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=>>When it was
built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation
laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
=>>No word in the English language rhymes with month.
=>>The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches
for each gallon
of diesel that it burns.
=>>There are two credit cards for every person in the United
States.
=>>Cat's urine glows under a black light.
=>>Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
=>>In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been
domesticated.
=>>Babies are born without knee caps.
They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
=>>Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
=>>The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
=>>Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all
of the Nike
factory workers in Malaysia combined.
=>>One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because
cotton growers in the '30s lobbied against hemp farmers -- they
saw it as competition.
=>>Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
=>>The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
=>>If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days,
you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of
coffee.
=>>The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to
the body to
squirt blood 30 feet.
=>>Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
=>>Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for
pleasure.
=>>On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
=>>The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
=>>It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
=>>You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
=>>Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
=>.Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a
calorie.
=>>You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by
a poisonous
spider
=>>In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their
bodies, including
their eyebrows and eyelashes.
=>>A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
=>>The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
=>>Polar bears are left-handed.
=>>The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds;
that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste
buds.
=>>A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it
starves to
death.
=>>The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is
attached to its
body.
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