Whoever posted this originally can even answer "Which came first? The chicken or the egg."
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Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.
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A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
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40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
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315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
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On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
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Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
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Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as a medicine.
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Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
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Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
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There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
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Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.
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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.
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The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby"!
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By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.
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Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
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Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
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The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
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Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
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Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
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Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
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The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
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To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.
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The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
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The "pound" (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.
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The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
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Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
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The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
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Dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in "mt".
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It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
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In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".
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A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.
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We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.
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Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines.
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Mexico City sinks abut 10 inches a year.
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Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.
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Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.
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When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying "yes" in Sri Lanka.
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There are more chickens than people in the world.
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It's against the law in Iceland to have a dog.
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The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.
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There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.
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The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.
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The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three Times each
morning.
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The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the Combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.
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The first owner of the Marlboro cigarette Company died of lung cancer.
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Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
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The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
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Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears Never stop growing.
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You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
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A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a Few weeks.
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Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
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The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
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When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.
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Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned His wife or mother because they were both deaf.
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A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a Carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After Weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe Leaving her mentally retarded
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"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language
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Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking Countries because Colgate translates into the command "go hang Yourself."
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Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
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"Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive Double letters.
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Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed People do.
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The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every Letter in the English language.
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If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line Would never end because of the rate of reproduction
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China has more English speakers than the United States.
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Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
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Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
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An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.
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Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our Bodies.
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Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average Man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his Lifetime.
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According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.
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The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi- Pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenua---anatahu - a New Zealand hill.
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If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at Approximately 4:30pm the previous day.
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Scientists in Australia's Parkes Observatory thought they had positive Proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a Microwave in the building.
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Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times.
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More than 40,000 parasites and 250 types of bacteria are exchanged during a French kiss.
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Men can read smaller print than women, but women can hear better.
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Coca-Cola was originally green.
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The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
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The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.
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There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
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TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
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Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!
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You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
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It is impossible to lick your elbow.
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People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
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It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
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The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
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If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
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Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
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111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
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If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
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If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.
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If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
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Question - This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this? Ans. - Honey
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A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
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A snail can sleep for three years.
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All polar bears are left handed.
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American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
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Butterflies taste with their feet.
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Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
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In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
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On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
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Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
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Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
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The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
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The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
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The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
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Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
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The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
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Most lipstick contains fish scales. |
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| The one millionth digit of pi is a one.
Methionylglutaminylarginytyrosylglutamylserylleucylphenylalanylalanylglutaminyll-
eucyllysylglutamylarginyllysylglutamylglycylalanylphenylalanyvalylprolylphenylal
anyl-valythreonylleucylglycylaspartylprolyglycylisoleucylglutamylglutaminylser
ylleucyllysyl-isoleucylaspartylthreonylleucylisoleucylglutamylalanylglycylalanylaspartylala
nylleucy-lglutamylleucylglycylglycylisoleucylprolylphenylalanylserylaspartylproly
lleucelalanyla-spartyglycylprolythreonylisoleucylglutamiylasparaginylalanylthreon
ylleucylarginylala-nylphenylalanylalanylglycylvalyltheonylprolylalanylglutaminylc
ysteinylphenylalanygll-utamylmethionylleucyalanylleucylisoleucylarginylglutaminy
llysylhistidylprolylthreonyl-isoleucylpriIylisoleucylglycylleucylleucylmethionyl
tyrosylalanylasparaginylleucylvalyp-henylalanylasparaginyllysylgyycylisoleucyla
spartylglutamylphenylalanyltyrosylalanyl-gutaminyllcysteinylglutamyllysylvalylgl
ycylavlylaspartylserylvalylleucylvalylalanylasp-artylvalyprolylvalylglutaminylgl
utamyllserylalanyprolyphenylalanylarginylglutaminylal-anylalanylleucylarginylhis
tidylasparaginylvaylalanylprolylisoleucylphenylalanylisoleu-cylcysteinylprolylpr
olylaspartylalanylaspartylaspartylaspartylleucylleucylarginyglutam-inylisoleucyl
alanyylseryltyrosylglycylarginylglycyltyrosylthreonyltyrosylleucylleucylser-ylar
ginylalanylglycylvalythreonylglycylalanylglutamylasparaginylarginylanylalanylleu-
cylprolylleucylaspaaginylhistidylleucylvaylalanyllysylleucyllysylglutamyltyrosyl
asarag-inylglycylphenylalanylglycylisoleucylalanylprolylaspartylglutaminylvalyll
ysylalanylala-nylisoleucylaspartylalanylalanyglycylalanylalanyglycylalanylisoleu
cylserylglycyseryla-lanylisoleucylbalyllsylisoleucylisoleucylglutamyyylglutaminy
lhistidylasparaginylisole-ucylglutamylprolyglutamyllysylmethionylleucylalanylal
anylleucyllysylvalylphenylalaby-lvalylglutaminlylprolylmethionyllysylalanylalan
ylthreonylarginylserine
{The above is the scientific name for Trypthophan synthetase (that is a protien with 267 amino acids. It contains 1,909 letters. Try saying that three times fast!}
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| The one millionth digit of pi is a one.
