Did you know, that every fourth american has appeared on tv?
Did you know, 61% of all hits on the internet are on sex-sites?
Every day 21 newborn babies will be given to the wrong parents.
The average person swallows 8 spiders in a year.
Cannabis is the most widely abused drug in the world.
The average person laughs 13 times a day.
Elvis was originally blond.
Eskimoes use refrigerators to keep food from freezing.
41% of all people take people with curly hair less seriously.
Did you know, that there is no such thing as an anti-wrinkle-creme?
22% of the time, a pizza will arrive faster that an ambulance in Great Britain .
3 people die every year, testing if a 9 volt batteri works on their tongue.
The 'Guiness Book Of Records' holds the record for being the most stolen book in the public libraries.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
5% of the population is gay.
The worlds best known word is 'okay', the second most well-known word is 'Coca-Cola'.
The giraf can clean it's ears with its tongue.
Charles Chaplin once won 3:rd price in a 'Charles Chaplin look-a-like contest'.
In 1995 a japanese trawler sank because a russian cargo plane dropped a living cow from 30.000 feet.
Only one book has been printet in more copies than the bible - the IKEA-catalogue.
1 ciggaret takes away five minutes of a person's life.
In 1950 we were 3 billion people on the earth - today we are 6 billion people.
'Donald Duck' was banned in Finland, because he doesn't wear pants.
74% of all nudist-females are nudists, because their husbands are nudists.
More people die from a champagne cork popping, than from poison spiders.
21% of all traffic accidents happen because the driver falls asleep.
Did you know that originally a danish guy invented the burglar alarm - unfortunately it got stolen.

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A female praying mantis has to bite the male praying mantis' head off before he could mate (dead sexy?) ;)
A pigs orgasim lasts for half an hour (wow) :o
Humans (maybe chimps) are the only animals that know that we will eventually die :(
A mounted knight and his warhorse weighs more that the average car! :blink:
I you ever thought that nijas honourably engaged combat with their target, they didn't the two most popular forms of assination were: 1. Waiting in the tiolet pit thing thats under the tiolet, and then stab their victim to death from below. 2 they would lie along a path the target came across every day and pretend to be dead, then as the target came by, by and inspected the :unsure: *coughcorpsecough* WHAMO :hopping: .
In new york: 250 people go to hospital because of an infected rat-bite but
1500 people go to hospital because of infected people bites.
The 1 in every 1000 pies has traces of vermin (mice/rats) or bugs. :ihavepie: worth the risk?
the basket-ball basket was around several years before they thought about putting a hole in the bottom. You'd used to have to climb up on to get it out. :huh:
The most unlikely game of poker was all four players were dealt a royal flush.
The logest game of cards was in texas, it lasted for over 5 years. :mellow:
Did you know that 2.5% of the population is gay and 2.5% of the population is lesbian?
Brain cells are (unless killed) the longest living cells in your body, they last your whole.
The average person uses 2-3% of their cerebellum. (long term memory part of brain)
A female fly that lands on food and isn't shooed off will vomit around 7 times and then lay their eggs.

Moose are very nearsighted. Some even try to mate with cars.
President Andrew Jackson thought the world was flat.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
Malaysians wash their babies in beer to prevent disease.
Dolly Parton once lost a Dolly Parton-lookalike contest.
Alaska is bigger than California and Texas combined.
There are no photographs of Abraham Lincoln smiling.
Attemption of suicide was a crime punishable by death in 19th-century England.
The Levator Labii Superioris Alaeque Nasil is the muscle you use to smile.
Americans buy more candy during Easter than at Halloween.
73% of women say they'd rather be "brilliant but plain" rather than "sexy but dumb".
The word "Sunday" is not in the Bible.
Thomas Alva Edison was afraid of the dark.
There are 635,013,559,500 different possible hands in Bridge.
The heaviest bird in North America is the wild turkey.
The gorilla's scientific name is "Gorilla gorilla gorilla".

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