2. Twix candy bar was introduced in 1979.

3. There is 1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire is strung in the U.S.

4. Twelve new born babies will be given to the wrong parents every day.

5. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

6. 160 cars can drive side by side on the world’s widest road.

7. A company in Taiwan make dinnerware of wheat so you can eat your plate, knife, fork, and spoon.

8. A dragonfly’s life span is only 24 hours.

9. Giraffes tounges are 21 inches long.

10. A hedgehog’s heart beats 300 times per minute on average.

11. A jellyfish’s body is 95% water.

12. Charles Osborne had hiccups for 6 years.

13. A Saudi Arabian woman can divorce her husband if he doesn’t give her coffee.

14.  Sharks are the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

15. Toothpicks are the objects that are most often choked on by Americans.

16.America once issued a 5 cent bill.

17. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than it’s brain.

18. Babies are born without knee caps.

19. Knee caps appear when children are about 2-6 years old.

20.  When bats exit caves they always turn left.

21. Camel’s have 3 eyelids on each eye.

22. Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

23. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn’t wear pants.

24. During your lifetime you will eat about 60,00 pounds.

25. 60,000 pounds is about the weight of 6 elephants.   

26. You are born with 300 bones but when you are an adult you only have 206 bones.

27. In your life you will eat about 35,000 cookies.

28. Women’s hearts beat faster than men’s hearts.

29. Tiger’s don’t only have striped fur, their skin is striped.

30. No zebra’s stripes are in the same pattern.

31. An Orca’s dorsal fin can be 4-6 feet tall.

32.  A very healthy adult can outrun a crocodile.

33. Nest temperature determines weather it is a male or female crocodile.

34. An Arctic Fox doesn’t get cold until it is 94 degrees Fahrenheit below zero.

35. An elephant’s trunk has 15,000 muscles.

36. An elephant has more muscles in its trunk than you have in your body.

37. In Malaysian language Orangutan means, “Person of the forest.”

38. Hippos are related to whales.

39. Kangaroos lick their forearms to stay cool.

40. New born kangaroos are about 2 inches tall.

41. Cheetahs can run 70 mph.

42. Chewing gum when you cut onions will keep you from crying.

43. The Titantic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.

44. Dalmatians are born without spots.

45. Men’s shirts always have buttons on the right, but women’s shirts always have buttons on the left.

 46. All birds except awls lift their bottom eyelid up to blink.

47. Every time you sneeze one of your brain cells die.

48. Your right lung is bigger than your left lung (to make room for your heart).

49. When you blush, the lining of your stomach turns red too.

50.Hippos sweat is red if they are upset.

51. The Titanic film was more expensive to make than to actually make the Titanic.

52. Natural pearls melt in vinegar.

53. The only part in the human body that doesn’t have a blood supply is the cornea in the eye.

54. The only 2 animals that can see behind them without turning around are the rabbit and the parrot.

55. Kangaroos can bound 30 feet.

56. Elephants are the only animal with 4 knees

57. Humans forget 90% of our dreams.

58. A queen bee lays 1,500 eggs per day.

59. The African Cicada Fly spends 17 years sleeping, wakes up for 2 weeks, mates and then dies.

60. Cleopatra married two of her brothers.

61. Dolphins can’t automatically breath, they have to tell themselves to do it.

62. A cockroach can live 9 days without its head before it starves to death.

63. Butterflies taste with their feet.

64. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.

65. More people fear spiders than death.

66. Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.

67. Inventing the microwave was an accident.

68. There are 86,400 seconds in a day.

69. The average gorilla sleeps for 14 hours.

70. It takes two weeks for sloths to digest food

71. In a group of lions 90% of the hunting is done buy the female lions.

72. Sharks and Rays are the only animals that can’t get cancer.

73. A shrimp’s heart is in its head.

74. More than 50% of people in the world have never received or made a telephone call.

75. If you sneeze to hard, you can fracture a rib.

76. If you you hold back a sneeze it can pop a blood vessel in your head or neck and it can kill you.

77. All make-up contains pig fat.

78. It is impossible to lick your elbow.

79. About 75% of people reading this will try to lick their elbow.

80. Hot water is heavier than cold water.

81. Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through air.

