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Interesting Facts
Every single one of these facts were gathered by me from life and not upon sources so accuracy is not guaranteed. Special thanks to Reywas for a peer review!

Did You Know...?
 * Gold, the size of a matchbox, can be flattened to the size of a tennis court?
 * The sentence, "The quick, brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the alphabet?
 * Mosquitoes are more likely to bite you right after you've just eaten a banana?
 * Camels are the only land mammals that can survive on salt water?
 * Camels have 3 eyelids so they can see through the sandy wind?
 * Mosquitoes favorite color is black, so they will more likely bite you where you have dark clothes (on your leg near a black sock or on your arm where you are wearing a black mitten or sleeve).
 * All polar bears are left-handed?
 * Every continent's name begins and ends with the same letter: Europe, Asia, Africa, Antarctica, Australia, America (North and South America are considered as America.)
 * The word "Taxi" is spelled the same in almost all languages that use the latin alphabet; more so than possibly any other word.
 * Bats always exit to the right from a cave?
 * Bats are the only mammals that can fly?
 * A quarter has about 119 grooves (I don't remember the exact number) and a dime has one less?
 * Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries?
 * If you think nothing is impossible, consider this: "It is impossible to be impossible"?
 * When you say a list of 2 or more things, you automatically put them in a certain order without even thinking about it. (It doesn't sound right to say "Bananas and apples"; you would normally say "Apples and bananas". It also doesn't sound right to say "Dogs and cats"; you would normally say "Cats and dogs". See Siamese twins (English language)
 * In Egypt, only pharaohs were allowed to eat mushrooms?
 * Ancient Egyptians used stones as pillows?
 * The linen cloth used to wrap mummies was as long as the Empire State Building?
 * Playing video games for over an hour can take your memory away. If you want to play longer, you should juggle for 15 minutes.
 * The human brain can hold more than 10000 times the Encyclopedia Britannica.
 * If you have a sore throat, gargle salt water. It will cure it.
 * Racecar spelled backward spells Racecar.
 * 2,000,000 frowns can make a permanent wrinkle.
 * You're just as likely to die from falling out of bed than you are to be struck by lightning; 1 in 1,000,000 chance.
 * Thomas Edison (The inventor of the light bulb) was afraid of the dark.
 * There is a city called Rome on every continent.
 * The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
 * Scissors were reportedly invented by Leonardo da Vinci.
 * Experts say that tips rise by about 5% when waiters draw a happy face on the check.
 * You buy a lot more groceries (food items) when you shop while you are hungry.
 * Most lipsticks contain fish scales (The shiny part of the lipstick).
 * Dogs can see less than color. (Example: They can see the difference between Red and Blue but not Blue and Violet).
 * Monkeys can count.
 * If you are lost and very hungry, chew on leather. It has enough nutrients to sustain life for a short time.
 * If you are lost in a desert and very thirsty, suck on pebbles.
 * Monkeys have blood type B.
 * It takes about the same amount of energy as a city would use to make one anti-matter.
 * Scientists predicted that all the galaxies that came from the Big Bang would eventually go back to that spot where it happened because of the gravity in our universe; but they recently found out that the galaxies are speeding up in the opposite direction as they predicted. Scientists think that there might be an opposite force of gravity in space, which they called dark force. This might mean in trillions of years from now, there won’t be any stars when we look up at the sky.
 * The Tyrannosaurus Rex had a brain the size of a walnut.
 * We previously thought that Daddy-Long-Legs are very poisonous, except that they don't bite humans because we're of our size. This is now just known as a past myth. see here. Thanks Owen&times;
 * Jingle Bells was originally written for Thanksgiving, not for Christmas.
 * Wrigley's Gum was the first product to have a barcode.
 * If there were two paths (right and left), and if you could choose which path to take, you would choose the path on the right if you are right-handed (or maybe right-eyed) and left if you are left-handed. (This is only true if the paths look the same (the same because you would really take the path that looks the nicest to you) and if you don't care where you end up).
 * Kids who have autism usually think with pictures, not words.
 * Kelp (seaweed) if the fastest growing thing on Earth. Bamboo is 2nd.
 * A giraffe can kill a lion with one kick.
 * A day on Mercury is hot enough to melt lead.
 * The days on a desert are hot enough to fry an egg and the nights are cold enough to freeze a cup of water.
