1. Goodyear rubber company researched and concluded that shoes wear out faster on the right foot than the left. (how!?)
2. Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots. (interesting)
3. Assuming Rudolph was in front there are 40320 ways to arrange the other eight reindeer. (that's a lot!!)
4. Bamboo can grow three feet in twenty-four hours. (that's awesome)
5. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never phoned his wife or his mother, they were both deaf. (awe, how sad)
6. Giraffes are unable to cough. (but what if they have to!?)
7. Woodpecker scalps, porpoise teeth and giraffe tails have all been used as money. (uhm!?)
8. A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove. (whoa!)
9. In 1977 there were 37 Elvis impersonators in the world. In 1993, there were 48,000. At this rate, by the year 2010 one out of every three people will be an Elvis impersonator. (that's just scary)
10. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself. (ewie xp)
11.During it's lifetime an oyster changes its sex from male to female and back several times. (that's awesome)
12. Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants. (haha, i know)
13. The lifespan of a tastebud is ten days. (interesting)
14. Mosquitos have forty-seven teeth. (ewie, really?)
15. It takes about 142.18 licks to reach the center of a tootsie pop. (okay!?)
16. Mickey Mouse was banned in Romania in 1935 because it was felt that he was too scary for children. (he's not scary!)
17. Squids can commit suicide by eating their own tentacles. (that's just awesome. :P)
18. The number of UFO sightings constantly increase when Mars is nearest the Earth. (coolies)
19. If you started counting, and said one number every second, it would take you 33 years to get to 1 billion. (i think it would take longer)
20. Shirley Temple always had 56 curls in her hair. (cute)
21. The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps. (only the dead ones, eh?)
22. If the bottom two rows of keys on your keyboard suddenly failed, the longest word you could still be able to type out is 'typewriter'. (typewriter is all on the top line. :P)
23. More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes. (uhm?)
24. A jellyfish is 95% water. (i knows. :P)
25. A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day. (i prolly lose 100. XP)
26. Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper. (interesting)
27. A shark can grow a new set of teeth in a week. (i know)
28. The male scorpion fly gets other males to bring him food by imitating a female fly. (okie dokie?)
29. More money is printed daily for the Monopoly game than by the U.S. Treasury. (haha, i know)
30. Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas. (yay i don't like banana's!)
31. A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court!.(whoaaaaaaa!)
32. The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' head enables it to see all four feet at all times (that's just awesome!)
33. The pupil of an octopus' eye is rectangular. (coolness)
34. Horses can sleep standing up. (i wish i could :P)
35. The Milky Way galaxy contains 5 billion stars larger than our sun. (that's kinda cool)
36. The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds. (whoa dude, that's a lot)
37. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds. (haha cute)
38. There is a 1 in 685,000 chance that you will accidentally drown in your own bath. (how do you accidentally? sleeping??)
39. The only country whose name begins with an A but doesn't end in an A is Afghanastan. (wow. just wow.)
40. Mozart wrote the nursery rhyme 'twinkle, twinkle, little star' at the age of five. (that he did)
41. A full-grown bear can run as fast as a horse. (that's cool)
42. Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village". (and that's what canada is!)
43. The penguin is the only bird that can swim, but cannot fly. (haha tina see they really can't fly!!!!)
44. A human has 60,000 miles of blood vessels in their body. (that's a lotta miles!)
45. The average person spends 30 years mad at a family member. (cool)
46. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. (poor thing. :P)
47. More redheads are born in Scotland than in any other part of the world. (i was born a redhead!! :P)
48. The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles. (awesome!)
49. More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day-most are no bigger than a speck of dust. (20 million!?)
50. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar (i don't think that's enough :P)
51. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year. (haha)
52. Money isn't made out of paper; it's made out of cotton. (i know, so when you wash it it doesn't get all icky)
53. There are almost 2 billion Christians in the world, about a billion Muslims, 800 million Hindus. (wowie)
54. You share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world. (that's so cool!)
55. The flea can jump 350 times its body length, which is like human jumping the length of about 7 football fields. (i can jump that far. xDDDDD)
56. The waste produced by one chicken in its lifetime can supply enough electricity to run a 100 watt bulb for five hours (whoa, that's pretty cool!)
