.
Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the Western Pacific.
There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.
Mosquitoes have teeth.
The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every
letter in the english language
No president of the United States was an only child.
TYPEWRITER, is one of the longest words that can be made using the
letters only one row of the keyboard.
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
China has more English speakers than the United States.
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one-mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, with a population of
1000 and a size 108.7 acres.
The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
if you stand on the equator you will be moving at over 24 miles per second|
Here another one:
Did you know
A pigs orgasm lasts for half an hour 
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| Originally posted by jploveparade A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out. A shrimp's heart is in their head. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a mili-second. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere. |
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| Originally posted by biznology if you stand on the equator you will be moving at over 24 miles per second| |
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| Originally posted by jploveparade In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.. |
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| Originally posted by dj_nomiz i found those pretty interesting... i gotta watch seinfeld to see if that is rite... do u mean, there will be some guy dressed in superman gear randomly every episode? |
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| Originally posted by dj_nomiz i found those pretty interesting... i gotta watch seinfeld to see if that is rite... do u mean, there will be some guy dressed in superman gear randomly every episode? |
http://www.snopes.com/business/alliance/swastika.htm
That Swastika story doesn't seem to be true at all 
I just couldn't believe it!
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The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it. [/QUOTE]
I'll neva eat chocolate again!!!!!!where does the rest of the body go?
No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."
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| Originally posted by Jason R I'll neva eat chocolate again!!!!!!where does the rest of the body go? |
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| Originally posted by caroline No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH." |
hmmmmm....i always knew there was something special about where i go to school...i just couldn't figure it out.
"A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana. "
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| Originally posted by jploveparade Hunt |
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| Originally posted by caroline No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH." |
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| Originally posted by jploveparade Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times. |
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| Originally posted by DJ Mikey Mike or purple or silver |
Here are some more. Tho I don't remember my sources 
Q. What occurs more often in December than any other month?
A. Conception.
Q. What separates "60 Minutes," on CBS from every other TV show?
A. No theme song.
Q. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what?
A. Their birthplace.
Q. Most boat owners name their boats.
What is the most popular boat name requested?
A. Obsession
Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"?
A. One thousand
Q. What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers all have in common?
A. All invented by women.
Q. What is the only food that doesn't spoil?
A. Honey
Q. There are more collect calls on this day than any other day of the year?
A. Father's Day
Q. What trivial fact about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) is the most ironic?
A. He was allergic to carrots.
Q. What is an activity performed by 40% of all people at a party?
A. Snoop in your medicine cabinet.
Did you know...
The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
Coca-Cola was originally green.
Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear & smell better.
The state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
That San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great; Hearts -Charlemagne; Diamonds - Julius Caesar
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
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.
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 am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "The whole 9 yards."
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
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.
The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League all-stars Game.
The nursery rhyme "Ring Around the Rosey" is a rhyme about the plague. Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores ("Ring around the rosey"), these sores would smell very badly so common folks would put flowers on their bodies somewhere (inconspicuously), so that it would cover the smell of the sores("a pocket full of posies"). Furthermore, people who died from the plague would be burned so as to reduce the possible spread of the disease ("ashes, ashes, we all fall down").
Food
Worlds worst meal: eating a bicycle. A man did this by grinding it into powder.
When a pineapple was first shown to the infamous glutton King Louis XIV, he immediately grabbed it and took a giant bite. He cut his lips and thereafter outlawed pineapples in France.
Professor William Buckland acquired the dried out heart of King Louis XIV, provided by grave robbers. He ate it!
The word salary came from the word salt in Roman times. Salt was used as a trading medium - money.
John Pemberton, the inventor of Coca-Cola referred to it as, "Esteemed Brain Tonic and Intellectual Beverage."
7-Up was originally called Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda when it was invented in 1929. The 7 is for the original size - 7 ounces - and the Up was for "bottoms up." The first advertising slogan for 7-Up was, "It takes the ouch out of grouch."
Cherries taste great, but if you eat the leaves or twigs of a cherry tree, you could die.
Strawberries are unique among fruits because they carry their seeds on the outside.
People have grown tomatoes with a strawberry growing inside.
Americans eat 5681 miles of carrots per day.
A genetic engineer in Japan has created cube-shaped watermelons. These stack more efficiently than round ones.
If you store carrots and apples together in your fridge, the carrots will become bitter because they are affected by the ethylene fumes (natural) given off by the apples.
There is a wild edible plant called Hernandulcin which is 1000 times sweeter than sugar.
Americans eat 127 chickens per second.
All members of the Roman empire were vegetarians until Julias Caesar.
In America, some people put sugar in their tea or coffee. In parts of China, people put salt into their tea.
In Old England, people drank beer at breakfast.
In Japan there is a liquor made from the fermented bodies of venomous snakes.
To grow the wheat for a single loaf of bread requires two tons of water.
An acre of farmland grows one-half ton of wheat, or five tons of potatoes.
A scientist is working on a new soft drink that will help you lose weight in a new way. When you sip this drink, it coats your intestines with a fluorocarbon that reduces the ability to absorb nutrition. When you eat, the stuff will just go right through you without benefit.
Chop suey was invented in America.
If you like exotic foods, perhaps you would like Haggis, from Scotland. It contains oatmeal, suet, onions, and sheep heart, lungs, liver and stomach.
Potato chips cost 200 times more per pound than potatoes.
If we all had a proper diet, 98 percent of the people who die of heart attacks would still be around.
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| Americans eat 127 chickens per second |
It takes half an hour for my family to eat just one chicken, American people are really fast
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| Originally posted by Maaz silver rhymes with river |
if u ever get in a car accident, and its ur fault, just say u sneezed. when u sneeze u go legally blind and ur heart stops. chances are u wont be charged.
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| Originally posted by DJ Mikey Mike or purple or silver |
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| Originally posted by caroline Yea sure- if you have a Brooklyn accent it rhymes. Correctly pronounced, there is no word. |
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| Originally posted by jploveparade Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants. |
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| Originally posted by trancendental "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. |
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