In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world\u2019s nuclear weapons combined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year. On average people fear spiders more than they do death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Elephants are the only animals that can\u2019t jump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s possible to lead a cow upstairs \u2026 but not downstairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Butterflies taste with their feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A duck\u2019s quack doesn\u2019t echo, and no one knows why. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A snail can sleep for three years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No word in the English language rhymes with \u201cMONTH.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. \u2013 SCARY!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All polar bears are left-handed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An ostrich\u2019s eye is bigger than its brain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cGo,\u201d is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Almost everyone who reads this will try to lick their elbow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You tried to lick your elbow, didn\u2019t you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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