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Did you know the original name for Pepsi cola was Brad's drink?


A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds

 

The earliest known frog appeared during the late Jurassic period, about 190 million years ago! Scientists believe that the oldest frogs developed jumping legs to avoid being eaten by dinosaurs

Certain frogs can be frozen solid,then thawed and continue to live.

There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year.

More people are killed each year by coconuts than by sharks
Approximately 150 people are killed each year by coconuts

 

Believe it or not: Throughout history, there have been tales of raining frogs. These stories, as crazy as they may seem, are actually real events! Such events are caused when a wind storm passes over a pond or lake teaming with frogs, picking them up and dumping them elsewhere!

An ostrich's eye is bigger than
its brain.

There are more
chickens
than people in the world

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

What color toothbrushdo most people use?
Statistics show that it's the colour Blue 

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.	The smallest brained dinosaurs are Stegosaurus measuring 9 m. (30 ft.) in length but with a walnut-sized brain. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
Electric Shocks! A bolt of lightening can strike Earth with a force of 100 million volts!	The average yawn lasts about 6 seconds.

A group of fish is called a School of Fish.
A group of geese is called a Gaggle of Geese.
A group of sea gulls is called a Flock of Sea gulls.
A bunch of cows and bulls is called a Herd of Cattle.
But what do you call a group of frogs?

Answer: An ARMY of Frogs!

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.	In every second of every day, two Barbie dolls are sold somewhere in the world
Ahhhhhhhhhh Choooo The longest sneezing bout ever recorded was that of 12 year old schoolgirl Donna Griffiths of England. She started sneezing on January 13, 1981, sneezed an estimated million times in the first 365 days, and achieved her first sneeze-free day on September 16, 1983 - the 978th day.	The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

Beds were used in ancient Egypt as more than a place for sleeping in, beds were used as a place to eat meals and entertain your friends and family!

Americans love fast food. US citizens spent $110 billion on fast food in 2000 that's more than any other country in the world!	The truth is out there Scotland has the highest concentration of reported sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) of any country in the world. To coincide with International UFO Day results have been published and refer to 300 reported UFO sightings in Scotland a year. Butterflies taste with their feet.
	The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

Medieval Doctors believed that the secretions of a frog could cure a cough if they were coated on the throat of the patient.
The frog was placed in the mouth of the sick person and remained there until the doctor decided that the treatment was complete.

Believe it or not: Despite the height difference, giraffes have the same amount of bones in their necks as you do!	Did you know slugs lay eggs! The electric chair was invented by a dentist. Owls are the only birds who can see the color blue!
Say Cheese Over 2 million photos are taken everyday.	Snails can sleep for up to 3 years.

The fear of vegetables is called Lachanophobia.	In the next hour, 27 million Coca-Colas will be drunk. That's over 600 million per day! It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
Over 5 billion pizzas are sold worldwide each year. According to a recent Gallup Poll, kids between the ages of 3 to 11 prefer pizza over all other foods for lunch and dinner. The people of America eat around 350 slices of pizza each second. In 2001, Pizza Hut became the first company to deliver pizza to the pioneers living in outer space on the International Space Station.	The Harry Potter phenomenon continues as sales of the book series top the magic 100 million mark. Tales of the teenage wizard have become bestsellers around the world, with translations in 42 languages from Albanian to Zulu. A dolphin's hearing is so acute that it can pick up an underwater sound from fifteen miles away!

Danger! Danger!

The Robot in the Lost in Space TV series was made using fiberglass for his torso, rubber for his arms and legs and wood for his base with the bubble head being made of clear acrylic. The Robot was over six feet tall, and weighed nearly 200 pounds. When you see the robot rolling along on his treads, he is actually be pulled along by a hidden tow rope.

Toilet Paper In China…AD 1391 - The guys from Imperial Supplies began producing 720,000 sheets of toilet paper a year, each sheet measuring 60 cm x 90 cm. For use by the Emperors.	What are the 3 most popular flavors of ice cream? 1. Vanilla. 2. Varieties with M&M's or candy mixed in. 3. Chocolate.
The average cow produces 90 glasses of milk each day or about 200,000 glasses of milk throughout her life.	A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds. Hormel Foods produce the six-billionth can of SPAM in the year 2002.

Bees do not have ears.

More popcorn is sold during the showing of scary movies. In the 1920s popcorn was banned at most American movie theaters because it was considered too noisy.

Ants never sleep.

According to the Guinness Book of Records, Donald A. Gorske had eaten 17,500 McDonalds Big Macs by February 2001. He has been eating Big Macs on a daily basis for 29 years, sometimes as many as nine a day. He proposed to his wife at his favourite McDonalds and they celebrated their 25th anniversary in the year 2000.

Because of heavy traffic jams, Julius Caesar banned all wheeled vehicles from Rome during daylight hours.	Sumo The heaviest ever rikishi (professional sumo wrestler) is Konishiki of Hawaii, who weighed in at 267 kg (589 lb) at Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan on January 3, 1994.
A human sneeze exits the mouth at almost 300 mph, that's the same speed of the winds in a class 5 tornado.	During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants! There are 31,557,600 seconds in a year. Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food!

The average person spends 6 years of their life dreaming.

Monopoly is the best-selling board game in the world and is produced in 26 different languages. Over 200 million Monopoly games have been sold worldwide, and more than five billion little green houses have been made since 1935. The longest MONOPOLY game ever played was 1,680 hours - that's 70 straight days!

A female pigeon can't lay an egg unless she sees another pigeon. If another pigeon isn't available, her own reflection in a mirror will do.

Did you know?

The guillotine was originally called a louisette. It became known as the guillotine for Joseph Ignace Guillotin, the French physician who advocated it as a more merciful means of execution than the noose or ax.

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of big words.	Goofy's original name was "Dippy Dawg" then became "Dippy the Goof" and finally "Goofy."
Most people blink 15 times per minute.	A mosquito has 47 teeth.

You know Pepe Le Pew, but do you know the name of the cat he chased?
The cat is known as Fifi, Fabrette, Felice, Penelope and often remains nameless.

For marketing products the cat is named "Penelope". 


 

Pearls melt in vinegar.

it takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a years supply of footballs.

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola and Budweiser, in that order.

It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.

Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".

Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David Clubs - Alexander the Great Hearts - Charlemagne Diamonds- Julius Caesar

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

Chocolate kills dogs. Chocolate effects a dogs heart and nervous system, a few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog

Ketchup was sold as medicine in the 1830s as medicine.

Most lipstick contains fish scales.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.

Reindeer like to eat bananas.

Walt Disney named Mickey Mouse after Mickey Rooney, whose mother he dated for some time.

Walt Disney was scared of mice!

Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!

In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow!

There are 2,598,960 five-card hands possible in a 52-card deck of cards.