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In Seattle, Washington, it is illegal to carry a concealed weapon that is over six feet in length.
In seventy-five years the human heart pumps 3,122,000,000 gallons of blood, enough to fill in oil tanker over 46 times!
In Scotland, Irn-Bru is a soft drink that is more popular than Coca-Cola. When McDonalds opened in Glasgow and did not sell Irn-Bru, it was considered an insult, and the restaurant was subsequently boycotted.
After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.
All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
In Salem, Massachesetts sleeping in the nude in a rented room is forbidden, even for married couples.
In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes when you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. That's where the phrase, "goodnight, sleep tight" came from.
In the ancient Greek city-state of Sparta, if a man was not married by age 30, he would not be allowed to vote or watch athletic events involving nude young men.
In playing poker, there is one chance in 500 of drawing a flush.
In Shakespeare, Rosalind, the heroine of "As You Like It", has more lines than any of Shakespeare's female characters. Cleopatra comes in second with 670 lines and third place belongs to Imogen ("Cymbeline"), with 591 lines.
In Scituate, Rhode Island it is illegal to keep a flock of chickens in your motorhome if you live in a trailer park.
In Saratoga, Florida it is illegal to sing while wearing a bathing suit.
All mammals have tongues.
Alexander H. Stephens was Jefferson Davis's Vice President of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Alekthophilia is the love of chickens.
Adding sugar to coffee is believed to have started in 1715, in the court of King Louis XIV, the French monarch.
According to an Old English system of time units, a moment is considered to be one and a half minutes.
According to a recent survey, more Americans lose their virginity in June than any other month.
According to a global survey in 1997 by Durex Condoms Canadians are the world's fourth worst lovers. The worst three slots belong to South Africa, Russia, and Poland.
Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be molded with the hands.
Abraham Lincoln's ghost is said to haunt the White House.
Abraham Lincoln had to go across the street to the War Department to get news from the battlefield because there was no telegraph in the White House.
About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.
About 80% of the city was burned in the Great Fire of London in 1666.
About 75% of the people in the U.S. live on 2% land.
About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money.
About 55% of all movies are rated R. About 500 movies are made in the US and 800 in India annually.
About 24% of the total ground area of Los Angeles is said to be committed to automobiles.
About 200,000,000 M&Ms are sold each day in the United States.
Abe Lincoln's mother died when the family dairy cow ate poisonous mushrooms and Ms. Lincoln drank the milk.
ABBA GOLD has been in the UK charts for over 280 weeks, thats over 5 years!
A typical American eats 28 pigs in his/her lifetime.
A total of 63 errors were made in the 1886 World Series.
A teaspoon of neutron star material weighs about 110 million tons.
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Amazing-But-True Facts!
(The following have all been verified as true.)
* Molecularly speaking, water is actually much drier than sand.
* The term "bank teller" originated in the wake of the 1929 stock market crash, when banks began hiring low-paid workers to "tell" throngs of frantic depositors that their money was gone.
* The brand name "Jelly Belly" was created in 1982 after Nancy Reagan made a much-publicized quip about her husband's 20-pound weight gain.
* The Internal Revenue Service audits 87 percent of women who claim breast implants as tax deductions.
* Scandinavian berserkers used to cut out their eyes before battle to spare themselves the sight of the carnage they invariably wrought.
* Human tonsils can bounce higher than a rubber ball of similar weight and size, but only for the first 30 minutes after they've been removed.
* Comic duo Cheech and Chong were originally known as Spic and Span before changing due to pressure from Chicano organizations.
* The city of Slaughter, Texas (population: 11,284), has never had a homicide occur within its boundaries.
* Rubbing Tabasco on one's upper lip before bedtime is an effective temporary cure for sleep apnea.
* British pop singer Baby Spice is the great-great-great-great-great-great-grandniece of Archduke William Pinkley-Hogue of Standishfordshire, making her 103rd in line for the throne of England.
* The curved shape of a hockey stick is a throwback to prehistoric use of mastodon tusks in a similar game.
* A Native American tribe in South Dakota collects bottle caps left by campers, using them as currency. Several banks in the area now recognize the caps as legal tender.
* Fish have "dandruff" caused by flaking skin, and it is impossible to filter all traces of it from drinking water.
* Moths are unable to fly during an earthquake.
* The first case of the common cold was diagnosed in 1611 in Stratford, England. The patient? John Common, who coincidentally gave his cold to William Shakespeare who said the new malady exacerbated his lovesickness, thereby inspiring several of his most fondly remembered sonnets.
* "Hello Kitty" began as part of a covert propaganda campaign originally proposed by Prime Minister Tojo during World War II.
* If an average human scrotum were stretched until all its wrinkles were smoothed out, it could hold a basketball.
* Ingesting small doses of ink over an extended period of time will change your eye color slightly.
