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A person uses more household energy shaving with a hand razor than he would by using an electric razor.
Snails mate only once in their lifetime, but it can take up to 12 hours.
The Ancient Egyptians trained baboons to wait at their tables.
Zebras are white with black stripes.
A dog was killed by a meteorite at Nakhla, Egypt, in 1911. The unlucky pooch is the only creature known to have been killed by a meteorite. Only one person is known to have been struck by a meteorite, but she survived.
A newborn baby's head accounts for about one-quarter of it's entire weight. By adulthood, it would probably be less than one-tenth.
A pulsar is a small star made up of neutrons so densely packed together that if one the size of a silver dollar landed on earth, it would weigh approximately 100 million tons.
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.
A species of sponge, called the red sponge, can be pushed through a piece of fabric so that it is broken into thousands of tiny pieces without dying, and then reassemble until the sponge is back to its original form.
A tossed penny stands only a 49.5 % chance of coming up heads. This is because the 'heads' side weighs slightly more than the 'tails' side.
A woman's arthritic pains will always disappear as soon as she becomes pregnant.
According to acupuncturists, there is a point on the head that you can press to control your appetite. It is located in the hollow just in front of the flap of the ear.
According to Aristotle, wind direction determined whether a baby would be a boy or a girl.
According to Gambler's Digest, an estimated $1 million is lost at race tracks each year by people who lose or carelessly throw away winning tickets.
According to Newton's Law of Motion, when a car going 60 miles per hour in one direction gets hit by a mosquito going one mile per hour in the opposite direction, the car will slow down by 0.00001%.
According to the National Safety Council, coffee is not successful at sobering up a drunk person, and in many cases it may actually increase the adverse effects of alcohol.
Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button.
All continents are wider in the north than in the south.
All of the gold ever mined could be molded into a 60 foot cube.
All people dream. Those who claim to never dream simply forget their dreams more easily than others.
All polar bears are left handed.
Ants always fall over on their right side when intoxicated.
They also have the largest brains, in proportion to their size, of any creature on Earth.
At the height of its power, in 400 B.C., the Greek City of Sparta has 25,000 citizens and 500,000 slaves.
Barbie and Ken Dolls are named after Mattel founders Ruth and Elliot Handler's son and daughter, Barbara and Ken. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
Before the arrival of Columbus, no native American had type B blood.
Belgium is the only country that has never imposed censorship for adult films.
The most shoplifted book in the United States is the Bible.
Bill Cosby's kids are descended from Abraham Lincoln
Bluebirds cannot see the color blue.
There are no turkeys in Turkey.
Botanically, the banana is a berry.
Brazil is named after the Brazil nut, not the other way around.
Camel-hair brushes aren't made from camel hair. They're made from squirrel tails.
"Caribbean" means "cannibal".
There is no single cat called the panther - it is a name often used to describe a leopard, a puma or a jaguar.
The smell and taste of citrus fruits repel cats.
Celery has negative calories--it takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
Chimneys used to be cleaned by dropping live chickens down them.
Tarzan never said, "Me Tarzan, you Jane" in any book or movie.
Jimmy Cagney never said, "You dirty rat" in any movie.
Humphrey Bogart never said, "Play it again, Sam" in "Casablanca" (or any other movie).
William Shatner never said, "Beam me up, Scotty" in any Star Trek TV show or movie.
Sherlock Holmes never said, "Elementary, my dear Watson" in any of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's books.
Sir Alec Guinness never said "May the force be with you" in any of the Star Wars movies.
In the Apollo 13 space flight, nobody said, "Houston, we have a problem"
In every Disney animated movie, the primary child characters (including animals) have no parents, have only one parent, have a parent die, or are separated from their parents through most of the movie.
Mickey Mouse's dog was named Pluto before the planet was named Pluto
No one is truly double-jointed. Those who claim to be simply have more flexible ligaments than others.
Dolphins never sleep. If a dolphin fell asleep, it would stop breathing and die. Instead, the two halves of the dolphin's brain take turns sleeping.
