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100 USELESS (BUT INTERESTING) FACTS

1. Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.
2. Guinea pigs and rabbits can't sweat.
3. Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
4. There are more than fifty different kinds of kangaroos.
5. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain
6. The average person laughs 10 times a day
7. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue


8. A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years
9. Owls are the only birds who can see the color blue
10. Slugs have 4 noses
11. The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old
12. It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
13. Dolphins sleep with one eye open
14. Some worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food
15. Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle
16. Women blink nearly twice as much as men
17. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin
18. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different
19. One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet
20. You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206
21. Earth is the only planet not named after a god
22. More People use blue toothbrushes then red ones
23. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath
24. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete
25. Coca-Cola would be green if coloring weren't added to it
26. Your statistical chance of being murdered is one in twenty thousand
27. Buckingham Palace has over six hundred rooms
28. Frank Wathernam was the last prisoner to leave Alcatraz prison on March 21, 1963
29. In Las Vegas, casinos do not have any clocks
30. The Mall of America, located in Bloomington, Minnesota, has no heating system
31. The city of Chicago has the only post office in the world where you can drive your car through
32. The total number of steps in the Eiffel Tower are 1665
33. From 1939 to 1942, there was a undersea post office in the Bahamas
34. In Czechoslovakia, there is a church that has a chandelier made out of human bones
35. One of the steepest main streets in Canada is located in Saint John, New Brunswick. Over a distance of two blocks the street rises about 80 feet
36. The Golden Gate Bridge was first opened in 1937
37.)The Great Wall stretches for about 4,500 miles across North China.
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38. Amish people do not believe in the use of aerosol air fresheners
39. Annually 17 tons of gold is used to make wedding rings in the United States
40. Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower


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