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Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
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.
A cow's stomach has four compartments: the rumen, the recticulum (storage area), the omasum (where water is absorbed), and the abomasum ( the only compartment with digestive juices).
More food is thrown out each day in the United States than is needed to feed its hungry . . . by McDonalds.
More food is thrown out each day in the United States than is needed to feed its hungry . . . by McDonalds.
The portrait of Abraham Lincoln on the penny shows him facing to the right while all other portraits of presidents on U.S. circulating coins face left.
Camel milk does not curdle.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
An ounce of platinum can be stretched to 10000 feet.
Hitler had Parkinson's disease and had a significant tremor in his left hand which was censored in the German media. He also had syphillis which causes insane rage in it's advanced stages.
The Bible has been translated into Klingon.
The chance of you dying on the trip to buy your lottery ticket is greater than your chance of winning.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
The billionth digit of pi is 9.
Chameleons can move their eyes in two different directions at the same time.
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
Around 25,000 Iraqi men called Saddam Hussein have changed their names since the dictator's fall.
By population, the five largest cities in the world are: Tokyo (28m), Sao Paulo (22.6m), Bombay (18.1m), Shanghai (17.4m), New York (16.6m).
Approximately 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
You can live longer without eating than without sleeping. Most humans can last several weeks without food but only about ten days without sleep.
According to the Guinness Book of Records, the heaviest surviving baby ever born weighed 22 lbs. 8 oz.
Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.
One in ten Europeans born in the early Nineties was conceived on an Ikea bed.
139 of every 100,000 people in England and Wales are in jail - more than anywhere else in the EU. In Denmark, 59 people per 100,000 are in jail, in Northern Ireland 62, France 85, Germany 96, Burma 118, Libya 127, Russia 638 and the USA 686.
If you mix equal parts sulphuric acid and water, within a minute the temperature of the water will increase more than 100 degrees.
Most car horns honk in the key of 'F'.
A rainbow can be seen only in the morning or late afternoon. It is a phenomenon that can occur only when the sun is 40 degrees or less above the horizon.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
The biggest recorded bubble ever blown with bubble gum was 22 inches in diameter.
The average person will spend 2 weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
There are 293 ways to make a change for a dollar.
You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
The Cairo Opera House was destroyed by fire in 1970. The Cairo fire station was located inside the same building.
Until the 1960's men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland.
The average woman will have swallowed 4lbs of lipstick in her lifetime.