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If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
In space, astronauts are unable to cry, because there is no gravity and the tears won't flow.
Researchers in Denmark found that beer tastes best when drunk to the accompaniment of a certain musical tone. The optimal frequency is different for each beer, they reported. The correct harmonious tone for Carlsberg Lager, for example, is 510-520 cycles per second.
"Evaluation and Parameterization of Stability and Safety Performance Characteristics of Two and Three Wheeled Vehicular Toys for Riding." Title of a $230,000 research project proposed by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, to study the various ways children fall off bicycles.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
Several varieties of lightning have been identified by meteorologists. In the so-called "Positive Giant" type, the temperature of the lightning bolt reaches 30,000 degrees C. Over five times hotter than the surface of the sun.
There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S that there are real ones.
The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that it breaks the sound barrier. The "crack" of a whip is actually a tiny sonic boom.
The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.
Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
The shape of plant collenchyma cells and the shape of the bubbles in beer foam are the same - they are orthotetrachidecahedrons.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.
You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day that in any other weather.
The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.
Every person has a unique tongue print.
Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.
Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses.
Men get hiccups more often than women.
Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets in our solar system combined.
Hot water is heavier than cold.
Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
You are born with 300 bones but only have 206 after reaching adulthood.
Lightning strikes somewhere about 6,000 times per second on Earth.
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great; Hearts - Charlemagne; and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
The Battle of New Orleans, in which Andrew Jackson's U.S. forces routed "the bloody british", was fought on Janurary 8, 1815, two weeks after the War of 1812 was officially ended by the signing of the Treaty of Ghent.
In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.
The first song played on Armed Forces Radio during operation Desert Shield was "Rock the Casba" by the Clash.
John F. Kennedy's rocking chair was auctioned off for $442,000
Meteorologists claim they're right 85% of the time (think about that one!)
The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
There is a town in Newfoundland, Canada called Dildo.
The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.
Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.
Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.
Eskimos never gamble.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
Los Angeles' full name is 'El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula' and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, 'L.A.'.
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong
State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
Elephant trunks can hold 4 gallons of water.
More people die annually from donkeys than plane crashes
26 people killed by blind pull cords in total
Lawn darts are illegal in Canada
There are more psycho-analysts per capita in Buenos Aires than any other place in the world
The best working light-bulb a LONG time ago was a thread of sheep's wool coated with carbon
The average Human bladder can hold 13 ounces of liquid
If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure
The only real person to ever to appear on a pez dispenser was Betsey Ross.
Mike Neismith's (the guitarist of The Monkeys)mom invented White Out.
On July 31, 1994, Simon Sang Sung of Singapore turned a single piece of dough into 8,192 noodles in 59.29 seconds!
The largest crossword puzzle ever contained 82,951 squares. It had 12,489 clues across, and 13,125 down. It was created by Robert Turcot, from Quebec.
At 12 years old, an African named Ernest Loftus made his first entry in his diary and continued everyday for 91 years.
Only 6 people in the whole world have died from moshing.
You loost enough dead skin cells in your lifetime to fill eight five pound flour bags.
20252 is Smokey the Bear's own zip code.
5,840 people with pillow related injuries checked into U.S. emergency rooms in 1992.
8% of Americans twiddle their thumbs.
In a test performed by Canadian scientists, using various different styles of music, it was determined that chickens lay the most eggs when pop music was played.
Horse racing is one of the most dangerours sports. Between 2 and 3 jockeys are killed each year. That's about how many baseball players have died in baseball's entire professional history.
in 1992 five cows were killed in drive by shootings in Clay County,Missouri.
The strorage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes
In Vermont, the ratio of cows to people is 10:1
humans spend 3 yrs making love.
If you had enough water to fill one million goldfish bowls, you could fill an entire stadium.
There are 108 stiches on a baseball.
250 million tires are disposed of each year in the U.S.
Ukalaily (Ukilaly, you-ki-lay-ley, however it's spelled) is Hawaiian for "jumping flies"
the average woman consumes 6 lbs of lipstick in her lifetime.
you have a better chance of getting struck by lightning twice a year for the rest of your life than you do winning The Publisher's Clearinghouse Sweepstakes.
75% of people wash from top to bottom in the shower.
a male gypsy moth can smell a female gypsy moth in heat from upto a mile and a half.
26 Billion dollars in ransom has been paid out in the U.S. in the past 20 years.
Raindrops aren't actually tear-drop shaped. They are rounded at the top and flat on the bottom.
Any free-moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere, because of it's surface tension.
Lycanthropy is a disease in which a man thinks he's a wolf. It is the scientific name for "wolf man" or, wearwolf.
The average American looks at eight houses before buying one.
Toronto, Ontario was home to the biggest swimming pool in the world in 1925. it held 2000 swimmers, and was 300ft x 75ft. It is still in operation.
In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivelent of 5 times around the equator.
Bacteria increase from 1 to one billion in a petri dish in 24 hours.
Koala is Aboriginal for "no drink".
If everyone China lined up infront of you and you started walking past, you would never see the end due to their reproductive rate.
If you tore a piece of printer paper in half: half-way down the page if you were reading it, then put those two pieces on top of eachother and did it again, and again, and again until you'd done it 1000 times, the stack of paper would reach the sun.
Shakespeare spelled his OWN name several different ways
Camel milk is the only milk that doesn't curdle when boiled.
The first contraceptive was crocodile dung used by the ancient Egyptians.
Since 1978, 37 people have died as a result of shaking vending machines, in an attepmt to get free merchandise. 113 have been injured
Lime Jell-o gives off the same brain waves as adult males (true!)
There used to be a 13th constellation in the Zodiac - Opheicus. But since 13 is unlucky, astrologers just ignored it.
Your thumb is the same length as your nose.
Your foot is the same length as the distance between your wrist and elbow.
203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
4,000 people are injured by tea pots every year.
56% of the video game market is adults.
The external tank on the space shuttle is not painted.
One who busies themself with the quadrature of a cirlce is called a tetragondzein.
The quadrature of a circle is the square which has equivelent area to that circle.
March is national noodle month
March is national Food Container Month
Bruce was the nickname of the mechanical shark used in the JAWS movies.
cyclometer - one who is taken by the measure of a circle.
piet - one who is obsessed with pi.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
Two-thirds of the world's eggplants are grown in New Jersey.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is screeched.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"
There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous" tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
Stewardesses is the longest word typed using only the left hand.
A common incorrect useless fact - On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag. Wrong its a Union Jack.
In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10
The north pole moves as fast as 5km / hour
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
On an American one dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the 1 encased in the shield and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. (I'm not to sure about this one...)
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

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