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If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath. Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television. Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider? Right-handed people, on average, live nine years longer than left-handed people do. polar bears are left-handed. Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older. In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping the length of a football field. A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death. (ewwe) Butterflies taste with their feet. An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain. Starfishes don't have brains. Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes. The World Trade Center towers in New York City have two zip codes, 10047-10048, one for each building. (a little out of date...) 56% of the video game market is adults. The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines. Coca-Cola was originally green. The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning. Smartest dogs: 1) Scottish border collie, 2) Poodle, 3) Golden retriever. Dumbest: Afghan hound. No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times. (Go ahead; try it) Average number of days a West German goes without washing his underwear: 7 Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400 Percentage of people who use personal ads for dating that are already married: 35% Walt Disney was afraid of mice. (and his very first character was Mickey Mouse...) Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in the order. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs. Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there. The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly. Debra Winger was the voice of E.T. Pearls melt in vinegar. It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs. (I wonder why they still call it pigskin?) The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle "G.P." The Pentagon has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940's, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites. Good... Now some reasonable accommodation can be given to women... (Bet they didn't think of that.) The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns. The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously. No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl. The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver." The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-Stars Game. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. 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. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum. The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin. The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. Betsy Ross is the only real person to ever have been the head on a Pez dispenser. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined. Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor. Marilyn Monroe had six toes. All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. There are more chickens than people in the world. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched" On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag. All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20 No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt". "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma. In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first class. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal". The second? William Jefferson Clinton. (Go figure) The nursery rhyme Ring Around the Rosey is a rhyme about the plague. Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores ("Ring around the rosey..."), these sores would smell very badly and common folks would put flowers on their bodies somewhere (inconspicuously), so that it would cover the smell of the sores ("...a pocket full of posies..."), People who died from the plague would be burned so as to reduce the possible spread of he disease ("...ashes, ashes, we all fall down!")
