Recent Wacky Facts:

-- Apples are more efficent than caffeine in keeping people awake in the morning.

-- A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.

-- Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

-- Researchers say that when a waitress draws a happy face on a check, tips go up 18%.

-- Fifty-eight percent of Americans believe they have above average IQ's.

-- It's illegal to hunt camels in Arizona.

-- The Statue of Liberty's index finger is 8 feet long, and has a fingernail measuring 13 by 10 inches.

-- There is a city called Rome on every continent in the world.

-- It takes about 150 days for your nails to grow from your cuticles to your fingertips.

DID YOU KNOW.....

1. A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

2. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

3. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

4. The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.

5. All porcupines float in water.

6. Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.

7. When opossums are playing 'possum', they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.

8. If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.

9. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

10. The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.

11. Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.

12. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

13. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

14. Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.

15. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

16. 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. (ed. note: if the rider's head is up the horse's ass, the rider died a politician.)

17. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.

18. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

19. On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.

20. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.

21. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

22. If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

23. Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

24. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

25. A snail can sleep for 3 years.

26. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

27. China has more English speakers than the United States.

28. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

29. You share your birthday with at least 9 million people. (yeah but do you know any of them?)

30. Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.

31. If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.

32. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

33. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

34. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

35. You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider

36. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

37. Polar bears are left-handed.

38. A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.

39. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

40. The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

41. A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.

42. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

43. A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.

44. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

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

46. More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

47. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.

48. Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.

49. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath. (Oh gee that's a relief..haha)

And finally....NUMBER 50!!...(not that it's special)....

50. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do. (YAY..so glad that I'm right handed...lol)

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