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4 tablespoons of ketchup has about the same amount of nutrition as a ripe tomato.
40% of all people who come to a party snoop in your medicine cabinet.
55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses.
80% of animals on earth are insects.
It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
28% of Africa is classified as wilderness. In North America, its 38%.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
90% of New York City cab drivers are recently arrived immigrants.
98% of all murders and rapes are by a close family member or friend of the victim.
98% of the weight of water is made up from oxygen.
A Baboon called "Jackie" became a private in the South African army in World War I.
A bean has more DNA per cell than a human cell
A Blue Earth, Minnesota, law declares that no child under the age of twelve may talk over the telephone unless monitored by a parent.
A body decomposes four times as fast in water than on land.
A butterfly can look at you through 12,000 eyes.
A chef's hat is tall and balloons at the top so as to counteract the intense heat in the kitchen. The unique shape allows air to circulate around the scalp, keeping the head cool.
A Chicago law forbids eating in a place that is on fire.
A chicken who just lost its head can run the length of a football field before dropping dead.
A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
A cockroaches favorite food is the glue on the back of stamps.
A Cornish game hen is really a young chicken, usually 5 to 6 weeks of age, that weighs no more than 2 pounds.
A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph.
A cucumber is 96% water.
A dentist invented the Electric Chair.
A dragonfly can fly 25 mph.
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
A dragonfly is also known as "devil's darning needle", "horse stinger" and "devil's steelyard".
A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.
A group of crows is called a murder.
A hamlet is a village without a church and a town is not a city until it has a cathedral.
A hippopotamus can run faster than a man can.
A honey bee must tap two million flowers to make one pound of honey
A honey bee travels an estimated 43,000 miles to gather one pound of honey. A pound of honey consists of 29,184 drops.
A honeybee can fly at fifteen miles per hour.
A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it is been decapitated.
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny
A jellyfish is 95% water.
A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
A person has to travel west to get from Los Angeles, CA to Reno, NV.
A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.
A polar bears skin is black. Its fur is actually clear, but like snow it appears white.
A pound of grasshoppers is three times as nutritious as a pound of beef.
A scientist who weighed people immediately before and after death concluded that the human soul weighs 21 gms.
A single drop of water contains one hundred billion billion atoms.
A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.
A starfish can turn its stomach inside out.
A teaspoon of neutron star material weighs about 110 million tons.
A type of rabbit can mate 12 hours after giving birth
A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust mites.
A whale's penis is called a dork.
A whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.
A whole library floor of books can be stored on 50 Gigabytes..
Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be molded with the hands.
According to a global survey in 1997 by Durex Condoms Canadians are the world's fourth worst lovers. The worst three slots belong to South Africa, Russia, and Poland.
According to statistics, Australian women are the most likely to have sex on the first date.
After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.
After the decaffeinating process, processing companies no longer throw the caffeine away; they sell it to pharmaceutical companies.
Alfalfa sprouts and feta cheese contain bacteria that could be harmful to small children and pregnant women.
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All 17 children of Queen Anne died before her.
All gondolas in Venice, Italy must be painted black, unless they belong to a high official.
All of the proceeds from James Barrie's book Peter Pan were bequeathed to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children in London.
Found out that not only are all 5 vowels present, they're in alphabetical order.
