# Weird but True facts.
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**Created:** [April 6, 2009, 10:28am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/weird-but-true-facts/243338 "2009-04-06T10:28:58Z")
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### Author:  [@n\_cole](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/n_cole)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2009, 10:28am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/weird-but-true-facts/243338/1 "2009-04-06T10:28:58Z")
Not sure if this is a repost, but I got bored at work and Googled “Strange but True” and found this list, some of them are pretty weird/gross/funny:
_1
Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the_ [world](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=world)_’s largest zipper manufacturer.
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40 percent of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
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315 entries in Webster’s 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
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On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the_ [wrong](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=wrong)[parents](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=parents) _daily.
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Chocolate kills_ [dogs](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=dogs)_! True, chocolate affects a_ [dog](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=dog)_’s heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to_ [kill](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=kill) _a small sized_ [dog](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=dog)_.
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Ketchup was sold in the 1830’s as a medicine.
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Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same_ [time](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=time)_.
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Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
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There are_ [no](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=no) _clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
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Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also,_ [it](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=it) _took him 10_ _years_ _to_ [paint](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=paint) _Mona Lisa’s lips.
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Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a_ [film](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=film) _down so you could see his moves. That’s the opposite of the norm.
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The original_ [name](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=name) _for the butterfly was “flutterby”!
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By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you_ [can](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=can)_’t sink in quicksand.
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Mosquito repellents don’t repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito’s sensors so they don’t know you’re there.
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Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a_ [toilet](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=toilet) _to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
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The_ _first_ _product to have a_ [bar](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=bar) _code was Wrigley’s gum.
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Michael Jordan_ _makes_ _more_ [money](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=money) _from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
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Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
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Adolf Hitler’s mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of_ [it](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=it) _by her doctor.
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The three most valuable brand names on_ [earth](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=earth)_: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
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To escape the grip of a crocodile’s jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.
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The average person_ [falls](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=falls) _asleep in seven minutes.
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The “pound” (#) key on your_ [keyboard](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=keyboard) _is called an octothorp.
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The only domestic_ [animal](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=animal) _not mentioned in the Bible is the_ [cat](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=cat)_.
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Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
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The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
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Dreamt" is the only_ [word](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=word) _in the English_ [language](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=language) _that_ _ends_ _in “mt”.
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It’s impossible to sneeze with your_ [eyes](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=eyes) _open.
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In Chinese, the KFC slogan “finger lickin’ good” comes out as “eat your fingers off”.
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A cockroach_ [can](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=can) _live for 10 days without a_ [head](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=head)_.
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We shed 40 pounds of_ [skin](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=skin) _a lifetime.
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Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines.
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Mexico City sinks abut 10 inches a year.
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Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.
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Blue is the favorite_ [color](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=color) _of 80 percent of Americans.
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When a person shakes their_ [head](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=head) _from side to side, he is saying “yes” in Sri Lanka.
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There are more chickens than people in the_ [world](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=world)_.
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The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.
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There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.
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The average four year-old_ [child](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=child) _asks over four hundred_ [questions](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=questions) _a day.
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The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three_ _Times_ _each_ [morning](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=morning)_.
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The three wealthiest families in the_ [world](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=world) _have more assets than the Combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.
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The first owner of the Marlboro cigarette_ _Company_ _died of lung cancer.
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Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
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The_ [world](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=world)_’s youngest_ [parents](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=parents) _were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
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Our_ [eyes](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=eyes) _remain the same size from_ [birth](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=birth) _onward, but our noses and ears Never_ [stop](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=stop) _growing.
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You_ [burn](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=burn) _more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
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A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a Few_ _weeks__.
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Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
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The Mona Lisa has_ [no](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=no) _eyebrows.
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When the_ [moon](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=moon) _is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.
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Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned His_ [wife](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=wife) _or mother because they were both deaf.
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A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a Carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After Weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe Leaving her mentally retarded
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“I am.” is the shortest_ _complete_ _sentence in the English_ [language](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=language)
_55
Colgate faced a big obstacle_ [marketing](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=marketing)[toothpaste](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=toothpaste) _in Spanish speaking Countries because Colgate translates into the command “go hang Yourself.”
