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1. Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.

2. The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickle the company once had.

3. A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

4. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks, otherwise it will digest itself.

5. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.

6. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.

7. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.

8. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

9. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.

10. Every person has a unique tongue print.

11. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

12. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily. (I always knew I was put into the wrong family)

13. Most lipstick contains fish scales.

14. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

15. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

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

17.Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

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

19. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

20. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos the windows are also tintedt so the gamblers have no idea what time it is.

21. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver!

22. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan, there was never a recorded Wendy before!

23. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

24. Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors, also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.

25. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

26. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to SLOW a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.

27. 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.

28. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original Halloween was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.

29. The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'!

30. Roses MAY Be red, but violets ARE, indeed, violet.

31. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.

32. Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

33. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest.

34. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!

35. Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.

36. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.

37. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!

38. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

39. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

40. The Bible is the most shoplifted book in America.

41. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

42. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

43. Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

44. On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

45. To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles

46. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

47. Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

48. Hair grows at a rate of .00000001 miles per hour, that's .000000022 kilometers per hour.

49. You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

50. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

51. In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

52. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

53. DNA stands for DioxyriboNucleic Acid. 75% of the O.J. Simpson jury did not know that.

54. The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

55. Polar bears are left handed.

56. The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.

57. The longest English word that can be typed using only the top row of a typewriter is "typewriter."

58. The flea can jump 350 times its body length, It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.

59. A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.

60. The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the males head off.

61. Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

62. Butterflies taste with their feet.

63. The record for the longest continuous disko-dancing marathon by a single person is 213 hours.

64. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

65. A cat's urine glows under a black light.

66. An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

67 Starfishes haven't got brains.

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