Read It To Believe It -- Thousands Of Amazing Facts
The snowiest city in the U.S.A. is blue canyon
California Lake Nicaragua in Nicaragua is the only fresh water lake in the world that has sharks.
Kite flying is a professional sport in Thailand.
The great warrior Genghis khan died in bed while having $ex.
No matter how cold it gets gasoline will not freeze.
SNAILS have 14175 teeth laid along 135 rows on their tongue.
A BUTTERFLY has 12,000 eyes.
DOLPHINS sleep with 1 eye open.
A BLUE WHALE can eat as much as 3 tones of food everyday, but at the same time can live without food for 6 months.
The EARTH has over 12,00,000 species of animals, 3,00,000 species of plants & 1,00,000 other species.
The fierce DINOSAUR was TYRANNOSAURS which has sixty long & sharp teeth, used to attack & eat other dinosaurs.
DEMETRIO was a mammal like REPTILE with a snail on its back. This acted as a radiator to cool the body of the animal.
CASSOWARY is one of the dangerous BIRD, that can kill a man or animal by tearing off with its dagger like claw.
The SWAN has over 25,000 feathers in its body.
Some lions mates over 50 times a day.
American did not commonly use forks until after the civil war.
The most productive day of the week is Tuesday.
In the 1930’s America track star Jesse Owens used to race against horses and dogs to earn a living.
There’s a great mushroom in Oregon that is 2,400 years old. Covers 3.4 square miles of land and is still growing.
Jimmy Carter is the first U.S.A. president to have born in hospital.
Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
Human birth control pill work on gorillas.
The right lung takes in more air than the left.
It is illegal to own a red car in shanghai china.
A hard-boiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not.
Astronauts cannot burp in space.
People who ride on roller coaters have a higher chance of having a blood clot in the brain.
Black bears are not always black they can be brown, cinnamon, yellow and sometimes white.
People with blue eyes see better in dark.
Each year 30,000 people are seriously injured by exercise equipment.
The placement of a donkey’s eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet.
The sun is 330330 times larger than the earth.
The cow gives nearly 200000 glass of milk in her lifetime.
There are more female than male millionaires in the U.S.A.
A male baboon can kill a leopard.
When a person dies, hearing is usually the first sense to go.
Bill gates house was designed using Macintosh computer.
Nearly 22,000 cheques will be deducted from the wrong account over the next hour.
Almost all varieties of breakfast cereals are made from grass.
A frog can’t empty its stomach by vomiting.
A rat can go without water longer than a camel can.
The lung fish can live out of water for three years in a state of suspended animation.
The bark of an older red wood tree is fire proof.
The average American consumes nine pounds of food additives every year.
7000 new insects species are discovered every year.
The average human body contains enough fat to make seven bars of soap
Barbie’s fill name is babra Millicent Roberts.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
Pearls melt in vinegar
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs... but not downstairs..
Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.
Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
"I am" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
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
OSTRICH eats pebbles to help digestion by grinding up the ingested food.
POLAR BEAR can look clumsy & slow but during chase on ice, can reach 25 miles / hr of speed.
KIWIS are the only birds, which hunt by sense of smell.
ELEPHANT teeth can weigh as much as 9 pounds.
OWL is the only bird, which can rotate its head to 270 degrees.
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
The c!garette lighter was invented before the match.
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
Tapeworms range in size from about 0.04 inch to more than 50 feet in length.
German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.
A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips ..
A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death ..
The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
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.
By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand (and you thought this list was completely useless ?????? ).
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.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in '87 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.
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
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!
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
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 game..
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages them.
During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance ..
Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces will kill a small sized dog.
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
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.
Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan, there was never a recorded Wendy before!
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple and silver!
The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.
The kiss that is given by the bride to the groom at the end of the wedding ceremony originates from the earliest times when the couple would actually make love for the first time under the eyes of half the village!
The kissing under the missletoe tradition originated from the Druids.
