Strange facts...

1. Abraham Lincoln's dog, Fido, was assassinated, too. (He was stabbed to death!)
2. In Chinese the KFC slogan "Finger-lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".
3. Ben Affleck is aviophopic. In other words, he's afraid to fly. (How the tell did he shoot Pearl Harbor?!)
4. A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.
5. European women didn't wear underpants until the early 1900's.
6. On average, a human being will have sex more than 3,000 times and spent two weeks kissing in their lifetime.
7. More than 50% of the people in the world will never have made or received a phone call.
8. Janet Jackson gets coffee enemas.
9. We shed 40 lbs. of skin in a lifetime.
10. Yo-yos were once uses as weapons in the Philipines.
11. A Russian woman gave birth to 69 children from 1725 - 1765 (there 16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets). That's a lotta lovin'!
12. Prince William once flushed his dad's shoes down the toilet.
13. Coca Cola can be used as car oil (but don't try it!).
14. Mexico city sinks 10 inches every year.
15. Anne Boleyn, Queen Elizabeth I's mother, had six fingers on her left hand.
16. Australia-speak for going to the bathroom is, "Spending a penny."
17. You blink your eyes about 20,000 times a day.
18. Girls see better in the dark than boys.
19. Sneakers orignated in the US in 1916; they were called Keds.
20. An average person has 696 muscles; a caterpillar has more than 4,000.
21. The typical bed houses two MILLION dust mites. YUCK!
22. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
23. Brains are more active during sleep than watching TV.
24. Ancient Romans and Egyptians used crushed tadpoles mixed with warm oil as hair dye.
25. Blue is the favorite color of 80% of Americans.
26. A giraffe cleans its ears with its 21 inch tongue.
27. Most bears are left-handed.
28. When a person shakes their head from side to side in Sri Lanka, they are saying yes.
29. The largest chocolate chip cookie ever made contained approximately 2.8 tons of chocolate.
30. There are more chickens in the world than people.
31. It's against the law to have a dog in Iceland. (Unless it's a seeing eye dog.)
32. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (Go ahead- try it!)
33. The thumbnail grows the slowest...
34. ...and the middle nail grows the fastest.
35. Rats can't vomit.
36. There's actually a Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health. It's in Hyattsville, Maryland.
37. The frisbee was invented by students at Yale in 1947 (they played with empty aluminum pie plates from a baker named Joseph Frisbie.)
38. Every day, 0.5% of the world's population visit McDonald's.
39. Children grow faster in the Spring.
40. The electric chair was invented in part by a dentist.
41. Napoleon suffered from constipation.
42. Police in Texas offer a Marilyn Manson awareness seminar for educators and law-enforcement officials.
43. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
44. The only world with all vowels in reverse order is "subcontinental".
45. Donald Duck comics were once banned in Finland because Donald doesn't wear any pants.
46. Katie Holme's fave food is jelly beans.
47. 85% of people killed by lightning were male.
48. Your body is 70% water.
49. Lisa Kudrow takes her Game Boy everywhere.
50. There are more telephones than people in Washinton DC.
51. The back of a sock is called a gore.
52. Beethoven poured cold water over his head before he composed.
53. We've eaten 400 billion Oreos since they were first introduced in 1912.
54. The Snickers bar is the number one candy sold in vending machines.
55. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
56. Carson Daly was OJ's golf caddie. (Hmm, so was he on the night of the murders?)
57. Add up all the numbers on a roulette wheel and the sum is 666. (eerie...)
58. In Pakistan, it's impolite to show the soles of your feet.
59. Babie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
60. There are more plastic flamingos in the US than real ones.

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