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Ketchup was once sold as a medicine. In medieval Japan, dentists extracted teeth with their hands. Your brain uses 40% of the oxygen that enters your bloodstream. Queen termites can lay an egg every second… or 86,000 eggs a day. If the average man never shaved, his beard would be 13 feet long on the day he died. Both rabbits and horses can't vomit. Technically speaking, a female "dude" is known as a "dudine." There's an estimated one trillion bacteria on each of your feet. 95% of the creatures on Earth are smaller than a chicken egg. Crocodiles can't move their tongues. Twinkie inventor Jimmy Dewar ate 40,177 Twinkies in his lifetime. The average American eats 5 gallons of frozen desserts a year.
Goldfish have a memory span of three seconds. Siberia contains more than 25% of the world's forest. In ancient Egypt, pillows were made of stones. A spider's blood is transparent. In the Middle Ages, chicken soup was considered an aphrodisiac. Ancient Rome had rent-a-chariot businesses. George Washington's feet were size 13. Virus means "poison" in Latin. In the 1800s you could buy ketchup flavored with lobster, walnuts, or oysters. The average American dog will cost its owner $14,600 over its lifetime. Drunk ants always fall on their right side. In Antarctica, sunsets can be green.
Benjamin Franklin gave guitar lessons. Honeybees can fly as fast as 30 mph. When medieval Europeans burned witches, the witches' families had to pay for the wood. An adult crocodile can go two years without eating. It takes 720 peanuts to make a pound of peanut butter. When you're looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate; it's the same for someone you hate. The average cow produces 70,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime. Injured fingernails grow faster than uninjured ones. Given the opportunity, chimpanzees will hunt ducks. When pizza became popular in the U.S. in the 1930s, sales of oregano shot up 5,200%. Squirrels cannot see the color red. If a grasshopper is hungry enough, it will eat the paint off your house.
You can buy horseradish ice cream in Tokyo. Centipedes are carnivores, millipedes are vegetarians. According to Pickle Packers Intl, the crunch of a pickle should be audible from 10 paces. Checkers used to be known as "chess for ladies." In the 1500s, England's Queen Elizabeth I outlawed wife beating after 10 p.m. A group of jellyfish is known as a "smack." Christopher Colombus's fee for "discovering" America: about $300. Laid end to end, the blood vessels in your body would wrap around the equator three times. Coconut shells can absorb more impact than most crash helmets. Last animal in the dictionary: the zyzzyva, a tropical American weevil. Napoleon's writing was so unreadable that many of his letters were mistaken for battlefield maps. Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
The water we drink is over 3 billion years old. Pontius Pilate was born in Scotland. It's impossible to snore in the weightlessness of space. Mosquitos have 47 teeth. At Old English weddings, guests threw shoes at the groom. You can think 625 thoughts on the caloric energy of one Cheerio. The average meteor is no larger than a grain of sand. Brain cells are the only human cells that don't reproduce. Eagles can't hunt when it's raining. Female spiders spin better webs than males do. Abe Lincoln's favorite sport was wrestling. It takes an estimated 2,893 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll pop.
Einstein couldn't read until the age of nine. If an octopus is hungry enough, it will eat its own arms. Only pharaohs were allowed to eat mushrooms in Ancient Egypt. 15% of Americans wet their toilet paper before using it. Karate was invented in India. The bullfrog is the only animal that never sleeps. British anatomist Richard Owen invented the word dinosaur in 1841. On average, females hear better than males at every age. Carrots come from Afghanistan. Pound for pound, grasshoppers contain more protein than beef. A snail breathes through its foot. Every second, your senses send about 100 million different messages to your brain.
...interesting, isn't it?
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Ketchup was once sold as a medicine. In medieval Japan, dentists extracted teeth with their hands. Your brain uses 40% of the oxygen that enters your bloodstream. Queen termites can lay an egg every second… or 86,000 eggs a day. If the average man never shaved, his beard would be 13 feet long on the day he died. Both rabbits and horses can't vomit. Technically speaking, a female "dude" is known as a "dudine." There's an estimated one trillion bacteria on each of your feet. 95% of the creatures on Earth are smaller than a chicken egg. Crocodiles can't move their tongues. Twinkie inventor Jimmy Dewar ate 40,177 Twinkies in his lifetime. The average American eats 5 gallons of frozen desserts a year.
Goldfish have a memory span of three seconds. Siberia contains more than 25% of the world's forest. In ancient Egypt, pillows were made of stones. A spider's blood is transparent. In the Middle Ages, chicken soup was considered an aphrodisiac. Ancient Rome had rent-a-chariot businesses. George Washington's feet were size 13. Virus means "poison" in Latin. In the 1800s you could buy ketchup flavored with lobster, walnuts, or oysters. The average American dog will cost its owner $14,600 over its lifetime. Drunk ants always fall on their right side. In Antarctica, sunsets can be green.
Benjamin Franklin gave guitar lessons. Honeybees can fly as fast as 30 mph. When medieval Europeans burned witches, the witches' families had to pay for the wood. An adult crocodile can go two years without eating. It takes 720 peanuts to make a pound of peanut butter. When you're looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate; it's the same for someone you hate. The average cow produces 70,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime. Injured fingernails grow faster than uninjured ones. Given the opportunity, chimpanzees will hunt ducks. When pizza became popular in the U.S. in the 1930s, sales of oregano shot up 5,200%. Squirrels cannot see the color red. If a grasshopper is hungry enough, it will eat the paint off your house.
You can buy horseradish ice cream in Tokyo. Centipedes are carnivores, millipedes are vegetarians. According to Pickle Packers Intl, the crunch of a pickle should be audible from 10 paces. Checkers used to be known as "chess for ladies." In the 1500s, England's Queen Elizabeth I outlawed wife beating after 10 p.m. A group of jellyfish is known as a "smack." Christopher Colombus's fee for "discovering" America: about $300. Laid end to end, the blood vessels in your body would wrap around the equator three times. Coconut shells can absorb more impact than most crash helmets. Last animal in the dictionary: the zyzzyva, a tropical American weevil. Napoleon's writing was so unreadable that many of his letters were mistaken for battlefield maps. Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
The water we drink is over 3 billion years old. Pontius Pilate was born in Scotland. It's impossible to snore in the weightlessness of space. Mosquitos have 47 teeth. At Old English weddings, guests threw shoes at the groom. You can think 625 thoughts on the caloric energy of one Cheerio. The average meteor is no larger than a grain of sand. Brain cells are the only human cells that don't reproduce. Eagles can't hunt when it's raining. Female spiders spin better webs than males do. Abe Lincoln's favorite sport was wrestling. It takes an estimated 2,893 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll pop.
Einstein couldn't read until the age of nine. If an octopus is hungry enough, it will eat its own arms. Only pharaohs were allowed to eat mushrooms in Ancient Egypt. 15% of Americans wet their toilet paper before using it. Karate was invented in India. The bullfrog is the only animal that never sleeps. British anatomist Richard Owen invented the word dinosaur in 1841. On average, females hear better than males at every age. Carrots come from Afghanistan. Pound for pound, grasshoppers contain more protein than beef. A snail breathes through its foot. Every second, your senses send about 100 million different messages to your brain.
...interesting, isn't it?
Please share some trivia with us too, please.
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