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  some of intresting facts
                               Here are some interesting, but true facts, that you may or may not have known.

  • The Statue of Liberty's index finger is eight feet long.
  • Rain has never been recorded in some parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile.
  • A 75 year old person will have slept about 23 years.
  • Boeing 747's wing span is longer than the Wright brother's first flight. The Wright brother's invented the airplane.
  • There are as many chickens on earth as there are humans. 
  • One type of hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
  • The word "set" has the most number of definitions in the English language; 192 Slugs have four noses.
  • Sharks can live up to 100 years.
  • Mosquitos are more attracted to the color blue than any other color.
  • Kangaroos can't walk backwards.
  • About 75 acres of pizza are eaten in in the U.S. everyday.
  • The largest recorded snowflake was 15 Inch wide and 8 Inch thick. It fell in Montana in 1887.
  • The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that the sound it makes is actually a tiny sonic boom.
  • Former president Bill Clinton only sent 2 emails in his entire 8 year presidency.
  • Koalas and humans are the only animals that have finger prints.
  • There are 200,000,000 insects for every one human.
  • It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery had in it to begin with.
  • The world's largest Montessori school is in India, with 26,312 students in 2002.
  • Octopus have three hearts.
  • If you ate too many carrots, you would turn orange.
  • The average person spends two weeks waiting for a traffic light to change.
  • 1 in 2,000,000,000 people will live to be 116 or old.
  • The body has 2-3 million sweat glands.
  • Sperm whales have the biggest brains; 20 lbs.
  • Tiger shark embroyos fight each other in their mother's womb. The survivor is born.
  • Most cats are left pawed.
  • 250 people have fallen off the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
  • A Blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant.
  • You use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown. Keep Smiling! 
  • Bamboo can grow up to 3 ft in 24 hours.
  • An eyeball weighs about 1 ounce.
  • In the weightlessness of space a frozen pea will explode if it comes in contact with Pepsi. 
  • The increased electricity used by modern appliances is causing a shift in the Earth's magnetic field. By the year 2327, the North Pole will be located in mid-Kansas, while the South Pole will be just off the coast of East Africa. 
  • The idea for "tribbles" in "Star Trek" came from gerbils, since some gerbils are actually born pregnant. 
  • Male rhesus monkeys often hang from tree branches by their amazing prehensile penises. 
  • Johnny Plessey batted .331 for the Cleveland Spiders in 1891, even though he spent the entire season batting with a rolled-up, lacquered copy of the Toledo Post-Dispatch. 
  • Smearing a small amount of dog feces on an insect bite will relieve the itching and swelling. 
  • The Boeing 747 is capable of flying upside-down if it weren't for the fact that the wings would shear off when trying to roll it over. 
  • The trucking company Elvis Presley worked at as a young man was owned by Frank Sinatra. 
  • The only golf course on the island of Tonga has 15 holes, and there's no penalty if a monkey steals your golf ball. 
  • Legislation passed during WWI making it illegal to say "gesundheit" to a sneezer was never repealed. 
  • Manatees possess vocal chords which give them the ability to speak like humans, but don't do so because they have no ears with which to hear the sound. 
  • SCUBA divers cannot pass gas at depths of 33 feet or below. 
  • Catfish are the only animals that naturally have an ODD number of whiskers. 
  • Replying more than 100 times to the same piece of spam e-mail will overwhelm the sender's system and interfere with their ability to send any more spam. 
  • Polar bears can eat as many as 86 penguins in a single sitting. 
  • The first McDonald's restaurant opened for business in 1952 in Edinburgh, Scotland, and featured the McHaggis sandwich. 
  • The Air Force's F-117 fighter uses aerodynamics discovered during research into how bumblebees fly. 
  • You can get blood from a stone, but only if contains at least 17 percent bauxite. 
  • Silly Putty was "discovered" as the residue left behind after the first latex condoms were produced. It's not widely publicized for obvious reasons. 
  • Approximately one-sixth of your life is spent on Wednesdays. 
  • The skin needed for elbow transplants must be taken from the scrotum of a cadaver. 
  • The sport of jai alai originated from a game played by Incan priests who held cats by their tails and swung at leather balls. The cats would instinctively grab at the ball with their claws, thus enabling players to catch them. 
  1. A cat's purr has the same romance-enhancing frequency as the voice of singer Barry White. 
  2. The typewriter was invented by Hungarian immigrant Qwert Yuiop, who left his "signature" on the keyboard. 
  3. The volume of water that the Giant Sequoia tree consumes in a 24-hour period contains enough suspended minerals to pave 17.3 feet of a 4-lane concrete freeway. 
