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Spoiler: click to toggle Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza a day.
Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
It costs the US Mint approximately 1.5 cents to make every 1 cent coin (and approximately 6 cents to make the nickel, worth 5 cents). This means that they lose money on every penny and nickel they produce – a total of $22million in 2009 alone.
When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.
Cows that are given names produce more milk.
Chickens can suffer from depression.
It snowed in the Sahara Desert in 1979.
The inventor of the light bulb, Thomas Edison, is said to have been afraid of the dark.
In space, no one can hear you cry. Because you can’t. Astronauts are unable to cry properly because there is no gravity and tears cannot flow properly as they would on Earth. It is possible to produce tears in space – but they would leave the eye and float around.
Walt Disney received one full-size, and seven miniature Oscar statuettes for Snow White.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
Two-thirds of the world’s eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
Turkeys have heart attacks. When the Air Force was conducting test runs and breaking the sound barrier, fields of turkeys would drop dead.
Ketchup was sold as medicine in the 1830%u2032s
Most robberies occur on Tuesdays.
Pigs cant look up at the sky.
Blue birds can’t see the color blue.
Some whales commit suicide.
Coca-Cola would be green if coloring wasn’t added.
The small town of Codell in Kansas was hit by a deadly tornado on May 20th, 1918. Not especially remarkable – except it had also been hit by tornados at around the same time in the evening, on the same day, in 1917 and 1916 as well.
Saturn has such a low density that if placed in water it would float.
You can tell temperature by listening to a cricket chirp. For the temperature in degrees Fahrenheit,count the number of chirps 15 seconds and then add 37.
The largest supply of alcohol in the universe is in deep space. Astronomers have spotted an alcohol cloud in the Milky Way that measures 288 billion miles across.
About 55% of all movies are rated R.
98% of all murders and rapes are by a close family member or friend of the victim.
On average, women utter 7,000 words a day; men manage just over 2,000.
In late-1600s Puritan society, a child over 16 convicted of cursing at a parent was sentenced to death. Being a stubborn or rebellious child also earned you a death sentence.
Monkeys don’t have feet. Since they have opposable thumbs instead of big toes, they are classified as being four-handed.
The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.
In ancient China, people committed suicide by eating a pound of salt.
Time magazine named the computer its “Man of the Year” in 1982.
In ancient times strangers shook hands to show that they were unarmed.
In ancient Greece, tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it meant she accepted.
A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why.
Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
Large doses of coffee can be lethal. Ten grams, or 100 cups over 4 hours, can kill the average human
You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
The chicken is the closest living relative of Tyrannosaurus Rex.
A man was arrested and charged with the robbery-of vending machines. The man posted bail, entirely in quarters.
On average 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
Spoiler: click to toggle Pigs can become alcoholics.
In Florida it is illegal to sing in a public place while attired in a swimsuit.
In 1980 a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
A man once sued his doctor because he survived his cancer longer than the doctor predicted.
Tipping at a restaurant in Iceland is considered an insult.
Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
In Athens, Greece, a driver’s license can be taken away by law if the driver is deemed either unbathed or poorly dressed.
A completely blind chameleon will still take on the colors of its environment.
The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad.
Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood the number is reduced to 206.
Monday is the day of the week when the risk of heart attack is greatest.
Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.
Scientists say the higher your I.Q. the more you dream.
Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one had and draw with the other at the same time.
Knitted socks discovered in Ancient Egyptian tombs have been dated back as far as the 3rd century AD.
Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.
It’s against the law to slam your car door in Switzerland.
It took engineers 22 years to design the zipper.
In 1990 there were about 15,000 vacuum cleaner related accidents in the US
In 1976 a Los Angeles secretary named Jannene Swift officially married a 50 pound rock. The ceremony was witnessed by more than 20 people.
In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 cam be jailed for cheating on their finals.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
Canada has more lakes that the rest of the world combined.
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
A toothpick is the object most often chocked on by Americans.
A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn’t give her coffee.
A man had the hiccups for 69 years.
A lion’s roar can be heard up to five miles away.
Cat urine glows under a black-light.
Smelling (not eating) green apples and bananas help you to lose weight.
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