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Here are some very interesting facts which was emailed to me by a friend. Did you know that... In Saudi Arabia, a Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee. A shark can detect one part of blood in a 100 million parts of water. A rat can last longer without water than a camel. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself. The dot in the letter "i" is called a title. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top. A person cannot taste food unless it is mixed with saliva. A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away. George Washington grew marijuana in his garden... dig that! A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue. Every person has a unique tongue print. Just like in finger prints. During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur" a small red car can be seen in the distance. Albert Einstein couldn't speak fluently when her was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded. His parents had no idea that this physicist and humanitarian took his place beside the great teachers with the publication of Relativity: The Special and General Theory, Einstein’s own popular translation of the physics that shaped our “truths” of space and time. On an average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily, unless hospitals would do something about it. Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system, a few ounces enough to kill a small sized dog. "Paper" money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton. before he 1950's it was made from Hemp. The stem and leaves of marijuana plant. Most lipstick contains fish scales. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine. The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone. The Hawiian alphabet has 12 letters. Men can read smaller print than women, women can hear better. City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong. State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska The percentage of Africa that is wilderness is 28% compared to North America which has 38% wilderness. Barbie, the popular doll measurements if she's were life size is 39-23-33. Wow! In the United States, the average number of people airborne over the US any given hour is 61,000. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair! hmmm!? The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910. The youngest pope of all time is John XII. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, he was elected at the age of 18, while Philip Hughes says he was consecrated at the age of 16. But rumors say that the youngest pope was 11! Perhaps that pope was the worst pope who ever sat on the throne. The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer. The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National monuments. home
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