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1.     Most American car horns honk in the key of F.

2.    The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."

3.    Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

4.    Reindeer like to eat bananas.

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

6.    'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

7.    Reindeer like to eat bananas. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

8.    The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II Killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

9.    The average person spends 6 months of their life sitting at red lights.

10.  More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money throughout the world

11.   In the United States, a pound of potato chips costs two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes.  

12.  A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel.

13.  Nearly 80% of all animals on earth have six legs.

14.  It has NEVER rained in Calama, a town in the Atacama Desert of Chile.

15.  It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.

16.  Bees have 5 eyes. There are 3 small eyes on the top of a bee's head and 2 larger ones in front.

17.  It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona.

18.  You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.

19.  A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

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

21.  Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

22.  The strongest muscle (Relative to size) in the body is the tongue.

23.  Most toilets flush in E flat.

24.  Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets in our solar system combined.

25.  Hot water is heavier than cold.

26.  In a test performed by Canadian scientists, using various different styles of music, it was determined that chickens lay the most eggs when pop music was played.

27.  The average American looks at eight houses before buying one.

28.  In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.

29.  Virginia Woolf wrote all her books standing.

30.  The earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.

31.  The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

32.  A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

33.  "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."

34.  A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

35.  A snail can sleep for three years.

36.  All polar bears are left-handed. YEAY

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

38.  Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

39.  February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

40.  If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you will have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

41.  An average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

42.  Starfish haven't got brains.

43.  The longest word comprised of one row on the keyboard is: TYPEWRITER

44.  You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.  

45.  Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.  

46.  The longest place-name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiakitnatahu, a New Zealand hill

47.  You spend 7 years of your life in the bathroom.

48.  Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

49.  Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a 'Friday the 13th'.

50.  Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants!