April 2010
When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food. Sometimes they’ll even try to eat each other.
Two-headed snakes do not have a long life expectancy, particularly in the wild. Each head has a brain and, usually, some control over the shared body, and the two cannot communicate with each other. Movement is therefore difficult, as each head may try to travel in a...
When McDonald’s opened its first restaurant in Kuwait in 1994, 15,000 customers formed a line at the drive-through that was 7 miles long.
The Ramses brand condom is named after the great Pharaoh Ramses II, who supposedly fathered over 160 children.
Newborn kangaroos are so small they can fit on a teaspoon. (Those are someone’s fingers!)
March 2010
All planets rotate counterclockwise, except for one - Venus. Scientists think Venus was struck by an asteroid.
Koalas sleep 22 hours a day. They will stay in the same tree for days.
Grammy Awards given out at the ceremony are actually “stunt Grammies.” They are only for show. The winners won’t actually receive their personalized statues for a few more months.
The actual trophies are all hand made and assembled. Years ago, the old smaller gramophone had to be revamped because the metals were too soft and there were many problems with the trophy breaking....
Actress Kate Bosworth suffers from Heterochromia iridium, a condition that causes a person’s eye color to be different from the other one (Hazel and blue).
She was spared having to wear uncomfortable contact lenses throughout the making of the Superman movie because the director decided her odd eyes were perfect for her role as Lois Lane. Jane Seymour, Christopher Walken, and Alexander...
The space between your eyes - called the glabella - is usually equivalent to the size of your eye.
Many hotels and hospitals in China don’t label the fourth floor. Why? The pronunciation of “four” is close to that of “death” in Chinese.
If you use the number four on happy occasions such as wedding, especially in the southern part of China or in the countryside, you are likely to be criticized behind your back for failing to understand basic manners
An octopus can squeeze through a hole the size of a ten cent coin.
An Octopus has three hearts and one species can inject enough venom in one bite to kill several adult humans. They can adopt a two-tentacles “walk” that frees up their six remaining limbs and makes them look like an armed vehicle.
Shakespeare was the first to use insults about people’s mothers. (yo momma, mother******, your mom is ___, etc.)
Want to see how your breath smells? Try this: Use a spoon and scrape the back of your tongue. Let it dry, then smell it. That’s how your breath smells.
Have bad breath? Brush your tongue. That’s where 90% of bad breath bacteria reside. Your tongue microscopically is like a shaggy carpet. There are millions of filaments on your tongue that trap tiny food particles and bacteria.
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Want to grow a beard faster? Think about sex.
Facial hair is largely governed by production of testosterone, which is known to be secreted by the testicles in greater quantities during and in anticipation of intercourse. Scientists have also found that increased beard growth was associated with tension, mental fatigue, alcohol and increased shaving. On the other hand, it is apparently curtailed...
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The first known form of birth control was crocodile feces, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C. Other early birth control methods: tampons made of honey, drinking liquid mercury, jumping backwards, sneezing (to expel semen), inserting lemons as a diaphragm (the citric acid acts as spermicide), using animal intestines as condoms, inserting a concave piece of wood as a diaphragm (ouch), and drinking...
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The microwave was invented after a researcher was working near a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. It was during a radar-related research project around 1946 that Dr. Percy Spencer, a self-taught engineer, noticed something very unusual. He was testing a new vacuum tube called a magnetron when he discovered that the candy bar in his pocket had melted. This intrigued him, so he...
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Eating celery is technically exercise. When you eat celery, you burn more calories than you consume. A celery stalk contains 6 calories. Chewing your celery stalk burns: 5 calories/hour Because of the high insoluble fibre content of celery, you burn even more calories digesting that celery stalk. However, eat just celery and you’ll not only be malnourished, but your metabolic rate will...
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Hitler dated 3 women in his lifetime - all 3 attempted suicide, and 2 succeeded, including his NIECE. Hitler was also a vegetarian, not because of he felt sorry for the animals, but because he believed it helped his digestion. Some authors argued that Hitler’s vegetarianism stemmed from a fear of cancer, which killed his mother. He did eat meat on occasion, so it would be likely that Hitler...
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People don’t actually get sick colds and the flu because of cold weather. People are more likely to get sick during wintertime because they spend more time indoors and they share more germs because of it, causing them to get sick more often.
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A toothpick is the object most-often choked on by Americans. Since 1900, 17,000 people have died from toothpicks. Among them was American novelist Sherwood Anderson.
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Having sex can reduce a fever because of the sweat produced. Sex is also a pain reliever, ten times more effective than Valium: immediately before orgasm, levels of the hormone oxytocin rise by five times, determining a huge release of endorphins. These chemicals calm pain, from a minor headache to arthritis or migraines, and with no secondary effects. Migraines also disappear because the...
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Ever been told you can “blow it out your a**”? Turtles can actually breathe through their butts. Other butt-breathers: dragonfly nymphs, sea cucumbers, and “certain TV evangelists”.
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The mouth of a jellyfish is also the anus. An adult jellyfish is a medusa, named after the mythological creature with snakes for hair who could turn humans to stone with a glance.
