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Men get hiccups more often than women. Twelve or more cows is called a flink. The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache. Nearly a quarter of all the bones in the human body can be found in the feet. The average duration of sexual intercourse for humans is 2 minutes. The New York phone book had 22 Hitlers listed before World War II ... and none after. When Possums are playing 'Possum', they are not playing. They actually pass out from sheer terror. Poison oak and poison ivy are members of the cashew family. Lacrosse is the official national game of Canada, not hockey. Chocolate contains the same chemical, phenylethylamine, that your brain produces when you fall in love. Horses can sleep standing up. Each day in the US, animal shelters are forced to destroy 30,000 dogs and cats. A misomaniac is someone who hates everything. Jaw muscles can provide about 200 pounds of force to bring the back teeth together for chewing. Strawberries have more vitamin C than oranges. Americans spend approximately $25 billion each year on beer. A stingray never actually sees the food as it eats, since its eyes are on top of its head and its mouth and nostrils are on the bottom. The anemometer is an instrument which measures the force, velocity, or pressure of the wind. Dr. Joel Poinsett, the 1st US ambassador to Mexico, brought the poinsettia to US in 1828. The plant, called 'flower of the blessed night' in Mexico was renamed in Poinsett's honor. No species of wild plant produces a flower or blossom that is absolutely black, and so far, none has been developed artificially. Due to erosion, Niagara Falls will disappear in 22,800 years. The medical term for earwax is cerumen. Members of the Nazi SS had their blood type tattooed on their armpits. Rice is the staple food of more than one-half of the world's population. Penny Marshall was the first woman director to have a film take in more than $100 million at the box office - the film was 1988's "Big". |
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