One in ten Dalmatians is born deaf, because of inbreeding.
During menstruation, the sensitivity of a woman's middle finger is reduced.
Dr. Alice Chase, who wrote 'Nutrition for Health' and numerous books on the science of proper eating, died of malnutrition.
During the early 1920's, at the height of the inflation in the German Weimar Republic, one American dollar was equal to 4 trillion German marks.
Ewan McGregor, who stars in the most recent "Star Wars" movies, is the nephew of Denis Lawson, who played 'Wedge' in the first three Star Wars movies. Wedge was the only pilot involved in the destruction of both Death Stars.
Female lions do more than 90 percent of the hunting.
Half of all pizzas sold have pepperoni on them.
Hans Christian Anderson was so frightened of being trapped in a burning building that he always carried a rope.
Harper Lee (AKA Tanith Lee), who wrote the brilliant novel "To Kill A Mockingbird" many years ago, is still alive, yet has never written another novel. J.D. Salinger's only published novel is "A Catcher In The Rye", though he is still alive as well. According to rumor, Salinger writes a novel every year, but doesn't publish them.
Henry VIII's 2nd wife, Anne Boleyn, had six fingers on one hand. She wore special gloves all her life to hide her deformity. She also had three breasts.
Homosexuals are more likely to be left-handed than heterosexuals.
Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found to be edible.
Humphrey Bogart and Princess Diana were 7th cousins.
If you add together all the numbers on a Roulette Wheel (1 to 36) the total is 666.
You are half an inch taller in the morning than you are in the evening.
If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on your right side of your mouth. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on your left side.
In 1927 an actress named Norma Talmadge accidentally stepped in some drying cement outside of Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, thus beginning the tradition of actors leaving their footprints in cement at that theater.
In 'Gulliver's Travels', Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did this more that a hundred years before either moon was discovered.
Shakespeare was 46 when King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word is shake and the 46th word from the end is spear.
Janet Leigh has never taken a shower since the filming of her murder in a shower in the movie 'Psycho'. She only takes baths now.
Max Von Sydow is the only actor to play both This post will be deleted if not edited immediately and satan (in 'The Greatest Story Ever Told' and 'Needful Things', respectively).
average women's thighs are one and a half times larger in circumference than the average man's.
Midgets and dwarfs almost always have normal-sized children, even if both parents are midgets or dwarfs.
Modern diets contain so many preservatives that dead human bodies deteriorate 80% slower than they did 100 years ago.
First choice for Indiana Jones in "Raiders Of The Lost Ark" was Tom Selleck. Harrison Ford got the part.
First choice for "The Terminator" was O.J. Simpson. Arnold Shwarzenegger got the part.
90% of all animal species that ever lived are now extinct.
Pablo Picasso was born dead. His midwife left him on a table. Picasso's uncle brought him to life with a lung full of cigar smoke.
Sweat is odourless. It is bacteria on the skin that creates an odour.
Seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness Beer.
Ten-gallon hats hold less than a gallon of liquid.
The bloodtype of Mr. Spock in Star Trek is T-negative.
The custom of serving a slice of lemon with fish dates back to the Middle Ages. It was believed that if a person accidentally swallowed a fish bone, the lemon juice would dissolve it.
The first CD pressed in the U.S. was Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the USA'.
The name 'Oz', in The Wizard of Oz, was thought up when the creator, L. Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N and O-Z.
The rock band which has survived the longest with at least half of their original membership intact is The Kinks, who formed in 1963.
The sound heard by a listener when holding a seashell to his ear does NOT come from the shell itself. It is the echo of the blood pulsing in the listeners own ear.
The word 'bookkeeper' is the only word in the English language with 3 back-to-back double letter combinations.
There are more Irish in New York City than in Dublin.
There are no living descendants of William Shakespeare or George Washington.
Up to the age of six or seven months a child can breathe and swallow at the same time. An adult cannot do this.
While reading a page of print the eyes do not move continually across the page. They move in a series of jumps, called "fixations," from one group of words to the next.
