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• Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
• An old law in Bellingham, Wash., made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.
• Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
• Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
• Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to SLOW a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
• By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.
• Casey Kasem is the voice of Shaggy on Scooby-Doo.
• Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest.
• China has more English speakers than the United States.
• Daniel Boone detested coonskin caps.
• Dr. Seuss actually pronounced Seuss such that it sounded like Sue-ice.
• Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
• Every person has a unique tongue print.
• Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
• If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.
• If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
• If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you will have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
• In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
• In Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did this more than 100 years before either moon was discovered.
• On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
• John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son.
• Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
• Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors, also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.
• Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
• Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
• Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
• On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
• One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 1930's lobbied against hemp farmers-they saw it as competition.
• Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
• Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
• Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
• Sharon Stone was the first Star Search spokesmodel.
• Sherlock Holmes NEVER said Elementary, my dear Watson.
• Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
• Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.
• The average human eats eight spiders in their lifetime at night.
• The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the USA'
• The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
• The mask used by Michael Myers in the original Halloween was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
• The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
• The name Wendy was made up for the book 'Peter Pan'.
• The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as necessary. When it was built in the 1940's, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
• The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
• There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
• Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
• Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
• You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
• You can't kill yourself by holding your breath
• Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.

• A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
• A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
• A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
• A snail can sleep for three years.
• All polar bears are left-handed.
• An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
• Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
• Butterflies taste with their feet.
• Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about 10.
• Cats urine glows under a black light.
• Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate effects a dogs heart and nervous system, a few ounces enough to kill a small sized dog.
• Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear any pants.
• Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
• If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
• In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
• Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
• Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
• Starfish haven't got brains.
• The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
• The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
• 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.

• 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
• 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
• American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
• Back in the mid to late 80's, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.
• Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
• Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
• Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
• During the California Gold Rush of 1849 miners sent their laundry to Honolulu for washing and pressing. Due to the extremely high costs in California during these boom years it was deemed more feasible to send the shirts to Hawaii for servicing.
• During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance.
• February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
• Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
• "I am" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
• No word in the English language rhymes with month.
• If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19.You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
• Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
• Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.
• Most lipstick contains fish scales.
• Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
• Roses MAY Be red, but violets ARE, indeed, violet.
• The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickle the company once had.
• The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
• The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
• The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
• The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
• The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
• The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
• The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
• The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
• The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
• The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'.
• The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor who had a red eyes. He was albino.
• The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
• The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
• There are four cars and eleven lightposts on the back of a $10 dollar bill.
• There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
• There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple,and silver!
• TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
• 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.