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No english word rhymes with month, orange, silver, purple, or wicked.
A cat's urine glows under black light (wonder who was paid to figure that out).
A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
Lions mate, on average, 50 times per day (I'm still not over the pig).
Under the law of Mississippi, there’s no such thing as a female Peeping Tom.
In Idaho a citizen is forbidden by law to give another citizen a box of candy that weighs more than 50 pounds.
Every citizen of Kentucky is required by law to take a bath at least once a year.
By law, information collected in a U.S. census must remain confidential for 72 years.
In New York State, it is still illegal to shoot a rabbit from a moving trolley car.
In Somalia, Africa, it's been decreed illegal to carry old chewing gum stuck on the tip of your nose.
In parts of Alaska, it's illegal to feed alcohol to a moose.
You're subject to fines and/or imprisonment for making "ugly faces" at dogs in Oklahoma.
About two hundred babies are born worldwide every minute.
Your statistical chance of being murdered is one in twenty thousand.
Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
As many as nine out of ten people are right-handed, and the word for that side, "right," is derived from a variety of sources, all of which suggest strength. Left, on the other hand, comes from the Old English, lyft, for useless, weak.
Incredible means not believable. Incredulous means not believing. When someone's story is truly incredible, you ought to be incredulous.
The longest Monopoly game ever played was 1,680 hours long, that's 70 straight days!
The longest Monopoly game in a bathtub was 99 hours long.
On average, there are 333 squares of toilet paper on a roll.
The numbers on opposite sides of a die always add up to 7.
If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber. A ball of solid steel will bounce higher than one made entirely of glass.
At a glance, the Celsius scale makes more sense than the Fahrenheit scale for temperature measuring. But its creator, Anders Celsius, was an oddball scientist. When he first developed his scale, he made freezing 100 degrees and boiling 0 degrees, or upside down. No one dared point this out to him, so fellow scientists waited until Celsius died to change the scale.
A bucket filled with earth would weigh about 5 time more than the same bucket filled with the substance of the sun. However, the force of gravity is so much greater on the sun that the man weighing 150 pounds on our planet would weigh 2 tons on the sun.
Dirty snow melts faster than clean.
You are more likely to be killed by a coconut falling on your head than by a great white shark attacking and killing you while you are surfing.
I could list thousands more useless facts, but that would take up about as much space as the Flood currently takes up if I wrote down all the ones I know or was able to obtain at a moment's notice.
[Edited on 1/29/2005 12:28:19 AM]