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50 THINGS EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW

(or 50 Completely Useless Facts!)

The word "queue" is the only word in theEnglish language that is still pronounced thesame way when the last four letters are removed.

Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts,and worms like fried bacon.

Of all the words in the English language, theword 'set' has the most definitions!

What is called a "French kiss" in the Englishspeaking world is known as an "English kiss" inFrance.

"Almost" is the longest word in the Englishlanguage with all the letters in alphabetical order.

"Rhythm" is the longest English word without avowel.

In 1386, a pig in France was executed by publichanging for the murder of a child

A cockroach can live several weeks with its headcut off!

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath

There is a city called Rome on every continent.

It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland!

Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!

Horatio Nelson, one of England's most illustriousadmirals was throughout his life, never able tofind a cure for his sea-sickness.

The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at allimportant meetings of the University of London

Right handed people live, on average, nine yearslonger than left-handed people

Your ribs move about 5 million times a year,everytime you breathe!

The elephant is the only mammal that can'tjump!

One quarter of the bones in your body, are inyour feet!

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print isdifferent!

The first known transfusion of blood wasperformed as early as 1667, when Jean-Baptiste,transfused two pints of blood from a sheep to ayoung man

Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster thantoenails!

Most dust particles in your house are made fromdead skin!

The present population of 5 billion plus peopleof the world is predicted to become 15 billion by2080.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had onlyONE testicle.

Honey is the only food that does not spoil.Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohshas been tasted by archaeologists and foundedible.

Months that begin on a Sunday will always havea "Friday the 13th."

Coca-Cola would be green if colouring werentadded to it.

On average a hedgehog's heart beats 300 times aminute.

More people are killed each year from bees thanfrom snakes.

The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 mileslong or write approximately 50,000 Englishwords.

More people are allergic to cow's milk than anyother food.

Camels have three eyelids to protect themselvesfrom blowing sand.

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The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' headsenables it to see all four feet at all times!

The six official languages of the United Nationsare: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russianand Spanish.

Earth is the only planet not named after a god.

It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a churchin Nebraska, USA.

You're born with 300 bones, but by the time youbecome an adult, you only have 206.

Some worms will eat themselves if they can'tfind any food!

Dolphins sleep with one eye open!

It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open

The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000years old!

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13seconds

Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragonof cleanliness. She declared that she bathed onceevery three months, whether she needed it or not

Slugs have 4 noses.

Owls are the only birds who can see the colourblue.

A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccupsfor 69 years!

A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inchtongue!

The average person laughs 10 times a day!

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain

The Bible, the world's best-selling book, is alsothe world's most shoplifted book.

2. Someone paid $14,000 for the bra worn byMarilyn Monroe in the film 'Some Like It Hot'.

3. Your tongue is the only muscle in your bodythat is attached at only one end.

4. More than 1,000 different languages arespoken on the continent of Africa.

5. In the U.S.A over eleven thousand people (upuntil the end of 2003) have visited a tortilla chipthat appears to have the face of Jesus Christburned into it?

6. A kiss lasting one minute can burn more than30 calories.

7. Buckingham Palace in England has over sixhundred rooms.

8. There was once an undersea post office in theBahamas.

9. Abraham Lincoln's mother died when shedrank the milk of a cow that grazed on poisonoussnakeroot.

10. After the death of Albert Einstein his brainwas removed by a pathologist and put in a jar forfuture study.