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AMINALS
A ducks quack does not echo.
Polar bears are left handed.
A giraffe and rat can go longer without water than a camel can.
Humans and Dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
The snail mates only once in it's entire life.
An oyster can change it's sex a number of times during its life.
Some lions mate 50 times a day.
A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
A starfish can turn its stomach inside out.
Starfish's have no brains.
A hippopotamus can run faster than a man can.
A jellyfish is 95% water.
Sharks are immune to cancer.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
It is against the law to have a pet in Iceland
Scorpions can withstand 200 times more nuclear radiation than humans can
It is possible to lead a cow upstairs, but not downstairs.
A kangaroo can't jump unless it's tail is touching the ground
Dolphins don't automatically breath; they have to tell themselves to.
The poison arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.
The only food cockroaches won't eat are cucumbers.
The horned owl is the only animal stupid enough to attack a skunk.
When possums are "playing possum" they're not playing - they are actually passed out from sheer terror.
The underside of a horses hoof is called a frog.
Animals that lay eggs don't have belly buttons.
All porcupines can float in water
Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.
Armadillos can be house broken
Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
All snakes on the island of Tasmania are poisonous.
The fingerprints of koala bears are almost indistinguishable from those of humans, so much that they could be confused at a crime scene.
It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so that the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses its' forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike.
When a giraffe is born, it has to fall around six feet to the ground.
Swans are the only birds with a penis.
A whale's penis is called a dork.
It's more likely you would be attacked by a cow than a shark.
Bulls don't really get angry when they see the color red, it's really movement that makes them charge.
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
A donkey will sink in quick sand, while a mule will not
Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!
A U.S. backed government studyfound that pigs can become alcoholics
RANDOM STUFF
The average cough comes out of your mouth at 60MPH.
Twinkies have a shelf life of about 25 years.
Children grow faster in the springtime.
No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times.
Due to precipitation, for a few weeks K2 was bigger than Mt Everest
One in every four Americans has appeared on television
The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30ft.
People say that cracking your bones will cause arthritis when you get older. Actually all you are doing is popping air pockets, and does not cause arthritis.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. (Relative to size)
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
Your stomach needs to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it would digest itself.
We only use 10% of our brains.
Apples, not caffeine, are most efficient at waking up in the morning.
There is cyanide in apple pits.
When you sneeze, all your bodily functions stop, even your heart.
Our eyes never grow, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
You blink about 25,000 times a day.
If you lock your knee while standing long enough, you will pass out.
There is coffee flavored Pez.
A human has a bone just after the spine ends, which helps proves that humans once had tails (possibly).
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.
If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of their rate of reproduction.
China has more English speakers than the United States.
The average human eats 8 spiders in his/her lifetime at night.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
You can not kill yourself by holding your breath.
You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider
Antarctica has only one ATM machine.
Most Eskimos do not live in igloos.
One of the largest carriers of hepitius B is diner mints.
The first place in the western world to give women the right to vote was an island known as Man
Every year 8,000 people injure themselves while using a tooth pick.
The "save" icon in Microsoft Word's toolbar shows a floppy disk with the shutter on backwards.
The only member of the British House of Commons who is not allowed to speak is the man called the Speaker of the House.
The queen of England does not have the right to vote in any British election.
Peanuts are one of the main ingredients in dynamite.
There are no clocks or windows in any casino.
All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
You forget 80% of what you learn each day.
In most Advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
Nutmeg is very poisonous if injected intravenously.
MORE USELESS INFO
Betsy Ross is the only real person to ever have been the head on a Pez dispenser.
One of the many Tarzans, Karmuala Searlel, was mauled to death by a raging elephant on set.
Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
Hitler and Napoleon both had only one testicle.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
Al Capone's business card said he was a furniture dealer.
About 10,000,000 people have the same birthday as you.
Mozart sold one of his most prized pieces, Symphony No. 5 for under $20.
Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only, home run.
Toilets in Australia flush counter clockwise.
Tasmania has the cleanest air in the inhabited world.
In Alaska, it is illegal to look at a moose from a flying vehicle.
The distance between cities are actually the distances between city halls
At Andrew Jackson's funeral in 1845, his pet parrot had to be removed because it was swearing.
Blueberry Jelly Belies were created especially for Ronald Regan
The phone number of the white house is: (202) 456-1414.
The coldest outdoor temperature ever recorded on earth was 127 below zero in Antarctica on August 24, 1960.
The highest recorded temperature in the US was 134 Fahrenheit in Death Valley, California.
Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
Every ten minutes, another plant or animal life form becomes extinct.
The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
In space, astronauts are unable to cry, tears can't flow down, because of the lack of gravity.
OK THIS IS IT I SWEAR.....
The average life span of a Major League baseball is five pitches
The most common name in the world is Mohammed
Pants was considered a dirty word in England.
No word in the English language rhymes with: month, orange silver, and purple.
The word gymnasium comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means to exercise naked
The largest recorded kidney stone weighed 1.36 kg.
A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds.
2,500 left handers die each year using products designed for right handers.
The Roman Catholic Church did not acknowledge that the earth revolves around the sun until the mid 1990s.
A fire in Australia has been burning for more than 2,000 years
India has 50 million monkeys.
If you sleep in a cold room, you are more likely to have a bad dream.
4,000 people are injured by tea pots every year.
The Kansas, and Colorado State Boards of Education both mandate that children should not be taught, or lead to believe in the theory of evolution, Newton's theory of gravity, or the theory that germs cause disease.
When Joseph Gayetty invented toilet paper in 1857, he had his name printed on each sheet.
At 90' below zero your breath will freeze in mid-air and fall to the ground.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep youfrom crying.
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