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Most lipstick contains fish scales! Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands! 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! Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants! 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! 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 head"! The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet! The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches! 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 it's fur! Cat's 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' heads 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! 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! A hummingbird weighs less than a penny! Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee! The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons! A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off! Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie! The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year! 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! 7% of Americans don't know the first 9 words of the American anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem! 5% of Canadians don't know the first 7 words of the Canadian anthem, but know the first 9 of the American anthem! Over 1000 birds a year die from smashing into windows! The state of Florida is bigger than England! 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! 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! In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow! There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones! About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30! More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones! 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! Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue! 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! Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes! 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 starfish is one of the only animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out! | ||||||||||||||||
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ENCLOSED CAPSULES "[Commuters will] rent small four-seater capsules such as we find on a ski lift. These capsules will be linked together into little trains that come into the city. As the train goes out towards the perimeter of the city, the capsule will become an individual unit. One can then drive to wherever he may want to go." --Ulrich Frantzen Prophecy for the Year 2000 (1967) SOLAR-POWERED CLOTHES "Solar power packs, which will be designed into the shoulders of the garment, will draw energy from the sun and store it. Tubes to distribute this energy will extend from the shoulders through the entire suit. The retentive fibers will heat in the winter and cool in the summer by means of a control system." --Larry Le Gaspi Fashion 2001 (1981) | ||||||||||||||||
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If you can answer the 3 questions here with out using a book or any other source of info in less than 20 min. of being at this sites we will send you a special very strange stuff inc. t-shirt while supplies last! just remember to send a email with your name,address,and (phone is optinal) QUESTION1;what piece of sports equipment has been used to raise a sunken ship? QUESTION2;what internationally renowned gourmet chef was a spy for Allies during w.w.2? QUESTION3;who was the first person to die of radiation poisoning? | ||||||||||||||||
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