 * Glue used to be marked Kosher because it didn’t have any meat products in it.
 * A jiffy can vary in the amount of time. ( see here ). Thanks Nocturnal Wanderer
 * Babies in America are usually fed Cheerios first before any other hard, solid food.
 * Only three rivers in the world flow uphill.
 * About 68% Americans say that they have an IQ higher than average.
 * It is illegal to look at a moose in any flying object in Alaska.
 * Nose prints are used to identify pigs as fingerprints are for humans.
 * Alaska's state sport is dogsledding.
 * In Tibet, it is considered polite to stick your tongue out at people.
 * Elephants are the only animals with 4 knees.
 * A week old gazelle can outrun a full-grown horse.
 * In college, Robin Williams was thought to be the least likely to succeed.
 * To remove permanent marker, use nail polish remover or alcohol.
 * Every day, Americans eat an average of 8 acres of pizza.
 * Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his hat to keep him cool. He changed it every 3 innings.
 * Humans have 7 neck bones, the same as giraffes and all mammals.
 * Adults have fewer bones than when they were born.
 * If you are right-handed, you will draw a circle counterclockwise.
 * If you eat an apple in the morning, it might wake you up. (Try this instead of drinking coffee).
 * If your car gets stuck in a ditch in the snow, and you can't drive out of it, and you’re also in the middle of nowhere, and if your cell phone doesn't work in that area, take half the air out from your tires. If you do that, you can drive out of the ditch until your cell phone works.
 * If you feed a spider coffee, it will become drunk and it will spin its web in a mess.
 * Black widows spin their webs messily.
 * Sea urchin and black widow babies eat their mothers after they're born. Some shark parents eat their babies after their born if they can't swim away fast enough from them.
 * During the year 2001, there has been about 6 people killed by sharks and over two thousand sharks killed by humans.
 * The area of skin below your eye gets dark if you don't drink enough water.
 * Vitamin A improves eyesight and it lets you see your dreams clearer and more often.
 * Comets are made up of ice and other materials. It is thought that Earth's waters came from comets colliding into Earth and then melting.
 * Venus flycatchers bloom pretty, delicate white flowers.
 * A sneeze travels out of your mouth at about 100 mph.
 * There aren't any clocks or windows in Las Vegas Casinos.
 * Every time you get hit by a baseball, you lose about 10 brain cells.
 * If you like round things rather than sharp, pointed things, your writing tends to be rounder than some who likes sharper things.
 * Fish oils improve eyesight much better than carrots do.
 * Strawberries and loquats are both members of the rose family.
 * It is a mistaken thought that being cold will make you sick.
 * The average lighting bolt is about 6 times hotter than the surface of the sun. (54,000 degrees F)
 * One in 300 have one blue eye and one brown eye.
 * Jeans were invented in California.
 * There are chemical elements called californium (Cf), americium (Am), and europium (Eu).
 * If you chew gum and raw tuna fish at the same time, the gum will dissolve. This can possibly take gum off the carpet or other places.
 * The longest word in English contains 189,819 letters.
 * Particles in our atmosphere that are approximately the same size as the wavelength of visible light cause the white light from the sun to scatter and split into individual components. Oxygen and Nitrogen (the main components of our atmosphere) scatter violet and blue light due to their small size. This is why the sky appears to be blue in the day time, especially at midday when the Sun is closest to us.
 * Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.
 * The biohazard symbol was invented by Dow Chemical Company.
 * The radiation symbol ,was invented by University of California, Berkeley and at the time was rendered as magenta (pinkish-purple), and was set on a blue background.
 * The science of lightning is termed fulminology and a person studying it, a fulminologist.
 * Sharks will die if they stop swimming or moving, thus, they are always moving, even during sleep.
 * The 12-month calendar that people are most familiar with today is called the Gregorian Calendar.
 * In medieval times, it was believed that when someone sneezed, the body was expelling demons. The saying "god bless you" was an attempt to guard against the evil spirits entering the body again.
 * There are 98 facts above this sentence. * (Not Including This One)

I typed all these facts, and I got them all from my memory (I didn't copy anything while I typed), and I got the information from many different sources (but none from the Internet), so these facts may not be very accurate.

