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Strange
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 Saturday mail delivery in Canada was
eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969!
 In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car
for most trips of less than 50 minutes!
There are 18 different animal shapes in
the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!
Your body is creating and killing 15
million red blood cells per second!
The king of hearts is the only king
without a moustache on a standard playing card!
There are no clocks in Las Vegas
gambling casinos! 
There is one slot machine in Las Vegas
for every eight inhabitants!
During your lifetime, you'll eat about
60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!
Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if
they cant find any food!
Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum
is over 9000 years old!
A sneeze travels out your mouth at over
100 m.p.h.!
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!
Slugs have 4 noses!
Recycling
one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!
Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per
minute on this planet!
The average American/Canadian drinks
about 600 sodas a year!
It was once against the law to slam your
car door in a city in Switzerland!
There wasn't a single pony in the Pony
Express, just horses! 
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Honeybees have a type of hair on their
eyes!
The
starfish is one of the few animals who can turn it's stomach
inside-out!
Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, or
creamy!
A jellyfish is 95 percent water!
In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can
be jailed for cheating on their finals!
The katydid bug hears through holes in
its hind legs!
A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out
of wheat, so you can eat your plate!
More Monopoly money is printed in a
year, than real money printed throughout the world!
The elephant is one of the few mammals
that can't jump! 
The penguin is the only bird who can
swim, but not fly!
Q is the only letter in the alphabet
that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!
America
once issued a 5-cent bill!
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You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a
lifetime! Wow!
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue
print is different!
There are no words in the dictionary
that rhyme with: orange,
purple, and month!
Interesting tries from our readers:
orange: door hinge, melange (French for mix) purple:
hurtle, durple?, turtle month: once, bunth?, hunch
Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his
cap to keep him cool! He changed it every 2 innings!
Fortune cookies were actually invented
in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung!
A man named Charles Osborne had the
hiccups for 69 years! Wow!
A giraffe can clean its ears with its
21-inch tongue! 
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Chewing gum while peeling onions will
keep you from crying!
Here are some interesting numbers to
look at! (*1997)
166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are
delivered each year in the U.S!
1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire a
strung across the U.S!
123,000,000 cars are being driven down
the U.S's highways!
85,000,000 tons of paper are used each
year in the U.S!
56,000,000 people go to Major League
baseball each year!
Bats always turn left when exiting a
cave!
The praying mantis is the only insect
that can turn its head!
In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs!
Every
day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!
The most popular first name in the world
is Muhammad!
Tablecloths were originally meant to be
served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands
and faces after eating!
Tourists visiting Iceland should know
that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!
One car out of every 230 made was stolen
last year! 
The names of Popeye's four nephews are
Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!
Until the nineteenth century, solid
blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia!
The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts
three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders!
When glass breaks, the cracks move
faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a
camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!
A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285
gallons of fuel!
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A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for
one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average
automobile!
A
lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than
those found at the sun's surface!
A violin contains about 70 separate
pieces of wood!
It is estimated that 4 million "junk"
telephone calls, phone solicitations by persons or programmed
machine are made every day in the United States!
It takes glass one million years to
decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an
infinite amount of times!
Forest fires move faster uphill than
downhill!
Almost half the newspapers in the world
are published in the United States and Canada!
The
two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes
to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!
Most lipstick contains fish scales!
Skepticisms is the longest word that
alternates hands when typing!
One ragweed plant can release as many as
one billion grains of pollen!
It's illegal to drink beer out of a
bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis!
No
piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in
half!
A group of geese on the ground is a
gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!
Over 2500 left handed people a year are
killed from using products made for right handed people!
There are more than 10 million bricks in
the Empire State Building!
If you counted 24 hours a day, it would
take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
Taphephobia is the fear of being buried
alive!
A crocodile always grows new teeth to
replace the old teeth! 
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the
earth!
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Clinophobia is the fear of beds!
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for
1/100th of a second!
Porcupines float in
water!
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps
over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
The average life span of a major league
baseball is only 5-7 pitches!
The Mint once considered producing
doughnut-shaped coins!
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!
The
sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow
undisturbed on its fur!
Cat urine glows under a black-light!
The world's termites outweigh the
world's humans 10 to 1!
The electric chair was invented by a
dentist!
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise.
Except for the windmills in Ireland!
A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a
minute on average!
Camels have three eyelids to protect
themselves from blowing sand!
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its
head enables it to see all four feet at all times!
Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks!
A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in
just one night!
Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made
of stone!
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A hippo can open its mouth wide enough
to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!
A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a
dime has one less groove!
Until
1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin.
Today it's known as Tennessee!
The Earth weighs around
6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric
tons)!
