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Random:
-The United states once issued a 3 cent bill.
-Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.

- 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. D:

-No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times. (Untrue)
-During an hours swim at a public pool you will ingest 1/12 liters of urine.
-Most toilets flush in E flat
-Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars
-At 90 degrees below zero[Fahrenheit] , your breath will freeze in midair and fall to the ground.
-Dirty snow melts faster than white snow.


Words/Math:
-"Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
- "Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo" is a legit sentence
-A language becomes extinct in this world every two weeks
-111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
-"Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia" Is the fear of long words.
-If you were to spell out every number starting at zero, one-thousand will be the first number with the letter "A".
-Purple, orange, silver, and month cannot be rhymed with anything in the English dictionary.


Famous People:
-Hitler's mom considered having an abortion for hitler, but her doctor taught her out of it.
-Hitler only had one ball. :}
--Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.
-During his entire life, Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting, Red Vineyard at Arles.
- Leonardo De Vinci invented the scissors.
-When Thomas Jefferson's library burnt down, the one thing he saved from the fire was the harp he played for his wife.
-Marilyn Monroe's body was used as the model for the creation of Tinker Bell.
-Mozart never went to school.
- Hitler was Jewish. (Myth)
-Da Vinci could draw with one hand, and write with the other at the same time. An extremely difficult task because both the right and left side of the brain are working simultaneously.

The world:
-A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.
-If you ran in the rain, you will get 50 percent wetter than if you stand still.(In debate)
-There are more stars in the sky than there are grains of sand on Earth.
-The first telephone book was a page long.
-The center of a super massive black hole is the size of a spec of dust. But, that spec of dust weighs 3 million times more than our sun.


Animals:
-A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
-Pigs can have an orgasm that lasts up to 30 minutes.
-Slugs have 3000 teeth and 4 noses.
-there are more Plastic flamigos than real ones.
-Some ribbon worms eat themselves if they can't find any other food.
-It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
-A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why. (Untrue)
-The force of a male dolphins ejaculation could kill a human.
-Only female mosquitos suck blood.
-Elephants can't jump.

-When Praying Mantises reproduce, the female decapitates the male. (The female actually doesn't need the male, she can reproduce by herself ) The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates mating by ripping the male's head off. (Oh so thats why )

-All Bonobo Chimpanzees are bisexual
-Jellyfish are 95% water
-Rabbits cannot vomit
-Dolphins could be gay too.
- Dolphins and humans are the only animals that have sex for fun.
-If it's raining, a chicken will look up until it drowns itself. (So will turkeys)
-The wood duck has a p***s as large as its body.
- Polar bears are left-handed. (:
-The scientific name for gorilla is gorilla gorilla gorilla
-You're more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than a poisonus spider
-A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate
-The leech has 32 brains
-Jaguars are afraid of dogs.
-Flamingos can only eat when their heads are upside down.
-Sharks are the only fish that can blink both eyes.
-Rats can't vomit.

People:
-You takes about 25000 breathes everyday.
-We are about 1 cm taller in the morning than in the evening.
-Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
-Someone is born in the united states every 8 seconds
-An average person eats 7 spiders in their lifetime.
-Blondes have more hairs on their heads than brunettes.
-If you yelled for 8 years,7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
-It is impossible to breath and swallow at the same time.
-It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. If you do your eyes will pop out [Edit] Partially.
-If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
-You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
-Scents smell better through your right nostrill than your left.
-Banging your head off a wall uses 150 calories an hour!
-Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.
-Nine out of ten men like women, the last one likes the nine men.
-The Romans used crushed mouse brains as toothpaste.
-When Eskimo babies have colds, their mothers suck the snot out of their noses.
-If your head is chopped off, your brain will keep functioning for about 15 seconds!
- If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
-In an average day your hands will have come into indirect contact with 15 penises (touching door handles etc.)
-An average person's yearly fast food intake will contain 12 pubic hairs.
-Annually you will shake hands with 6 men who have recently masturbated and failed to wash their hands.
-At an average wedding reception you have a 1/100 chance of getting a cold sore from one of the guests.
-Daily you will breath in 1 liter of other peoples' a**l gases.
- On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
-Approximately 150 people are killed every year by coconuts.
-Women fart 3 times more than men.
- It is possible to put out a flame with an amplified human voice. Its also possible to break a glass with your voice too.
-Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.
-Over 80% of crossdressers are straight.
-It be impossible for you to lick your own elbow. (Untrue: You can but you have to dislocate your shoulder...or if you have a really long tounge O.O
-The tongue is the strongest muscle in the body.
-A person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
-The only bone not broken so far in any ski accident is one located in the inner ear.
-One's brain is made of 80 per cent water.

Places:
-Japan's currency is the most difficult to counterfeit
-In Omaha, Nebraska, it's against the law to burp or sneeze in a church
-There are more Barbie dolls in Italy than there are Canadians in Canada
-In Japan they have vending machines that sell school girls underwear.(real school girls's uncerwear)


Food:
-Honey is the only food that never spoils.
-An avocado is a fruit.
-Cashews are not nuts (unlike peanuts, almonds, walnuts, other nuts). They are actually seeds from the cashew apple.
-Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite!!!
-You use more calories eating celery than the celery itself contains.
-Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before going in space because passing wind in a space suit damages it
-Vanilla is used to make chocolate
-Fortune cookies were actually invented in America by Charles Jung in 1918
-A can of SPAM is opened every four seconds
-Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave
-Scientists now have evidence plants do have feelings. In an experiment with cauliflower, they had an entire garden of it growing, they ripped one out and all the cauliflower around it, had a strange chemical change, close to the ones we have when we are stressed out.
-Food tastes slightly different depending on which hand you use.