Snails mate only once in their lifetime, but it can take up to 12 hours.
The Ancient Egyptians trained baboons to wait at their tables.
Zebras are white with black stripes.
A dog was killed by a meteorite at Nakhla, Egypt, in 1911. The unlucky pooch is the only creature known to have been killed by a meteorite. Only one person is known to have been struck by a meteorite, but she survived.
A newborn baby's head accounts for about one-quarter of it's entire weight. By adulthood, it would probably be less than one-tenth.
A pulsar is a small star made up of neutrons so densely packed together that if one the size of a silver dollar landed on earth, it would weigh approximately 100 million tons.
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.
A species of sponge, called the red sponge, can be pushed through a piece of fabric so that it is broken into thousands of tiny pieces without dying, and then reassemble until the sponge is back to its original form.
A tossed penny stands only a 49.5 % chance of coming up heads. This is because the 'heads' side weighs slightly more than the 'tails' side.
A woman's arthritic pains will always disappear as soon as she becomes pregnant.
According to acupuncturists, there is a point on the head that you can press to control your appetite. It is located in the hollow just in front of the flap of the ear.
According to Aristotle, wind direction determined whether a baby would be a boy or a girl.
According to Gambler's Digest, an estimated $1 million is lost at race tracks each year by people who lose or carelessly throw away winning tickets.
According to Newton's Law of Motion, when a car going 60 miles per hour in one direction gets hit by a mosquito going one mile per hour in the opposite direction, the car will slow down by 0.00001%.
According to the National Safety Council, coffee is not successful at sobering up a drunk person, and in many cases it may actually increase the adverse effects of alcohol.
Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button.
All continents are wider in the north than in the south.
All of the gold ever mined could be molded into a 60 foot cube.
All people dream. Those who claim to never dream simply forget their dreams more easily than others.
All polar bears are left handed.
Ants always fall over on their right side when intoxicated.
They also have the largest brains, in proportion to their size, of any creature on Earth.
At the height of its power, in 400 B.C., the Greek City of Sparta has 25,000 citizens and 500,000 slaves.
Barbie and Ken Dolls are named after Mattel founders Ruth and Elliot Handler's son and daughter, Barbara and Ken. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
Before the arrival of Columbus, no native American had type B blood.
Belgium is the only country that has never imposed censorship for adult films.
The most shoplifted book in the United States is the Bible.
Bill Cosby's kids are descended from Abraham Lincoln
Bluebirds cannot see the color blue.
There are no turkeys in Turkey.
Botanically, the banana is a berry.
Brazil is named after the Brazil nut, not the other way around.
Camel-hair brushes aren't made from camel hair. They're made from squirrel tails.
"Caribbean" means "cannibal".
There is no single cat called the panther - it is a name often used to describe a leopard, a puma or a jaguar.
The smell and taste of citrus fruits repel cats.
Celery has negative calories--it takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
Chimneys used to be cleaned by dropping live chickens down them.
Tarzan never said, "Me Tarzan, you Jane" in any book or movie.
Jimmy Cagney never said, "You dirty rat" in any movie.
Humphrey Bogart never said, "Play it again, Sam" in "Casablanca" (or any other movie).
William Shatner never said, "Beam me up, Scotty" in any Star Trek TV show or movie.
Sherlock Holmes never said, "Elementary, my dear Watson" in any of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's books.
Sir Alec Guinness never said "May the force be with you" in any of the Star Wars movies.
In the Apollo 13 space flight, nobody said, "Houston, we have a problem"
In every Disney animated movie, the primary child characters (including animals) have no parents, have only one parent, have a parent die, or are separated from their parents through most of the movie.
Mickey Mouse's dog was named Pluto before the planet was named Pluto
No one is truly double-jointed. Those who claim to be simply have more flexible ligaments than others.
Dolphins never sleep. If a dolphin fell asleep, it would stop breathing and die. Instead, the two halves of the dolphin's brain take turns sleeping.
