1. Most American car horns honk in the key of F. 2. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. 3. Barbies full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. 4. Every time you lick a stamp, you consume 1/10 of a calorie. 5. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. 6. 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. 7. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every 2 weeks otherwise it will digest itself. 8. The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; 7 was selected after the original 7-ounce containers and UP for the direction of the bubbles. 9. 101 Dalmatians, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, and Mulan are the only Disney cartoons where both parents are present and dont die throughout the movie. . 10. A pigs orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. 11. Stewardesses is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand. 12. To escape the grip of a crocodiles jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs - it will let you go instantly. 13. Reindeer like to eat bananas. 14. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver and purple. 15. The word samba means to rub navels together. 16. Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots. 17. The electric chair was invented by a dentist. 18. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II Killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. 19. More people are killed annually by donkeys than airplane crashes. 20. A jiffy is a unit of time for 1/100th of a second. 21. A whales penis is called a dork. 22. Because of the rotation of the earth, an object can be thrown farther if it is thrown west. 23. The average person spends 6 months of their life sitting at red lights. 24. In 1912 a law passed in Nebraska where drivers in the country at night were required to stop every 150 yards, send up a skyrocket, wait eight minutes for the road to clear before proceeding cautiously, all the while blowing their horn and shooting off flares. 25. More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money throughout the world. 26. Caesar salad has nothing to do with any of the Caesars. It was first concocted in a bar in Tijuana, Mexico, in the 1920s. 27. One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet. 28. Crocodiles and alligators are surprisingly fast on land. Although they are rapid, they are not agile. So, if being chased by one, run in a zigzag line to lose him or her. 29. Seattle’s Fremont Bridge rises up and down more than any drawbridge in the world. 30. Right-handed people live, on average; nine years longer than left handed people. 31. Ten percent of the Russian governments income comes from the sale of vodka. 32. In the United States, a pound of potato chips costs two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes. 33. A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel. 34. A person cannot taste food unless it is mixed with saliva. For example, if a strong-tasting substance like salt is placed on a dry tongue, the taste buds will not be able to taste it. As soon as a drop of saliva is added and the salt is dissolved, however, a definite taste sensation results. This is true for all foods. 35. Nearly 80% of all animals on earth have six legs. 36. In the marriage ceremony of the ancient Inca Indians of Peru, the couple was considered officially wed when they took off their sandals and handed them to each other. 37. Ninety percent of all species that have become extinct have been birds. 38. There is approximately one chicken for every human being in the world. 39. Most collect calls are made on fathers day. 40. The first automobile race ever seen in the United States was held in Chicago in 1895. The track ran from Chicago to Evanston, Illinois. The winner was J. Frank Duryea, whose average speed was 71/2 miles per hour. 41. Each of us generates about 3.5 pounds of rubbish a day, most of it paper. 42. Women manage the money and pay the bills in 75% of all Americans households. 43. A rainbow can be seen only in the morning or late afternoon. It can occur only when the sun is 40 degrees or less above the horizon. 44. It has NEVER rained in Calama, a town in the Atacama Desert of Chile. 45. It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World. 46. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets. 47. An eighteenth-century German named Matthew Birchinger, known as the little man of Nuremberg, played four musical instruments including the bagpipes, was an expert calligrapher, and was the most famous stage magician of his day. He performed tricks with the cup and balls that have never been explained. Yet Birchinger had no hands, legs, or thighs, and was less than 29 inches tall. 48. Daylight Saving Time is not observed in most of the state of Arizona and parts of Indiana. 49. Ants closely resemble human manners: When they wake, they stretch & appear to yawn in a human manner before taking up the tasks of the day. 50. Bees have 5 eyes. There are 3 small eyes on the top of a bees head and 2 larger ones in front.
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