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Unusual Facts


Here are some unusual facts that you can use to prove superiority to your friends:

  • Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
  • Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a bellybutton.
  • A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 yrs.
  • People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more.
  • When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop....even your heart. This is why people have always said "God bless you" after a sneeze.
  • Only 7% of the population are lefties.
  • 40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
  • Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.
  • The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
  • The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
  • The average housefly lives for one month.
  • 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year. Don't ask how.
  • A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.
  • The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
  • Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the day.
  • The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot.
  • Among the music catalogues that Michael Jackson owns the rights to, is the South Carolina State anthem.
  • In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.
  • Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane just in case there is a crash.
  • The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.
  • Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth. They are reused in vein transplant surgery.
  • Humphrey Bogart and Princess Diana were seventh cousins.
  • If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green
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