One in ten Dalmatians is born deaf, because of inbreeding.
During menstruation, the sensitivity of a woman's middle finger is reduced.
Dr. Alice Chase, who wrote 'Nutrition for Health' and numerous books on the science of proper eating, died of malnutrition.
During the early 1920's, at the height of the inflation in the German Weimar Republic, one American dollar was equal to 4 trillion German marks.
Ewan McGregor, who stars in the most recent "Star Wars" movies, is the nephew of Denis Lawson, who played 'Wedge' in the first three Star Wars movies. Wedge was the only pilot involved in the destruction of both Death Stars.
Female lions do more than 90 percent of the hunting.
Half of all pizzas sold have pepperoni on them.
Hans Christian Anderson was so frightened of being trapped in a burning building that he always carried a rope.
Harper Lee (AKA Tanith Lee), who wrote the brilliant novel "To Kill A Mockingbird" many years ago, is still alive, yet has never written another novel. J.D. Salinger's only published novel is "A Catcher In The Rye", though he is still alive as well. According to rumor, Salinger writes a novel every year, but doesn't publish them.
Henry VIII's 2nd wife, Anne Boleyn, had six fingers on one hand. She wore special gloves all her life to hide her deformity. She also had three breasts.
Homosexuals are more likely to be left-handed than heterosexuals.
Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found to be edible.
Humphrey Bogart and Princess Diana were 7th cousins.
If you add together all the numbers on a Roulette Wheel (1 to 36) the total is 666.
You are half an inch taller in the morning than you are in the evening.
If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on your right side of your mouth. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on your left side.
In 1927 an actress named Norma Talmadge accidentally stepped in some drying cement outside of Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, thus beginning the tradition of actors leaving their footprints in cement at that theater.
In 'Gulliver's Travels', Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did this more that a hundred years before either moon was discovered.
Shakespeare was 46 when King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word is shake and the 46th word from the end is spear.
Janet Leigh has never taken a shower since the filming of her murder in a shower in the movie 'Psycho'. She only takes baths now.
Max Von Sydow is the only actor to play both This post will be deleted if not edited immediately and satan (in 'The Greatest Story Ever Told' and 'Needful Things', respectively).
average women's thighs are one and a half times larger in circumference than the average man's.
Midgets and dwarfs almost always have normal-sized children, even if both parents are midgets or dwarfs.
Modern diets contain so many preservatives that dead human bodies deteriorate 80% slower than they did 100 years ago.
First choice for Indiana Jones in "Raiders Of The Lost Ark" was Tom Selleck. Harrison Ford got the part.
First choice for "The Terminator" was O.J. Simpson. Arnold Shwarzenegger got the part.
90% of all animal species that ever lived are now extinct.
Pablo Picasso was born dead. His midwife left him on a table. Picasso's uncle brought him to life with a lung full of cigar smoke.
Sweat is odourless. It is bacteria on the skin that creates an odour.
Seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness Beer.
Ten-gallon hats hold less than a gallon of liquid.
The bloodtype of Mr. Spock in Star Trek is T-negative.
The custom of serving a slice of lemon with fish dates back to the Middle Ages. It was believed that if a person accidentally swallowed a fish bone, the lemon juice would dissolve it.
The first CD pressed in the U.S. was Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the USA'.
The name 'Oz', in The Wizard of Oz, was thought up when the creator, L. Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N and O-Z.
The rock band which has survived the longest with at least half of their original membership intact is The Kinks, who formed in 1963.
The sound heard by a listener when holding a seashell to his ear does NOT come from the shell itself. It is the echo of the blood pulsing in the listeners own ear.
The word 'bookkeeper' is the only word in the English language with 3 back-to-back double letter combinations.
There are more Irish in New York City than in Dublin.
There are no living descendants of William Shakespeare or George Washington.
Up to the age of six or seven months a child can breathe and swallow at the same time. An adult cannot do this.
While reading a page of print the eyes do not move continually across the page. They move in a series of jumps, called "fixations," from one group of words to the next.