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Yogurt intake among North Americans has quadrupled in the past 20 years. A cesium atom in
an atomic clock beats 9,192,631,770 times a second!. A starfish doesn't have a brain. The only man-made structure visible from space is the Great Wall of
China. If you divide the Great Pyramid's perimeter by two times it's height, you get pi to the fifteenth digit!. A piece of paper can be folded no more then 9
times. The RAM required to run WordPerfect for Win95 is 8 times the amount needed aboard the space shuttle. Humans spend a third of their lives
sleeping. Whitby has more doghnut shops per capita than any other place in the world. The billionth digit of pi is 9. The life span of
a taste bud is ten days. Apples, not cafeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the moring. The first one-hundred digits of pie are:
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939
9375105820974944592307816406286208998628034825342117067 A group of twelve or
more cows is called a flink Alligators cannot move backwards Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down Texas horned toads can shoot
blood out of the corners or their eyes A gold fish's memory span is three seconds The average North-American will eat 35,000 cookies in during their life
span Canada imports approx. 822 Russian-made hockey sticks on an average day The common garden worm has five pairs of hearts Alfred
Hitchcock didn't have a bellybutton Approx. 16 Canadians have their appendics removed when not required everyday 97% of Canadians say they would
not borrow a toothbrush if they forgot to pack their own Your brain is 80% water 400 quarter-pounders can be made out of 1 cow The largest apple
pie ever baked was 40 x 23 feet If you look carefully at the picture of Mona Lisa, you will notice a bridge hidden in the background 10% of StarTrek fans
replace the lenses on their glasses every 5 years whether they need to or not. 5%-10% of StarTrek fans may be addicted to the show and suffer withdrawl
symptoms if they miss an episode. At 300 pounds, William Howard Taft was the only US President to get stuck in the White House bathtub Taft also had a
special re-enforced steel dinning chair. The armhole in clothing is called an armsaye The end of a hammer, oppostie the striking end, is called a peen
Spat-out food if called chanking Boanthropy is a disease in which a man thinks he's an ox Eosophobia is the fear of dawn Groaking is to watch
people eating food hoping they'll offer you some. Dibble means to drink like a duck Lee Harvey Osawald's body tag was auctioned off for $6,600
Dan Aykroyd's conehead from Saturday Night Live was auctioned off at $2,200 Hrand Araklein, a Brinks's car guard, was killed when $50,000 worth of
quarters crushed him. Donald Duck's sister is called Dumbella Small cockroaches are more likely to die on their backs than large cockroaches A
pack-a-day smoker will loose approx. 2 teeth every 10 years Howdy-Doody had 48 freckles National pi day is March 14 Those things on the end of
shoelaces called Aglets Zarf is the holder of a handleless coffee cup Niel Armstrong first stepped on the moon with his left foot Between 25% and
33% of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light. The sun is NOT the biggest star in the universe. Native Americans never actually ate turkey;
killing such a timid bird was thought to indicate laziness Goofy had a wife, Mrs. Goofy, and one son, Goofy jr. Peope DO NOT get sick from cold
weather; it's from being indoors alot more. The surface area of an average-sized brick is 79cm² Benjamin Franklin lived at 141 Market Street, Philidelphia,
PA The revolving door was invented in 1888 Abo elementary school, built in 1976 in Artesia New Mexico, was the first ever underground school The
the first ever televised murder case appeared on TV in 1955, Dec. 5-9. The accused was Harry Washburn. The first recorded occurenece of a Tornado was
June 10, 1682 The first umbrellas were used in Windsor Connecticut, 1740 The first audio CD's appeared in the USA in 1984 The first audio CD
manufactured in the US was Bruce Springstean's 'Born in The USA' Their are only two types of pig: American and European Cows have four stomachs
When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop--even you heart! A human's mucus membrane, used to smell, is the size of a postage stamp A Dog's mucus
membrane is the size of fifty postage stamps Your skin is the heaviest organ Those stars and colours you see when you close and rub your eyes are called
phosphenes The human brain stops growing at the ages of 18 Sneezes can travel over 100 mph 85% of the population can curl their tongue into a tube
Only 7% of the population are lefties. A full-moon is nine times brighter than a half-moon Gavin, from the band Bush, has an innie bellybutton
Toronto, Ontario has approximately 7,000 eating establishments 40 pleople are sent to the hospitol for dog bites every minute. There are 1,355,000
(+/- 1000) Monoliths on Jupiter in 2010: A Space Oddessy (NOT 2001!!) The Monoliths reproduce at a rate of one every 2 minutes The Monoliths all
have propportional sizes of 1x4x9 Montpelier Vermont is the only state capital without a mcdonalds 13 blimps in the world, nine in US Superman is in
every Seinfeld episode (it's on a shelf in Jerry's apartment Most car horns honk in the key of 'F' Emus can't walk backwards Cats have over 100
vocal sounds, dogs only have 10 Our eyes never grow, our nose and ears never stop growing Camels' milk can't curdle Most hamsters blink one eye
at a time It takes seven years for a lobster to grow 1 pound No word in the English language rhymes with month Babies are born without knee caps.
