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Many hamsters blink one eye at a time.
A 2000 year old toilet complete with running water, a stone seat, and an armrest was discovered in the tomb of an ancient Chinese king, of the Western Han Dynasty.
The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.
Plastic lawn flamingos outnumber real flamingos in the U.S.A
Whitby, Ontario has more donut stores per capita than any other place in the world.
Starfish have no brain.
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter %26quot;E%26quot;.
No president of the United States was an only child.
Bulls are color blind.
Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine.
A can of SPAM is opened about every 4 seconds somewhere in the world.
%26quot;Babe%26quot; was played by over 48 pigs.
Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
Most lipstick is partailly made of fish scales.
Ants never sleep.
The Poison Arrow frog has enough poison to kill 2200 people.
The largest pumpkin weighed 1006 lbs. - **Thank you AL for pointing this correction out! - fp
The largest cabbage weighed 144 lbs.
The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36 kilograms.
Kidney stones come in any color from yellow to brown.
Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.
Women blink twice as many times as men do.
A bowling pin only has to tilt 7.5 degrees in order to fall down.
The first flushing toilet seen on TV was on Leave it to Beaver, though only the tank of it was shown.
The life span of a taste bud is ten days.
The shortest commercial ever was only 4 frames of a second.
Pi has been calculated to 2,260,321,363 digits.
The billionth digit in Pi is 9.
The first 100 numbers of Pi are:
3.141592653589793238462643383279502884...
A stretched out Slinky is 87 feet long.
There are 86,400 seconds in day.
The hundred billionth Crayola crayon was Perriwinkle Blue.
Dr. Seuss pronounced %26quot;Seuss%26quot; so it rhymed with %26quot;rejoice%26quot;.
Babies are born without knee caps. They appear when the child is 2-6 years of age.
An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
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 geese is called a gaggle.
A group of owls is called a parliament.
A group of ravens is called a murder.
A group of bear are called a sleuth.
12 or more cows are called a flink.
A baby oyster is called a spat.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
In the October 22, 1945 edition of Life magazine there was a picture of a chicken with its head cut off. It was alive for several months that way.
Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
A goldfish has a memory span of about 3 seconds.
Pinocchio was made of pine, and the name even means %26#039;pine head%26#039;
A mule won%26#039;t sink in quicksand but a donkey will.
Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button (it was eliminated during surgery).
Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.
The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime.
A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge, while a dime has 118. A Susan B Anthony has 133 grooves.
Cranberry Jell-0 is the only kind that contains real fruit.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
Every time you lick a stamp you consume approx. 1/10 of a calorie.
Jewish stamps are certified Kosher.
The pound sign (#) is called an octothorpe.
Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.
New Jersey has a spoon museum with over 5,400 spoons from almost all the states.
There was once a town in West Virginia called %26quot;6%26quot;.
Singapore has only one train station.
The parking meter was invented in North Dakota.
Napoleon made his battle plans in a sandbox.
Roman Emperor Caligula made his horse a senator.
The green stuff on the occasional freak potato chip is chlorophyll.
If you eat too many carrots you will turn orange (temporarily).
Pluto%26#039;s orbit crossed Neptune%26#039;s, occasionally making Pluto the eighth planet from the sun from 1979 until 1999.
The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
The force of 1 billion people jumping at the same time is equal to 500 tons of TNT.
Howdy Doody had 48 freckles.
The first word spoken on the moon was %26quot;Okay%26quot;.
Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.
The average speed of Heinz ketchup leaving the bottle is 25 miles per year.
Hilary Clinton once said %26#039;We are the President%26#039;.
The reported percent of women who wash their hands after leaving a restroom is 80%.
The reported percent of men who wash their hands after using a restroom is 55%.
There are typically 333 toilet paper squares on a new toilet paper roll.
The Eiffel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets in it.
%26quot;Jaws%26quot; is the most common name for a goldfish.
On an average work day, a typist%26#039;s fingers travel 12.6 miles.
The average American eats 2 donuts a day.
The longest word in the Old Testament is Malhershalahashbaz.
The longest recorded time a person has been in a coma is 37 years.
Every minute in the U.S 6 people turn 17.
It takes the Where%26#039;s Waldo artist one month to complete a drawing.
About 2500 lefties die each year using products designed for righties.
A baby is born approx. every 7 seconds.
An estimated 10 tons of space dust falls on the Earth every day.
On average, a 4 year old child asks 437 questions a day.
Blue and white are the most common school colors.
Swimming pools in Phoenix, Arizona, pick up about 20 pounds of dust a year.
The first message tapped by Samuel Morse over his invention the telegraph was: %26#039;What hath God wrought?%26#039;
The first words spoken by over Alexander Bell over the telephone were: %26#039;Watson come here, I need you%26#039;.