The kiwi has nostrils near the tip of its bill that allows it to sniff the ground for food.
The Kiwi, national bird of New Zealand, can't fly. It lives in a hole in the ground, is almost blind, and lays only one egg each year. Despite this, it has survived for more than 70 million years.
The Kwoma of New Guinea consider it proper for the girl to make sexual advances rather than the boy in order to help the men avoid upsetting the girl's parents.
The largest amount of money you can have without having change for a dollar is $1.19 (3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies cannot be divided into a dollar).
The largest animal ever seen alive was a 113.5 foot, 170-ton female blue whale.
The largest antique ever sold is the London Bridge. It was sold and moved Lake Havasu City, AZ in 1971.
The largest baseball card collection, 200,000 cards, is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
The internet is NOT FREE, a group of companies actually own the internet.
The Jazz Singer, 1927, was the first movie with audible dialogue.
The Jordanian city Amman was once called Philadelphia.
The Kama Sutra was written by Mallanga Vatsyayana, who was rumored to be celibate.
The kangaroo and the emu are shown supporting the shield on Australia's coat of arms.
The kangaroo rat can cover ground at a rate of 17 feet per second. It can leap as much as 18 inches straight up and can switch directions at the peak of its jump.
The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs.
The hummingbird is the only bird that can hover and fly straight up, down, or backward!
The hummingbird, the loon, the swift, the kingfisher, and the grebe are all birds that cannot walk.
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The Hundred Year War actually lasted 116 years (1337 to 1453).
The ice cream soda was invented in 1874 by Robert Green. He was serving a mixture of syrup, sweet cream and carbonated water at a celebration in Philadelphia. He ran out of cream and substituted ice cream.
The idiom "pillar of salt" means to have a stroke, or to become paralyzed and dead.
The Iditarod Dogsled Race got its name from Iditarod, a small mining village along the race's route.
The race commemorates an emergency operation in 1925 to get medical supplies to Nome, Alaska following a diphtheria epidemic.
The Imperial torte, a square chocolate cake with five thin layers of almond paste, was created by a master pastry chef at the court of Emperor Franz Joseph (1830 1916).
The infamous "Red Baron" was German World War I pilot Manfred von Richthofen.
The infinite sign is called a lemniscate.
The International Space Station weighs about 500 tons and is the same size as a football field.
The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the varieties of pickles the company once had.
Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a "tittle".
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.
A duck's quack doesn't echo ... no one knows why.
40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
Every person has a unique tongue print
315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was albino.
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
The largest bell in the world is the Tsar Kolokol in the Kremlin in Moscow. It's 20' 2" high and 21' 8" in diameter. Cast in 1735, it weighs 222.56 tons and has never been wrung...it cracked before it was installed.
The largest bird egg in the world today is that of the ostrich. Ostrich eggs are from 6 to 8 inches long. Because of their size and the thickness of their shells, they take 40 minutes to hard-boil.
The largest body of fresh water in the world is Lake Superior.
The largest cell in the human body is the female ovum, or egg cell. It is about 1/180 inch in diameter. The smallest cell in the human body is the male sperm. It takes about 175,000 sperm cells to weigh as much as a single egg cell.
The largest cockroach on record is one measured at 3.81 inches in length.
The largest coffee importer center in the U.S. is located in the city of New Orleans, LA.
The largest desert in the world, the Sahara, is 3,500,000 square miles.
The largest gold nugget ever found weighed 172 lbs., 13 oz.
The largest Great White Shark ever caught measured 37 feet and weighed 24,000 pounds. It was found in a herring weir in New Brunswick in 1930.
The largest hailstone ever recorded was 17.5 inches in diameter bigger than a basketball.
The largest human organ is the liver, which weighs about 55 ounces in a person weighing 150 pounds. By some definitions, the skin is an organ, in which case skin would be the largest organ at 384 ounces.
The human body contains enough phosphorus to make the heads of 200 matches, enough fat for seven bars of soap, and enough iron to make one nail.
