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- Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
- Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.
- Camel's milk does not curdle.
- Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
- Most lipstick contains fish scales.
- John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
- The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
- A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.
- All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
- The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.
- Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
- The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows."
- Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant "plenty of excrement."
- Over 1000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
- A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
- There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.
- Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
- The only nation whose name begins with an "A" but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan.
- A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
- The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
- The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.
- It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.
- A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
- A skunk can spray its stinky scent more than 10 feet.
- All porcupines float in water.
- Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
- Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
- More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones.
- Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every Games.
- It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot.
- No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
- If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.
- Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
- The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
- The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times.
- A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
- The moon is moving away at a tiny, although measurable distance from the earth every year. Do the maths and you will clearly see that 85 million years ago it was orbiting the earth at a distance of about 35 feet from the earth's surface. This would explain the death of the dinosours; the tallest ones, anyway.
- Every person has a unique tongue print.
- Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
- Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.
- You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.
- The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly.
- Back in the mid to late 1980's, an IBM-compatible computer wasn't considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.
- It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
- Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
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