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| Weird Animals Ostriches are often not taken seriously. They can run faster than horses, and the males can roar like lions Guinea pigs and rabbits can't sweat Sloths take two weeks to digest their food Deer can't eat hay The duckbill platypus can store as many as six hundred worms in the pouches of its cheeks Human birth control pills work on gorillas There are more than fifty different kinds of kangaroos A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink You can tell the sex of a horse by its teeth. Most males have 40, females have 36 Tuatara lizards, from New Zealand, have two eyes in the center of their heads and a third one on top of their heads Giraffes can't cough All shrimp are born male, but slowly grow into females as they mature The stomach acids in a snake's stomach can digest bones and teeth but not fur or hair You can house break an armadillo Snakes don’t bite in rivers or swamps because they would drown if they did Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water The most venomous of all snakes, known as the Inland Taipan has enough venom in one bite to kill over 200,000 mice The world camel population is 19,627,000 The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C Lobsters are scared of octopuses. The sight of one makes a lobster freeze Dogs have about 100 different facial expressions, most of them made with the ears In Vermont, the ratio of cows to people is 10:1 |
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Medical Facts Medical researchers contend that no disease ever identified has been completely eradicated The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples People who have a tough time handling the stress of money woes are twice as likely to develop severe gum disease Between 25% to 33% of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light Approximately 16 Canadians have their appendices removed, when not required, every day The human brain stops growing at the age of 18 In 1977, a 13 year old child found a tooth growing out of his left foot It takes an interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech Your thumb is the same length as your nose During his or her lifetime, the average human will grow 590 miles of hair The substance that human blood resembles most closely in terms of chemical composition is sea water The right lung takes in more air than the left lung Females have 500 more genes than males, and because of this are protected from things like color blindness and hemophilia People who have never been married are seven and a half times more likely than married people to be admitted to a psychiatric facility "Soldiers disease" is a term for morphine addiction. The Civil War produced over 400,000 morphine addicts During a kiss as many as 278 bacteria colonies are exchanged Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete |
| Film and Tv The 1997 Jack Nicholson film - "As Good As It Gets", is known in China as "Mr. Cat Poop" The writers of The Simpsons have never revealed what state Springfield is in Bruce was the nickname of the mechanical shark used in the "Jaws" movies Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants "60 Minutes" is the only show on CBS that doesn’t have a theme song In Hitchcock’s movie, "Rear Window", Jimmy Stewart plays a character wearing a leg cast from the waist down. In one scene, the cast switches legs, and in another, the signature on the cast is missing In the Disney movie Aladdin, when Aladdin is talking to Jasmine right before taking her on a carpet ride, Rajah attacks him. Aladdin says, 'Get back, kitty' or something like that. Then he whispers to Jasmine telling her to take off her clothes The most popular sport as a topic for a film is boxing Scooby Doo's first real name is Scoobert In an episode of The Simpsons, Sideshow Bob's Criminal Number is 24601, the same as the Criminal number of Jean Valjean in Les Miserables From Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me — In the U.S., "shag" is far less offensive than in other English-speaking countries. Singapore briefly forced a title change to "The Spy Who Shioked Me." ("Shioked" means "treated nicely.") Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World WarII were made of wood The first female monster to appear on the big screen was Bride of Frankenstein Bambi was originally published in 1929 in German At one time, the line "Let's get outta here" had been used in 84% of Hollywood movie productions Screenwriter Joe Ezterhas was paid million for his script, Basic Instinct, the highest amount ever paid to a screenwriter The name of Popeye's adopted son is Swee'pea According to the folks at Disney - there are 6,469,952 spots painted on dogs in the original 101 Dalmatians Smithee is a pseudonym that filmmakers use when they don't want their names to appear in the credits |
