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-Triskaidekaphobia means fear of the number 13. Paraskevidekatriaphobia means fear of Friday the 13th (which occurs one to three times a year). In Italy, 17 is considered an unlucky number. In Japan, 4 is considered an unlucky number.

-A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

-Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose active ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903.

-ItÂ’s estimated that at any one time around 0.7% of the worldÂ’s population is drunk.

-Every person, including identical twins, has a unique eye and tongue print along with their finger print.

-The “spot” on the 7-Up logo comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino.

-CamelÂ’s have three eyelids.

-On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents every day.

-Most lipstick contains fish scales.

-Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

-The Three Wise Monkeys have names: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil).

-If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out. (DONÂ’T TRY IT, DUMBASS)

-About 200,000,000 M&Ms are sold each day in the United States.

-Coconuts kill about 150 people each year. ThatÂ’s more than sharks.

-The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before it.

-The first bomb the Allies dropped on Berlin in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

-The average raindrop falls at 7 miles per hour.

-It took Leonardo Da Vinci 10 years to paint Mona Lisa. He never signed or dated the painting. Leonardo and Mona had identical bone structures according to the painting. X-ray images have shown that there are 3 other versions under the original.

-If you put a drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

-Bruce Lee was so fast that they had to slow the film down so you could see his moves.

-The original name for butterfly was flutterby.

-The phrase “rule of thumb” is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

-In America, someone is diagnosed with AIDS every 10 minutes. In South Africa, someone dies due to HIV or AIDS every 10 minutes.

-Every day, 7% of the US eats at McDonaldÂ’s.

-During his entire life, Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting, “Red Vineyard at Arles”.

-It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

-Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.

-Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

-Sherlock Holmes NEVER said “Elementary, my dear Watson”, Humphrey Bogart NEVER said “Play it again, Sam” in Casablanca, and they NEVER said “Beam me up, Scotty” on Star Trek.

-The sound you here when you put a seashell next to your ear is not the ocean, but blood flowing through your head.

-More people are afraid of open spaces (kenophobia) than of tight spaces (claustrophobia).

-The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.

-The word “lethologica” describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

-A snail can sleep for 3 years.

-People photocopying their buttocks are the cause of 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide.

-China has more English speakers than the United States.

-One in every 9000 people is an albino.

-The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

-You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.

-Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds; dogs only have about ten.

-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 humanÂ’s neck.

-Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

-Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations (implemented on July 16, 1969) makes it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles.

-More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.

-For every memorial statue with a person on a horse, if the horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died of battle wounds; if all four of the horseÂ’s legs are on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

-An American urologist bought NapoleonÂ’s penis for $40,000.

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

-Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters “MT”.

-Rats and horses canÂ’t vomit.

-The penguin is the only bird that canÂ’t fly but can swim.

-There are approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day.

-There are only four words in the English language that end in “-dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

-“101 Dalmatians” and “Peter Pan” are the only Disney animations in which both of a character’s parents are present and don’t die during the movie.

-Hedenophobic means fear of pleasure.

-All polar bears are left-handed.

-Elephants are the only mammals that cannot jump.

-A healthy (non-colorblind) human eye can distinguish between 500 shades of gray.

-Los Angeles’ full name is “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula”. It can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: L.A.

-The youngest pope ever was 11 years old.

-The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

-The average chocolate bar has 8 insectsÂ’ legs melted into it.

-A polar bears skin is black. Its fur is actually clear, but like snow it appears white.

-CatsÂ’ urine glows under a black light.

-A “quidnunc” is a person who is eager to know the latest news and gossip.

-On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

-On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

-In most watch advertisements the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.

-If you plant an apple seed, it is almost guaranteed to grow a tree of a different type of apple.

-Broccoli and cauliflower are the only vegetables that are flowers.

-Newborn babies have about 350 bones. They gradually merge and disappear until there are about 206 by age 5.

-The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

-Kuwait is about 60% male (highest in the world). Latvia is about 54% female (highest in the world).

-The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.

-People say “bless you” when you sneeze because your heart stops for a millisecond.

-Scotland has more redheads than any other part of the world.


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