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Published: Monday, August 24, 2009

Updated: Saturday, October 24, 2009

Almonds are members of the peach family.

Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Coca-Cola was originally green.

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

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law that stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.

In every episode of "Seinfeld" there is a Superman somewhere.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

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

The cells that make up the antlers of a moose are the fastest growing animal cells in nature.

A cockroach can live 9 days without its head before it starves to death.

A hippo can run faster than a man can.

Flies jump backward when they take off.

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

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

On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

Elephants can't jump. Every other mammal can.

The letters of the alphabet in order of frequency of use are:

ETAISONHRDLUCMFWYPGVBKJQXZ

A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.

Every year, more people are killed by donkeys than in aircraft crashes.

The first word spoken on the moon was Okay.

2,500 left-handers die each year using products designed for right-handers.

Your nose and ears never stop growing!!

All of the clocks in "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.

The longest place-name still in use is:

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupoka-wenuakitanatahu, a New Zealand hill.

The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.

A clitoris is a type of flower.

Money isn't made out of paper. It's made out of cotton!

Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time!

If you sleep in a cold room, you are more likely to have a bad dream.

The average human eats eight spiders in their lifetime at night.

The average woman consumes six pounds of lipstick in her lifetime.

The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

The word lethologica describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

Polar bears are left-handed.

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