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    Giraffes clean their ears with their 18+ inch tongue.

    The mayor of Talkeetn, Alaska for fifteen years has been a cat.
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    Thanks for these random facts I guess
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    Many white cats with two blue eyes are deaf, while a white cat with one blue eye is only deaf in the ear that is on the same side as the eye (Not all cats with one or two blue eyes are deaf, though).
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    Where do you guys get this information from?
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    When Kurt Cobain was 14, he told a friend that he'd be a superstar musician, get rich and famous, kill himself and go out in a blaze of glory like Jimi Hendrix.
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    If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
    The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.

    President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.

    In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.

    Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.

    The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.

    In the early days of the telephone, operators would pick up a call and use the phrase, "Well, are you there?". It wasn't until 1895 that someone suggested answering the phone with the phrase "number please?"

    The surface area of an average-sized brick is 79 cm squared.

    According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction.

    Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.

    The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

    It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.

    Karoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese.

    The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.

    The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.

    Rhode Island is the smallest state with the longest name. The official name, used on all state documents, is "Rhode Island and Providence Plantations."

    When you die your hair still grows for a couple of months.

    There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

    Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.

    The newspaper serving Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, the home of Rocky and Bullwinkle, is the Picayune Intellegence.

    It would take 11 Empire State Buildings, stacked one on top of the other, to measure the Gulf of Mexico at its deepest point.

    The first person selected as the Time Magazine Man of the Year - Charles Lindbergh in 1927.

    The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.

    It took Leo Tolstoy six years to write "War & Peace".

    The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.

    On the new hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.

    Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class.

    The names of the two stone lions in front of the New York Public Library are Patience and Fortitude. They were named by then-mayor Fiorello LaGuardia.

    The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

    The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.

    Lucy and Linus (who where brother and sister) had another little brother named Rerun. (He sometimes played left-field on Charlie Brown's baseball team, [when he could find it!]).

    The pancreas produces Insulin.


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    In Texas it's illegal to take two sips or more of beer while standing in the same spot.
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    In Texas it's illegal to take two sips or more of beer while standing in the same spot.
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