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    • It is impossible for most people to lick their own elbow. (try it!)

    • A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

    • A shrimp's heart is in its head.

    • In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand, or attempted to do so.

    • It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

    • The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is believed to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

    • If you sneeze too hard, you could fracture a rib.

    • Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.

    • Wearing headphones for just an hour could increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

    • In every episode of Seinfeld there was a Superman somewhere in the picture.

    • In the course of an average lifetime, while sleeping you might eat around 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders, or more.

    • Some lipsticks contain fish scales.

    • Cat urine glows under a black-light.

    • Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

    • Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

    • There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

    • The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing (when using the proper position of the hands on the keyboard; Hunting and pecking doesn't count!).

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

    • The longest one-syllable words in the English language are "scraunched" and "strengthed." Some suggest that "squirreled" could be included, but squirrel is intended to be pronounced as two syllables (squir-rel) according to most dictionaries. "Screeched" and "strengths" are two other long one-syllable words, but they only have 9 letters.

    • "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

    • Almonds are a member of the peach family.

    • Maine is the only state that has a one-syllable name.

    • There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

    • Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"

    • A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

    • An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

    • Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

    • In many advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.

    • The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."

    • A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

    • The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

    • The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

    • Most people fall asleep in seven minutes.

    • "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

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