The human body has over 45 miles of nerves.
The human body has over 600 muscles, 40% of the body's weight.
The human brain is about 85% water.
The human eyes can distinguish about 17,000 different colors.
The human head weighs 7 pounds.
The human heart creates enough pressure in the bloodstream to squirt blood 30 feet.
The human heart pumps 1.5 million gallons of blood a year.
Only 30% of stolen artwork worth more than $1,000,000 each is recovered.
The typical American child receives 70 new toys a year, most of them during the holiday season.
90% of Canada's 31,000,000 citizens live within 100 miles of the U.S. border.
The Washington Times newspaper is owned by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon.
The busiest shopping hour of the holiday season is between 3:00 PM and 4:00 PM on Christmas Eve.
In 2002, women earned 742,000 bachelor's degrees. Men earned only 550,000 during the same year. The difference is growing so large that many colleges now practice (quietly) affirmative action for male applicants.
Most of the deck chairs on the Queen Mary 2 have had to be replaced because overweight Americans were breaking them.
Actor Bill Murray doesn't have a publicist or an agent.
The day after President George W. Bush was reelected, Canada's main immigration website had 115,000 visitors. Before Bush's re-election, this site averaged about 20,000 visitors each day.
The entire fleet of Unicoi County Tennessee's salt trucks was rendered out of commission in one accident. All three trucks were badly damaged when one of them began skidding down a road, causing a chain reaction accident. Officials blamed road conditions.
More people study English in China than speak it in the United States of America (300 million).
Fast food provider Hardee's has recently introduced the Monster Thickburger. It has 1,420 calories and 107 grams of fat.
More than 2,500 left-handed people are killed each year from using products that are made for right-handed people.
For every person on earth, there are an estimated 200 million insects.
There are 2,000,000 millionaires in the United States.
1.5 million Americans are charged with drunk driving each year.
A Georgia company will mix your loved one's ashes with cement and drop it into the ocean to form an artificial reef.
The time spent deleting SPAM costs United States businesses $21.6 billion annually.
60.7 percent of eligible voters participated in the 2004 presidential election, the highest percentage in 36 years. However, more than 78 million did not vote. This means President Bush won re-election by receiving votes from less than 31% of all eligible voters in the United States.
John Quincy Adams, sixth president of the United States, loved to skinny dip in the Potomac River.
La Paz, Bolivia has an average annual temperature below 50 degrees Fahrenheit. However, it has never recorded a zero-degree temperature. Same for Stanley, Falkland Islands and Punta Arenas, Chile.
41% of Chinese people eat at least once a week at a fast food restaurant. 35% of Americans do.
A Wisconsin forklift operator for a Miller beer distributor was fired when a picture was published in a newspaper showing him drinking a Bud Light.
G-rated family films earn more money than any other rating. Yet only 3% of Hollywood's output is G-rated.
Richard Hatch, winner of the first "Survivor" reality series, has been charged with tax evasion for failing to report his $1,000,000 prize.
A baby bat is called a pup.
German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.
A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.
It takes 35 to 65 minks to produce the average mink coat. The numbers for other types of fur coats are: beaver - 15; fox - 15 to 25; ermine - 150; chinchilla - 60 to 100 .
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 a statue of a person in the park 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.
What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common? Ans. - All invented by women.
The only food that doesn't spoil is HoneY.
The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
A snail can sleep for three years.
All polar bears are left handed.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Coca-Cola was originally green.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row ! of the keyboard.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men!
You can't kill yourself by holding your breath. ( Try It Now : )
It is impossible to lick your elbow. ( Why U R Licking It Now ?? :s .. Very Bad :s )
Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
People say "Bless you " when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
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The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in an American court.
98% of brown bears in the United States are in Alaska.
Before air conditioning was invented, white cotton slipcovers were put on furniture to keep the air cool.
The Barbie doll has more than 80 careers.
To make one pound of whole milk cheese, 10 pounds of whole milk is needed.
99% of pumpkins that are sold for decoration.
