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Things You Did Not Know


The venom in a Daddy Longlegs spider is more poisonous than a Black
> Widow's or a Brown Recluse, but they cannot bite humans because their
> jaws
> won't open wide enough.
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> On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
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> The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
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> If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times,
> but
> more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up onthe
> bottom.
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> Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
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> Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
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> The pop you get when you crack your knuckles is actually a bubble
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> of gas bursting.
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> 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney
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> cartoon features with both parents who are present and don't die
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> throughout the movie.
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> The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely
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> solid.
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> There's no Betty Rubble in Flintstones Chewable Vitamins.
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> It's impossible to get water out of a rimless tire.
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> . Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
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> You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a
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> poisonous spider.
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> In Minnesota it is illegal to cross state lines with a duck on your
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> head.
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> In Indiana it is illegal to ride public transportation for at least
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> 30 minutes after eating garlic.
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> Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than
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> left-handed people do.
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> A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
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> Polar bears are left-handed.
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> A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves
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> to death.
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> The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
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> . A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
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> The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in
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> 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
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> A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually
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> clear.
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> Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered
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> blood donors.
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> . Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear
> pants.
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> More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane
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> > crashes.
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> Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
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> Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump"
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> Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
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> . If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn
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> white.
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> Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
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> The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses
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> every letter in the English language.
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> The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they
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> start with.
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> The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to
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> remember the word you want.
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> . TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on
> only
> one row of the keyboard.
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> >40. If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line
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> would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
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> A snail can sleep for 3 years.
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> American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive
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> from each salad served in first-class.
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> China has more English speakers than the United States.
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> The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
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> Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, with a population
> of
> 1,000 and a size 108.7 acres.
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> The longest town name in the world has 167 letters.
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> You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the
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> world.
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> "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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> The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it
> refers
> to a distinct part of DNA.
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> No president of the United States was an only child.
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> . The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one-mile in every
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> five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as
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> >airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
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> The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.