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leleram
13th February 2006, 05:29 PM
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
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Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand. [Paul Black from NIST notes: aftereffects, desegregates, reverberates, proprietor and repertoire!]
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Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
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Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
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If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
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Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
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Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
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The continents names all end with the same letter with which they start.
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The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
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The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
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A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
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A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
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Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.
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TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
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If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
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The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
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A snail can sleep for 3 years.
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The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
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Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, with a population of 1000 and a size 108.7 acres.
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Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world?
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"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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No president of the United States was an only child.