  4. King Henry VIII slept with a gigantic axe. 
    • Because printed materials are being replaced by CD-ROM, microfiche and the Internet, libraries that previously sank into their foundations under the weight of their books are now in danger of collapsing in extremely high winds. 
  6. In 1843, a Parisian street mime got stuck in his imaginary box and consequently died of starvation. 
  7. Touch-tone telephone keypads were originally planned to have buttons for Police and Fire Departments, but they were replaced with * and # when the project was cancelled in favor of developing the 911 system. 
  8. Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water. 
  9. Calvin, of the "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip, was patterned after President Calvin Coolidge, who had a pet tiger as a boy. 
  10. Watching an hour-long soap opera burns more calories than watching a three-hour baseball game. 
  11. Until 1978, Camel cigarettes contained minute particles of real camels. 
  12. You can actually sharpen the blades on a pencil sharpener by wrapping your pencils in aluminum foil before inserting them. 
  13. To human taste buds, Zima is virtually indistinguishable from zebra urine. 
  14. Seven out of every ten hockey-playing Canadians will lose a tooth during a game. For Canadians who don't play hockey, that figure drops to five out of ten. 
  15. A dog's naked behind leaves absolutely no bacteria when pressed against carpet. 
  16. A team of University of Virginia researchers released a study promoting the practice of picking one's nose, claiming that the health benefits of keeping nasal passages free from infectious blockages far outweigh the negative social connotations. 
  17. Among items left behind at Osama bin Laden's headquarters in Afghanistan were 27 issues of Mad Magazine. Al Qaeda members have admitted that bin Laden is reportedly an avid reader. 
  18. Urine from male cape water buffaloes is so flammable that some tribes use it for lantern fuel. 
  19. At the first World Cup championship in Uruguay, 1930, the soccer balls were actually monkey skulls wrapped in paper and leather. 
  20. Every Labrador retriever dreams about bananas. 
  21. If you put a bee in a film canister for two hours, it will go blind and leave behind its weight in honey. 
  22. Due to the angle at which the optic nerve enters the brain, staring at a blue surface during sex greatly increases the intensity of orgasms. 
  23. Never hold your nose and cover your mouth when sneezing, as it can blow out your eyeballs. 
  24. Centuries ago, purchasing real estate often required having one or more limbs amputated in order to prevent the purchaser from running away to avoid repayment of the loan. Hence an expensive purchase was said to cost "an arm and a leg." 
  25. When Mahatma Gandhi died, an autopsy revealed five gold Krugerrands in his small intestine. 
  26. Aardvarks are allergic to radishes, but only during summer months. 
  27. Coca-Cola was the favored drink of Pharaoh Ramses. An inscription found in his tomb, when translated, was found to be almost identical to the recipe used today. 
  28. If you part your hair on the right side, you were born to be carnivorous. If you part it on the left, your physical and psychological make-up is that of a vegetarian. 
  29. When immersed in liquid, a dead sparrow will make a sound like a crying baby. 
  30. In WWII the US military planned to airdrop over France propaganda in the form of Playboy magazine, with coded messages hidden in the models' turn-ons and turn-offs. The plan was scrapped because of a staple shortage due to rationing of metal. 
  31. Although difficult, it's possible to start a fire by rapidly rubbing together two Cool Ranch Doritos. 
  32. Napoleon's favorite type of wood was knotty chestnut. 
  33. The world's smartest pig, owned by a mathematics teacher in Madison, WI, memorized the multiplication tables up to 12. 
  34. Due to the natural "momentum" of the ocean, saltwater fish cannot swim backwards. 
  35. In ancient Greece, children of wealthy families were dipped in olive oil at birth to keep them hairless throughout their lives. 
  36. It is nearly three miles farther to fly from Amarillo, Texas to Louisville, Kentucky than it is to return from Louisville to Amarillo. 
  37. The "nine lives" attributed to cats is probably due to their having nine primary whiskers. 
  38. The original inspiration for Barbie dolls comes from dolls developed by German propagandists in the late 1930s to impress young girls with the ideal notions of Aryan features. The proportions for Barbie were actually based on those of Eva Braun. 
  39. The Venezuelan brown bat can detect and dodge individual raindrops in mid-flight, arriving safely back at his cave completely dry. 

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