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Facts About Rabbits
Amongst the cutest and most vulnerable-looking domestic animals are rabbits. They are found inhabiting almost all the countries of the world and are very common as pets. The natural habitats of rabbits range from deserts to tropical forests and wetlands. They live in groups known as herds and dig underground burrows as their dwelling place. Previously thought to be rodents, rabbits were later classified as lagomorphs, along with hares and pikas. In the following lines, we have provided some interesting facts and amazing information on rabbits.
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Animal Facts
Wild dogs don't bark or wag their tails.
Giraffes can't swim.
Bats are the only mammals that fly.
Cheetahs are the easiest of the big cats to tame, but hard to catch. They can go from a standing position to 45 miles per hour in 2 seconds.
Wild turkeys CAN fly but don't migrate.
A Giraffe can kill a lion with one kick.
Armadillos have 4 babies at a time, all the same sex.
Cats have 6 blood types, dogs 5, people 4.
Elephants are the only animals with 4 knees,
Catgut is really Sheep intestine.
All polar bears are left-handed.
Koala means "no drink" and they don't. They get their water from the eucalyptus leaves they eat.
Grizzly means grey, but most grizzly bears are yellowish brown.
Male giraffes are the tallest animals. Some grow to 18 feet.
Like white men, Elephants can't jump!
Ostriches don't bury their heads in the sand. They lay heir heads on the ground to rest those long necks.
Giraffe comes form giraffa camelopardalis- Camel leopard.
The lollipop was named for a famous race horse.
Elephants are not afriad of mice, but they show fear at the sight of rabbits and small dogs.(dachshunds especially.)
It is possible to tell the temperature in degrees fahrenheit by counting the number of times a cricket chirps in 14 seconds, then adding 40 to that number.
Eagles mate in the air.
Swans live up to 70 years.
Humans have the longest life span of any mammals.
Bears can get cavities from honey.
An armadillo crosses a river by holding it's breath and walking across the bottom.
A killer whale, or orca, is really a kind of porpoise.(dolphin)
The horn of a big horn sheep can way up to 30 pounds.
Some types of rabbits can climb trees. Cats can't chew their food, they just cut into it and swallow.
Rams and ewes only mate at night.
A honeybee has two stomaches- one for honey, one for food.
An American porcupine has orange teeth.
Newborn fawns have no scent so ememies can't detect them easily.
Garlic is a natural insect repellant.(It's a people repellant)
The Giant squid has the largest eyes of any animal.
76 people have been killed by elephants since 1976. The heaviest pile of elephant "droppings" recorded weighed 300 hundred pounds.
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The state of Florida is bigger than England!
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
The world’s termites outweigh the world’s humans 10 to 1!
There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
You’re born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!
101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don’t die throughout the movie.
142857 is a cyclic number, the numbers of which always appear in the same order but rotated around when multiplied by any number from 1 to 6. 142857 * 2 = 285714 142857 * 3 = 428571 142857 * 4 = 571428 142857 * 5 = 714285 142857 * 6 = 857142
A barnacle has the largest of any other animal in the world in relation to its size.
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According to Genesis 1:20-22 the chicken came before the egg.
Actor Tommy Lee Jones and vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.
After human death, post-mortem rigidity starts in the head and travels to the feet, and leaves the same way it came — head to toe.
Albert Brooks’s real name is Albert Einstein.
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never phoned his wife or his mother. They were both deaf.
Alexander the Great was an epileptic.
Alfred Hitchcock didn’t have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.
All of the officers in the Confederate army were given copies of Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo, to carry with them at all times. Robert E. Lee, among others, believed that the book symbolized their cause. Both revolts were defeated.
An ostrich’s eye is bigger than it’s brain.
Ancient drinkers warded off the devil by clinking their cups.
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Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the deaths of their cats.
Anteaters prefer termites to ants.
Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
Barbie’s full name is Barbra Millicent Roberts.
Barbie’s measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
Bela Lugosi died during the filming of “PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE”. Director Edward D. Wood Jr. used a taller relative who held a cape in front of his face so the audience wouldn’t know the difference so he could complete filming.
Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box.
Blonde beards grow faster than darker beards.
Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.
Bob Dylan’s real name is Robert Zimmerman.
Bob May played the Robot on “Lost In Space” (1965-68) and Dick Tufeld was the voice.
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Chrysler built B-29’s that bombed Japan. Mitsubishi built the Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant call Diamond Star.
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down — hence the statement “to get fired.”
Clark Gable used to shower more than 4 times a day.
Compact discs read from the inside to the outside edge, the reverse of how a record works.
Crickets hear through their knees.
Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper.
Daniel Boone detested coonskin caps.
Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.
Despite the hump, a camel’s spine is straight.
Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln’s assassin John Wilkes Booth, and whose shame created the statement for ignominy, “His name is Mudd.”
Dr. Seuss and Kurt Vonnegut went to college together. They were even in the same fraternity, where Seuss decorated the fraternity house walls with drawings of his characters.
Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.
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During the chariot scene in ‘Ben Hur’ a small red car can be seen in the distance. During World War II, W.C. Fields kept US $50,000 in Germany ‘in case the little b*****d wins’.
Earth is the only planet not named after a God.
Elvis had a twin brother named Jesse Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis’ middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.
