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Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.
2
40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
3
315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
4
On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
5
Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
6
Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as a medicine.
7
Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
8
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
9
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
10
Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.
11
Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
12
The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby"!
13
By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.
14
Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
15
Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
16
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
17
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
18
Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
19
Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
20
The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
21
To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.
22
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
23
The "pound" (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.
24
The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
25
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
26
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
27
Dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in "mt".
28
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
29
In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".
30
A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.
31
We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.
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Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines.
33
Mexico City sinks abut 10 inches a year.
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Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.
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Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.
36
When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying "yes" in Sri Lanka.
37
There are more chickens than people in the world.
38
The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.
39
There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.
40
The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.
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The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three Times each morning.
42
The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the Combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.
43
The first owner of the Marlboro cigarette Company died of lung cancer.
44
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
45
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
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Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears Never stop growing.
47
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
48
A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a Few weeks.
49
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
50
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
51
When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.
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Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned His wife or mother because they were both deaf.
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A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a Carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After Weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe Leaving her mentally retarded
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"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language
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Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking Countries because Colgate translates into the command "go hang Yourself."
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Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
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"Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive Double letters.
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Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed People do.
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The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every Letter in the English language.
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If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line Would never end because of the rate of reproduction
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China has more English speakers than the United States.
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Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
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Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
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An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.
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Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our Bodies.
66
Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average Man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his Lifetime.
67
According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.
68
The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi- Pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu - a New Zealand hill.
69
If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at Approximately 4:30pm the previous day.
70
Scientists in Australia's Parkes Observatory thought they had positive Proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a Microwave in the building.
71
Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times.
72
More than 40,000 parasites and 250 types of bacteria are exchanged during a French kiss.
73
Men can read smaller print than women, but women can hear better.
74
Coca-Cola was originally green.
75
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
76
The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.
77
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
78
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
79
Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!
80
You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
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It is impossible to lick your elbow.
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People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
83
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
84
The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
85
If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
86
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
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111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
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If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
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If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.
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If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
91
Question - This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this? Ans. - Honey
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A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
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A snail can sleep for three years.
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All polar bears are left handed.
95
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
96
Butterflies taste with their feet.
97
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
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In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
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On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
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Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
101
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
102
The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
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The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
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The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
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Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
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The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
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Most lipstick contains fish scales.
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And finally 99% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.
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stars  good but not all entirely true,  Posted: 2 years ago
Some of your facts are a bit of a stretch to make things fit your answers but all in very good stuff.
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stars  Iffy at best.,  Posted: 2 years ago
For a start: i *CAN* lick my elbow. I have a long tongue and have good flexibility. The first 'match' was invented in 1805 the first lighter, 1823. The phrase 'bless you' has nothing to do with your heart, it was coined during the bubonic plague. Yo-yo's were actually never weapons, this legend originated from the James Bond movie Octopussy. The thing about airborne particles and your toothbrush was disproved.

All i can say is: LOL, NUB
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stars  whatev,  Posted: 2 years ago
the toothbrush thing was proven to be very true on an episode of Mythbusters and the fecal particulates go way beyond six feet reaching place way outside of the bathroom. i don't think you have anything to back up what your saying. so i could just as easily say that your wrong and he's right and your tounge could only be long enough to touch the backside your teeth as far as we know. there's a difference between and elbow and an asshole. your being the latter.
all i can say is: stfu, n00b
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stars  ,  Posted: 1 year 11 months ago
Had alot of interesting information.

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According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.

My objective opinion on this is, Birds were supposed to have evolved from reptiles, and reptiles have been laying eggs for millions of years, so i would assume the egg came first, really.

This is Genesis 1:20-22 for the other side of the debate....

And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl [that] hath life, and fowl [that] may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged foul after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good.

And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let the fowl mulitpy in the earth.
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stars  :D,  Posted: 1 year 2 months ago
ahaha thats awesome lol. good call
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stars  um...,  Posted: 11 months ago
82:bless you came from the pope around the 16 century the pope declared that people should say bless you after sneezes because they are expelling evil. 78:the longest word typed with the top of a keyboard is TEETER-TOTTER but if you don't count hyphens then it is proterotype. 15:true mythbusters proved it but it was a harmless small amount, it was still that and is still feakle matter.

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