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50 Things You didnt know
1 - Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. 2 - Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. 3 - There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. 4 - The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing. 5 - A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes 6 - There are more chickens than people in the world. 7 - The longest one-syllable word in the English language is”screeched.” 8 - On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag. 9 - All of the clocks in the movie “Pulp Fiction” are stuck on 4:20. 10 - No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple. 11 - “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt”. 12 - Almonds are a member of the peach family. 13 - There are only 4 words in the English language which end in “dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. 14 - A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. 15 - An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain. 16 - Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. 17 - In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10. 18 - Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer. 19 - The characters Bert & Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra’s “It’s a WonderfulLife.” 20 - A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours. 21 - A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds. 22 - It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. 23 - The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world. 24 - In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak. 25 - The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. 26 - The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. 27 - There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball. 28 - The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night. 29 - A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death. 30 - A polar bear’s skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear. 31 - Elvis had a twin brother named Aaron, who died at birth,which is why Elvis’ middle name was spelled Aron: in honor of his brother. It is also misspelled on his tomb stone. 32 - Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn’t wear pants. 33 - More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes. (Not any more!) 34 - Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand. 35 - Shakespeare invented the words “assassination” and “bump.” 36 - Marilyn Monroe had 6 toes on one foot. 37 - If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white. 38 - Women blink nearly twice as much as men. 39 - Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. 40 - The sentence “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English language . 41 - The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start. 42 - TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard. 43 - The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left. 44 - A snail can sleep for 3 years. 45 - American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class 46 - The electric chair was invented by a dentist. 47 - Vatican City is the smallest country in the world with a population of 1,000 and a size of 108.7 acres. 48 - “I am.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. 49 - No president of the United states was an only child. And last and definitely most important: 50 - The average chocolate bar has 8 insects’ legs in it. |
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