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STRANGE BUT TRUE
(note: I know some of these to be true, but some of these are from sources that may not be very reliable, so there are no guarantees that all are true)
• There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!
• Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill!
• If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
• The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
• The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!
• A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!
• Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie!
• over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!
• Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!
• Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
• There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!
• During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!
• Slugs have 4 noses!
• There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month! Interesting tries from our readers: orange: door hinge, mélange (French for mix) purple: hurtle, durple?, turtle month: once, bunth?, hunch
• It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them!
• Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
• It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
• You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
• Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
• A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
• The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
• Polar bears are left handed.
• The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping the length of a football field.
• A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.
• The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
• 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
• "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
• The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
• Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
• If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
• A snail can sleep for 3 years.
• The longest one-syllable word in the English language is
"screeched."
• There are only four words in the English language which end in "- dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
• A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
• A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
• The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
• There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
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