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Both snails and sportscars have retractable antennae.

It takes about a week to make a jellybean.

Take your height and divide by 8. That's how "tall" your head is.

When you walk down a steep hill, the pressure on your knees is three times your body weight.

The most pushups ever performed in one day was 46,001.

If you're typical, you can guess someone's sex with 95% accuracy just by smelling their breath.

12% of all Americans think that Jeanne de Arc was Noah's wife.

The celtuce plant is named celtuce, because it tastes a little like celery and a little like lettuce.

Tigers not only have striped fur but also striped skin.

In just about every mammal species, the female lives longer then the male.

If you are older then 100 then there's an 80% chance that you are female.

Given the opportunity, deer will chew gum. And marijuana. No word on which they like most.

It takes a drop of ocean water 1000 years to circulate the world.

To take an oath, the ancient Romans put a hand on their testicles. That's where "testimony" comes from.

In 1948 four men took a cow to the top of Matterhorn. They all froze to death.

If you could drive your car straight up, you'd reach space in a hour.

The five oldest words still used today in the English language are: Town, priest, earl, this and ward.

There was no punctuation until the fifteenth century.

The odours that most arouse women sexually are: pumpkin pie, lavender, cucumber, baby powder, and Good'n'Plenty candy.

More then 10% of the worlds salt production every year is used to de-ice American roads.

Originally, jack'o'lanterns were made from turnips.

The book with the largest English word in the title is: "The Baron Kinkvervankotsdorsprakingatchden".

The battle of Bunker Hill was fought on Breed's Hill. Bunker Hill was nearby though.

24 hours from now, you will have forgotten (if you are average) 80% of these facts as well as 80% of everything else you learned today.

Italy imports most of it's pasta from Canada and the U.S.

In 19th century England, "pants" was considered an obscene word.

Eighty-Eight, Kentucky was named by a guy with 88 cents in his pocket on the day it was named.

Rats can go without water longer then camels can.
The Cheat
im sure all this information will come in handy sometime...if i can remember more than 20% of it.... i can feel my brain growing already!
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