For every person living each year, a ton of cement is
poured.
Certain species of dinosaurs swallowed rocks to
assist in digestion.
Because he chose not to wear pants, comics starring
Donald Duck were outlawed in Finland.
The majority of dust in a standard household is
formed from skin that's dead.
Pigs cannot look upward into space.
When a fly buzzes, it does so in the mid-octave key
of F.
Of all things that fly, only hummingbirds can do so
backward.
The adult brain uses twenty percent of the energy
produced by the body. The brain of a growing infant uses
sixty.
A house in the United States catches on fire every
forty five seconds.
In Italian, the name "Pinocchio" translates to "pine
head".
For the month following a wedding in ancient Babylon,
the father of
the bride would provide his son-in-law with enough mead to quench his
thirst 'round the clock. "Mead" was made from honey, and
since Babylon's calendar was based on the moon, the period
came to
be known as the the honey month. Today this is called the
"honeymoon".
There was a general in the Civil War
named Joseph Hooker. The
story goes that he employed prostitutes to keep his soldiers
company.
The soda drink known as 7-UP was introduced in 1929.
The containers
that the beverage originally came in held seven ounces, and the citrus
bubbles went UP wildly.
Baboons were once used as waiters in old
Egypt.
When Kermit the Frog shook someone's hand, he did it
with the left. He was a south paw.
From the base to the tip, a fingernail or toenail
needs about half a year to grow.
Using only the left hand, the word stewardesses is the
longest word that can be typed.
People who eat lots of cereal for breakfast eat lots
of nicotinic acid. It is better known as niacin.
When a goat and a sheep mate, the offspring is a
"geep".
Flowers that produce vanilla are manually pollinated
by humans.
They are only pollinated naturally by certain bees native to
Mexico.
There is no channel 1 because the FCC
assigned the
channel to
mobile services back in the 1940 without renumbering the rest of the
channels.
Once
upon a time in 1911, three men were hanged on
Greenbury Hill
for the homicide of Sir Edund Berry. They had last names
of Green,
Berry , and Hill.
If left in vinegar, pearls will dissolve.
Shamgret Danzas was famous for being 42 inches tall
and weighing 238 lbs. He was the tallest dog that ever lived.
A woman's orgasm releases strong endorphins, making
it a powerful
pain reliever (no more using a bad headache as an excuse not to have
sex).
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