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Fun Facts You May or May Not Want to Know
♦Elephants are the only animals that can't
jump.
♦A crocodile cannot stick its
tongue out.
♦A snail can sleep for
three years.
♦ Butterflies taste
with their feet.
♦The ant always falls over on its
right side when
intoxicated
♦The name Wendy was made up
for the book "Peter Pan."
♦The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has
twice as many bathrooms as is
necessary. When it was built in the 1940s,
the state of Virginia still had segregation
laws requiring separate
toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
♦The sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps
over the lazy dog" uses every letter
in the English language.
♦The shortest war in history was between
Zanzibar and England in 1896.
Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
♦The strongest muscle in the body is the
tongue.
♦The word "lethologica" describes the state
of not being able to remember the
word you want.
♦The word racecar and kayak are the
same whether they are read left to
right or right to left.
♦There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
♦TYPEWRITER is the longest word made using letters on only 1 row of the keyboard.
♦Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
♦You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
♦You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
You share your birthday with at least nine million other people in the world.
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