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1. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!
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2. Spiral staircases in medieval castles are running clockwise. This is because all knights used to be right-handed. When the intruding army would climb the stairs they would not be able to use their right hand which was holding the sword because of the difficulties of climbing the stairs. Left-handed knights would have had no troubles, except left-handed people could never become knights because it was assumed that they were descendants of the devil.
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3. Ham radio operators got the term "ham" coined from the expression "ham fisted operators," a term used to describe early radio users who sent Morse code (i.e., pounded their fist).
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4. The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is "Live Free or Die."
   These license plates are manufactured by prisoners in the state prison in Concord.
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5. Chinese Crested dogs can get acne.
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6. The volume of the earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
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7. Each year there is one ton of cement poured for each man woman and child in the world.
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8. The house fly hums in the middle octave key of F.
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9. The giant red star Betelgeuse has a diameter larger than that of the Earth's orbit around the sun.
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10. Only 1 in 2,000,000,000 will live to be 116 or older.
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11. According to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, it is possible to go slower than light and faster than light, but it is impossible to go the speed of light. Also, there is a particle called tackyon which is supposed to go faster than light. This means if you fire a tackyon beam, it travels before you fire it.
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12. When you tie a noose, the rope is wrapped twelve times around because it's the same length as a persons head.
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13. If she were life size, Barbie's measurements are: 39-23-33.
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14. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
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15. There are only four words in the English language which end in"-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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16. In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
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17. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
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18. The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.
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19. The name for the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
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20. Tigers have round pupils and yellow irises (except for the blue eyes of white tigers). Due to a retinal adaptation that reflects light back to the retina, the night vision of tigers is six times better than that of humans.
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21. In 1949, Popular Mechanics forecasted that "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
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22. If the Loch Ness monster exists at all, he (or she) could only be about as big as a sixth grader. A new study shows that there is only enough fish in the loch to feed a 31 kg (about 67 lb) creature. The scientists used sonar to estimate the number of fish in the lake and came up with an annual food supply of 93 kg. Since a cold blooded animal like Nessie would need to eat about three times its body weight each year, it could only weigh about 31 kg.
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23. Polar bears are left-handed.
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24. Heinz Catsup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles per year.
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25. The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 oz.
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26. Only 1/3 of the people that can twitch their ears can twitch only one at a time.
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27. The largest city in the United States with a one syllable name is Flint, Michigan.
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28. The number of the trash compactor in Star Wars is 3263827.
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29. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
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30. Alexander the Great was an epileptic.
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31. A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.
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32. Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
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33. The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water.
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34. If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.
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35. Pigs can become alcoholics.
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36. In Michigan, USA, a man legally owns his wife's hair.
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37. Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
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38. A blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant.
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39. There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee. Of these, only 26 have been tested, and half-caused cancer in rats.
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40. The waste produced by one chicken in its lifetime can supply enough electricity to run a 100-watt bulb for five hours.
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41. It takes 12,000 head of cattle to produce one pound of adrenaline.
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42. 55,700 people in the US are injured by jewelry each year.
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43. In the past 60 years, the groundhog has only predicted the weather correctly 28% of the time.
    The rushing back and forth from burrows is believed to indicate sexual activity, not shadow seeking.
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44. Turkeys will peck to death members of the flock that are physically inferior or different.
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45. In Miami, Florida, roosting vultures have taken to snatching poodles from rooftop patios.
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46. Back in 1919 the Russian transplant pioneer Serge Voronoff made headlines by grafting monkey testicles onto human males.
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47. The average human has about 20 square feet of skin weighing about 6 pounds.
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48. There is now an ATM at McMurdo Station in Antarctica, which has a winter population of 200.
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49. Bulgaria was the only soccer team in the 1994 World Cup in which all 11 players' last names ended with the letters "OV."
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50. The letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements.
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51. Jackals have one more pair of chromosomes than dogs or wolves.
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52. Basenji dogs and Australian dingoes are virtually identical.
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53. A top freestyle swimmer achieves a speed of only 4 miles per hour. Fish, in contrast, have been clocked at 68 mph.
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54. 500,000 tons of dog excrement are dumped annually on the streets of Paris.
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55. The typical laboratory mouse runs 2.5 miles per night on its treadmill.
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56. The average US worker toils for two hours and 47 minutes of each working day just to pay income tax. Indeed, the average American pays more in taxes than for food, clothing and shelter put together.
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57. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
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58. Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.
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59. In the U.S. there is, on average, three sex change operations per day.
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60. It only takes a male horse 14 seconds to copulate.
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61. A group of crows is called a murder.
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62. Rabbits and Horses cannot vomit.
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63. The names of all the continents end with the letter they start with.
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64. About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.
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65. A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
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66. The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.
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67. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
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68. Dragonflies have a life span of only 24 hours.
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69. Elephants are the only animal that can't jump.
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70. In L. A., U.S.A., a man may legally beat his wife with a leather strap, as long as it is less than 2 inches wide.
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71. 1/3 of Taiwanese funeral processions includes a stripper.
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72. The palms of your hands and the soles of your feet cannot tan.
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73. No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
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74. The radioactive substance, Americanium - 241 is used in many smoke detectors.
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75. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
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76. Rennin, the enzyme obtained from the fourth stomach of a cow and used chiefly in the manufacture of cheese, is capable of coagulating more than 25,000 times its weight of fresh milk.
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77. The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons.
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78. In Italy, a campaign for Schweppes Tonic Water translated the name into Schweppes Toilet Water.
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79. The list of ingredients that make up lipstick include...fish scales.
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80. Ants do not sleep.
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81. The USA bought Alaska from Russia for 2 cents an acre.
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82. No other animal gives us more by-products than the hog. These by-products include pig suede, buttons, glass, paint brushes, crayons, chalk, and insulation to name a few.
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83. Cockroaches' favorite food is the glue on envelopes and on the back of postage stamps
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84. 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.
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85. The flatulence from domesticated cows produce about 30% of the methane on this planet.
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86. Only 2 more blue moons (the saying "only once in a blue moon" refers to the occurrence of two full moons during one calendar month) are to occur between now and 2001. Those times are January 1999 and March 1999.
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87. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
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88. There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses!
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89. 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.
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