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Guinness Book Of Records holds the record for being the book most stolen from Public Libraries.
-Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
-Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a bellybutton.
-A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 yrs.
-People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more.
-When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop ... even your heart!
-Only 7% of the population are lefties.
-40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
-Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.
-The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years
waiting in lines.
-The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
-The average housefly lives for one month.
-40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
-A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.
-The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
-Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the day.
-Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.
-The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.
-The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot. ( Don't forget Moms )
-Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem.
-In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.
-Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane just in case there is a crash.
-The first
Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.
-Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth. They are reused in vein transplant surgery.
-Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They were seventh cousins.
-If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green
-Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
-Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
-There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
-The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
-A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
-There are more chickens than people in the world.
-Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
-The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
-On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
-All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
-No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
-"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
-All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
-Almonds are a member of the peach family.
-Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
-Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
-There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
-Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"
-A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
-An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
-Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
-In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
-Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
-The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful
Life."
-A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
-A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
-It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
-The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
-In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
-The
microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar
tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
-The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
-There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
-"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
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