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Strange and Cool Facts about Animals

A cockroach can live for a week without it's head. It eventually dies of thirst

Polar bears are left handed

A dolphin sleeps with one eye open

Baby hippos are born under water

Butterflies taste with their feet

Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air

Both the skin and fur of a tiger is striped

Ants don't sleep

There are almost 900 types of bats

A giraffe has a 21 inch tongue ( imagine being kissed by a giraffe. Ick!)

A black widow spider kills and eats it's mate

A cockroaches blood is white, not red

There are more chickens than people in the world

Camel's milk does not curdle

Crickets hear through their knees

A shrimp's heart is in their head

Porcupines float in water

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear

A dragon fly's life span is only 24 hours

Honey bees have hair on their eyes

The original name for a butterfly is flutterby

The penguin is the only bird that can swim but not fly

A jellyfish is 95% water

some ribbon worms eat themselves if they can't find any food

After eating, a housefly regurgitates it's food , and then eats it again

Octopuses have 3 hearts

A chameleons tongue is twice the length of it's body

Starfish don't have a brain

Funny Names of Real Places

Belcher, Louisiana

Hellhole Bay, South Carolina

Hot coffee, Mississippi

Pee Pee, Ohio

Rabbit Hash, Kentucky

Cheesequake, New Jersey

Buddha, Indiana

Eek, Alaska

Jerk Trail, Missouri

Yellville, Arkansas

Accident, Missouri

Looneyville, Texas

Strange Facts about Inventions

The Electric Chair was invented by a dentist

Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark

Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung

Cigarette lighters were invented before the match

The first ford cars had dodge engines

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket

The air conditioner was invented before the refrigerator

Cool Facts about the Human Body

The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razor blades

There are 400 species of bacteria in the colon

Girls have more taste buds than boys

It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown

The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue

Every day an adult body produce 300 billion nerve cells

You get a new stomach lining every 3 to 4 days

Scientists say that higher your IQ, the more you dream

Feet have approximately 250,000 sweat glands

10% of the world's population is left handed

Facts about Food

Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as a medicine

Both Mc Donald's and burger king sugar coat their fries so they will turn crispy brown

There are 15,000 kinds of rice

A typical American eats 28 pigs in his/her lifetime

Apples are more efficient at waking people up in the morning than coffee

In Ancient Rome it was considered a sin to eat a wood pecker

The Bible mentions salt 30 times

In the United States, potato chips cost 200 times more than potatoes

Eggplant contains nicotine

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying

Bubble gum contains rubber

Five jello flavors that flopped: celery, coffee, apple, cola, and chocolate

The eight most popular foods to cause food allergies are: milk, eggs, wheat, fish, shellfish, peanuts, soy, and tree nuts

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