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| A kangaroo can hop as fast as 40 miles per hour. A male moth can smell a female moth from 100 yards away. the only known common metal that is liquid at room temperature is mercury. the original title of Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice was "First Impression." An ergasiophobe is someone who's afraid of work. CocoaCola was originally green. If you could keep your eyes open while sneezing, they could pop out. Eleanor Roosevlet used to carry a loaded revolver. Most snails travel at the speed of 25 miles per day. A stack of $1 bills one mile high would be worth more than 14 million dollars. In Pakistan, it is rude to show the soles of your feet or point a foot when you are sitting on the floor. In Paraguay, it is helpful for visitors to know that the gesture of tilting the head backwards means "I forgot." There is enough energy in one bold of lightning to power a home for two weeks. "Rhythem" is the longest English word without a real vowel. There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck. Firing guns at midnight on December 31, in Philadelphia is called "Murdering the Old Year." The custom was brought to the USA by German immigrants. Humans have 46 chromosomes. goldfish have 96. Some fortunes, from cookies, have lottery numbers on the other side. Believe it or not, some people have played those numbers and won. Paradise, South Dakota was named by two residents named Adam and Eve. Among other things, the ancient Egyptians worshipped cabbages. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call. Rats and horses can't vomit. The "sixth sick Sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. Wearing headphones for jsut an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants. One hundred and sixty cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road. One inch of rain contains the same amount of water as a ten inch snowstorm. Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them, looks like it's kissing the conveyer belt, and makes a kissing sound. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "Screeched." No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple. All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of a $5 bill. Almonds are members of the peach family. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. The characters, Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in the movie, "It's A Wonderful Life." In England, the "Speaker of the House" is not allowed to speak. The name Oz, in "The Wizard Of Oz," was thought up when author, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N and O-Z. |
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