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Celeb Facts President Teddy Roosevelt died from an "infected tooth." Julius Caesar was self-conscious about his receding hairline Charlie Chaplin was so popular during the 1920s and 1930s, he received over 73,00 letters in just 2 days during a visit to London Lincoln was shot on Good Friday George Washington died after being bled by leeches Ellen DeGeneres was the first stand-up comedian Johnny Carson ever asked to sit on "The Tonight Show" guest couch during a first appearance Entertainers who worked in the pizza business before they became famous include Stephen Baldwin, who was a pizza parlor employee, Bill Murray, who was a pizza maker, and Jean-Claude Van Damme, who delivered pizzas. Many years back, Julia Roberts and Christie Brinkley both sold ice cream. Before she made it as a pop singer, Madonna sold doughnuts at Dunkin' Donuts. And in the burger arena, Jennifer Aniston was a waitress at a burger joint, Queen Latifah worked at Burger King, and Andie McDowell was employed by McDonald's Jonathan Davids, lead singer for Korn, played in his high school bagpipe band Steven Spielberg is Drew Barrymore's godfather O.J. Simpson had a severe case of rickets and wore leg braces when he was a child Mark Twain first learned to ride a bicycle at age 55 Did you know that Goofy actually started life as 'Dippy Dawg,' a combination of both Goofy and Pluto Bette Davis appeared in more than 100 films between 1931 and 1989 Frank Sinatra was once quoted as saying rock 'n' roll was only played by 'cretinous goons Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana Hitler was claustrophobic Writer Director Actor Albert Brooks real name is Albert Einstein March 2 is Dr. Seuss' birthday Michael Jackson was black. :) Talk show host Montel Williams had a nose job Salvador Dali once arrived to an art exhibition in a limousine filled with turnips Clark Gable used to shower more than 4 times a day Adam Sandler and Bill Gates rank number 1 and 2 among the most popular role models with male college freshmen In 1996, Ringo Starr appeared in a Japanese advertisement for applesauce, which coincidentally is what his name means in Japanese King Kong was Adolf Hitler's favorite movie Mickey Mouse was the first non-human to win an Oscar Napoleon was terrified of cats Reportedly, Virginia Woolf wrote all her books while standing Bill Cosby was the first black to win a best actor Emmy Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, and Dostoyevsky were all epileptics |
| Stats and Facts More People use blue toothbrushes then red ones About two hundred babies are born worldwide every minute Your statistical chance of being murdered is one in twenty thousand If you earn twenty thousand dollars a year, one minute of your time is worth a little more than seventeen cents Despite the fact that 77 percent of Americans go to the grocery store with a list, it's estimated that half of everything bought there is bought on impulse Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly Paranormal experts say people reach the peak of their ability to see ghosts when they're 7 years old Someone on Earth reports seeing a UFO every three minutes Someone within 200 miles of your town claims to have had direct contact with a monster, ghost or other unexplainable being Forty percent of the American population has never visited a dentist 10 Percent of men are left-handed while only 8 percent of women are left-handed August is the month when most baby's are born Most humans can guess someone's sex with 95 percent accuracy just by smelling their breath Two-thirds of men wear briefs, 22 percent wear boxers, and six percent don't wear underwear (I assume 6% did not answer) Ninety percent of U.S. households have at lease one remote control for the television; 8 out of 10 report losing it Chocolate manufacturers use 40 percent of the world's almonds There are more telephones than people in Washington DC Out of the 34,000 gun deaths in the U.S. each year, fewer than 300 are listed as "justifiable homicide," the only category that could include shooting a burglar, mugger, or rapist Only 3 percent of Americans ages 18 to 21 attended college in 1890 In 1990 there were about 15,000 vacuum cleaner related accidents in the U.S Adults spend an average of 16 times as many hours selecting clothes (145.6 hours a year) as they do on planning their retirement Seventy percent of house dust is made up of dead skin flakes 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets every year The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines 75% of people wash from top to bottom in the shower The most popular name given to boat-owners’ boats is "Obsession" Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people There are 10 doctors in the U.S. with the last name of 'Nurse' The standard escalator moves 120 feet per minute Only 30% of us can flare our nostrils 21% of us don't make our bed daily. 5% of us never do 40% of women have hurled footwear at a man |
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