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In Minnesota, it is illegal for any man to have sexual intercourse with a live fish. (Apparently it’s OK for woman.)
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The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache on a standard playing card. For a period, starting in the 15th century, French playing-card manufacturers assigned to each of the court cards names taken from history or mythology. The most common names for the kings were: * King of Spades: David (a biblical king) * King of Hearts: Charles (presumably after Charlemagne) * King of Diamonds:...
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Air Force One is not called Air Force One unless the President is on it. No matter where in the world the President travels, if he flies in an Air Force jet, the plane is called Air Force One.
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As recently as the 1930s, solid blocks of tea were used as currency in Siberia. Tea bricks were in fact the preferred form of currency over metallic coins for the nomads. The tea could not only be used as money and eaten as food in times of hunger but also brewed as allegedly beneficial medicine for treating coughs and colds.
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Male fireflies can fly, but female fireflies often can’t because their wings are too short. The female firefly perches itself on a bush or a rock and waits. When a male passes by with a signal the female recognizes, the female flashes back the same signal. The male lands and touches the female’s antennae. This is how fireflies smell each other. If the female smells right to him, the two...
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Men have nipples because, as an embryo, everyone is a female until the Y chromosome kicks in. After conception, the human embryo develops as a female. Only after 6-8 weeks does the Y chromosome kick in and the fetus begins developing male characteristics. By this point breast tissue, milk ducts and nipples have already formed. This happens in all mammals, the only exception being stallions, who...
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A female platypus sweats milk. The platypus does not suckle its young like other mammals do. It does not have nipples, but it exudes milk from specialized sweat glands on its abdomen. Scientists are not sure exactly why milk is sweated out instead of regular water.
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The powerful 8.8 magnitude earthquake that rattled Chile over the weekend likely shifted the Earth’s axis and shortened the day. According to NASA geophysicist Richard Gross, the huge shake altered the distribution of mass on the planet, causing Earth’s axis to shift an estimated three inches and shorten the day by 1.26 microseconds.
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-40 degrees Celsius is equal to -40 degrees Fahrenheit
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A first class (parlor suite) ticket on to the Titanic cost $4,350, which translates into $90,000 in 2006 USD.
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A serial killer in India was charged with murder. He was only 8 years old. Amarjeet Sada was accused of killing at least three babies, including his eight-month-old sister and a cousin sister. Police say the boy strangled and smashed the heads of the babies with bricks & then tried to hide the bodies.
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A tiger’s tongue is so rough it can lick the paint off of a building. The tiger’s tongue is covered with numerous small, sharp, rear-facing projections called papillae. These papillae gives the tongue is rough, rasping texture and is designed to help strip feathers, fur and meat from prey. Also, all tigers have a unique set of stripes, like fingerprints.
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If a rainbow is seen from a plane, it is possible to see the rainbow as an entire circle and not just an arc.
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In Topeka, Kansas it is illegal to sing the alphabet on the streets at night. It is also illegal to install a bathtub, and you may not scream in a haunted house.
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In the time it takes to read this sentence, 50,000 cells in your body will die and be replaced. We generate an entire new skeleton every 3 months, and a new layer of skin every month. The average person will also lose 100 strands of hair per day and over 10 billion skin flakes.
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The following sentence is grammatically correct: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. The word ”buffalo” in the sentence has three meanings: the animal, the city in New York and the act of ”buffaloing” which is another word for teasing or bullying. Here is another way of looking at the sentence: THE buffalo FROM Buffalo WHO ARE buffaloed BY...
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A woman’s vagina is actually 10x cleaner than the human mouth.
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It costs 3 cents to make a $1 bill. BUT “they need to be replaced after about 18 months. Coins, which cost about 12 cents to make, last 30 years.” That’s why the US Govt. keeps trying to wane its citizens off dollars and get them to use coin dollars, like the Sacagawea or Susan B. Anthony Dollar.
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The largest dog ever reported in the Guiness Book of World Records was a 8 feet 3 inch, 343-pound English Mastiff named Zorba. He is presently not in the Guinness Book because he is deceased, but no one to this date has topped his size.
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‘racecar’ is spelled the same forwards and backwards.
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When we are born our eyes are almost full size, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
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A type of rat can survive longer without water longer than a camel can. The kangaroo rat is able to survive in the desert with virtually no drinking water. How? Its kidneys produce the most concentrated urine of all mammals, and only pass a few drops per day. Humans drink a lot of water, and also gain moisture through food. As such, our urine is quite dilute. Kangaroo rats, on the other hand,...
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The largest erect human penis ever recorded is 13.5 inches long.
It belongs to New Yorker Jonah Cardeli Falcon, a bisexual American actor and talk-show host. His willy is 9.5 in (24.13 cm) flaccid, 13.5 in (34.29 cm) erect. But the huge penis is not a blessing - it rather condemns him to loneliness. He lives with his mom and his whale penis, without a girlfriend for 12 years.
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Albert Einstein couldn’t speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he was mentally retarded.
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35% of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
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Your earlobes line up with your nipples.
