Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death. A ducks quack doesnt echo, and no one knows why. Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating. Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy. Ten percent of the Russian governments income comes from the sale of vodka. If you spell out consecutive numbers, you have to go up to one thousand until you would find the letter a. More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in aircrashes. To escape the grip of a crocodiles jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs - it will let you go instantly. 40% of McDonalds profits come from the sales of Happy Meals. A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second. The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone. Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%. Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression to get fired. The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the General Purpose vehicle, G.P. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine. You can tell from the statue of a mounted horseman how the rider died. If all four of the horses feet are on the ground, he died of natural causes. One foot raised means he died from wounds suffered in battle. Two legs raised means he died in action.
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