Here's some interesting trivia I dug up...ENJOY
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1. The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
2. A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
3. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
4. A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
5. Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
6. Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
7. Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
8. Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
9. Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
10. If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
11. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
12. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
13. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
14. If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
15. A snail can sleep for 3 years.
16. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
17. China has more English speakers than the United States.
18. A dentist invented the electric chair.
19. You share your birthday with at least 9 million people.
20. The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is one of the few places in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an aeroplane.
21. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have around ten.
22. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
23. Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
24. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
25. 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.
26. Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonald's.
27. No word in the English language rhymes with "month" or "orange"
28. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
29. Cat's urine glows under a black light.
30. The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
31. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
32. It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni and about a gallon to clean the pot.
33. Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
34. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
35. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
36. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
37. The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It to Beaver".
38. In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.
39. One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers - as they saw it as competition. It is not as chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.
40. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
41. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan"
42. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
43. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
44. Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
45. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
46. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
47. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
48. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
49. Americans on average eat a total of 18 acres of pizza every day.
50. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
51. Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider?
52. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
53. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
54. Polar bears are left-handed.
55. A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
56. 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.
57. Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
58. Butterflies taste with their feet.
59. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
60. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
61. Starfish haven't got brains.
62. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
63. Using the correct hand positioning for typing, the longest word you can type using your left hand is "Stewardesses".
64. The word "Fridge" has a ‘d’ in it, whereas "Refrigeration" doesn’t.
65. The only word in the English dictionary that ends in the letter ‘AMT’ is "Dreamt"
66. Your body excepts caffeine more simplistically than any other drug, it can therefore become the most addictive.
67. Vinegar has more cleaning chemicals than white spirit.
68. The first ‘pocket calculator’ was the size of a brief case.
69. More people own a PlayStation than a Satellite dish!
70. If you hold an egg upright using your forefinger and thumb, the average person would not be able to crush it by applying pressure.
71. An ant can lift ten times its own body weight.
72. If, in proportion to our body mass, we could jump as far as flea, we could jump from one goal to another on a football pitch.
73. 5 out of 10 back pains are caused by bad wisdom teeth.
74. One apple first thing in the morning will provide enough natural stimulant as one mug of coffee.
75. In terms or profit, the three biggest brands in the world are Marlboro, Coca-Cola and Budweiser.
76. Emotional hurt produces more tears than physical pain although tears from physical pain carries more nutrients.
77. The human taste buds do not recognise the taste of banana’s or onions, it’s only our sense of smell that detects these.
78. 6 out of 10 people remove the pickles from their McDonalds burgers. If McDonalds stopped serving these within their burgers they would save over $5million a year.
79. There is no such hair style as a ‘Mohican’ it is actually called a ‘Mohawk’
80. Saddam Hussain employs ‘lookalikes’ to use as decoys, three of which were assassinated during the gulf war by UN forces.
81. The first person to create a corn flake, which does not go soggy when in contact with milk, will be an instant millionaire.
82. Two litres of Coke provides enough recommended sugar in-take to last 96 days.