Every photograph of an American atomic bomb detonation was taken by Harold Edgerton.
Every Swiss citizen is required by law to have a bomb shelter or access to a bomb shelter.
Evian (the bottled water) spelled backwards is “naive.”
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.
Former US President Ulysses S. Grant had the boyhood nickname ‘Useless’.
Four people played Darth Vader: David Prowse was his body, James Earl Jones did the voice, Sebastian Shaw was his face and a fourth person did the breathing.
From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.
George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.
Gerald Ford pardoned Robert E. Lee posthumously of all crimes of treason.
Gilligan of Gilligan’s Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy. The skipper’s real name on Gilligan’s Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on the radio newscast about the wreck. The Professor’s real name was Roy Hinkley,
Mary Ann’s last name was Summers and Mrs. Howell’s maiden name was Wentworth.
Halloween took place in the town of Haddonfield, Illinois but almost all the cars in the film had California license plates.
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Hara kiri is an impolite way of saying the Japanese word “seppuku” which means, literally, “belly splitting.”
Heroin is the brand name of morphine once marketed by Bayer.
Hershey’s Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it’s kissing the conveyor belt.
Hindu men believe(d) it to be unluckily to marry a third time. They could avoid misfortune by marrying a tree first. The tree ( his third wife ) was then burnt, freeing him to marry again.
Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
Human hair and fingernails do not continue to grow after death.
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If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.
If the population of the Earth continued to increase at its present rate indefinitely, by 3530 A.D. the total mass of human flesh and blood would equal the mass of the Earth. By 6826 A.D. it would equal the mass of the known universe.
If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
If you can see a rainbow you must have your back to the sun. If you don’t, you can’t see it.
If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.
If you multiply 526,315,789,473,684,210 with any number you will always find the original number in the result!
If you pause “Saturday Night Fever” at the “How Deep Is Your Love” rehearsal scene, you will see the camera crew reflected in the dance hall mirror.
If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
Iguanas, koalas and Komodo dragons all have two penises.
In Ancient Peru, when a woman found an ‘ugly’ potato, it was the custom for her to push it into the face of the nearest man.
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In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said “Play it again, Sam.” Sherlock Holmes never said “Elementary, my dear Watson.” Captain Kirk never said “Beam me up, Scotty,” but he did say, “Beam me up, Mr. Scott.” In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak. In most watch advertisements the time displayed on the watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch (and make it look like it’s smiling.)
In the 40’s, the Bich pen was changed to Bic for fear that Americans would pronounce it ‘Bi***.’
In the Andes, time is often measured by how long it takes to smoke a cigarette.
In the film ‘Star Trek : First Contact’, when Picard shows Lilly she is orbiting Earth, Australia and Papa New Guinea are clearly visible .. but New Zealand is missing.
It is a criminal offence to drive around in a dirty car in Russia.
It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written.
In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.
It is illegal to be a prostitute in Siena, Italy, if your name is Mary.
It takes 8.5 minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
It was illegal to sell ET dolls in France because there is a law against selling dolls without human faces.
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It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
It’s rumored that sucking on a copper penny will cause a breath-alyzer to read 0.
Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been over mixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since.
Jacques Cousteau invented scuba gear while in the French resistance during World War II.
James Doohan, who plays Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott on Star Trek, is missing the entire middle finger of his right hand.
Jean-Claude Van Damme was the alien in the original “PREDATOR” in almost all the jumping and climbing scenes.
Jet lag was once called boat lag, back before jets existed.
John Larroquette of “Night Court” and “The John Larroquette Show” was the narrator of “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.”
John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in a theatre and was found in a warehouse. Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and was found in a theatre.
John Wilkes Booth’s brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln’s son.
June Foray, the voice of Talking Tina from the classic Twilight Zone episode “Living Doll”, was also the voice of Rocky the talking squirrel from “Rocky & Bullwinkle”.
Kathleen Turner was the voice of Jessica Rabbit, and Amy Irving was her singing voice.
King Kong is the only movie to have its sequel (Son of Kong) released the same year (1933). Lady Astor once told Winston Churchill ‘if you were my husband, I would poison your coffee’. His reply ‘ if you were my wife, I would drink it!’
Leonardo De Vinci invented the scissors.
Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright’s son.
Liquid paper was invented by Mike Nesmith’s (of the Monkees) mother, Bette Nesmith Graham, in 1951. Lizzie Borden was acquitted.
Look at the number four on a clock face that uses Roman numerals. If the clock is made correctly then the Roman numeral four is wrong. The standard and correct way to write the Roman numeral four is “IV,” but the traditional way to show it on a clock face is “IIII.”
Legend has it that a clock was made for a British king. When he saw the clock he mis- informedly corrected the clock maker who re-did the clock face to show a “IIII” instead of an “IV” thus not risking offending the king. Other clock makers followed suit so as not to embarrass the king. Now it is the traditional way to make clocks.
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A typical American eats 28 pigs in his/her lifetime. 
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of any other animal in the world in relation to its size.