A cockroach can live several weeks with
its head cut off - it dies from starvation!
Every time you lick a stamp, you're
consuming 1/10 of a calorie!
The average person has over 1,460 dreams
a year! 
It's against the law to pawn your
dentures in Las Vegas!
One in every 4 Americans has appeared on
television!
The average American/Canadian will eat
about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year!
It's against the law to burp, or sneeze
in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska!
you're born with 300 bones, but when you
get to be an adult, you only have 206!
Human thigh bones are stronger than
concrete!
Over 10,000 birds a year die from
smashing into windows!
The state of Florida is bigger than
England!
There are more than one million animal
species on Earth!
In Natoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw
knives at men wearing striped suits
It was once against the
law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland!
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a
day!
Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was
afraid of the dark!
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There
are over 58 million dogs in the U.S!
Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion
worth of pet food a year!
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster
than toenails!
Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a
year! 
In
the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem
Globetrotter."!
Every second, Americans collectively eat
one hundred pounds of chocolate
A fetus develops fingerprints at
eighteen weeks!
The fear of vegetables is called
Lachanophobia!.. More fears...
There are approximately fifty Bibles
sold each minute across the world!
Every year, kids in North America spend
close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum!
An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused
parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards!
A person uses approximately fifty-seven
sheets of toilet paper each day!
Honolulu is the only place in the United
States that has a royal palace!
One gallon of used motor oil can ruin
approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
More money is spent on gardening than on
any other hobby!
In 32 years. there are about 1 billion
seconds!
Rice paper does not have any rice in it!
In
England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
Most dust particles in your house are
made from dead skin!
The blesbok, a South African antelope,
is almost the same color as grapejuice!
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The average person laughs 13 times a
day!
Dogs can hear sounds that you cant!
Men are 6 times more likely to be struck
by lightning than women!
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!
Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby",
which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter
E!
Of all the words in the English
language, the word set has the most definitions!
The
fastest bird is the peregrine falcon. It can fly at a speed of
168-217 miles per hour.
Hans
Langseth had the longest beard at a record length of 17 1/2
feet long! When he died, his beard was given to the Smithsonian
Institute.
Submitted by girly
joker
The
deadliest disease was the pneumonic form of the Black Death of
1347-1351. It had death rate of 100%.
The
largest egg laid by a living bird is that of the North African
Ostrich. It is 6 to 8 inches in length and 4 to 6 inches in
diameter. The smallest is that of the hummingbird. It is less
than 0.39 inches in diameter.
The
hottest continent on earth is Africa, where a record high of
136.4 degrees F was once recorded.
Antarctica
is the coldest continent on earth, where a temperature of 126.9
degrees F below zero was once recorded. Chicago is home to
three of the five tallest buildings in the world — the Sears
Tower, Standard Oil Building, and John Hancock Center.
The
hottest place on earth is in Dallol, Ethiopia, which is a
sizzling 94 degrees in the shade on a typical day!
Angel
Falls in Venezuela is 20 times taller than Niagara Falls.
The
blue whale is the largest animal that ever lived (it could
reach 100 feet long and weight up to 150 tons!)
Wilt
Chamberlain scored 100 points in a basketball game in 1962,
when he played for the Philadelphia Warriors.
The
longest bout of hiccups lasted 69 years!
The
longest conga to this date included 119,986 people.
The
smallest cat is the Singapuras and weighs only 4 pounds.
The
longest movie made lasts 85 hours and is fittingly titled "The
Cure for Insomnia."
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A toothpick is the object most often
choked on by Americans!
Every 45 seconds, a house catches on
fire in the United States!
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the
earth!
Almost
two-thirds of the earth’s surface is covered by water. If the
earth were flat, water would cover everything in a layer two
miles deep!
During
a solar eclipse, the shadows of leaves make the same crescent
shape of the eclipsing sun. The image is made by light passing
through tiny holes in the leaves.
Monks
in the 16th century recorded seeing a giant explosion on the side
of the Moon. It most likely was a large meteor that slammed into
the Moon and left a large crater. It was a good thing the Moon
was between us and the meteor!
Is
Pluto the ninth planet or the eighth from the sun? The answer is
both. For most of its 248 year orbit around the sun it is the
ninth planet. But for 20 years of its long orbit, Pluto is
actually closer than Neptune. From 1979 to early 1999, Pluto
moved inside the orbit of Neptune and became the eighth planet!
See
the rings of Saturn while you can. They slowly wobble up and down
over the years as Saturn’s poles point away from then towards the
sun. The rings disappear when edge on to our line of sight.
Currently they are almost at their widest point and can be seen
even in binoculars and small telescopes.
