Interesting facts

Weird Things You Would Never Know

....But Did you Know

>A shrimp's heart is in its head.
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>The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest
>tongue twister in the English language.
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>Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a
>million descendants.
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>Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear
>by 700 times.
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>If the government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title
>14,Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16
>1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with
>extraterrestrials or their vehicles?
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>In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
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>A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
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>23% of all photocopier faults world-wide are caused by people sitting on
>them and photocopying their butts.
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>Most lipstick contains fish scales.
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>Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
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>If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib.  If you try to suppress a
>sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
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>If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out.
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>In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported
>a single case wher e an ostrich buried its head in the sand.
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>It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
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>A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
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>More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a
>telephone call.
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>Horses can't vomit.
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>Butterflies taste with their feet.
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>In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's
>nuclear weapons combined.
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>On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
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>On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
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>Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are
>already married.
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>Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
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>Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
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>It's possible to lead a cow upstairs... but not downstairs.
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>Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
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>It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.
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>The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year
>because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight
>of all the books that would occupy the building.
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>A snail can sleep for three years.
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>No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."
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>Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never
>stop growing.
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>The electric chair was invented by a dentist. (FIGURES)
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>All polar bears are left handed.
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>In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including
>their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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>An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
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>TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on
>one row of the keyboard.
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>"Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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>If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33.  She would
>stand seven feet, two inches tall.
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>A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
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>The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
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>Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
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>Almost everyone who reads this email will try to lick their elbow. (Sorry I
>didn't go there!)
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>Don't forget to pass these weird facts on to everyone you know.  They will
>get a kick out of it.