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2007-10-08 12:39:07 · 19 answers · asked by Ory O Oreo 3 in Education & Reference Trivia

19 answers

-Handbags has more germs than the soles of your shoe.
-Hitler was born with teeth.
-It is illegal to pull ugly faces at dogs in Oklahoma.
-Kids spend almost $1 billion on bubble gums each year in the US.
-It is illegal to eat in a place that's on fire in Chicago.
-Carson City is the only city in the US that celebrates Halloween on October 30.
-Pitcairn Islands only has 45 people living in it.
-The human brain weighs 8 lbs.
-Mozart's IQ is higher than Einstein's IQ.
-Every 20th century American President except for Taft, Coolidge, Harding, and Hoover are world famous.
-Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter are related.

2007-10-08 14:44:47 · answer #1 · answered by GPS94 3 · 1 0

The vocabulary of an average person consists of 5000 to 6000 words.

A blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant.

The typical human swallows 295 times during dinner.

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

The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under the same roof.

Americans consume 42 tons of aspirin per day.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

2007-10-09 04:51:20 · answer #2 · answered by BAMM 4 · 0 0

The American car horn beeps in the tone of F.
Porcupines can float in water.
Marilyn Monroe had 6 toes.
There are more chickens in the world than people.
Frogs don't drink water.
Skin is the body's heaviest and biggest organ.
Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark (and he invented the light bulb).
The words orange and silver do not rhyme with anything.
A group of owls is called a parliament.
A group of peacocks is called an ostentation.
The word peacock refers only to the male. The correct terminology is peafowl.
Hitler's mother considered an abortion, but her doctor talked her out of it.
Elephants are the only animal that cannot jump.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise, it will digest itself.
Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.

2007-10-08 22:27:17 · answer #3 · answered by kaymay09 4 · 0 1

The first toilet ever shown on TV was on Leave It To Beaver.

The garden snail's top speed is 0.0313 MPH. Its the fastest moving snail.

35% of people who place personal ads are already married.

China has more English speakers than the U.S.

All calms start as males. About half decide to become females.

The airplane Buddy Holly died in was The American Pie. Thus the Don McLean song.

2007-10-08 21:39:40 · answer #4 · answered by Cupcake 2 · 1 0

The only letter not in the periodic table is J.

When you ask someone what a goatee is, 90% reach up and touch their face.

The novel Gadsby contains over 50,000 words, but none with the letter "e".

The fear of long words: hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.

It would take 31.7 years to count off one billion seconds.

In 1997, a Mexican town had a storm in which frogs fell from the sky.

2007-10-08 20:40:55 · answer #5 · answered by lazymonkey915 2 · 1 0

The skin of the armpits can harbor up to 516,000 bacteria per square inch, while drier areas, such as the forearm, have only about 13,000 bacteria per square inch
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The kings in a deck of cards each represent a great king from history. The king of spades is King David, the king of clubs is Alexander the Great, the king of hearts is Charlemagne, and the king of diamonds is Julius Caesar.

The king of hearts is the only king on a deck of cards without a mustache.

Your brain is more active sleeping than it is watching TV.

Celery has negative calories — it takes more calories to eat and digest a piece of celery than the celery has in it initially

2007-10-08 20:04:38 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 1 0

ducks poop about 1lb a day

the only president to have created an independent proof for the Pythagorean theorem was Pres. Garfield

2007-10-08 20:16:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

-Squirrels run faster up trees than on the ground
-In most decks of cards, the king of hearts is depicted stabbing himself in the head with a knife
-a group of crows is called a murder (makes sence)
-a group of kangaroos is called a mob

2007-10-12 11:34:09 · answer #8 · answered by Naxan 1 · 0 0

A "jiffy" is actually 1/100 of a second.

2007-10-09 19:09:59 · answer #9 · answered by janetツ 3 · 0 0

The "glue" used to hold the paper on ice cream cones is made from sugar.

2007-10-15 11:43:58 · answer #10 · answered by Just Shandi 3 · 0 0

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