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2. The worlds youngest parents were eight and nine and lived in China in 1910.

3. The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is: uncopyrightable.

4. The first novel written on a typewriter was Tom Sawyer.

5. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321.

6. A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.

7. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrended after 38 minutes.

8. A polar bear's skin is black. It's fur is not white, but actually clear, only creating the illusion of white fur.

9. Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland until recently because he doesn't wear trousers.

10. Shakespeare invented the word "assassination".

11. Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.

12. If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.

13. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

14. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.

15. The name of all the continents end with the same letter they start with.

16. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.

17. Snails can sleep for three years.

18. American Airlines saved $40,000 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

19. China has more English speakers than the United States.

20. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is 'screeched'

21. Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.

22. A dragonfly lives just 24 hours.

23. Rubber bands last longer if refrigerated.

24. Cats have over 100 vocal sounds, dogs only have about 10.

25. Our eyes are always the same size from birth.

26. If Barbie was life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand 7' 2" tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.

27. The cruise liner the QEII, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

28. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

29. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

30. A crocodile cannot stick it's tongue out.

31. Polar bears are left-handed.

32. A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.

33. An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

34. The Greek national anthem has 158 verses.

35. There are more chickens than people in the world.

36. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

37. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

38. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.

39. Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing.

40. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum.

41. No piece of dry square paper can be folded more than 7 times in half.

42. If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion.

43. A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth.

44. The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.

45. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.

46. The world's termites outweigh the world's humans by 10 to 1.

47. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

48. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

49. The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.

50. You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206.

51. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

52. The state of Florida is bigger than England.

53. Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.

54. Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.

55. Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.

56. Owls are one of the only birds who can see the colour blue.

57. A jellyfish is 95% water.

58. More Monopoly money is printed in a year than real money printed throughout the world.

59. The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump.

60. 1/4 of the bones in your body are in your feet.

61. A giraffe can clean it's ears with it's 21 inch tongue.

62. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

63. The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn it's head.

64. Slugs have four noses.

65. Woven into a rope, the hair on one human's head could support about 12 tons.

66. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath. At worst, you would lose consciousness and the lungs would start to breath automatically.

67. Your brain is more active sleeping than it is watching TV.

68. Zigzagging across a steep hill conserves more energy than climbing straight up.

69. Petroleum accounts for nearly half the world's energy supply.

70. It requires the use of 72 muscles to speak a single word.

71. It takes 17 facial muscles to smile but 42 to frown.

72. It takes the human eyes an hour to adapt completely to seeing in the dark. Once adapted, however, the eyes are about 100,000 times more sensitive to light than they are in bright sunlight.

73. It takes about five years for an oyster to produce a medium-sized pearl.

74. It takes about nine minutes for a snowflake to fall to Earth from a height of 1,000 feet.

75. The first portable calculator placed on sale by Texas Instruments weighed 2.5 pounds and cost £75 in 1972.

76. Man has tiny bones once meant for a tail and unworkable muscles once meant to move his ears.

77. Most able people will walk 115,000 miles in their lifetime, or around the world 4½ times.

78. Most teenage boys think about sex once every 5 minutes.

79. The right lung takes in more air than the left.

80. The first VCR, or video cassette recorder, was made in 1956 and was the size of a piano.

81. Nationwide, there are about 15,000 people in comas.

82. The human brain begins to lose cells at a rate of 50,000 per day by the age of 30.

83. A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber. A ball of solid steel will bounce higher than one made entirely of glass.

84. A chest X-ray is comprised of 90,000 to 130,000 electron volts.

85. The human brain is capable of recording 86 million bits of information daily.

86. The human ear can distinguish more than 1,500 different musical tones.

87. The star known as LP 327-186, a so-called white dwarf, is smaller than the state of Texas, yet so dense, that if a cubic inch of it were brought to Earth, it would weigh more than 1.5 million tons.

88. The skin is only about as deep as the tip of a ball-point pen.

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