Over 200 uselsss but interseting facts, all of which are apparenty true.

1.There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos so as to encourage gamblers to stay longer as they wont see how long they have been there.

2.Shakespeare was born and died on the same day

3.In a certain graveyard in somerset, england it is legal to shoot and kill a Welshman with a crossbow.

4.An elephant is the only animal that cannot jump.

5.A cockroach can survive for a month without its head

6.US Dollar bills are made out of cotton and linen rather than paper as with most currencies, which is why they survive a cycle in a washing machine better than most do.

7.Peanuts aren't technically nuts, they are legumes.
More people fear spiders than fear death.

8.The "57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of pickle types the company once produced.

9.Giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels.

10.Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks so that it doesn't digest itself.

11.A B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.

12.The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.

13.The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.

14.The national flag of Italy was designed by Napoleon Bonaparte.

15.It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not down again.

16.A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

17.Benjamin Franklin was the fifth in a series of the youngest son of the youngest son.

18.In Italy, 17 is considered an unlucky number. In Japan, 4 is considered an unlucky number.

19.A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

20.All the chemicals in a human body combined are worth about 6.25 euro (if sold separately).

21.In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles.

22.The ZIP in "ZIP code" means Zoning Improvement Plan.

23.Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose active ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903.

24.A 2 by 4 is really 1 1/2 by 3 1/2.

25.It's estimated that at any one time around 0.7% of the world's population is drunk.

26.Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades = David ; Clubs = Alexander the Great ; Hearts = Charlemagne ; Diamonds = Caesar

27.Every person, including identical twins, has a unique eye and tongue print along with their

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