A
star has been found moving closer to the sun. In a million years
a star named Gliese 710 will have moved to within 6/10ths of a
light year from the sun. This is more than six times closer than
today’s nearest star, Alpha Centauri, which is over 4 light years
away.
Stars
viewed through even the largest telescopes look like tiny points
of light. But astronomers, using the Hubble Space Telescope to
photograph a star called Betelgeuse (pronounced "beetle jooze"),
have now been able to see the surface of another star. Betelgeuse
is a red, giant star located at the left shoulder of the
constellation Orion and is the largest known star in our galaxy.
Not
all stars are found inside galaxies. Astronomers have found stars
moving between the galaxies, which are millions of light years
apart. These stars may even have planets, possibly with
intelligent life on them. If they do, these beings would see a
lonely sky with just one star (its own sun) and a few faint
galaxies.
Tired
of the cold weather? Take a vacation on the hottest planet in the
solar system - Venus. At over 800°, it is hotter than Mercury
because the clouds and abundant carbon dioxide hold in most of
the heat received from the sun.
Ever
notice on a map how the South American and African coasts, along
the Atlantic, fit together like two pieces of a giant puzzle?
That is because at one time, millions of years ago, they were one
continent. Magma from deep in the Earth broke through thin places
between these continents and pushed them apart. They are still
slowly moving apart and the Atlantic ocean is growing wider.
The
lead in pencils, really graphite, is made of the exact same thing
as diamonds. Both are pure carbon which just formed under
different pressures and temperatures. Intense heat and pressure
form the carbon atoms into crystals making diamond, while lesser
heat and pressure form the carbon into sheets making graphite.
Geologists
have discovered there seems to be more water miles deep between
the rocks of Earth’s mantle than in all the oceans of the world.
The intense pressure of the tons of rocks above keeps the hot
water from turning to steam and escaping.
The
Hubble Telescope has photographed pictures of auroras on Jupiter
and Saturn very much like those at our North and South Poles. But
if we had auroras as big as these, they would cover the entire
Earth and more.
If
you were to place the planet Saturn in a big enough bowl of
water, it would float!
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About
20 percent of the earth’s land is made up of desert, and the
world’s largest desert is the Sahara of North Africa.
The
planet Pluto is very cold, and reaches minus 400 degrees F.
Black
Holes are disappearing! At first, it was believed that nothing
could come out of a black hole and they would be around forever.
But a famous physicist, named Stephen Hawkings, discovered that
black holes lose energy and eventually evaporate away. But don’t
wait around for one to "disappear" because it will take trillions
and trillions of years to happen.
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On
a clear night, the human eye can see between 2,000 and 3,000
stars in the sky.
Water
is the only substance on earth that is lighter as a solid than a
liquid.
The
White Sands national park in New Mexico is the largest desert
with the fine white sand, made of a mineral called gypsum.
Our
sun is over 2.5 million miles around at its equator.
After
a blistering day of exploring, astronauts may relax with a nice
cold glass of ice water from Mercury, the planet closest to the
sun. Since there is no atmosphere there to spread the heat
around, shadows in deep craters at the poles could hold ice
deposited by early comet collisions.
96%
of Egypt is made up of the desert sands of the Sahara.
Mount
Everest is the tallest mountain in the world, standing 29,028
feet high.
The
Amazon rain forest supplies one-fifth of the world’s oxygen!
Where
do comets come from? There is a huge cloud of objects made of ice
and rock encircling our solar system, called the Oort Cloud. It
lies beyond Pluto and extends half way out to the next star.
These objects occasionally bump into each other, sending one in
towards the sun to become a comet like the recent Hale-Bopp
comet.
Every
day, eight trillion gallons of water pour out of the mouth of the
Amazon River into the Atlantic Ocean.
The
ice that covers 98% of Antarctica holds 90% of the world’s fresh
water.
Lake
Baikal in Russia is the deepest lake in the world, and holds as
much water as all the five Great Lakes of the U.S. combined!
Lake
Superior, one of the five Great Lakes between the U.S. and the
border of Canada, is a freshwater lake with the largest surface
area, and it's so big it has waves!
Olympus
Mons is a mountain on Mars, which is about fifteen miles high,
three times higher than Mount Everest on earth, and at the top it
is 45 miles across!
Someday
you may go ice fishing on Jupiter’s moon, Europa. Evidence is
being constantly discovered that there is an ocean under the ice
of Europa. The ice would keep the ocean from evaporating and huge
tides caused by Jupiter would keep the ocean temperature above
freezing. What kinds of life might there be in such a strange
ocean?
The
deepest natural caves known to man are the Pierre St. Martin
Caves in the Pyrenees Mountains between Spain and France, which
reach 4,370 feet deep, almost three times as deep as the Empire
State Building is high!
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