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</FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New" SIZE=2><P>Things you didn't know you didn't know Part 2</P>
<P>No word in the English language rhymes with month.</P>
<P>Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.</P>
<P>On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.</P>
<P>One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 1930's lobbied against hemp farmers-they saw it as competition.</P>
<P>Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.</P>
<P>Right-handed people live, on average, nine years Longer than left-handed people do.</P>
<P>Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.</P>
<P>Some lions mate over 50 times a day. (a males dream)</P>
<P>Starfish haven't got brains.</P>
<P>Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.</P>
<P>The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. (anyone bored enough to try this)</P>
<P>The average human eats eight spiders in their lifetime at night. (will we ever sleep again)</P>
<P>The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.</P>
<P>The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.</P>
<P>The electric chair was invented by a dentist.</P>
<P>The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.</P>
<P>The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.</P>
<P>The most common name in the world in Mohammed.</P>
<P>The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.</P>
<P>The name Wendy was made up for the book 'Peter Pan'.</P>
<P>The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as necessary.</P>
<P>The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.</P>
<P>The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.</P>
<P>There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.</P>
<P>TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.</P>
<P>Women blink nearly twice as much as men. </P>
<P>You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.</P>
<P>You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.</P>
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