They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenoulsly. Most common name om world is Mohammed
Only one person in 2 billion will live to be 116 or older The name Wendy was made up for the book, Peter Pan Uma Thurman doesn't have a innie or
an outie bellybutton, but a 'stretch' The guy in the Darth Vader suit didn't know that James Earl Jones was doing the woice until the screenplay. It takes a
half agallon of water to make macaroni and a gallon of water to clean the pot. The original Ford vehicles had Dodge engines A human has 60,000 miles of
blood vessels in their body Brachiosaurus had a heart the size of a pickup truck Sumerians (from 5000 BC) thought that the liver made blood and the heart
was the center of thought. Queen Elizabeth was good friends with William Shakespeare The most popular ice cream flavour is vanilla The world sheep
population is approx. 1,202,920,000 The world cattle population is approx. 1,294,604,000 The world goat population is approx. 94,266,000 The
world pig population is approx. 857,099,000 The world camel population is 19,627,000 The longest recorded lifespan of a camel was 35 years, 5 months
The longest recorded lifespan of a slug was 1 year, 6 months. The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines The average person
over fifty will have spent 1 year looking for lost items. In honor of Johan Vaaler, inventor of the paper clip, a 221/2 paper clip was erected in Oslo, Norway
Yasir Arafat is addicted to watching television cartoons Augusts Ceaser had achluophobia -- the fear of sitting in the dark Queen Elizabeth the First
had anthophobia -- the fear of roses Tonsurphobia is the fear of haircuts Malcom Lowry had pnigophobia -- the fear of choking on fish bones Lee
Harvey Oswald was dyslexic Beaver Cleaver graduated in 1953 78% of cats never travel with their owners 44% of hotels allow pets into the rooms
September 16-21 is Farm Animal Awarness week November 29 is National Sinky day; a day to eat over one's sink and worship it The toothbrush
was invented in 1498 The term 'The Real McCoy' was coined in the 1880's The term 'Rock N' Roll' was coined in 1951 Degringolade means to fall
and disintegrate Uranus's orbital axis is tilted 90° The opening day of the Montreal summer Olypics was only 21° celsius A sysygy occures when all the
planets of our Solar System line up The Earth orbits the sun at about 18.5 miles per second The surface area of the Earth is 197,000,000 square miles
Bill Gates' first business was Traff-O-Data, a company that created machines which recorded the number of cars passing a given point on a road. The
29,249th digit of pi is a seven The most common letters in english are R S T L N E 'Able was I ere I saw Elba' is a palindrome written by Napoleon 'A
man a plan a canal Panama' is also a palindrome Mount. Olympis Mons on Mars is three times the size of Mount. Everest On Beaver Cleaver's US tour, he
visited Albequrque on a tuesday Li Hung-chang is the father of Chop Suey The number one most popular cat name is kitty The number one most
popular dog name is Brandy A golf ball has 360 dimples The waffle was invented iron August 24, 1869 Most toilets flush in E flat 2,000 pounds
of space dust and other space debris fall on the Earth every day Each month, there is at least one report of UFOs from each province of Canada The
average person will drink 8,000 gallons of water during their lifetime. The average housefly lives for one month 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each
year To keep cool, Ostriges urinate on their legs; it then evaporates like sweat Approx. 25,200 umbrellas are lost each year on the London transit system
Aprrox. 5,600 umbrellas are lost each year on the Toronto transit system The perefect pickle should have 7 warts per square inch August 8th is the start of
'National Pickle Week' December 17th is Wright Brother's day Beaver's phone number is KL5-4763 The Olympic flag pole at the Tokyo Olympics was
49 feet, 10 3/4 inches tall 5,200,000 pounds of pickles are consumed each day by Americans 1/3 of all Americans flush the toilet while still on it There are
333 squares of toilet paper are on a roll In 1977, a 13-year-old kid found a tooth growing out of his left foot. Penguins can jump 6 feet. There have been
about a quarter of a million Elvis sightings since his death. Houseflies hum in the mdidle octave key of F A necropsy is an autopsy on animals EEG stands
Electroencephalogram A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightend You can be fined up to $1,000 for whistling on a Sunday in Salt Lake City, Utah
By the time you reach grade 12, you will have been in school for about 17,000 hours 4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day When Einstein was
inducted as an American, he attended the ceremony without socks The average acre of corn contains 7.2 million kernals It takes about 142.18 licks to reach
the center of a tootsie pop The serial number of the first MAC ever produced was 2001 The average web page contains 500 words It it illegal to eat
oranges while bathing in California The 7th most common word used on the ineternet is 'HTML' The 42 most common word used on the internet is
'INFORMATION' Cows poop 16 times per day. Cows produce around 65 pounds of maneure per day There are no words in the English language that