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Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different.
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“Bookkeeper” is the only_ [word](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=word) _in English_ [language](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=language) _with three consecutive Double letters.
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Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed People do.
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The sentence “the_ [quick](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=quick) _brown_ [fox](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=fox) _jumps over the lazy_ [dog](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=dog)_” uses every Letter in the English_ [language](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=language)_.
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If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line Would never end because of the_ [rate](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=rate) _of reproduction
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China has more English speakers than the United States.
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Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
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Each_ [square](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=square) _inch of human_ [skin](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=skin) _consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
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An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.
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Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our Bodies.
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Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average Man never trimmed his beard,_ [it](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=it) _would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his Lifetime.
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According to Genesis 1:20-22, the_ [chicken](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=chicken) _came before the egg.
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The longest place_ [name](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=name) _still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi- Pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu - a New Zealand_ [hill](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=hill)_.
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If you leave Tokyo by_ [plane](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=plane) _at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at Approximately 4:30pm the previous day.
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Scientists in Australia’s Parkes Observatory thought they had positive Proof of_ [alien](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=alien)[life](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=life)_, when they began picking up_ [radio](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=radio)_-waves from_ [space](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=space)_. However, after investigation, the_ [radio](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=radio) _emissions were traced to a Microwave in the building.
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Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times.
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More than 40,000 parasites and 250 types of bacteria are exchanged during a French kiss.
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Men_ [can](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=can) _read smaller print than_ [women](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=women)_, but_ [women](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=women)[can](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=can) _hear better.
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Coca-Cola was originally_ [green](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=green)_.
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The most common_ [name](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=name) _in the_ [world](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=world) _is Mohammed.
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The_ [name](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=name) _of all the continents ends with the same_ [letter](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=letter) _that they start with.
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There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
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TYPEWRITER is the longest_ [word](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=word) _that_ [can](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=can) _be made using the letters only on one row of the_ [keyboard](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=keyboard)_.
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Women blink nearly twice as much as_ [men](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=men)_!!
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You_ [can](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=can)_’t_ [kill](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=kill) _yourself by holding your breath.
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It is impossible to lick your elbow.
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People say “Bless you” when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
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It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the_ [sky](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=sky)_.
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The “sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English_ [language](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=language)_.
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If you sneeze too hard, you_ [can](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=can) _fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you_ [can](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=can) _rupture a blood vessel in your_ [head](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=head) _or neck and die.
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Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
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111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
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If a_ [statue](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=statue) _of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
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If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.
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If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
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Question - This is the only_ [food](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=food) _that doesn’t spoil. What is this? Ans. - Honey
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A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
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A snail_ [can](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=can) _sleep for three years.
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All_ [polar](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=polar) _bears are left handed.
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American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
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Butterflies taste with their feet.
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Elephants are the only animals that_ [can](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=can)_’t jump.
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In the last 4000 years,_ [no](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=no) _new animals have been domesticated.
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On average, people fear spiders more than they do_ [death](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=death)_.
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Shakespeare invented the_ [word](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=word) _‘assassination’ and ‘bump’.
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Stewardesses is the longest_ [word](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=word) _typed with only the left hand.
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The ant always_ [falls](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=falls) _over on its right side when intoxicated.
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The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
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The human heart creates enough pressure when_ [it](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=it) _pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
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Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
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The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
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Most lipstick contains_ [fish](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=fish) _scales.
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And finally 99% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow._
And no, I don’t know why it is all underlined or why my font defaulted to blue, and I just don’t care. :tongue
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### Author:  [@GermanPSI](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/GermanPSI)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2009, 10:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/weird-but-true-facts/243338/2 "2009-04-06T10:36:22Z")
holy shit this is better then college
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### Author:  [@Mafdark](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Mafdark)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2009, 10:38am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/weird-but-true-facts/243338/3 "2009-04-06T10:38:57Z")
not very accurate info… but not that bad.
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### Author:  [@Alpine](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Alpine)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2009, 10:39am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/weird-but-true-facts/243338/4 "2009-04-06T10:39:50Z")
sweet!
