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The famous children's book author Hans Christian Andersen was considered an ugly child and had no friends and lived in a dream world as a boy.
A mosquito flaps its wings 600 times a second. Good, if it's going to suck my blood, I want him to have to work for it.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
The 'Black Death' of the 14th century killed one in three persons in Europe?
You CAN catch "cooties." The word cooties likely comes from the Malay word "kutu," which means "body lice."
Lemon sharks grow a new set of teeth every two weeks. That means one shark will go through more than 24,000 new teeth in a year.
Koalas don't have eyelids or tails. The only thing they can eat is eucalyptus trees, and then not even all of them...only certain ones.
Floccipaucinihilipilification, at 29 letters, is the longest word in the Oxford English Dictionary (at least it was the last time I read the book cover to cover). The word means judging something to be worthless.
The first La-Z-Boy (1928) was a reclining lawn chair made of wooden slats?
A crocodile's digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail.
President James Garfield could write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other -- simultaneously?
The pirate Blackbeard's real name was Edward Teach?
Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers were all invented by women?
Wouldn't you like to know who originated the income tax? Well Prime Minister William Pitt devised the first one that worked in England around 1800. The British government needed the revenue to prosecute its war with France.
The first non-human to win an Academy Award was...Mickey Mouse?
Leonardo Di Vinici could draw with one hand while at the same time write with the other.
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Unlike most cats, tigers love the water and can easily swim three or four miles. And where does a tiger swim? Anywhere it wants to.
Snakes continue to grow until the day they die. If George Burns had been a snake, he would have been 82 feet tall.
There are more than 30 references to salt in the Bible
The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great; Hearts -Charlemagne; and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
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.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
Elephants can't jump. Every other mammal can.
An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.
The candy bar "Snickers" was named after a horse.
Sneezing with your eyes open will NOT cause them to pop out?
Toll House Cookies, Post-it Notes and Velcro all were discovered by accident?
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The oldest person ever to be operated on was aged 111 years, 105 days.
John Wilkes Booth first planned only to kidnap Abraham Lincoln, holding the president hostage until all Confederate prisoners of war were released.
Tapping the top of an agitated beverage can with a key, spoon, or other metal object actually DOES reduce your chance of being sprayed?
Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a Friday the 13th
Dream deprivation, scientists conjecture, may also impair our ability to think straight. Fish, spiders and snakes do not dream. Did you ever meet one with a Ph.D.?
That, due to contintental drift. the Atlantic Ocean is now 120 ft wider than it was at the time of Columbus's first voyage?
Steps on the other hand, are five times more dangerous than elevators. That's because very few people trip over an elevator.
Ben Franklin originated the first circulating library.
The Capitol Building in Washington D.C. has 365 steps...one for each day of the year. So be careful - you could break your neck if you happen to visit during leap year.
The Grammy Awards were introduced to counter the growing 'threat' of rock music?
The camel's hump(s) are used as fat storage? Thus, an undernourished camel will not have a hump.
The Eiffel tower "grows" six inches every year, due to metal expansion in warm weather.
The Aztec ruler Montezuma II consumed upwards to fifty cups of chocolate daily in the belief that the substance possessed aphrodisiacal qualities.
There are 72 feet of nerve fiber on each square inch of your hand. If you want to be a wise guy, the next time someone holds out their hand to shake, just stare at their hand and tell them they have a lot of nerve.
The soft-skinned sea slug defends itself by appropriating weapons from other creatures. For example, it makes a meal of a jellyfish's sting cells but instead of breaking them down as it would real food, absorbs them whole into its outer skin and uses the stingers as if it were born with them.
There is a star called Betelgeuse that's so big that you could pack into it almost a fourth of the solar system. But what good does it do to be the biggest guy on the block if kids will still laugh at you because you have a funny name?
20.000 pages later . . . Is War and Peace too short for you? Why not try Sohachi Yamaoka's 40-volume Tokugawa leyasu, said to be the longest work of fiction in modern times.
The great library of Alexandria, founded in 295 BC, held 700,000 books at its peak. But much of it was destroyed by fire in A.D. 47 when Julius Caesar laid siege to the city.
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