rhyme with 'purple' There are no words in the English language that rhyme with 'orange' It takes an average of 48 to 100 tries to solve a rubix cube puzzle
If done perfectly, any rubix cube combination can be solved in 17 turns The holes in fly swaters are used to lower air resistance The year 1987 was the
50th anniversary of Spam 'Party Party Day' is occurs when the day equals the month. Oct. is the 10th month so Oct. 10 would be Party Party Day Party
Party Day is just an excuse to have a party It is illegal to frown at cows in Bladworth, Saskatchewan 51% of turns are right turns A group of goats is called
a trip A group of hares is called a Husk A group of finches is called a Charm The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute acrophobia is the fear
of heights nycrophobia is the fear of dakness zoophobia is the fear of animals claustrophobia is the fear of small spaces pyrophobia is the fear of fire
entomophobia is the fear of insects xenophoia is the fear of strangers agaraphobia is the fear of open spaces An ostriche's eye is bigger than its brain
In Jasmine Saskatchewan, it is illegal for a cow to moo within 300km of a private home The average American has $104 in their wallet 64% of the
population can roll their tongue The averge womens' handbag weighs between 3 and 5 pounds Most people button thier shirt upwards The averagae
American butt is 14.9 in. long Hamsters do bot blink There are only 4 flavours of plain M&Ms More bullets were fired in 'Starship Troopers' than in any
other movie ever made There are 450 hairs in an average eyebrow. 60% of electrocutions occur while talking on the telephone during a thunderstorm. The
average person spends 30 years mad at a family member The average person spends 40 years cleainging. The record distance for cherry pit spitting is 95 feet,
7 inches. The cigaretter lighter was invented before matches. March 9th is Useless Facts and Trivia day. Neil Armstrong's full name= Neil Alden
Armstrong Cats have 5 pads on thier front feet, four on their back feet. Michael Jordan shaves his head on Tuesdays, and Fridays smart people have more
zinc in their hair. Higher IQs The Queen Elizabeth ship burns a gallon of oil to move 1 foot The name of the girl on the statue of liberty is Mother of Exiles
A signature is called a John Hancock because he signed the Declaration of Independce. Only 2 people signed the declaration of independence on July 4. The
Last person signed 2 years later. A duck's quack has no echo. Lemons have more sugar than oranges. 3.6 cans of Spam are consumed each second.
There's a systematic lull in conversation every 7 minutes. The lining of your digestive system is shed every 3 days. The buzz generated by an electric razor
in America is in the key of B flat. In England it is in the key of G. Most digital alarm clocks ring in the key of B flat. The sound of knuckles cracking is
generated by imploding synobial fluid. A dog's average body temperature is 101 degrees farenheit. Arnold Schonberg suffered from triskaidecaphobia, the
fear of the number 13. He died 13 minutes from midnight on Friday the 13th. In 1946, the first TV toy commericial aired. It was for Mr. Potato head. 60
years ago (as of 1998) the Bugs Bunny prototype appeared in Porky's Hair Hunt. April 30 is National Honesy Day. The eyes of some birds weigh more than
their brains Mozart wrote the nusery rhyme 'twinkle, twinkle, little star' at the age of five. Elvis was once appointed Special Agent of the Bureau of Narcotics
and Dangerous Drugs. Americans eat 12 billion bananas each year. There are 1,575 steps from the ground flooer to the top of the Empire State building.
The worlds record for keeping a Lifesaver in the mouth with the hole intact is 7 hours and 10 minutes. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
Alaska was bought from Russia for about 2 cents an acre. A duck has three eyelids. 70% of dust of house dust is dead skin cells. the only animal with
four knees is the elephant. Australia is the only continent without an active volcanoe. the world record for spitting a watermelon seed is 65 feet 4 inches. A
rat can go longer without water than a camel. the human tooth has about 55 miles of canals in it. in the Phillippine jungle, the yo-yo was first used as a weapon.
a chicken is the only animal that is eaten before it is born and after it is dead. weatherman Willard Scott was the first original Ronald Mcdonald your skin
weighs twice as much as your brain every single hamster in the U.S. today comes from a single litter captured in Syria in 1930. a pig always sleeps on its right
side. there are 170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the ten opening moves in a chess game. one year contains 31,557,600 seconds.
Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air. When opossums are hanging upside-down, they are not playing. It is from shear terror. If you bring a
raccoon's head to the Henniker, the New Hampshire town hall, you are entitled to receive $.10 from the town. The male gypsy moth can 'smell' the virgin female
gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away. The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head. Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and
continue living. Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box All porcupines float in water. An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.
Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants. The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used. The reason
firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of old when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how
to walk up straight staircases. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten. The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The
frog peels off several times a year with new growth. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs. Starfish have eight eyes--one at the end of each
leg. Polar bears are left-handed. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. The nnly bird that can fly backwards is
the Hummingbird. Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water. Bats always turn left when they exit a cave. An eagle can kill a young deer and
fly away with it. In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees. Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms
for that reason. The only insect that can turn it's head is a praying mantis. Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms per day. St. Bernard dogs do not carry
kegs of brandy, and never have. In his book 'The Insects', naturalist Url N. Lanham reports that the aphid reproductive cycle is so rapid that the females are
born pregnant. The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age. Its name was Fred. You can tell a turtle's gender by the noise it makes. Males grunt,
females hiss. Camel's milk does not curdle. Cat's urine glows under a blacklight An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. the starfish is the only animal
that can turn it's stomach inside out. The elephant is the only mammal that is unable to jump. Only only continent without reptiles or snakes is Antarctica. It
was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses its
forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again. A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese
in the air is a skein. A group of unicorns is called a blessing. A group of kangaroos is called a mob. A group of whales is called a pod. A group of
ravens is called a murder. A group of officers is called a mess. A group of larks is called an exaltation. A group of owls is called a parliament. A group
of frogs is called an army. Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex. Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can
get leprosy. Armadillos can be housebroken. Dolphins sleep with one eye open. Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has
about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring,
relax and correct itself. Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for several weeks. Mosquitoes have teeth. The penguin is the only bird that can
swim but not fly. Slugs have 4 noses. Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas. Some ribbon worms
will eat themselves if they can't find any food. Owls are the only birds that can see the color blue. Honeybees have hair on their eyes. The muzzle of a lion
is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers. A jellyfish is 95% water. Horses and rabbits cannot vomit. A donkey will sink in
quicksand but a mule won't. Smartest dogs: (in order) 1) border collie 2)poodle 3)golden retriever. Dumbest dog: Afghan A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24
hours. Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox. Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing. The airplane Buddy Holly died in was named the
?American Pie.? Picasso's full name was Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad Ruiz
Picasso. Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers. (Moe, Curly and Shemp.) Einstein couldn't speak fluently until
after his ninth birthday. His parents thought he was mentally retarded. Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan. The Ramses brand
condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the
cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's 'Its A Wonderful Life.' Ben and Jerry's send the waste from making ice cream to local pig farmers to use as feed.
Pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor: Mint Oreo. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer. Deborah Winger did the voice of E.T.
Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker. Lorne Greene had one of his nipples
bitten off by an alligator while he was host of 'Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom.' Kelsey Grammar sings and plays the piano for the theme song of Fraiser.
Alexander the Great was an epileptic. Paul Reiser is playing the piano in the 'Mad About You' theme. Charles de Gaulle's final words were, 'It hurts.'
Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy. Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name
was Willy. The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on their radio's newscast about the wreck.
Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots. Dr. Seuss pronounced 'Seuss' such that it rhymed with 'rejoice.' Charlie Brown's father
was a barber. In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said 'Play it again, Sam.' Sherlock Holmes never said 'Elementary, my dear Watson.' Thomas
Edison was afraid of the dark. (Hence, the light bulb?) Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant 'plenty of excrement.' The
youngest pope was 11 years old. Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school. Only person to win $64,000 Challenge and $64,000 Question: Dr.
Joyce Brothers (subject is boxing) Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns. Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep cool. ( He changed it
every two innings) Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister Hugh 'Ward Cleaver' Beaumont was an ordained minister. John Lennon's first girlfriend was named
Thelma Pickles. Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth. Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman. Hang On Sloopy is the official rock
song of Ohio. Mount Whitney, the highest mountain in the continental United States, and Zabriskie Point (in Death Valley) , the lowest point in the United States,
are less than eighty miles apart. The state of Florida is bigger than England. Mexico's east coast is sinking into the sea at the rate of one to two inches per year.
Many people think that the clock in the tower of Londons House Of Parliment is called 'Big Ben.' Actually, the nickname 'Big Ben' originally applied to the
huge bell in the clock, not to the clock itself. Malaysians protect their babies from disease by bathing them in beer. The only nation whose name begins with an
'A', but doesn't end in an 'A' is Afghanistan. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are
registered blood donors. 'Three dog night' (attributed to Australian Aborigines) came about because on especially cold nights these nomadic people needed
three dogs (dingos, actually) to keep from freezing. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak. Texas is also the only state that is allowed
to fly its state flag at the same height as the U.S. flag. A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee. The three best-known
western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
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