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[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]The silkworm consumes 86,000 times its own weight in 56 days.[/FONT][FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Mukesh Ambani, India's richest person lives with his family of 4 in a 27-floor personal home and has a full-time staff of 600 who maintains the residence.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-The first American film to show a toilet being flushed on screen was Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Marie Curie's work is still radioactive enough to make you sick. You must sign a disclaimer to view them.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Male elephants sometimes use their penis as a 5th limb.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Women blink nearly twice as much as men.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Men can read smaller print then women can; women can hear better.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-If removed from the stress of the modern world, the average human would sleep about 10 hours a day.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-"Dysania" is the state of finding it hard to get out of the bed in the morning.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Melting glaciers and icebergs make a distinctive fizzing noise known as "bergy seltzer".[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Cleopatra lived closer to the Moon landing [FONT="]​than [/FONT]
[FONT="]​[/FONT]
the building of the Great Pyramid.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-The brain named itself.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-The average human blinks their eyes 6,205,000 times each year.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-The US state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Shakespeare wrote the first knock-knock joke.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-To produce a single pound of honey, a single bee would have to visit 2 million flowers.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Half of the humans ever to live have died from malaria.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-There is a glacier called "Blood Falls" in Antarctica that regularly pours out red liquid, making it look like the ice is bleeding. It's actually oxidised salty water.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-The entire length of all the eyelashes shed by a human in their life is over 98 feet (30 m).[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Mozart wrote a canon entitled "Leck mich im Arsch" which translates as "Lick me in the arse".[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-White skin originated only 6,000-12,000 years ago, prior to which all humans were black.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Charlie Chaplin's remains were stolen and held for ransom.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-A colony of 500 bats can eat approximately 250,000 insects in an hour.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate, they do the same when you are looking at someone you hate.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-In 2008 scientists discovered a new species of bacteria that lives in hairspray.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-In China, rich people can hire body doubles to serve their prison time.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Fold a piece of paper in half 103 times and it will be as thick as the universe.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Men's shirts have the buttons on the right while women's shirts have the buttons on the left.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-One in five adults believe that aliens are hiding in our planet disguised as humans.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Babies are colour blind when they are born. [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-The top of the Eiffel Tower leans away from the sun, as the metal facing the sun heats up and expands. It can move as much as 7 inches.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-High heels were originally made for men. Butchers wore them so they wouldn't step in blood.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-It can take a photon 40,000 years to travel from the core of the sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to earth.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-If there was no space between the atoms on Earth it would be the size of a regular baseball.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-The average human heart will beat 3,000 million times in its lifetime and pump 48 million gallons of blood.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Travelling masseuses in ancient Japan were required by law to be blind.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Mondays are the most unproductive days of the week. Only about 3 and a half hours of work are actually done on Mondays.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Lt. Col. "Mad" Jack Churchill was only British soldier in WWII known to have killed an enemy soldier with a longbow. "Mad Jack" insisted on going into battle armed with both a medieval bow and a claymore sword.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Ireland's population is still 2M less than it was before the potato famine.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human of blood. [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-In one hour, your heart works hard enough to produce the equivalent energy to raise almost 1 ton of weight 1 yard off the ground.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-On the planets Uranus and Neptune, it regularly rains diamonds.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in court.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-If done perfectly, any Rubik's Cube combination can be solved in 17 turns![/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]
[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades - King David; Hearts -A banana is a berry and a strawberry isn't.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]- Charlemagne; Clubs -Alexander, the Great; Diamonds - Julius Caesar.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]
[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Human blood travels 60,000 miles (96,540 km) per day on its journey through the body.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-James Fixx, the man who popularised jogging in America died of a heart attack while running.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-The longest musical performance in history is currently taking place in the church of St. Burchardi in Halberstadt, Germany. The performance of John Cage's "Organ²/ASLSP (As Slow As Possible)" started on Sept. 5, 2001, and is set to finish in 2640. The last time the note changed was October 2013; the next change isn't due until 2020.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Nelson Mandela wasn't removed from the U.S. terror watch-list until 2008.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-A small percentage of the static you see on "dead" TV stations is left over radiation from the Big Bang. You're seeing residual effects of the Universe's creation.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Blood accounts for about 8% of a human's body weight. [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Enough sperm to form an object slightly larger than an aspirin tablet would actually be sufficient to give Earth its present population.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-The average American spends about a year and a half of his or her life watching commercials on television.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Jimmy Carter sent a jacket to the cleaners with nuclear launch codes and secrets in the pocket.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-There's an opera house on the U.S.-Canada border where the stage is in one country and half the audience is in another.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-On average, men produce about 10 million new sperm daily. That's enough to repopulate the entire planet in 6 months.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-A broken clock is right two times a day.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Listening to sarcastic people daily will make you more creative.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Written language was invented independently by the Egyptians, Sumerians, Chinese and Mayans. [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Quentin Tarantino played an Elvis impersonator in the Golden Girls.