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1. It is Physically impossible to touch your elbow with your tongue.
2. In San Francisco it is illegal to wipe one's car with used underwear
3. In Denver Colorado, it is illegal to lend your vacuum cleaner to your neighbors
4. Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England, if they work in a tropical fish store
5. Cats and dogs can only see the colours blue and yellow

6. A cat's urine glows under a blacklight
7. Dogs are mentioned 14 times in the Bible
8. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib
9. You will not find burritoes in Mexico
10. Vermont is the only US state capital without a McDonalds restaurant
11. No other species than humans drink milk from the mothers of other species
12. About 10% of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment
13. Humans babies are born without Kneecaps
14. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue
15. Kissing is healthier than shaking hands
16. Kissing prolongs life
17. Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution
18. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos
19. The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card
20. The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad
21. When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second
22. A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface
23. It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times
24. Most lipstick contains fish scales
25. The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet
26. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"
27. The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches
28. The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on its fur
29. The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1

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