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• It takes your food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.
• One human hair can support 3 kg (6.6 lb).
• Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.
• A woman's heart beats faster than a man's.
• There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.
• Women blink twice as often as men.
• The average person's skin weighs twice as much as the brain.
• Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are standing still.
• If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it.

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• The oldest known vegetable is the pea.
• The avocado has the most calories of any fruit.
• The first zoo in the USA was in Philadelphia.
• The letter "n" ends all Japanese words not ending in a vowel.
• France has the highest per capita consumption of cheese.
• The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone.
• 4,000 people are injured by teapots each year.
• The typical American consumes 27 pounds of cheese each year.
• The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is "feedback."
• The state of California raises the most turkeys out of all of the states.
• George Washington Carver invented peanut butter.
• A scallop has 35 blue eyes.
• The left leg of a chicken in more tender than the right one.
• The only dog that doesn't have a pink tongue is the chow.
• The giraffe has the highest blood pressure of any animal.
• The dumbest domesticated animal is the turkey.
• Russia has the most movie theaters in the world.
• The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.
• The most fatal car accidents occur on Saturday.
• Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the mercury thermometer.
• The mongoose was barred live entry into the U.S. in 1902.
• Goldfish swallowing started at Harvard in 1939.
• Dry fish food can make goldfish constipated.
• Your urine will turn bright yellow if you eat too much asparagus.
• Before Prohibition, Shlitz Brewery owned more property in Chicago than anyone else, except the Catholic church.

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• Pigs can cover a mile in 7.5 minutes when running at top speed.
• You breathe about 10 million times a year.
• The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you'll have a bad dream.
• The first non-human to win an Oscar was Mickey Mouse.
• Lee Harvey Oswald was booked with mugshot number 54018.
• The Gulf Stream could carry a message in a bottle at an average of four miles per hour.
• The bulls-eye on a dartboard must be 5 feet 8 inches off the ground.
• The foot is the most common body part bitten by insects.
• The most common time for a wake up call is 7 a.m.
• The doorbell was invented in 1831.
• The electric shaver was patented on November 6, 1928.
• Japan is the largest exporter of frog's legs.
• There are seven points on the Statue of Liberty's crown.
• The shell constitutes 12 percent of an egg's weight.
• A squid has 10 tentacles.
• A snail's reproductive organs are in its head.
• A cow's only sweat glands are in its nose.
• The world "and" appears 46,277 times in the Bible.
• The telephone's U.S. patent number is 174 465.
• There are 17 steps leading up to Sherlock Holmes' apartment.
• When a horned toad is angry, it squirts blood from its eyes.
• Napoleon was terrified of cats.
• The typical American eats 263 eggs a year.
• The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger.
• The human body weighs 40 times more than the brain.
• A person swallows approximately 295 times while eating dinner.

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• The percent of women who wash their hands after leaving a restroom is 80%.
• The percent of men who wash their hands after using a restroom is 55%.
• There are 333 toilet paper squares on a toilet paper roll.
• "Jaws" is the most common name for a goldfish.
• On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.
• The average American eats two donuts a day.
• The longest word in the Old Testament is "Malhershalahashbaz."
• The longest time a person has been in a coma is 37 years.
• Every minute in the U.S. six people turn 17.
• It takes the Where's Waldo artist one month to complete a drawing.
• 2,500 lefties die each year using products designed for righties.
• A baby is born every seven seconds.
• Ten tons of space dust falls on the Earth every day.
• Blue and white are the most common school colors.
• Swimming pools in Phoenix, Arizona, pick up 20 pounds of dust a year.
• The first message tapped by Samuel Morse over his invention the telegraph was: "What hath God wrought?"
• The first words spoken by over Alexander Bell over the telephone were: "Watson, please come here. I want you."
• The first words spoken by Thomas Edison over the phonograph were: "Mary had a little lamb."
• The three words in the English language with the letters "uu" are: vacuum, residuum and continuum.
• A baby in Florida was named: Truewilllaughinglifebuckyboomermanifestdestiny. His middle name is George James.
• In a normal lifetime an American will eat 200 pounds of peanuts and 10,000 pounds of meat.
• A new book is published every 13 minutes in America.
• America's best selling ice cream flavor is vanilla.
• Americans eat 18 billion hot dogs a year.
• Americans eat 134 pounds of sugar a year.
• Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.
• You can tell if a skunk is about if you smell only .000000000000071 ounce of its spray.
• Animal breeders in Russia once claimed to have bred sheep with blue wool.
• Penguins are the only bird that can leap into the air like porpoises.
• India has 50 million monkeys.
• By some unknown means, an iguana can end its own life.
• Americans spend around $3 billion for cat and dog food a year.

