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Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
Justin Timberlake's half-eaten french toast sold for over $3,000 on eBay!
The average housefly weighs 10 to 15 millionths of a pound.
In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.
The lense of the eye continues to grow throughout a person's life.
Tasmania is said to have the cleanest air in the world.
7,000 new insect species are discovered every year.
Only 1% of bacteria cause disease.
Polar bear fur is not white, it's clear.
When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.
About 10% of Jewish households have Christmas Trees.
A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!
More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
During the Gold Rush in 1849, some people paid as much as $100 for a glass of water!
Eskimos don't gamble.
Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!
Contrary to popular belief, lightning travels from the ground upwards not from the sky downwards.
The banana tree cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
Identical twins do not have identical fingerprints.
King Kong was Adolf Hitler's favorite movie.
Each 5 mph (miles-per-hour) you drive over 60 mph is like paying an additional $.10 a gallon for gas!
How does a shark find fish? It can hear their hearts beating.
The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean.
A Russian man who wore a beard during the time of Peter the Great had to pay a special tax.
Your skeleton keeps growing until you are about 35, then you start to shrink.
Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, was an ophthalmologist by profession!
Eighty percent of Americans will be the victim of violent crime at least once in their lifetime.
The city of Las Vegas has the most hotel rooms in the world.
In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter."!
An egg will float if placed in water in which sugar has been added.
The first song played on Virgin Radio was Born to be wild by INXS!
The first patented condom was meant to be reused!
The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
The state sport of Maryland is Jousting.
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
The Yo-Yo originated as a weapon in the Philippine Islands during the sixteenth century.
In one day, a full grown redwood tree expels more than 2 tons of water through its leaves.
Frozen lobsters can come back to life when thawed!
Dolphins nap with one eye open.
Nearly 10% of American households dress their pets in Halloween costumes.
A moth has no stomach.
C3PO is the first character to speak in Star Wars.
A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!
Research indicates that babies who suck on pacifiers are more prone to ear aches.
Yahoo! was originally called 'Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web'.
World's heaviest primates: morbidly obese humans. After that: gorillas at 485 lbs.
A person will burn 7 percent more calories if they walk on hard dirt compared to pavement.
A person produces about half a liter of farts a day.