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 Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 10:28 am
Other than humans, pigs are the only animals that can get sunburn.
Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider?
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
The moon moves about two inches away from the Earth each year.
A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there, though.
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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 1:00 pm
During a University of Nebraska Cornhuskers home football game, the stadium becomes more populated than the state’s third largest city.
Astronaut Shannon Lucis spent 188 days in a row in space-that's the American record.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
More redheads are born in Scotland than in any other part of the world.
Your skin weighs twice as much as your brain.
It takes 548 peanuts to make a 12-ounce jar of peanut butter.
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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 1:14 pm
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.
It takes about 142.18 licks to reach the center of a tootsie pop. The world officially knows.
There are 1,860 steps to the top of the Empire State Building.
The average person spends 30 years mad at a family member.
Any free-moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere, because of its surface tension
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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 2:36 pm
Cows can smell odors six miles away.
The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
Hot water is heavier than cold.
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
Malaysians protect their babies from disease by bathing them in beer.
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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 2:43 pm
Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
5,840 people with pillow related injuries checked into U.S. emergency rooms in 1992.
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."
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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 2:48 pm
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.
Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.
The waste produced by one chicken in its lifetime can supply enough electricity to run a 100 watt bulb for five hours.
Raindrops aren't actually tear-drop shaped. They are rounded at the top and flat on the bottom.
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Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 12:32 pm
Most car horns honk in the key of 'F'.
There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.
You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206. That’s why babies are so flexible and adults aren’t.
A full-grown bear can run as fast as a horse.
At 12 years old, an African named Ernest Loftus made his first entry in his diary and continued everyday for 91 years.
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Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 12:49 pm
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
Mexico City is sinking at a rate of 18 inches per year as a result of draining the water table for human consumption.
Meteorologists claim they're right 85% of the time.
Canada imports approx. 822 Russian-made hockey sticks on an average day.
If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
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Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 1:18 pm
The Venus flytrap takes less than half a second to slam shut on an insect.
Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows
Car accidents rise 10% during the first week of daylight savings time.
one day an average person will take about 18,000 steps.
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Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 1:49 pm
By the time you reach 12th grade, you will have been in school for about 17,000 hours.
If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court!
Europe is the only continent without a desert.
A dog can understand between 35 to 40 commands.
A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge; a dime has one less groove.
Ants don't sleep.
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Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 11:10 am
There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building.
There are almost 2 billion Christians in the world, about a billion Muslims, 800 million Hindus.
The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.
20252 is Smokey the Bear's own zip code.
The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
Polar bears are left handed.
The flea can jump 350 times its body length, which is like human jumping the length of about 7 football fields.
A baby robin eats 14ft. of worms a day.
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Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 11:15 am
In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
Your brain is 80% water.
China has more English speakers than the United States.
Horse racing is one of the most dangerous sports. Between 2 and 3 jockeys are killed each year. That's about how many baseball players have died in baseball's entire professional history.
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Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 5:40 pm
The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
An elephant's trunk can hold two gallons of water.
40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
You share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world.
The cigarette lighter was invented before matches.
A U.S. backed government study found that pigs can become alcoholics.
The state of Florida is bigger than England.
The average human brain is 3 pounds
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Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 4:27 pm
In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
Dirty snow melts faster than white snow because it's darker and absorbs more heat.
Most dust particles in your house are made of dead skin.
15 teenagers have been killed by tilting soda machines in hope of a free soda.
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Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 4:33 pm
Fact - A chicken will lay bigger and stronger eggs if you change the lighting in such a way as to make them think a day is 28 hours long!
Fact - The chicken can travel up to 9 miles per hour.
Fact - There seven distinctive types of combs on chickens: rose, strawberry, single, cushion, buttercup, pea, and V-shaped.
Fact - Unrelated to the chick, the male c**k-of-the-rock bird earned the name "c**k" because of its rooster-like appearance and combative behavior. The female of the species influenced the word "rock" being added to the name because of her habit of nesting and rearing the young in sheltered rock niches.
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