The heart of a blue whale is the size of a small car.



The tongue of a blue whale is as long as an elephant.


The scales of a crocodile are made of ceratin, the same substance that hooves and fingernails are made of.


A crocodile's tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth and cannot move it.

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a rat can last longer without water than a camel, although camels last longer without water when it is stored (obviously)

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Quit smoking cigarettes 8-23-08

For 3000 years, until 1883, hemp was the world's largest agricultural crop, from which the majority of fabric, soap, paper, medicines, and oils were produced.
George Washington and Thomas Jefferson both grew hemp. Ben Franklin owned a mill that made hemp paper. The US Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.




The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.


Due to earth's gravity it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 metres.

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The term Cop comes from Constable on Patrol, which is a term used in England.

Someone on Earth reports seeing a UFO every 3 minutes.

7,000 new insect species are discovered every year.

The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.

**American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad in first class.

**The ant, when intoxicated, will always fall over to its right side.

**A snail can sleep for three years.

**Turtles can breathe through their butts.

**One pair of rats has the potential for 15,000 descendants in a year.

Lightning strikes men about seven times more often than it does women.


Women make up 49% of the world population.


About 50% of Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace. This is called propinquity.


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A lighter was invented earlier than the matchstick.

A Japanese crab can be up to 12 feet long..........

**Left handed people live slightly shorter lives than right handed people.

**People spend about two weeks of their lives at traffic lights!

**Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England, but only in tropical fish stores.

**There are 100 million internet users in China. Some of the sites they can't access are BBC news, Amnesty International and Dalailama.com.

I found this in a local paper about the year 1907...
Life expectancy was 47..
14% of US homes had a bath tub..
8% had a phone..
3 min call from Denver to NY was $11..
only 8,000 cars and 144 miles of paved roads..
city speed limit 10mph..
average wage was $0.22..
Pay.. accountant - $2000..dentist - $2,500..mechanical eng...$5,000..
population of Las Vegas was only 30..
eggs - $0.14...coffee - $0.15..
woman washed their hair once a month using Borax or egg yolks..
marijuana, heroin and morphine were available at corner drugstore and advertised as "Heroin clears the complexion, gives buoyancy to the mind, regulates the stomach and bowels, and if fact is a perfect guardian of health"
Boy did they get that wrong..