57. The moon moves about two inches away from the Earth each year. (:O!!!!! we're not gonna have a moon pretty soon!)
58. Your brain is 80% water. (wow... and for me, the other 20% is air. :P)
59. Hot water is heavier than cold. (really? that makes no sense)
60. Fortune cookies were invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung (charles rocks! haha... actually.. i hate fourtune cookies lol)
61. At 12 years old, an African named Ernest Loftus made his first entry in his diary and continued everyday for 91 years. (i wanna continue mine for 91 yeats!)
62. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite (i know, that's cool)
63. I am.? is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. (cool)
64. The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E' and 'Q' is the least used. (coolie!)
65. A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours. (awe, that's sad. they must have lot's of sex. :P)
66. There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee. Of these, only 26 have been tested, and half caused cancer in rats (okay that's really scary)
67. The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado. (i'm confused. xp)
68. It takes eighteen minutes to cool hot chocolate into a Hershey's Kiss. (18? i'm gonna time it)
69. If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure. (whoa!)
70. The most common name in the world is Mohammed. (yeah, i knew that.)
71. 20252 is Smokey the Bear's own zip code. (:O! i'm gonna send him a letter!)
72. In one day an average person will take about 18,000 steps. (that's a lotta walking!)
73. The average North-American will eat 35,000 cookies in during their life span. ( i don't like cookies all that much.)
74. Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin ate roasted turkey from foil packets at their first meal on the moon. (yay for turkey!)
75. It takes 548 peanuts to make a 12-ounce jar of peanut butter. (wow)
76. You can feed 24 people with one ostrich egg. (o.O that's one huge egg!)
77. Asparagus makes urine brighter yellow than with other foods. (haha. awesome)
78. Bubble gum actually contains rubber. (that's why it's so chewy!)
79. A Peach is a Chinese symbol of immortality (i love peaches!)
80. Onions and Garlic were highly regarded in ancient Egyptian society, one variety of Onion was actually thought to be a god. (whoa... dude... chill... it's just an onion!)
81. Marrara, a raw meat dish served in Sudan, uses urine and stomach bile as flavouring ingredients. (ew. ew. ew!!!!!!)
82. Coca Cola can clean the grunge off of a dirty copper penny instantly. (coolies)
83. The country of Turkey leads the world in cereal consumption. (i don't like cereal :P)
84. A peculiar Chinese proverb - "Give a dog an appetizing name and eat him." (uhm????)
85. In the United States creamed corn is actually considered edible (yeah uhm why wouldn't it be edible?)
86. Lifesavers Wintergreen mints when you chew on them in the dark. (eh???)
87. Elephants are the only mammal that can't jump. (poor things! lol i love elephants)
88. Aphids are born pregnant. (o.O i'm scared)
89. In China, instead of diapers, babies wear crotchless pants. They relieve themselves wherever they wish, even in the streets and store, making the country their toilet. (ewie. that's grossness)
90. The Sphinx, in Egypt, is directly across the street from a Kentucky Fried Chicken. (ha. haha. that's great :P)
91. Termites will follow a line drawn by a ball-point pen. The termites mark their paths with a special pheremone, the pen smells the same as this, fooling the termites. You can take care of termite problem in your house by drawing a long line on paper going outside of your house. (XDDDDD!!!!! i'm gonna try that i'm so excited! XDDDDDDD!!!)
92. A record was released in Japan in 1978 made up of farting sounds. There were pop, classical and jazz songs, the difference was that the instruments had been replaced by farting sounds. Although critically acclaimed before it's release, the sales for the record stunk. (uhm okay?)
93. Under normal conditions, spiders weave a intricate and precise web. If you feed a spider coffee, its web will be irradic and disorganized. Coffee has the same effect on spiders as alcohol does on humans. (haha, i wanna poor coffee on the ground and watch a spider make a web. :P)
94. When an eraser is frozaen suddenly, it explodes. When you place an eraser in Liquid Nitrogen, it freezes very quickly, within one minute. Shortly after being removed it will explode. The exterior of the eraser freezes faster than the interior, and it contracts causing the eraser to explode. (that's cool. i wish i had liquid nitrogen. xp)
95. When the inventor of the frizbee died, his ashes were turned into a frizbee. (whoa dude!!!!! awesome)
96. A crawfish urinates out of its face. The crawfish's bladder is located underneath its eyes, it does however defficate from behind its tail. (i wanna pee out of my face! lol)
97. Dolphins are the only animals besides humans to have sex for pleasure. (ooooh baby! that's kinkeh!! lol!!!)
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"Come on baby,
light my fire... "
I think I need
someone to
light mine...
That I do.