Strange but True



Strange but True

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➢ The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!

➢ Most lipstick contains fish scales!

➢ Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing!

➢ One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!

➢ It’s illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you’re sitting on a curb in St. Louis!

➢ The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys Gum!

➢ No piece of square dry paper can be folded more that 7 times in half!

➢ A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!

➢ Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!

➢ There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!

➢ If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!

➢ Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive!

➢ A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!

➢ The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!

➢ Clinophobia is the fear of beds!

➢ A ‘jiffy’ is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!

➢ Porcupines float in water!

➢ Pinocchio is Italian for “pine eye”!

➢ The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” Uses every letter of the alphabet!

➢ The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches!

➢ The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!

➢ The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is “uncopyrightable”!

➢ The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds

➢ The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on its fur!

➢ Cat urine glows under a black-light!

➢ The world’s termites outweigh the world’s humans 10 to 1!

➢ The electric chair was invented by dentists!

➢ Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!

➢ A hedgehog’s heart beats 300 times a minute on average!

➢ Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!

➢ There are more than one million animal species on Earth!

➢ In Natoma, Kansas, it’s illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits!

➢ It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city of Iceland!

➢ Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!

➢ Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!

➢ During your lifetime, you’ll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that’s the weight of about 6 elephants!

➢ Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can’t find any food!

➢ Dolphins sleep with one eye open!

➢ The world’s oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!

➢ In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so tears can’t flow down their faces!

➢ There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S. than real ones!

➢ About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30!

➢ More people use blue toothbrushes than red ones!

➢ A sneeze travels out of your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!

➢ Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!

➢ In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!

➢ Slugs have 4 noses!

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

➢ Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!

➢ Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue!

➢ The average American/Canadian drinks about 600 sodas a year!

➢ It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland!

➢ There wasn’t a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses!

➢ Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes!

➢ Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, or creamy!

➢ A jellyfish is 95% water!

➢ In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals!

➢ A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat so you can eat your plate!

➢ More Monopoly money is printed a year, than real money printed throughout the world!

➢ The starfish is one of the only animals who can turn their stomach inside out!

➢ The elephant is the only mammal that can’t jump!

➢ The penguin is the only bird who can swim but can’t fly!

➢ Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!

➢ One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet!

➢ America once issued a five cent bill!

➢ You’ll eat about 35,000 cookies in your lifetime!

➢ Everybody’s tongue print is different!

➢ There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple, and month!

➢ Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his hat to keep himself cool!

➢ A man name Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years!

➢ Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!

➢ 166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered every year in the US!

➢ 123 billion cars are being driven down the US highways!

➢ 85 billion tons of paper are used each year in the US (hint hint, recycle!!!)

➢ 56 billion people go to major league baseball games each year!

➢ Bats always turn left when exiting a cave! (how difficult would our lives be if we did that?)

➢ In Tokyo they sell toupees for dogs!

➢ There are over 58 million dogs in the US!

➢ Dogs and cats consume over 11 billion dollars worth of pet food every year!

➢ Finger nails grow nearly four times faster than toenails!

➢ You blink over 10 billion times a year!

➢ Baby robins eat 14 feet of earth worms everyday!

➢ In the 1880’s in England “pants” was considered a dirty word! (how would they react to our language today?!)

➢ The average person laughs 13 times a day!

➢ Men are six times more likely to be struck by lightning than women!

➢ It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and forget where they hid them!

➢ Earnest Vincent Wright wrote the novel Gadsby which contains over 50,000 words, none of them with the letter ‘E’!

➢ The word ‘set’ has the most definitions of all the words in the English language!

➢ The object most often choked on by Americans is the toothpick!

➢ Every 45 seconds a house catches on fire in the US (so remember to exit when the fire alarms go off, it may not be a drill or prank!)

➢ Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings!

➢ Smelling bananas and/or green apples can help you lose weight!

➢ A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons of sweat per day! Most of the sweat does evaporate before you notice it’s there.

➢ A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court!

➢ The most used letter in the English alphabet is the letter ‘E’!

➢ The original name for the butterfly was ‘flutterby’!

➢ Dogs and cats are either left handed or right handed (does anyone know how to test this?)

➢ Nose prints are used to identify dogs rather than finger prints!

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