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"? One thousand.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-The oldest known recipe for beer is over 4,000 years old.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-The first American film to show a toilet being flushed on screen was Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Marie Curie's work is still radioactive enough to make you sick. You must sign a disclaimer to view them.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Male elephants sometimes use their penis as a 5th limb.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Women blink nearly twice as much as men.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Men can read smaller print then women can; women can hear better.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-If removed from the stress of the modern world, the average human would sleep about 10 hours a day.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-"Dysania" is the state of finding it hard to get out of the bed in the morning.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Melting glaciers and icebergs make a distinctive fizzing noise known as "bergy seltzer".[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Cleopatra lived closer to the Moon landing [FONT="]​than [/FONT]
[FONT="]​[/FONT]
the building of the Great Pyramid.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-The brain named itself.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-The average human blinks their eyes 6,205,000 times each year.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-The US state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Shakespeare wrote the first knock-knock joke.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-To produce a single pound of honey, a single bee would have to visit 2 million flowers.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Half of the humans ever to live have died from malaria.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-There is a glacier called "Blood Falls" in Antarctica that regularly pours out red liquid, making it look like the ice is bleeding. It's actually oxidised salty water.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-The entire length of all the eyelashes shed by a human in their life is over 98 feet (30 m).[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Mozart wrote a canon entitled "Leck mich im Arsch" which translates as "Lick me in the arse".[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-White skin originated only 6,000-12,000 years ago, prior to which all humans were black.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Charlie Chaplin's remains were stolen and held for ransom.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-A colony of 500 bats can eat approximately 250,000 insects in an hour.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate, they do the same when you are looking at someone you hate.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-In 2008 scientists discovered a new species of bacteria that lives in hairspray.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-In China, rich people can hire body doubles to serve their prison time.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Fold a piece of paper in half 103 times and it will be as thick as the universe.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Men's shirts have the buttons on the right while women's shirts have the buttons on the left.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-One in five adults believe that aliens are hiding in our planet disguised as humans.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Babies are colour blind when they are born. [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-The top of the Eiffel Tower leans away from the sun, as the metal facing the sun heats up and expands. It can move as much as 7 inches.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-High heels were originally made for men. Butchers wore them so they wouldn't step in blood.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-It can take a photon 40,000 years to travel from the core of the sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to earth.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-If there was no space between the atoms on Earth it would be the size of a regular baseball.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-The average human heart will beat 3,000 million times in its lifetime and pump 48 million gallons of blood.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Travelling masseuses in ancient Japan were required by law to be blind.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Mondays are the most unproductive days of the week. Only about 3 and a half hours of work are actually done on Mondays.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Lt. Col. "Mad" Jack Churchill was only British soldier in WWII known to have killed an enemy soldier with a longbow. "Mad Jack" insisted on going into battle armed with both a medieval bow and a claymore sword.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Ireland's population is still 2M less than it was before the potato famine.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human of blood. [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-In one hour, your heart works hard enough to produce the equivalent energy to raise almost 1 ton of weight 1 yard off the ground.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-On the planets Uranus and Neptune, it regularly rains diamonds.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in court.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-If done perfectly, any Rubik's Cube combination can be solved in 17 turns![/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]
[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades - King David; Hearts -A banana is a berry and a strawberry isn't.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]- Charlemagne; Clubs -Alexander, the Great; Diamonds - Julius Caesar.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]
[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Human blood travels 60,000 miles (96,540 km) per day on its journey through the body.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-James Fixx, the man who popularised jogging in America died of a heart attack while running.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-The longest musical performance in history is currently taking place in the church of St. Burchardi in Halberstadt, Germany. The performance of John Cage's "Organ²/ASLSP (As Slow As Possible)" started on Sept. 5, 2001, and is set to finish in 2640. The last time the note changed was October 2013; the next change isn't due until 2020.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Nelson Mandela wasn't removed from the U.S. terror watch-list until 2008.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-A small percentage of the static you see on "dead" TV stations is left over radiation from the Big Bang. You're seeing residual effects of the Universe's creation.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Blood accounts for about 8% of a human's body weight. [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Enough sperm to form an object slightly larger than an aspirin tablet would actually be sufficient to give Earth its present population.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-The average American spends about a year and a half of his or her life watching commercials on television.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Jimmy Carter sent a jacket to the cleaners with nuclear launch codes and secrets in the pocket.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-There's an opera house on the U.S.-Canada border where the stage is in one country and half the audience is in another.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-On average, men produce about 10 million new sperm daily. That's enough to repopulate the entire planet in 6 months.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-A broken clock is right two times a day.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Listening to sarcastic people daily will make you more creative.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Written language was invented independently by the Egyptians, Sumerians, Chinese and Mayans. [/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-Quentin Tarantino played an Elvis impersonator in the Golden Girls.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"? One thousand.[/FONT]
[FONT=trebuchet ms, sans-serif]-The oldest known recipe for beer is over 4,000 years old.[/FONT]
