
Real Facts - Lampoon Reasons
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If
the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would
never end because of the rate of reproduction. Your
stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise
it will digest itself. A
crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. A
snail can sleep for three years. Babies
are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches
2 to 6 years of age. Butterflies
taste with their feet. Our
eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never
stop growing. On some islands, clams can actually
climb trees. Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning. It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland. Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark. Dolphins sleep with one eye open. About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30. A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 600 m.p.h! The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year. Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet! Owls are the only birds who can see the color blue. A jellyfish is 95 percent water. The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump. The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly! America once issued a 5-cent bill. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different. Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue! Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails. You blink about 84,000,000 times a year. In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word. A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans. Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States. The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth. A hummingbird weighs less than a penny. The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons! A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off! The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used. Just as humans are either right or left handed, so dogs and cats are right or left "pawed". The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven. Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lighting than women. Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions. Bulls are colorblind. They will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is be it red or neon yellow. Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the morning. Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight. After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again! A duck's "quack" does not echo, no one knows why. Cat's urine glows under a blacklight. The Queen Elizabeth II Cruise liner moves six inches for every gallon of diesel it burns. When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing", they actually The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs. There are an average of 178 sesame seeds on a McDonald's Big Mac bun. Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars. When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per year. The Bible has been translated into Klingon. |
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