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Weird Facts--Strange But True!!
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
It was discovered on a space mission that frogs can through up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so that the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realise what is happening, relax and correct itself. How many cats did they watch falling from tall buildings to find this out??
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it would digest itself.
101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie.
'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
A Whale's penis is called a dork,
To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs, it will let go instantly. This is presuming of course that you have your hands free and that you have the presence of mind to think 'now what was that weird fact I read on that web page'
Reindeer like to eat bananas.
If a statue in a park of a person on horseback has both front legs in the air (the horse that is), the person died in battle, if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four feet on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thompson. Most of the rest signed on August 2nd, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
The word "samba" means "to rub navels together".
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War 2 killed the only elephant in Berlin Zoo.
In the film 'Casablanca', Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam."
Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."
More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
A 'Jiffy' is an actual unit of time; 1/100th of a second.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
Every time you lick a stamp, you consume 1/10th of a calorie. So that's why the supermodels never write to me!!
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law, which stated that a man couldn't beat his wife with anything wider than his thumb!.
Supplied by: Mrs J Pearson, East Yorkshire, England.
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