The first words spoken by Thomas Edison over the phonograph were: %26#039;Mary had a little lamb%26#039;
The four words in the English language with the letters uu are: vacuum, residuum, triduum and continuum.
A baby in Florida was named: Truewilllaughinglifebuckyboomermanifestd... (His middle name is George James).
It is illegal to ride a street car on Sunday if you have been eating garlic in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
The average American will eat 200 pounds of peanuts and 10,000 pounds of meat in their lifetime.
A new book is published about every 13 minutes in America during business hours.
America%26#039;s best selling ice-cream flavor is vanilla.
American%26#039;s eat about 18 billion hot dogs a year.
The average American eats 134 pounds of sugar a year.
Every year the sun loses approx. 360 million tons.
Because of Animal Crackers, many kids until they reach the age of ten, believe a bear is as tall as a giraffe.
You can tell if a skunk is close by if you smell only .000 000 000 000 071 ounce of its spray.
Animal breeders in Russia once claimed to have bred sheep with blue wool.
The following are sounds as interpreted by the corresponding languages:
A dog in East Africa says %26quot;woo-woo%26quot;.
A dog in Bangkok says %26quot;bahk-bahk%26quot;.
A dog in Japan says %26quot;wan-wan%26quot;.
A dog in Russia says %26quot;gahf-gahft%26quot;.
A cow in Thailand says %26quot;oo-ah%26quot;
A cat in Japan says %26quot;neow%26quot;.
A cat in Thailand says %26quot;mao%26quot;.
A pig in Japan says %26quot;moo-moo%26quot;.
A pig in Thailand says %26quot;oot-oot%26quot;.
A pig in Russia says %26quot;ha-roo%26quot;.
A rooster in Germany says %26quot;ay-ee-ache-ache%26quot;
Penguins are the only bird that can leap into the air like porpoises.
India has about 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.
Pigs can cover a mile in 7.5 minutes when running at top speed.
You breathe about 10 million times a year.
You have a better chance of having a bad dream in a cold room than a warm one.
The first non-human to win an Oscar was Mickey Mouse.
Lee Harvey Oswald was booked with mug shot number 54018.
The Gulf Stream could carry a message in a bottle at an average of 4 miles per hour.
The bulls eye on a regulation dartboard must be 5 feet 8 inches off the ground.
The foot is the most common body part bitten by insects.
The doorbell was invented in 1831.
There are 225 squares on a Scrabble board.
The monkey wrench was invented by Charles Moncke.
Japan is the largest exporter of frog%26#039;s legs.
There are seven points on the Statue of Liberty%26#039;s crown.
There are approx. 550 hairs in the eyebrow.
The most common non-contagious disease in the world is tooth decay.
The shell constitutes 12 percent of an egg%26#039;s weight.
A squid has 10 tentacles.
A snail%26#039;s reproductive organs are in its head.
A cow%26#039;s only sweat glands are in its nose.
The world AND appears 46,277 times in the Bible.
The first word played in the Scrabble rules demonstration game is %26quot;Horn.%26quot;
The typical person goes to the bathroom 6 times a day.
There are 17 steps leading up to Sherlock Holmes%26#039; apartment.
Anthony Robbins%26#039; infomercial airs every half an hour, 24 hours a day somewhere in the USA.
When a horned toad is angry, it squirts blood from its eyes.
Napoleon was terrified of cats.
The first Lifesaver flavor was peppermint.
Heres some more useless facts.?
Thanks i will sleep better tonight knowing all of that!
Reply:Excellent example of how cut and paste is a joke :-)
Reply:Very informative but how many words are there in this question.
Reply:So, what%26#039;s the question then?
Reply:Somebody wake me up !!
Reply:i Neva knew that thank you
Reply:I have to know - was that kidney stone found in a human??? I hope not - ouch!
Reply:You%26#039;re right, they were usless facts.
Reply:very good
Reply:kerry butter you missed one out %26quot;KERRY BUTTER%26quot; is made in kerry ireland
Reply:Personnaly I prefer clover - mainly beacause of the song!
Oh we all love clover it%26#039;s the way that it%26#039;s churned!
Enjoyable randomized facts!
Reply:Great, spam mail on Q%26amp;A, well at least I get points for it......
Reply:Well done,kid.
But don%26#039;t give up the day-job!
Reply:so what is the question???????
Reply:I only got 46,276 ANDs in the Bible and the spaces on the scrabble board are not squares and im glad im not a leftie (if these are even true)
Reply:Cool. Though pretty useless as previouly mentioned. Did you have all these just floating at the top of your head? Kind of weird and sad if that%26#039;s true.
By the way SPAM stands for Salted Pork And haM. I have a few myself.
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