THE SIMPLE FACTS :
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Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world?
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The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
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When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
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The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
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Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
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On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
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The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.
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“I am.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
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It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
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Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
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You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath.
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Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
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Every time you lick a stamp, you’re consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
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Cat’s urine glows under a black light. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
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In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
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Babies are born without knee caps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
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Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
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The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
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The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
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Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
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One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers…they saw it as competition.
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You know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
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Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
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There are 2 credit cards for every person in the US.
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The name Wendy was made up for the book “Peter Pan.”
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If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
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Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.
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Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing