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Some Things You Don't Need To Know by braimeddy: 7:08am On Aug 03, 2015
[b]* Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
 
* Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
 
* The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
 
* A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
 
* There are more chickens than people in the world.
 
* The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
 
* "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
 
* A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
 
* An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
 
* A dragonfly has a life span of 1-6 months
 
* A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.
 
* It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
 
* The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
 
* In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
 
* The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
 
* The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
 
* The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
 
* A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
 
* More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
 
* Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
 
* If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
 
* Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
 
* Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
 
* The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
 
* The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start.
 
* TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
 
* The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
 
* A snail can sleep for 3 years.
 
* American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
 
* The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
 
* Vatican City is the smallest country in the world with a population of 1,000 and a size of 108.7 acres.
 
* "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
 
* No president of the United states was an only child.
 
* The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
 
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Re: Some Things You Don't Need To Know by Nobody: 7:11am On Aug 03, 2015
This is so wow shocked

snails can sleep for 3 yrz holy moses!
Re: Some Things You Don't Need To Know by vkon2(m): 7:21am On Aug 03, 2015
this is interesting

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