82. Male ostriches can roar like lions.

83. Rabbits can’t sweat.

84. One time a pregnant woman was falsely accused of shoplifting a basketball.

85. Deer can’t eat hay.

86. A squirrel’s lifespan is about 9 years.

87. Cats have scent glands in their face.

88. Money is made out of cotton, not paper.

89. 315 words in Webster’s 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

90. Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every 2 weeks or else it will digest itself.

91. Ketchup was sold as a medicine in the 1830′s.

92. Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors.

93. It’s against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland.

94. Honey is the only food that doesn’t spoil.

95. If coloring wasn’t added to Coca-Cola, it would be green.

96. Cow’s milk is the most common thing to be allergic to.

97. Earth is the only planet not named after a god.

98. It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

99. owls are the only birds who can see blue.

100. Starfish have no brains.

101. Banging you head against the wall uses 150 calories per hour.

102. Catfish have over 27,000 taste buds.

103. Oak trees cannot produce acorns until they are 50 years old or older.

104. The King of Hearts is the only king without a mustache.

105. The first owner of Marlbo Cigarette Company died of lung cancer.

106. Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

107. Real pearls will melt in vinegar.

108. Cows can go up stairs but cannot go down stairs.

109. Turtles can breath trhough their butts.

110. Women blink about twice as many times as men.

111. Blueberry juice helps your memory.

112. Every human spent about a half an hour as a single cell.

113. Some Chineese believe swinging your arms gets rid of headaches.

114. Laughter is a proven way to loose wieght.

115. In South Africa it is a law that single ply toilet paper must have exactly 500 sheets.

116. The longest flight of a chicken iis 13 seconds.

117. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 (The answer counts up to nine then back down to one).

118. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

119. A cow produces 200 times more gas per day than an average human does.

120. A giraffe can go longer without water than a camel can.

121. A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.

122. A mole can dig a 300 foot hole in one night.

123. Bubble gum contains rubber.

124. Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

125.Febuary 1865 is the only month in recorded history that did not have a full moon.

126. Giraffes do not have vocal cords.

127. If you bring a raccoon’s head to the New Hampshire Town Hall, you are entitled to recieve $0.10 from the town.

128. The first manufactured bandages were in the time of World War Two.

129. One fourth of your bones are in your feet.

130. Only 55% of Americans know the sun is a star.

131. The average person laughs about 15 times a day.

132. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

133. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

134. There are over 52.6 million dogs in the U.S.

135. There are more plastice flamingos in America than real flamingos.

136. In the Pony Express, there was not a single pony, only horses.

137. Thomas Edison (inventer of the lightbulb) was afraid of the dark.

138. Two thirds of the world’s eggplant is grown in New Jersey.

139. All windmills turn counter-clockwise except in Ireland.

140. You’re more likely to get stung by a bee in windy weather, rather than any other weather.

141. Natural gas has no smell. The odor you smell is added so you can identify leaks.

142. The most common ime for a bank robbery is on Friday between 9 and 11 a.m.

143. The least common time for a bank robbery is on Wednesday between 3 and 6 p.m.

144. On some Caribean islands, oysters can climb trees.

145. Beavers can swim half a mile on one breath of air.

146. There is more real lemon juice in Lemon Pledge furniture polish than in Country Time Lemonade.

147. Porcupine’s quills are soft when they are born.

148. Half of all Americans over the age of 55 have no teeth.

149. Rats multiply so quickly that in a year and a half, two rats could have over 1 million decendents.

150. Justin Timberlake’s half eaten toast sold for over $3,000 on    E-Bay.

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