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- Most people eat waffles around once per year.
- Nine percent of over-the-counter prescriptions are written for placebos.
- An adult Andean condor can fly while carrying a fully grown sheep over one mile.
- A rat's sneeze contains no bacteria.
- A piece of paper and 10 matchsticks use roughly the same amount of wood.
- One out of 15 Americans don't know the order of the months.
- In The Empire Strikes Back there is a potato hidden in the asteroid field
- In Return of the Jedi there is a tennis shoe hidden among the rebel fleet
- James Bond's car had three different license plates in Goldfinger
- Paul McCartney purchased the rights to the Happy Birthday song we all know, so if you
want to use it in a production, you have to pay him royalty fees
- Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."
- It used to be illegal to swim in daylight.
- Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."
- No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
- John F. Kennedy could read four newspapers in twenty minutes
- The full name for Los Angeles is El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles
de Porciuncula
- You have to pay a tax in Denmark to use the back seat of your car for passengers
- Dublin is home to the Fairy Investigation Society
- There is a law in France against selling dolls without human faces
- There is a city in Norway called "Hell"
- One human hair can support 3kg
- Blondes have more hair than dark haired people
- The human brain uses the same amount of energy as a 10-watt lightbulb
- Children grow faster in the springtime
- Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time
- Avocado is derived from the Spanish word 'aguacate', which is derived from 'ahuacatl'
meaning testicle.
- 1 in 8 people have been employed by McDonalds
- If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months, and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound
energy to heat one cup of coffee
- Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
- A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
- then there's Miracle Mike, the headless chicken of Fruita Colarado, who strutted around
for 18 months without his head!
- Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous
spider?
- Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
- Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
- you can get a cow drunk by feeding it apples
- Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
- The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses.
- No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses
- Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
- The loudest snore ever recorded is 87.5 decibels
- The human feet perspire half a pint of fluid a day
- One person in two billion will live to be 116 or older
- The smelliest animal in the world is the Zorilla, it can discharge a nauseous fluid
from it's anal glands which can be smelled over a radius of half a mile
- The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds
- It is physically impossible for a pig to look up at the sky
- Stan, the first Spanish dog ever fitted with contact lenses, was hit by a car the day
after he was fitted with them
- A jiffy is one-hundred-thousand-billion-billionth of a second
- there is 1/10 of a calorie on the back of a stamp
- There is an odd number of steps in every staircase in Thailand
- Louis the XIV took only three baths in his lifetime
- There are only thirteen blimps in the world.
- Anne Boleyn had six fingernails on one hand
- There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball
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