Methionylglutaminylarginytyrosylglutamylserylleucylphenylalanylalanylglutaminyll-
eucyllysylglutamylarginyllysylglutamylglycylalanylphenylalanyvalylprolylphenylal
anyl-valythreonylleucylglycylaspartylprolyglycylisoleucylglutamylglutaminylser
ylleucyllysyl-isoleucylaspartylthreonylleucylisoleucylglutamylalanylglycylalanylaspartylala
nylleucy-lglutamylleucylglycylglycylisoleucylprolylphenylalanylserylaspartylproly
lleucelalanyla-spartyglycylprolythreonylisoleucylglutamiylasparaginylalanylthreon
ylleucylarginylala-nylphenylalanylalanylglycylvalyltheonylprolylalanylglutaminylc
ysteinylphenylalanygll-utamylmethionylleucyalanylleucylisoleucylarginylglutaminy
llysylhistidylprolylthreonyl-isoleucylpriIylisoleucylglycylleucylleucylmethionyl
tyrosylalanylasparaginylleucylvalyp-henylalanylasparaginyllysylgyycylisoleucyla
spartylglutamylphenylalanyltyrosylalanyl-gutaminyllcysteinylglutamyllysylvalylgl
ycylavlylaspartylserylvalylleucylvalylalanylasp-artylvalyprolylvalylglutaminylgl
utamyllserylalanyprolyphenylalanylarginylglutaminylal-anylalanylleucylarginylhis
tidylasparaginylvaylalanylprolylisoleucylphenylalanylisoleu-cylcysteinylprolylpr
olylaspartylalanylaspartylaspartylaspartylleucylleucylarginyglutam-inylisoleucyl
alanyylseryltyrosylglycylarginylglycyltyrosylthreonyltyrosylleucylleucylser-ylar
ginylalanylglycylvalythreonylglycylalanylglutamylasparaginylarginylanylalanylleu-
cylprolylleucylaspaaginylhistidylleucylvaylalanyllysylleucyllysylglutamyltyrosyl
asarag-inylglycylphenylalanylglycylisoleucylalanylprolylaspartylglutaminylvalyll
ysylalanylala-nylisoleucylaspartylalanylalanyglycylalanylalanyglycylalanylisoleu
cylserylglycyseryla-lanylisoleucylbalyllsylisoleucylisoleucylglutamyyylglutaminy
lhistidylasparaginylisole-ucylglutamylprolyglutamyllysylmethionylleucylalanylal
anylleucyllysylvalylphenylalaby-lvalylglutaminlylprolylmethionyllysylalanylalan
ylthreonylarginylserine
{The above is the scientific name for Trypthophan synthetase (that is a protien with 267 amino acids. It contains 1,909 letters. Try saying that three times fast!}
I will not even try it, Albert. |
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| In East Germany, there was a pharmacy brand everyone in charge wondered why it couldn't be sold in the English-speaking countries. Until someone found out what was wrong...:
The name of the brand was GERMED - which also is the past form of "to germ..."
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| "Full of germs" instead of "German Medical", right?
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| "Full of germs" instead of "German Medical", right?
It was Gehe Radebeul Medicals, but you were close :D
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