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

No word in the English language rhymes with month.

Coca-cola was originally green.

Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treasury

Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.

In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

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

Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.

The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.

Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds.

It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot.

In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

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

One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers - they saw it as competition. It is not chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.

Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school.

Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.

Heinz Catsup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles per year.

It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.

Men get hiccups more often than woman.

Armadillos can be housebroken.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

If coloring wasn't added to coke, it would be green.

There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

A passionate kiss uses up 6.4 calories per minute.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

In Virgina, chickens cannot lay eggs before 8 am and must be done before 4 pm.

Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button.

Donkeys kill more people than annually than plane crashes.

In Missouri, a man must have a permit to shave.

About 20% of adults in the US have had a cockroach crawl in their ear canal while they were asleep!

The oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old.

Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

Only 7% of the population are lefties.

Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes

Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second

The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card

The Mona Lisa has no eye brows

The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad

In Iceland, tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult

A violin contains approx. 70 separate pieces of wood

Forest fires move faster uphill

Most lipsticks contain fish scales

One ragweed plan can release as many as one billion grains of pollen (thats why I'm allergic to them, seriously)

Porcupines float in water

If you cut off a cockroach's head, it'll survive for 17 days and then die. The only reason why it dies is because it starves to death

The sentence : "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds

Cat urine glows under a black light

The electric chair was invented by a dentist

The toilet plumbing system that most toilets used today was invented by someone named Timothy Crapper

Hummingbirds can weigh less than a penny

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

You are born with 300 bones but as an adult you only have 206

Thomas Edison (inventor of the light bulb) was afraid of the dark.

The chances of one person smuggling a bomb onto a plane is ten thousand to one. The chances of two people smuggling a bomb onto the same plane (who are not working together or do not know each other) is 10 million to one.

Ha! I learned this one in science class:
Light travels at a speed of 800,000 kilometers per second. If you were to travel at the speed of light, then for you time slows down, and your body becomes long and stretched. Black holes are a distortion, or warp in time and space. The center of the black hole, time is slower than outside the black hole.

Submitted Fun Facts

These 26 fun facts submitted by sprinkle:
The words "racecar", "kayak", and "radar" are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
"A man a plan a canal panama" spelled backwards is still "a man a plan a canal panama"
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
A snail can sleep for three years.
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
"Go." 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.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you will have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, but dogs only have about ten.
No word in the English language rhymes with "month". On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
All polar bears are left handed.
The name Wendy was made up for the book 'Peter Pan'.
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.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
35% of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

Facts from Perri:
You will burn about 7% more calories walking on hard dirt than on pavement.
Children grow faster in the spring.
Oysters can change from one gender to another and back again.
August has the highest percentage of births.
You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards.
Strawberries contain more vitamin c than oranges.
The average person spends about 2 years on the phone in a lifetime. (then i must spend 4!)
No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times.
A one-minute kiss burns 26 calories. (so if you wanna lose weight fast, start smooching!)
A duck's quack doesn't echo.
Giraffes have no vocal chords.

Facts from French Vanilla:
The first VCR was invented in 1956 and was the size of a piano. Cool!
Honeybees are the only type of insect that create a form of food for humans
Holland is the only national country with a national dog
Strange Facts About The Attack on America

- Date of the attack: 9/11 = 9 + 1 + 1 = 11.
- September 11th is the 254th day of the year: 2+5+4= 11.
- After September 11, there are 111 days left in the year.
- Twin Towers: standing side by side, resemble 11.
- The first plane to hit the towers was Flight 11.
- New York - The 11th State added to the Union.
- New York City - 11 Letters.
- The Pentagon - 11 Letters.
- Afghanistan - 11 Letters.
- Flight 11 --> 92 on board - 9 + 2 = 11.
- Flight 77 --> 65 on board - 6 + 5 = 11.
- Last but not the least, GEORGE W BUSH - 11 letters

Are these just coincidences or is there something weird associated with it...

This long one submitted by Britney:
To clean a toilet: Pour a can of Coke into the toilet. Let it sit for one hour, then flush clean.
To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers: Rub the bumper with a crumpled-up piece of Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil dipped in Coke.
To clean corrosion from car battery terminals: Pour a can of Coke over the terminals to bubble away the corrosion.
To loosen a rusted bolt: Applying a cloth soaked in Coke to the rusted bolt for several minutes.
To bake a moist ham: Empty a can of Coke into the baking pan; wrap the ham in aluminum foil, and bake. Thirty minutes before the ham is finished, remove the foil, allowing the drippings to mix with the Coke for a sumptuous brown gravy.
To remove grease from clothes: Empty a can of Coke into a load of greasy clothes, add detergent, and run through a regular cycle. The Coke will help loosen grease stains.
It will also clean road haze from your windshield!
In many states the highway patrol carries two gallons of Coke in the truck to remove blood from the highway after a car accident.
Now this just FREAKS me out: There was a competition in Delhi University: "Who can drink the most Coke?". The winner drank 8 bottles and died on the spot because he had too much carbon dioxide in the blood and not enough oxygen. YIKES!
If you put a broken tooth in a bottle of Pepsi, in 10 days it will fully dissolve!

And to think, we drink this stuff!

Submitted by neogirl113209:
The bathtub was invented by a man named Walter B Tubbs!

Submitted by Franny: (yay!)
I know this isn't really that amazing, but as people get older they become shorter.

Submitted by Infinite:
Milk not only makes your bones stronger, it helps you lose weight.
Did you know that seaweed/kelp is used in toothpaste, chocolate milk and sometimes soda? Well, now you know!

Submitted by ice_prinsess_fire:
This is scary - just think, you'll never see yourself in person!

Submitted by Allison:
You'll eat an average of 9 spiders in your sleep during your life time.

Submitted by Gracie Lou:
Slugs have four noses. Weird huh?

Submitted by Chair: It is physically impossible to lick your elbow........ 70% of the people who read this will try to lick their elbow

Submitted by Tina
Tom Hanks is related to Abraham Lincoln

Submitted by Neopet User sissy2cool4u:
The Golden Poison Arrow Frog has enough poison to kill EIGHT people!
Frogs don't drink water, they just soak it up through their skin.

Submitted by Carey:
You are never more than 6 feet away from a spider

Submitted by Alanna:
One candy bar contains six spider legs.

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