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### Author:  [@Ilya](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Ilya)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2009, 10:49am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/weird-but-true-facts/243338/5 "2009-04-06T10:49:39Z")
I tried to lick my elbow.
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### Author:  [@Ilya](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Ilya)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2009, 10:50am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/weird-but-true-facts/243338/6 "2009-04-06T10:50:10Z")
> [@Squeaky Brakes](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/squeaky-brakes/16730/2):
>
> not very accurate info…
Yup.
North America and South America do NOT begin and end with the same letter. Unless they were referring to “America” as a whole.
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### Author:  [@Mk4\_30R\_Ban](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Mk4_30R_Ban)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2009, 10:54am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/weird-but-true-facts/243338/7 "2009-04-06T10:54:48Z")
_It is impossible to lick your elbow._
not true. jay monger can lick his elbow, he got him to do it like 8 years ago.
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### Author:  [@bennyfizzle](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bennyfizzle)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2009, 11:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/weird-but-true-facts/243338/8 "2009-04-06T11:36:48Z")
Ok, you can in fact sneeze with your eyese open, I personally know someone who can lick their elbow and alot of those are not scientific fact.
Some of them were new/cool though.
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### Author:  [@Wayne64SS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Wayne64SS)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2009, 12:14pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/weird-but-true-facts/243338/9 "2009-04-06T12:14:43Z")
I have one to add:
It is actually illegal to dance on Sundays in Duanesburg.
It’s some old law that’s still on the books there. lol
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### Author:  [@ninety1two40](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ninety1two40)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2009, 12:46pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/weird-but-true-facts/243338/10 "2009-04-06T12:46:38Z")
> [@Network people i have a question](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/network-people-i-have-a-question/16377/22):
>
> I have one to add:
>
> It is actually illegal to dance on Sundays in Duanesburg.
>
> It’s some old law that’s still on the books there. lol
:wow :ahh
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### Author:  [@kramerbuccs24](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/kramerbuccs24)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2009, 1:10pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/weird-but-true-facts/243338/11 "2009-04-06T13:10:55Z")
88-90 are the most interesting to me and from what i know they’re actually true
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### Author:  [@Alpine](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Alpine)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2009, 1:26pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/weird-but-true-facts/243338/12 "2009-04-06T13:26:48Z")
> [@Network people i have a question](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/network-people-i-have-a-question/16377/22):
>
> I have one to add:
>
> It is actually illegal to dance on Sundays in Duanesburg.
>
> It’s some old law that’s still on the books there. lol
I am riding to Duanesburg this Sunday and break dancing to September’s “Cry For You” until I get arrested…
Who’s with me!?
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### Author:  [@kramerbuccs24](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/kramerbuccs24)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2009, 1:27pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/weird-but-true-facts/243338/13 "2009-04-06T13:27:49Z")
> [@Sorry everyone](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sorry-everyone/16736/14):
>
> I am riding to Duanesburg this Sunday and break dancing to September’s “Cry For You” until I get arrested…
>
> Who’s with me!?
GREAT song. srsly.
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### Author:  [@Hooked\_on\_240](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Hooked_on_240)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2009, 7:08pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/weird-but-true-facts/243338/14 "2009-04-06T19:08:59Z")
> _4_
> _On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the_ [wrong](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=wrong)[parents](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=parents) _daily._
So this is why when i was born, i was told i was a trust fund baby. years later discovered ive been jibbed. 😢
Most of those like the zipper i looked :lol
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### Author:  [@silveradoman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/silveradoman)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2009, 4:00pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/weird-but-true-facts/243338/15 "2009-04-18T16:00:41Z")
_22
The average person_ [falls](http://www.ratemyeverything.net/browsebytag.aspx?tag=falls) _asleep in seven minutes._
yeah no… i dont think so…
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### Author:  [@deadbeatrec](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/deadbeatrec)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2009, 4:44am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/weird-but-true-facts/243338/16 "2009-04-21T04:44:40Z")
#18 is BS
[http://marilynmonroepages.com/6toes.html](http://marilynmonroepages.com/6toes.html)