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A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.

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 appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.

China has more English speakers than the United States.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

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 Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.

If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would 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.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

No word in the English language rhymes with "month".

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."

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 average human eats eight spiders in their lifetime at night.

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

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 sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.

The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

The word "racecar" and "kayak" are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.

There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only 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.

You share your birthday with at least nine million other people in the world.

Cookie27 · Accepted Answer

Wow,
I knew a few of them but most of them were really interesting! did u find them on a site or something like that?

Thx, cookie

Maeve27 · Answer

Dj Bueno

I am. is the shortest complete sentence in the English language

Wouldn't [Go!] be considered a complete sentence?

Maeve27 · Answer

Rene Descartes came up with the theory of coordinate
geometry by looking at a fly walk across a tiled ceiling.

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both
front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if
the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died
as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse
has all four legs on the ground, the person died of
natural causes.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during
a dance.

The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English
law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with
anything wider than your thumb.

Ballroom dancing is a major at Brigham Young University.

Some biblical scholars believe that Aramaic (the language
of the ancient Bible) did not contain an easy way to
say "many things" and used a term which has come down
to us as 40. This means that when the bible -- in many
places -- refers to "40 days," they meant many days.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange,
silver, and purple.

Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted
people without killing them used to burn their houses
down - hence the _expression "to get fired."

Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".

Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence
on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most
of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature
wasn't added until 5 years later.

The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter
pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes
on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts
measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the
fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target,
it got "the whole 9 yards."

The original story from Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights
begins, "Aladdin was a little Chinese boy."

Captain Jean-Luc Picard's fish was named Livingston.

The 'y' in signs reading "Ye Olde ..." is properly
pronounced with a 'th' sound, not 'y'. The "th" sound
does not exist in Latin, so ancient Roman occupied (present
day) England used the rune "thorn" to represent "th"
sounds. With the advent of the printing press the character
from the Roman alphabet which closest resembled thorn
was the lower case "y".

The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."

The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica
is 672.

The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called
'mantles') are radioactive -- so much so that they will
set of an alarm at a nuclear reactor.

Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to
carrots

Each unit on the Richter Scale is equivalent to a power
factor of about 32. So a 6 is 32 times more powerful
than a 5! Though it goes to 10, 9 is estimated to be
the point of total tetonic destruction (2 is the smallest
that can be felt unaided.)

Cinderella's slippers were originally made out of fur.
The story was changed in the 1600s by a translator.
It was the left shoe that Aschenputtel (Cinderella)
lost at the stairway, when the prince tried to follow
her.

Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on
roads in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand was done
on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic stopped as people
switched sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent
accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the
morning and been too sleepy to realize this was the
day of the changeover.

Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin
during World War II killed the only elephant in the
Berlin Zoo.

Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with
"rejoice."

In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again,
Sam." Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear
Watson." Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty,"
but he did say, "Beam me up, Mr. Scott".

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties
are registered blood donors.

The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were
named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in
Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life."

The flag of the Philippines is the only national flag
that is flown differently during times of peace or war.
A portion of the flag is blue, while the other is red.
The blue portion is flown on top in time of peace and
the red portion is flown in war time.

Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves
when they rode past their king. This custom has become
the modern military salute.

The "huddle" in football was formed due a deaf football
player who used sign language to communicate and his
team didn't want the opposition to see the signals he
used and in turn huddled around him.

Goethe couldn't stand the sound of barking dogs and
could only write if he had an apple rotting in the drawer
of his desk.

If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will
die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will
die of oxygen deprivation.

Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that
has been hit by a lightning strike.

The term, "It's all fun and games until someone loses
an eye" is from Ancient Rome. The only rule during
wrestling matches was, "No eye gouging." Everything
else was allowed, but the only way to be disqualified
is to poke someone's eye out.

Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister. Sir Isaac Newton
was an ordained priest in the Church of England.

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a
second.

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue
living.

The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover
Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.

Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine
that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor
belt.

Steve Young, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback, is
the great-great-grandson of Mormon leader Brigham Young.

Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of linen.

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