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Ants never sleep.

No word in the the English dictionary rhymes with "MONTH".

The human brain is 80% water.

Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum.

The parachute was invented by DiVinci in 1515.

Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.

There are 86,400 seconds in day.

A goldfish has a memory span of about 3 seconds.

Singapore has only one train station.

The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.Like ur mom.

Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating.

Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.

Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult.

When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second.

A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood.

During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.

Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.

There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses.The fiends!

Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.

The word 'byte' is a contraction of 'by eight.'

The dollar symbol ($) is a U combined with an S (U.S.)

Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.

Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.

The tune for the "A-B-C" song is the same as "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star."

Des Moines has the highest per capita Jello consumption in the U.S.

Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head." Figures.

In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

Great Britain was the first county to issue postage stamps. Hence, the postage stamps of Britain are the only stamps in the world not to bear the name of the country of origin.

Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every Games.

Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

Reindeer like to eat bananas.

American's eat about 18 billion hot dogs a year.

The oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old.

The man who played the voice of bugs bunny was allergic to carrots.

Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine.

Every time you lick a stamp you gain 1/10 of a calorie.

Yams have 10 times more vitamin C than sweet potatoes.

Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.

A mule won't sink in quicksand but a donkey will.

Animal breeders in Russia once claimed to have bred sheep with blue wool.

A pig in Japan says "moo-moo".

India has about 50 million monkeys.

On average, dogs have better eyesight than humans, although not as colorful.

Gorillas sleep as much as fourteen hours per day.

The female lion does ninety percent of the hunting.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

Cockroaches can live for 9 days after their head has been cut off.

The world's largest amphibian is the giant salamander. It can grow up to 5 ft. in length.

The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.

A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.

In Cleveland, Ohio it is illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.

In Sweden there is a ski-thru Mcdonalds.(They must have awesome Mcflurries.)

Since 1313, it is illegal for an MP to enter the House of Commons wearing a full suit of armour.

In York, excluding Sundays, it is legal to shoot a Scotsman with a bow and arrow.

If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total is 5050.

The reported percent of women who wash their hands after leaving a restroom is 80%.

Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

The real name of Astro (the dog fromThe Jetsons) is "Tralfaz" -- his real owner appeared one day to claim him but wound up giving him back to the Jetsons.

A new baby usually deprives it's parents of 400-750 hours of sleep in the first year.

If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

Other than fruit, honey is the only natural food that is made without destroying any kind of life.

Only two states' names begin with double consonants: Florida and Rhode Island.

The largest city in the United States with a one syllable name is Flint, Michigan.

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

In Mel Brooks' 'Silent Movie,' mime Marcel Marceau is the only person who has a speaking role.

The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.

The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver".