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'The Earth''s atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.
'The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
'The elephant is one of the few mammals that can''t jump!
'The energy of a discharge of an electric eel could start 50 cars.
'The estimated number of M&M''s sold each day in the United States is
200,000,000.
'The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water.
'The famous aphrodisiac ''Spanish Fly'' is made from dried beetle
remains!
'The faster a kangaroo hops, the less energy it burns!
'The female pigeon cannot lay eggs if she is alone. In order for her
ovaries to function, she must be able to see another pigeon.
'The filming of the movie ''Titanic'' cost more than the Titanic itself!
'The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from
those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime
scene.
'The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.
'The first baseball caps were made of straw.
'The first bomb dropped by the Allies on berlin in WW2 killed the only
elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
'The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in
the Berlin zoo!
'The first ever patent in the UK was Aaron Rathbone & Roger Burges, Map
makers in 1618!
'The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
'The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only
5 megabytes.
'The first household refrigerators cost about $16,000, in today''s
money!
'The first patented condom was meant to be reused!
'The first person to go over Niagara falls was Annie Edson-Taylor. She
made the trip in a wooden barrel and survived!
'The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!
'The first programme shown on BBC2 was Play School
'The first song played on Virgin Radio was Born to be wild by INXS!
'The first telephone book was one page long and had only 50 names in it.
'The first TV commercial showed a Bulova watch ticking onscreen for
exactly 60 seconds.
'The first two years of a dog''s life are equal to 24 human years.
'The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human
jumping the length of a football field.
'The G in ''g-string'' stand for groin.
'The Giant South African Earthworm can grow up to 22 feet long and 1
inch in thick.
'The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
'The glue on Israeli stamps is certified kosher.
'The Grateful Dead were once called ''The Warlocks''.
'The great wall of China is 1,400 miles long!
'The great warrior Ghengis Khan died in bed while having sex.
'The Greek National anthem has 158 verses!
'The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length
without breaking.
'The heart of a mouse beats 650 times per minute!
'The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
'The heart pumps about 1 million barrels of blood during an average
lifetime!
'The height of a bowling pin is equal to its circumference.
'The higher the income, the more likely an American man will cheat on
his wife.
'The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in
Colorado!
'The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers founded in 1744, is the
world''s oldest golf club!
'The human brain is insensitive to pain.
'The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 ft.
'The inventor of the Waffle Iron did not like waffles.
'The inventor of Vaseline ate a spoonful of the stuff every morning!
'The IRS processes more than 2 billion pieces of paper each year.
'The Japanese commonly put ketchup on their rice.
'The Japanese liquor, Mam, uses venomous snakes as one of its main
engredients.
'The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs!
'The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard
playing card!
'The largest diamond ever found was an astounding 3,106 carats!
'The last time American Green cards were actually green was 1964.
'The launching mechanism of a carrier ship that helps planes to take off
could throw a pickup truck over a mile.
'The lense of the eye continues to grow throughout a person''s life.
'The life boat was patented in 1845!
'The lifespan of the common goldfish is over 20 years!
'The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood
plasma.
'The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called ''mantles'') are
radioactive...so much so that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear
reactor.
'The longest cave in the world is the ''Mammoth Cave System'' in the USA
at 560,000 mtrs deep!
'The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!
'The longest word in the English language is
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses!
'The longest word in the English language with no vowels is Rhythms!
'The lungfish can live out of water for three years in a state of
suspended animation.
'The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8
miles away!
'The male platypus has poisonous spurs on its legs.
'The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to
its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the males head off.
'The man who created the Thighmaster was once a Bhuddist Monk.
'The mask used by Michael Myers in the original ''Halloween'' was
actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
'The MGM Grand Hotel of Las Vegas washes 15,000 pillowcases per day!
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