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• Charles Dickens was an insomniac. He believed he had the best chance of getting some sleep if he positioned himself exactly in the middle of the bed which must at all times be pointed in a northerly direction.
• The actor Stewart Granger, changed his name because didn't like his real name. James Stewart.
• William Butler Yeats wrote his most important poems between the age of 50 and 75.
• If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
• A scorpion could survive for three weeks if it was embedded in a block of ice.
• After his sight improved, Thomas Edison still preferred using Braille to more normal reading.
• Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, also set a world water-speed record of over 70 miles an hour at the age of 72.
• The last London smog occurred in 1962.
• A fog belt 50 ft. deep over an area of 104 square miles contains no more moisture that single bucket of water.
• As early as 246 B.C., con men were at work "aging" manuscripts and selling them to book collectors as antiques.
• Copies of the Bible and the Koran small enough to fit in a walnut shell have been written by hand.
• Sidewinder snakes move in their peculiar fashion to avoid putting too much of their body area on the hot desert sand.
• Two mouths full of cowbane, a member of the carrot family, is enough to kill you.
• In the eighteenth century, many women went to the trouble of having their gums pierced so they could use hooks to secure their false teeth.
• In 1973, two blind Peruvian soccer teams played a match using a ball filled with dried peas.
• During World War II, Americans had the idea of fitting bats with miniature bombs that would then be dropped as they flew over the enemy.
• The scorpion fish can merge the shape of its head with the surrounding rocks.
• The early Greeks experimented with the direction of their writing, going from right to left and left to right alternately, before adopting what is now the standard Western practice.
• The plant life contained in the oceans of the world makes up 85 percent of all our greenery.
• William the Conqueror was so strong he could jump onto his horse wearing full armor.
• The Indian atlas-moth has a 12-inch wing span.
• There is more pigment in brown eyes than in blue eyes.
• Allan Pinkerton, founder of the famous detective agency, died in 1884 when he stumbled, bit his own tongue, and was killed by the resulting gangrene.
• Sri Lanka is the second largest tea-producer in the world.
• Marie Curie, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who discovered radium, died as a result of over-exposure to radioactivity.
• Crocodiles can see underwater because they have a semi-transparent third eyelid that slides into place when necessary.
• In 1972, a Swedish man balanced on one foot for over five hours, using nothing for support.
• People used to wear shoes on either foot.
• A giraffe's blood pressure is at least twice that of a healthy man.
• Tens of thousands of Ugandans reported that they had seen and heard a talking tortoise in 1978.
• King Camp Gillette invented the first disposable safety razor. Two years after he first patented his invention, he had only sold 168 blades. By the following year, sales jumped to an incredible 12.4 million blades.
• A thick glass is more likely to crack if hot water is poured onto it than a thin one.
• The popular card game bridge was invented in Turkey.
• It was the accepted practice in babylon 4,000 years ago that for amonth after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer, and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the "honey month" or what we know today as the "honeymoon."
• Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim or handle of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle," is the phrase inspired by this practice.
• In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes­when you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. That's where the phrase, "good night, sleep tight!" came from.
• The term "the whole nine yards" came from WW II fighter pilots in the Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the gourd, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole nine yards."
• Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
• Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
• Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
• In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
• The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
• Buzz Aldrin was the second man to set foot on the Moon. Moon was also his mother's maiden name.

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