Strange( & useless) facts?

• There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!


• Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill!


• If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.


• The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!


• The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!


• A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!


• Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie!


• over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!


• Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!


• Dolphins sleep with one eye open!


• There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!


• During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!


• Slugs have 4 noses!


• There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month! Interesting tries from our readers: orange: door hinge, mélange (French for mix) purple: hurtle, durple?, turtle month: once, bunth?, hunch


• It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them!


• Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.


• Humans, dolphins and Bonobo Chimpanzees are the only species that have sex for pleasure.


• It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.


• You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.


• Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.


• A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.


• A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.


• The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.


• Polar bears are left handed.


• The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping the length of a football field.


• A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.


• The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body.


• The female initiates sex by ripping the males head off.


• Some lions mate over 50 times a day.


• The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.


• 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321


• The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.


• "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.


• The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.


• Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.


• If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.


• TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.


• A snail can sleep for 3 years.


• The longest one-syllable word in the English language is


"screeched."


• There are only four words in the English language which end in "- dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.


• A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.


• A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.


• The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.


• There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

Strange( %26amp; useless) facts?
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* flamigoes turn pink from eating shrimp


* an ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain


* a worm has five hearts %26amp; cannot swim


* the yougest person to give birth was a five year old girl from India


* Lord of the Rings was entered in the guinnesss book of world records for havining a movie with the most fake feet made


* an adult sqid can squeeze thru a hole the size of a quarter
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Reply:WOW that's great half that crap I didn't even need to know.
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Reply:Goodness. I'm glad that I read this! I'd like to know exactly when I will eat those alleged 8 spiders. Ha.
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Reply:way cool! i love these kind of wierd facts things. some of them are really interesting and funny!! thanks
Reply:Those are not true... if you are going to tell people facts, look them up and make sure they are right. (Trust me, I do all the time, and got sued before because i didn't.) So just a warning.. be carful what you post here... And there are 360 dimples in a golf ball, not 336... go ahead and count them....And Scientist haven't clarrified that you eat 8 spiders in a lifetime at night.. it is more like 8 every 2 months...But thank you, I already knew them all, but some people didnt... for them they might be glad... Be Happy!
Reply:AWESOME i luv these kinds of cool things and facts!
Reply:Great cutting and pasting. Thanks!