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Butterflies taste with their feet.

In ten minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters of only one row of the keyboard.

On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens each year.

Thirty-five percent of people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

Women blink twice as much a men.

A snail can sleep for three years.

No word in the English language rhymes with the word "month."

The average lifespan of a major league baseball is seven pitches.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

All polar bears are left handed.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

"Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

American, on average, eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad in first class.

30% of Chinese adults live with their parents.

200 million people in China live on less than $1 a day.

There are 100 million internet users in China. Some of the sites they can't access are BBC news, Amnesty International and Dalailama.com.

In 2006, there were 398 million mobile (or cell) phones in China.

China is the source of 70% of the worlds pirated goods.

20% of the world's population lives in China.

People spend about two weeks of their lives at traffic lights!

Left handed people live slightly shorter lives than right handed people.

Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating.

Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia. Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult.

When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second.

A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood.

During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.

Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.

There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses.

Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.

Ants never sleep.

No word in the the English dictionary rhymes with "MONTH".

The human brain is 80% water.

Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum.

The parachute was invented by DiVinci in 1515.

Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.

There are 86,400 seconds in day.

A goldfish has a memory span of about 3 seconds.

Singapore has only one train station.

The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.

Basketball is a famous American sport invented by a Canadian who was working at a YMCA in the U.S.

The hardness of ice is similar to that of concrete.

The average cocoon contains about 300-400 metres of silk.

The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.

Whitby, Ontario has more donut stores per capita than any other place in the world.

Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "E".

No president of the United States was an only child.

Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine. Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.

Most lipstick is partailly made of fish scales.

The word 'byte' is a contraction of 'by eight.'

The dollar symbol ($) is a U combined with an S (U.S.)

Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.

Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.

The tune for the "A-B-C" song is the same as "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star."

Des Moines has the highest per capita Jello consumption in the U.S.

Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."

In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

Great Britain was the first county to issue postage stamps. Hence, the postage stamps of Britain are the only stamps in the world not to bear the name of the country of origin.

Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every Games.

The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.

The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.

The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.

On Sesame Street, Bert's goldfish were named Lyle and Talbot, presumably after the actor Lyle Talbot.

Louis IV of France had a stomach the size of two regular stomachs.

Pepsi originally contained pepsin, thus the name.

Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T.

The newest dog breed is the Bull Boxer, first bred in the United states in 1990-91.

The first hard drive available for the Apple ][ had a capacity of 5 megabytes.

Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.

A mule won't sink in quicksand but a donkey will.

Animal breeders in Russia once claimed to have bred sheep with blue wool.

A pig in Japan says "moo-moo".

India has about 50 million monkeys.

On average, dogs have better eyesight than humans, although not as colorful.

Gorillas sleep as much as fourteen hours per day.

The female lion does ninety percent of the hunting.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

Did You Know, Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

Did You Know, The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

Did You Know, 40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

Did You Know, TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

Did You Know, Butterflies taste with their feet.

Did You Know, Coca-Cola was originally green.

Did You know, If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

Did You Know, Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.

Did You Know, It is impossible to lick your elbow.

Did You Know, Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

Cockroaches can live for 9 days after their head has been cut off.

The world's largest amphibian is the giant salamander. It can grow up to 5 ft. in length.

The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.

A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.

In Cleveland, Ohio it is illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.

In Sweden there is a ski-thru Mcdonalds.

Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."

Since 1313, it is illegal for an MP to enter the House of Commons wearing a full suit of armour.

In York, excluding Sundays, it is legal to shoot a Scotsman with a bow and arrow.

If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total is 5050.

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