More Interesting Facts by Vintei The best Interesting Facts by Reywas
 * If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
 * If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
 * A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
 * Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
 * Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
 * The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
 * Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
 * 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 catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
 * The flea can jump 350 times its body length.
 * A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
 * The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
 * Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
 * Butterflies taste with their feet.
 * An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
 * Starfish don't have brains.
 * Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
 * Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
 * The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
 * No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
 * Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
 * You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
 * Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
 * The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
 * The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
 * A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
 * American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.
 * Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
 * Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
 * The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
 * Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
 * The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
 * Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
 * All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.
 * Pearls melt in vinegar.
 * Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
 * It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
 * The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
 * Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word 'criminal.' The second was William Jefferson Clinton.
 * Turtles can breathe through their butts.
 * In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
 * On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
 * On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
 * Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
 * Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
 * Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
 * A snail can sleep for three years.
 * No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, purple, and silver.
 * Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
 * Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
 * The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
 * In ancient Egypt, priests plucked every hair from their bodies,including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
 * 'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
 * If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
 * A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
 * The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
 * 85% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow
 * Every hour one billion cells in the body must be replaced.
 * When young and impoverished, Pablo Picasso kept warm by burning his own paintings.
 * Crocodile babies don't have sex chromosomes; the temperature at which the egg develops determines gender.
 * When a person dies, hearing is usually the last sense to go.* (Hmm.)
 * Americans eat nearly 100 acres of pizza every day - that's approximately 350 slices per second!
 * If you unfolded your brain, it would cover an ironing board.
 * All the gold ever mined could be molded into a cube 60 feet high and 60 feet wide.
 * More people in China speak English than in the United States.* (I come from China, I speak English!)
 * A bird chews with its stomach.
 * Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill.
 * A real estate agent’s rule of thumb: To estimate what a house will sell for, ask the owner what its worth and subtract 10%.
 * It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas.
 * The penguin is the only bird that can swim but cannot fly.
 * In a year, an average person walks four miles to make his or her bed.
 * In Albania, nodding your head means no and shaking your head means yes.
 * The word 'Indiana' is Native American for 'Land of the Indians', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.
 * The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts 3 naked men with their hands on each others shoulders.
 * Walt Disney World generates about 120,000 pounds of garbage every day.
 * In the U.S., more than 10% of lottery prizes go unclaimed! (Whoa! Think what you can do with all that money!)
 * More than 99% of people cannot lick their elbow.
 * Parrots have 500 pounds per square inch of pressure in their beaks.
 * Instead of a birthday cake, many children in Russia are given a birthday pie.
 * Only one book has been distributed in more copies then the Bible; The IKEA catalog. (Geez!)
 * Natural gas has no smell. The odor is artificially added so that people will be able to identify leaks and take measures to stop them.
 * Some breeds of chickens lay colored eggs!.
 * Even a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to death.
 * To take an oath, ancient Romans put a hand on their testicles. That’s where the word “testimony” comes from.
 * Manhattan Island of New York City was purchased for $24 from the Algonquian Indians in 1624!
 * 85% of movie actors earn less than $5,000 a year from acting!
 * It snowed in the Sahara desert on February 18, 1979. (Check Wikipedia)
 * Originally, Nintendo was a playing card manufacturer.
 * The main theme music of the Terminator series was originally written for Robocop.
 * Each year, volcanic actions create more than 32 acres of new land.
 * (At least)315 entries in Webster's 1996 dictionary were misspelled. (Took me 6 hours)
 * Women who are romance novel readers are reported to make love 74% more often with their partners than women who do not read romance novels.
 * The heart pumps about 1 million oil barrels of blood during an average lifetime!
 * 'Formicophilia' is the fetish for having small insects crawl on your genitals.
 * An average American uses eight times as much fuel energy as an average person anywhere else in the world.
 * Each year, 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
 * The first baseball caps were made of straw. (whoa!)
 * In Holland, you can be fined for not using a shopping basket at a grocery store! (Hmm..)
 * Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them. (like father like son)
 * Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.
 * Cats’ urine glows under a black light. (ultraviolet)
 * It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs. (Mooo!)
 * Long Island, NY is shaped like a fish.
 * An extremely depleted size-AA battery weighs about 0.02mg (milligram) lesser than a normal size-AA battery.
 * If you flip Taiwan to the left 90o, it will look much like a boxfish.
 * Mouth bruises and cuts can be numbed by sucking on chocolate.