The month of December is the most popular month for weddings in the Philippines. ( Time Running Out Do Hurry )
A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine.
Carbon monoxide can kill a person in less than 15 minutes.
The largest ever hailstone weighed over 1kg and fell in Bangladesh in 1986.
Ants can live up to 16 years.
In Belgium, there is a museum that is just for strawberries.
The sense of smell of an ant is just as good as a dog's.
Popped popcorn should be stored in the freezer or refrigerator as this way it can stay crunchy for up to three weeks.
A quarter of the horses in the US died of a vast virus epidemic in 1872.
The fastest bird is the Spine-tailed swift, clocked at speeds of up to 220 miles per hour.
There is no single cat called the panther. The name is commonly applied to the leopard, but it is also used to refer to the puma and the jaguar. A black panther is really a black leopard. A capon is a castrated rooster.
The world's largest rodent is the Capybara. An Amazon water hog that looks like a guinea pig, it can weigh more than 100 pounds.
The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.
The hummingbird, the loon, the swift, the kingfisher, and the grebe are all birds that cannot walk.
The poisonous copperhead snake smells like fresh cut cucumbers.
A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.
Worker ants may live seven years and the queen may live as long as 15 years.
The blood of mammals is red, the blood of insects is yellow, and the blood of lobsters is blue.
Cheetahs make a chirping sound that is much like a bird's chirp or a dog's yelp.
The sound is so an intense, it can be heard a mile away.
The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The frog peels off several times a year with new growth.
It may take longer than two days for a chick to break out of its shell.
Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph.
Despite man's fear and hatred of the wolf, it has not ever been proved that a non-rabid wolf ever attacked a human.
There are more than 100 million dogs and cats in the United States.
Americans spend more than 5.4 billion dollars on their pets each year.
Cat's urine glows under a black light .
The largest cockroach on record is one measured at 3.81 inches in length.
It is estimated that a single toad may catch and eat as many as 10,000 insects in the course of a summer.
Amphibians eyes come in a variety shapes and sizes. Some even have square or heart-shaped pupils.
It would require an average of 18 hummingbirds to weigh in at 1 ounce.
Dogs that do not tolerate small children well are the St. Bernard, the Old English sheep dog, the Alaskan malamute, the bull terrier, and the toy poodle.
Moles are able to tunnel through 300 feet of earth in a day.
Howler monkeys are the noisiest land animals. Their calls can be heard over 2 miles away.
An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to Squirt blood 30 feet.
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear By 700 times.
Cats have more than one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
The biggest member of the cat family is the male lion, which weighs 528 pounds (240 kilograms).
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
Each day in the US, animal shelters are forced to destroy 30,000 dogs and cats.
A shrimp's heart is in their head.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
The cat lover is an ailurophile, while a cat hater is an ailurophobe.
A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.
Ants don't sleep .
Owls have eyeballs that are tubular in shape, because of this, they cannot move their eyes.
A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.
The mouse is the most common mammal in the US.
A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.
A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
The Canary Islands were not named for a bird called a canary. They were named after a breed of large dogs. The Latin name was Canariae insulae - "Island of Dogs."
There are 701 types of pure breed dogs.
A polecat is not a cat. It is a nocturnal European weasel.
The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito.
The biggest pig in recorded history was Big Boy of Black Mountain, North Carolina, who was weighed at 1,904 pounds in 1939.
Cats respond most readily to names that end in an "ee" sound.
A cat cannot see directly under its nose. This is why the cat cannot seem to find tidbits on the floor.
Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.
Snakes are immune to their own poison.
Large kangaroos can cover more than 30 feet with each jump.
There are 365 steps on the front of U.S.A. capital building one for every day of the year.
grapes explode in the microwave.
The second hand on an authentic Rolex watch does not tick it moves smoothly.
Babies eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.
all the gold ever mined could be moulded in to cube 60 feet high and 60 feet wide.
A snail can sleep for three years.
