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I have not personally confirmed these facts.  These come to you from the folks at:

funny2.com

Their website looks pretty interesting and has page after page of facts, true facts, false facts, etc.  I found these interesting, hopefully you will as well:

My comments added in BOLD.

 

One out of ten children in Europe are conceived on an IKEA bed.  (Must all be born in dorm rooms)

Antarctica is the only continent without reptiles or snakes.  (But Saint Patrick took care of Ireland, and as an Irishman, it counts to me as its own continent.)

An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.

In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees. (There is also lots of rum in the Caribbean…so not sure if this has been reliably observed…)

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.  (Bald people hide their intelligence – why?  What are they up to?)

The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

When George Lucas was mixing the American Graffiti soundtrack, he numbered the reels of film starting with an R and numbered the dialog starting with a D. Sound designer Walter Murch asked George for Reel 2, Dialog 2 by saying “R2D2”. George liked the way that sounded so much he integrated that into another project he was working on.

The youngest pope was 11 years old.

Mark Twain didn’t graduate from elementary school.

Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses.

Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving dinner.  (Then fell on asleep on the couch imagining football in the future)

They have square watermelons in Japan – they stack better.

Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.

Heinz Catsup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles per year.

It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.

Armadillos can be housebroken. (Armadillos are also the only animal that can transmit leprosy to humans, so probably best to leave them outside)

The first Fords had engines made by Dodge.

A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.

Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.

A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.  (Don’t let your 4 foot tall child too close to exhibits at the zoo.)

A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove. (Groovy)

A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.

Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it is known as Tennessee.

The flashing warning light on the cylindrical Capitol Records tower spells out HOLLYWOOD in Morse code.

Every time you lick a stamp, you’re consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year. (The average person obtains none of them during their lifetime.)

One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television. (Too many in dirty t-shirts and with fake tans)

The average American will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year.

Over 1,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows. (windows- the real mass murderers.  PETA should go naked to ban windows)

The State of Florida is bigger than England. (And has a better dental plan)

Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning. (Then they go pee)

Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.

During your lifetime, you’ll eat about 60,000 pounds of food. That’s the weight of about 6 elephants. (So, if I buy 6 elephants, I never have to go to the grocery store again?)

Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can’t find any food. (Ribbon worm zombie apocalypse.)

The world’s oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old. (Dick Clark spit it out on his death bed…Too soon?)

In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can’t flow. (Plus they are bad asses.)

About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.  (The wrote a screenplay called Logan’s Run, but it was thousands of years before the movies were invented for us to see this cry for help.)

More people use blue toothbrushes than red ones.

Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe.

In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons. (There were more before the Clintons left…)

Slugs have 4 noses. (And they are all runny)

Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch TV for 3 hours.

Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.

Owls are the only birds who can see the color blue. (So paint yourself blue and you can be a bird ninja)