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Apparently people don't have knee caps until the age of 2-6. Who knew?!


Here are some other things I found out and thought were really strange:

Everytime Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.

Chinese Crested dogs can get acne.

Slugs do not have lungs, rather a hole in the side of thier body that directly absorbs oxygen. They also have four noses.

Peter the Great executed his wife's lover and forced her to keep her lover's head in a jar of alcohol in her bedroom.

That thing between your mouth and nose is called a philtrum.

The term, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" is from Ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was, "No eye gouging." Everything else was allowed, but the only way to be disqualified was to poke someone's eye out.

The average person speaks about 31,500 words per day.

Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

The slow loris is the only primate that has a venomous bite.

13% of all countries do not have a word for "love."

The largest living creature on earth is a fungus in Montana that lives on and within the soil that covers an area of approxamately 40 sq. acres.

A cockroach can live for over a month without it's head, then it only dies of dehydration.

A theory state that humans were better designed for life in the water.

thats quite interesting actually (oh the things i'll do to avoid starting work...!)

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I wonder if the french hung any inanimate objects. How could they tell when it was dead?


I also thought these were really shocking:


Boanthropy is a disease in which a man thinks he is an ox.
BothHitler and Napoleon were missing one testicle.
Every hampster in the US is the result of a single litter from an imported pair.
There are more people alive today, than have EVER died!
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. (wow my dad must have made 6 cups by now then.)
One legend claims stealing someone's shadow (by measuring it against a wall and driving a nail through its head) can turn the victim into a vampire.
Alexander the Great was a homosexual.
The average woman eats 6 lbs of lip stick in her life time.
Stalin's left foot had webbed toes.
The most common name in the United States is 'Sue Smith'
Atila the Hun was a dwarf.
Rice paper does not contain any rice.
Most giraffes are bisexual.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
Each year, Americans spend more on cat food than on baby food.

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu is the longest name of any place on Earth.

Alexander the Great was quite thoroughly bi-sexual, however he had little time for sex at all as behind conquering, religion, and drinking, it was hardly relevant.

I've been to Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu

No possible way that that is true. Others, very interesting.

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I think it means that every hamster in the U.S. is descended from a single litter of hamsters from an imported pair.

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imagine putting that on a postcard...

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All the more impressive given that bees don't breathe through their mouths, but instead through little holes in the side of their bodies called "Spiracles."

Bee stings are rubbish to you, but suicide for the bee - they leave their stinger and part of their exoskeleton with you as a parting gift, then go off to die.

Many of our english element names have their roots in other languages, though mostly Latin:
Tin (Sn) was once Stannum (Latin)
Tungsten (W) was Wolfram (German)
Gold (Au) was "Aurum" (Latin)
Silver (Ag) was "Argentum" (Latin)
Potassium (K) was "kalium" (Latin)
Sodium (Na) was "natron" (Latin)
Iron (Fe) was "ferrum" (Latin)
Antimony (Sb) was "stibium" (Latin)
Mercury (Hg) was "hydrargyrum" (Latin for "liquid silver")
Lead (Pb) was "plumbum" (Latin), which gives rise to the phrase "Sitting plumb" or "hang a plumb" - an architect or builder would hang a lead weight on a string to see if something was on a straight vertical line.

Uranium (Element number 92) is the highest-atomic-number element that is naturally occuring. Everything after that is our own darned fault.

The lowest atomic-number element that is manmade is Technetium, number 43.

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Imagine SAYING that...

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Donald Duck comics were banned in Sweden (I think.) because he doesn't wear pants

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Actually it was supposedly Finland and it wasn't real, just a rumour.

On that subject, Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.

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set by whhattisthiss. Thanks!

IIRC, many people on the street in Sweden don't wear pants.

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I haven't, but I want to. That sign at the edge of the town is awesome...

And to elaborate the woman voting thing, Kate Sheppard was one of the forerunners for giving women the vote. She is now featured on the $10 note

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