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The North Atlantic gets 1 inch wider every year.

It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.

The only rock that floats in water is pumice.

The first ten feet of the ocean hold as much heat as the Earth's entire atmosphere.

Alexander Graham Bell, who invented the telephone, also set a world water-speed record of over seventy miles an hour at the age of seventy two.

The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.

The planet Saturn has a density lower than water. So, if placed in water it would float.

It takes 70% less energy to produce a ton of paper from recycled paper than from trees.

Hawaii is moving toward Japan 4 inches every year.

The rocket engine has to supply its own oxygen so it can burn its fuel in outer space.

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

Everyone's tongue print is different.

Moths have no stomach.

Hummingbirds can't walk.

On average, our bodies constantly resist an atmospheric pressure of about 1 kilogram per square inch.

Cheetah's can accelerate from 0 to 70 km/h in 3 seconds.

The highest temperature on Earth was 136°F (58°C) in Libya in 1922.

Sunlight can penetrate clean ocean water to a depth of 240 feet.

The temperature can be determined by counting the number of cricket chirps in fourteen seconds and adding 40.

The moon is one million times drier than the Gobi Desert.

Ten minutes of one hurricane contains enough energy to match the nuclear stockpiles of the world.

The Venezuelan brown bat can detect and dodge individual raindrops in mid-flight, arriving safely back at his cave completely dry.

When immersed in liquid, a dead sparrow will make a sound like a crying baby.

Centuries ago, purchasing real estate often required having one or more limbs amputated in order to prevent the purchaser from running away to avoid repayment of the loan. Hence an expensive purchase was said to cost "an arm and a leg."

If you put a bee in a film canister for two hours, it will go blind and leave behind its weight in honey.

At the first World Cup championship in Uruguay, 1930, the soccer balls were actually monkey skulls wrapped in paper and leather.

Urine from male cape water buffaloes is so flammable that some tribes use it for lantern fuel.

we can get blood from a stone, but only if contains at least 17 percent bauxite.

Polar bears can eat as many as 86 penguins in a single sitting.

Replying more than 100 times to the same piece of spam e-mail will overwhelm the sender's system and interfere with their ability to send any more spam.

Scuba divers cannot pass gas at depths of 33 feet or below.

Manatees possess vocal chords which give them the ability to speak like humans, but don't do so because they have no ears with which to hear the sound.

In the weightlessness of space a frozen pea will explode if it comes in contact with Pepsi.

Smearing a small amount of dog feces on an insect bite will relieve the itching and swelling.

The typewriter was invented by Hungarian immigrant Qwert Yuiop, who left his "signature" on the keyboard.

King Henry VIII slept with a gigantic axe.

Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water.

Until 1978, Camel cigarettes contained minute particles of real camels.

You can actually sharpen the blades on a pencil sharpener by wrapping your pencils in aluminum foil before inserting them.

When Mahatma Gandhi died, an autopsy revealed five gold Krugerrands in his small intestine.

If you part your hair on the right side, you were born to be carnivorous. If you part it on the left, your physical and psychological make-up is of a vegetarian.

The world's smartest pig, owned by a mathematics teacher in Madison, WI, memorized the multiplication tables up to 12.

The "nine lives" attributed to cats is probably due to their having nine primary whiskers.

Coca-Cola was the favored drink of Pharaoh Ramses. An inscription found in his tomb, when translated, was found to be almost identical to the recipe used today.

Approximately one-sixth of human life is spent on Wednesdays.

Tuesday is considered as the most productive day of the week.

In human body the right lung takes in more air than the left one.

The sun is 330330 times larger than the earth.

Bill gates house was designed using Macintosh computer which is a brand of the microsoft's rival company.

Almost all varieties of breakfast cereals are made from grass.

In the 1930's America track star Jesse Owens used to race against horses and dogs to earn a living.

There is a great mushroom in Oregon that is 2,400 years old. It Covers 3.4 square miles of land and is still growing.

Jimmy Carter is the first USA president to have born in hospital.

Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.

Cleopatra married two of her brothers.

Human birth control pill works on gorillas.

It is illegal to own a red car in shanghai china.

Tru to spin an egg, Its strange that a hard-boiled egg will spin but an uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not.

Astronauts cannot burp in space.

People with blue eyes see better in dark.

The snowiest city in the USA is Blue Canyon, California.

Lake Nicaragua in Nicaragua is the only fresh water lake in the world that has sharks.

Kite flying is a professional sport in Thailand.

The gasoline can not freeze no matter how cold the temperature falls.

Human stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.

Every person has a unique tongue print.

Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it go mad instantly and sting itself to death.

By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.

Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.

The Polar Bear can can reach 25 miles / hr of speed.

Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounces will kill a small sized dog.

Most lipsticks contain fish scales.

(07-15-2009 10:06 PM)Admin Wrote: [ -> ]King Henry VIII slept with a gigantic axe.

There's nothing odd about that, I sleep with a battleaxe


In France, it is forbidden to call a pig Napoleon.

Royal Navy ships that enter the Port of London must provide a barrel of rum to the Constable of the Tower of London.

In the UK, a pregnant woman can legally relieve herself anywhere she wants – even, if she so requests, in a policeman’s helmet.

In Florida, unmarried women who parachute on Sundays can be jailed.

In Kentucky, it is illegal to carry a concealed weapon more than six-feet long. There is a reply to this but I doubt it would get past the censor

In Chester, Welshmen are banned from entering the city before sunrise and from staying after sunset.

In the city of York, it is legal to murder a Scotsman within the ancient city walls, but only if he is carrying a bow and arrow.

In London, it is illegal to flag down a taxi if you have the plague. (swine flu?)

Eating mince pies on Christmas Day is banned (not in our house it isn't !!!!)

There are men in Guam whose full-time job is to travel the countryside and deflower young virgins, who pay them for the privilege of having sex for the first time. Reason: under Guam law, it is expressly forbidden for virgins to marry. (is there any job anywhere else in the world that even comes close to this?)

In Hong Kong, a betrayed wife is legally allowed to kill her adulterous husband, but may only do so with her bare hands.

Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England - but only in tropical fish stores. (hmmmm - I could do with more tropical fish)

In Cali, Colombia, a woman may only have sex with her husband, and the first time this happens her mother must be in the room to witness the act.
(do they get issued with score cards ?)

In Santa Cruz, Bolivia it is illegal for a man to have sex with a woman and her daughter at the same time. (...we have to presume this was a big enough problem that they had to pass this law...?) - Looks like I'm not going to Bolivia then