Horses and rats cannot throw up (that's why rat
poison works).
Of the twelve apostles to die, only St. John did so
naturally.
If a person is caught selling a Spiderman doll in
France, they can
be arrested. The law there prohibits the sale of any doll that doesn't
have a human face.
One of the ingredients used to make dynamite is the
peanut.
The silver grooves on a CD are not grooves, rather
one long data
spiral. Should it be unwound, it would stretch over three and a half
miles long.
Every human on earth has a probing
muscular organ
attached to their
hyoid bone. It is the strongest muscle in the body, and it is commonly
known as the tongue.
Two million three hundred thousand blocks make up
the Great
Pyramid of Giza. Each weighs two and a half tons. That's a total weight
of 11 and a half billion pounds, or about 6 million cars (if each one
weighs a ton).
Like supermarkets, very few casinos contain
clocks or windows.
On the same day that "Leave it to Beaver" was first
sent into households, Sputnik was sent into space.
Postage stamps in Israel (the lickable kind), are
100% official kosher.
In
small doses, vitamin A is beneficial. But eating
the liver of a
polar bear, which contains extremely concentrated levels of the
substance, could result in death.
In the old days of baseball (prior to 1859),
the home plate umpires sat in padded chairs behind the catcher.
As if dentists didn't already have a bad reputation,
they can be
blamed for the electric chair too; it was invented by one of them.
The human brains tips the scales at about 3 pounds.
The dolphin's weighs in at about three and a half.
Norway is the furthest land north that claims part of
the furthest land south (the latter being Antarctica).
By subtracting any side of a die from seven, you get
the number on the exact opposite side.
The only state represented by a cactus as its state
flower is Arizona.
The wettest spot on the planet is in Hawaii. Ninety
out of 100 days
in Mount Waialeale are rain days, resulting in just under 500 inches of
rain per year.
The U.S. has never had a president who (1)
was non-white, (2)
hasn't owned a pair of glasses, (3) hasn't had at least one brother or
sister.
Scientific data now maintains that being tickled
is tied
directly to our panic reflex. The tickling sensation is a defense
mechanism resulting from the presence of potentially dangerous insects,
bugs, and spiders. People laugh under "duress" of excessively
tickling.
The average person uses up more calories sleeping
than they do watching tv.
Two out of five American women dye their hair.
People who are right handed live 9 years more than
lefties.
A quarter coin has 119 grooves on its edge,
while a dime has 118.
The most common first name in the world is Mohammed.
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