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Even More Amazing, Useless Facts
Posted On 04/25/2008 11:32:45 by the1nilo
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- The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
- Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world?
- On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
- "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
- The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
- Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
- Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
- You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
- The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
- Cat's urine glows under a black light.
- Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
- The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
- If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
- Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.
- Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
- In every episode of Seinfeld there was a Superman somewhere.
- If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.
- A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
- Polar bears are left-handed.
- The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.
- The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
- The first novel ever written on a typewriter was Tom Sawyer.
- Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
- Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
- More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
- The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
- TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
- 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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