The bagpipe was first made from the lever of a sheep.
29% of people admit they have intentionally stolen something from a store.
Mexico has more American residents than any other country except the U.S.A.
A full-grown bear can run as faster as a horse.
The U.K. eats more cans of baked beans than the rest of the world combined.
Linen can absorb up to 20 times its weight in moisture before it feels damp.
Everyday an average person swallows about a quart of mucous.
About 25% of population sneezes when they are exposed to light.
The giant South African earthworm can grow up to 22 feet long and 1 inch thick.
The largest species of kangaroo stands nearly 7 feet tall.
From a complete stop. A human is capable of out running a formula 1-racer car for about 30 feet.
An average person spends three years of his\her life in a toilet.
The liquid inside young coconut can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
A drop of ocean water takes more than 1000 years to circulate around the world.
An average human body contains 1mg of uranium 2mg of gold and 1mg of arsenic.
During gold rush in 1849 some people paid as much as $100 for a glass of water.
The normal static electricity shock that zaps your finger when you touch a door knob is between 10,000 to 30,000 volts.
You mostly breathe from only one nostril at a time
Over the course of an average lifetime, a person breathes 591,300,000 times It means 21,600 times a day.
Your lung contains around 300-350 million respiratory units called Alveoli.
We breathe in 13 pint of air every minute.
More than half a litre of water is lost via breathing.
People under 30 take in double the amount of oxygen as those who are 80.
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!
How do reindeers survive in the extreme cold? Most animals don't eat moss. It's hard to digest, and it has little nutritional value. But reindeer fill up with lots of moss. Why? The moss contains a special chemical that helps reindeer keep their body fluids warm. When the reindeer make their yearly journey across the icy Arctic region, the chemical keeps them from freezing—much as antifreeze keeps a car from freezing up in winter
A cat can run about 20 kilometres per hour (12 miles per hour) when it grows up.
A cheetah can run 76 kilometres per hour (46 miles per hour) - that's really fast!
The fastest human beings runs only about 30 kilometres per hour (18 miles per hour).
a cheetah does not roar like a lion - it purrs like a cat (meow).
Did you know Sailor, Dead Leaf, Paper Kite, Blue Striped Crow, Julia and Great Egg Fly are all names of BUTTERFLIES
The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'!
A Zipper joins two pieces of material together. A zipper is used everywhere, on clothing, pencil cases, boots and suitcases, wallets, and a zillion other things. Everyone thinks it was Whitcomb Judson who invented the zipper but it was really Elias Howe. Elias was so busy inventing the sewing machine that he didn't get around to selling his zipper invention which he called a "clothing closure".
The largest frog in the world is called Goliath frog. Frogs start their lives as 'eggs' often laid in or near fresh water. Frogs live on all continents except Antarctica. Frogs belong to a group of animals called amphibians.
Bears whose brown fur is tipped with lighter-colored hairs are called grizzly bears . The smallest species of bears is called sun or Malayan bears. Male bears are called boars. Bears are native to the continents of North America, Asia, Europe, and South America. Alaskan brown bears, world's largest meat-eating animals that live on land, can weigh as much as 1,700 pounds (771 kilograms)
No two zebras have stripes that are exactly alike. Zebras enemies include hyenas, wild dogs, and lions. Male zebras are called stallions. Zebras usually travel in herds.
There are more than 50 different kinds of kangaroos. Kangaroos are native of Australia. A group of kangaroos is called a mob. Young kangaroos are called joeys.
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Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
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.
Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
The "pound" (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.
The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
"Dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in "mt".
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. ( Try It To Fail )
In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".
A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.
We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.
Yo-Yo were once used as weapons in the Philippines.
Coca-Cola can be used as car oil.
Mexico City sinks abut 10 inches a year.
Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.
Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.
When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying "yes" in Sri Lanka.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
It's against the law in Iceland to have a dog.
The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.
The only word in the English Language with all vowels in reverse order is "s ub c ont in ent al".
There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.
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