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// --> More than ten people a year are killed by vending machines. Hippo milk is pink. Women have a better sense of smell than men. Ice Cream is chinese food! For most people, no matter how hard you pinch the skin on your elbow with your fingers it doesn't hurt. Moths are unable to fly during an earthquake. A Native American tribe in South Dakota collects bottle caps left by campers, using them as currency. Several banks in the area now recognize the caps as legal tender. One town in Indiana is called Santa Claus. There is also a Santa, Idaho Coca Cola was the first beverage company to use Santa for a winter promotion. A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue. Even a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to death. Alligators can live up to 100 years A cow produces around 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime. Sloths take two weeks to digest their food. A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year. Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses. A dairy cow can produce more milk when listening to music. Lobsters have blue blood. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky. The world's oldest crow is 118 years (estimated age). Flies are deaf. The Slave-Maker Ant (Polyergus Rufescens) raids the nests of other ants and steals their pupae. When these new ants hatch,they work as slaves within the colony. Dalmatians are born without spots. A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt. Turkeys can reproduce without having sex. To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe. The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people! The octopus' testicles are located in its head. The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene. Some species of fish have voices! Some breeds of chickens lay colored eggs! Some lions mate over 50 times a day. Sheep can recognize other sheep from pictures! Kittens are born both blind and deaf. If a Lobster loses an eye, it will grow another one. Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper. A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear. Dell Computers was started by a 19 year old with only $1,000. Colgate's first toothpaste came in a jar. The founder of McDonald's has a Bachelor degree in Hamburgerology. All 3 founders of Apple worked at Atari before forming Apple. Yahoo! was originally called 'Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web'. The creator of the NIKE Swoosh symbol was paid only $35 for the design. In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch or clock is usually 10:10. The first product that Sony came out with was the rice cooker. The word "fart" comes from the Old English "feortan" (meaning "to break wind"). SCUBA divers cannot pass gas at depths of 33 feet or below. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand. The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood. Coca Cola was originally green. Blueberry juice boosts memory. The world's oldest known recipe is for beer. With two forks and a charge, a pickle will emit light. There are more nutrients in the cornflake package itself than there are in the actual cornflakes. The average French citizen eats 500 snails per year. Is bottled water worth it? 'Evian' spelled backwards is 'naive'. If you put a raisin in a fresh glass of champagne, it will rise and fall continuously. Budweiser beer is named after a town in Czechoslovakia. Bananas contain a natural chemical which can make a person happy. This same chemical is also found in Prozac. Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight! There is a town in Pennsylvania named Intercourse The Yo-Yo originated as a weapon in the Philippine Islands during the sixteenth century. President George W. Bush was once a cheerleader! In ancient Japan, public contests were held to see who could fart the loudest and longest! Donkeys are commonly used by the Iraqi Rebels to launch rockets! The water of the Antarctica is so cold that nothing can rot there. The Sahara desert expands at about 1km per month. Curvy hips indicate smart women who will deliver intelligent children. The skin on your lips is 200 times more sensitive than your fingertips. Your skeleton keeps growing until you are about 35, then you start to shrink You have no sense of smell when you're sleeping! When a person dies, hearing is usually the last sense to go. The average human body contains enough iron to make a small nail. More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones! Contrary to popular beliefs, chocolate does not cause acne. There's no evidence that pirates made people walk the plank. Two dogs were among the Titanic survivors. In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes. The shortest war on record was fought between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes. The first telephone book was one page long and had only 50 names in it. Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six. In ancient Rome it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose! Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes. If you mouth the word "colorful" to someone, it looks like you are saying "I love you". You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world. SONY was originally called 'Totsuken' Most people who read the word 'yawning' will yawn! Babies are born without knee caps. Only 1 out of 700 identity thieves gets caught! WAS IT A CAR OR A CAT I SAW.. 'WASITACARORACATISAW'.. This is the only English sentence which even if we read in reverse, it'll give the same sentence. "Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you." 'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'. As a teenager, Obama took drugs including marijuana and cocaine The Bible is the most-shoplifted book in the world. 'Jedi' is an official religion, with over 70,000 followers, in Australia. Scientists aren't sure what color dinosaurs were. No matter how cold it gets, gasoline will not freeze. One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television! The can opener was invented 48 years after the can. Cherophobia is a fear of fun. Your home is ten times more likely to have a fire than be burglarized! Real diamonds can be made from peanut butter! The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia is decapitation. In France, it is legal to marry a dead person! In Quitman, Georgia, US, it is illegal for a chicken to cross the road. In Hong Kong, a betrayed wife is legally allowed to kill her adulterous husband, but may only do so with her bare hands. (The husband's lover, on the other hand, may be killed in any manner desired.) It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis! You may not drive barefooted. In Philadelphia, you can't put pretzels in bags based on an Act of 1760. It's illegal to own a red car in Shanghai, China. It is illegal to be a prostitute in Siena, Italy, if your name is Mary. According to U.S. laws, a beer commercial can never show a person actually drinking beer. 70% of your friends with which you play online competitive games, have sex with your mother |
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