SOME THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW THAT YOU DIDN'T KNOW!
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* A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
* A snail can sleep for three years.
* All polar bears are left handed.
* American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each
salad served in first-class.
* Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
* An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
* Babies are born without knee caps. They don't become bone until the child
reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
* Butterflies taste with their feet.
* Cats have over a hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about 10.
* China has more English speakers than the United States.
* Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
* February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full
moon.
* "I am" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
* If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would
never end because of the rate of reproduction.
* If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you will have produced
enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
* In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including
their eyebrows and eyelashes.
* In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
* Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
* Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
* Michael Jordan has more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike
factory workers in Malaysia combined.
* No word in the English language rhymes with month.
* Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously. (why do they know
this?)
* On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
* One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in
the 1930s lobbied against hemp farmers they saw it as competition.
* Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never
stop growing.
* Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
* Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
* Starfish haven't got brains.
* Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
* The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
* The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
* The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon
of diesel that it burns.
* The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
* The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to
squirt blood 30 feet.
* The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
* The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start
with.
* The name Wendy was made up for the book 'Peter Pan'.
* The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
* There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
* TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on
one row of the keyboard.
* Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
* You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous
spider.
* You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
