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A curveball can curve up to 18 inches.
Coffee, as a world commodity, is second only to oil.
The practice of eating insects is called entomophagy.
Sweden has more telephones per capita than any country on Earth.
The word "ejaculation" comes from the Latin word meaning "throwing out."
According to U.S. law, a beer commercial can never actually show a person drinking beer.
The world's most endangered cetacean is the Baiji, or Yangtze River Dolphin.
The two highest IQs ever recorded on a standard test both belong to women.
A professional dancer will go through 20 or more "pointe" shoes in the course of one season of a ballet.
Benjamin Franklin invented crop insurance.
It costs about three cents to make a U.S. one-dollar bill.
Many hospitals make money by selling umbilical cords taken after patients give birth. They are reused in vein transplant surgery.
A typical American eats 28 pigs in his or her lifetime.
In Hawaii, the wind blows east to west.
In Knoxville, Tennessee, it's against the law to lasso a fish.
The dog equivalent of catnip is called Stinking Goosefoot, a foul-smelling plant.
Adolph Hitler was Time's "Man of the Year" for 1938.
Topeka, Kansas is named after a Dakota Indian word meaning "a good place to dig potatoes."
Twenty million Americans watch pornography annually.
The hummingbird's brain, 4.2 percent of its body weight, is proportionately the largest among birds.
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It's been proven that people can lessen reactions to allergies by laughing.
The space between your eyebrows is called the "glabella."
At any one time, one in four people are daydreaming about sex.
The Statue of Liberty weighs 225 tons.
Reindeer herders have the most dangerous occupation in Sweden.
"Clinophobia" is the fear of beds.
There are three golf balls on the surface of the moon.
Twenty-seven percent of female lottery winners hide their winning ticket in their bra.
Someone who is bilingual can also be called "diglot."
It takes the average person seven minutes to fall asleep.
"Taphephilia" is sexual arousal derived from being buried alive.
The dial tone of a normal telephone is in the key of "F."
The are 225 squares on a Scrabble board.
The penis of a barnacle may reach up to 20 times its body size.
Seven percent of Americans eat at McDonald's on any given day.
The Eiffel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets in it.
Children who are breastfed tend to have an I.Q. seven points higher than children who are not.
The 1951 film Quo Vadis used 32,000 costumes?the most in any one film.
The ostrich has a 46-foot long small intestine.
Assuming Rudolph is in front, there are 40,320 ways to arrange the other eight reindeer.
It's been proven that people can lessen reactions to allergies by laughing.
The space between your eyebrows is called the "glabella."
At any one time, one in four people are daydreaming about sex.
The Statue of Liberty weighs 225 tons.
Reindeer herders have the most dangerous occupation in Sweden.
"Clinophobia" is the fear of beds.
There are three golf balls on the surface of the moon.
Twenty-seven percent of female lottery winners hide their winning ticket in their bra.
Someone who is bilingual can also be called "diglot."
It takes the average person seven minutes to fall asleep.
"Taphephilia" is sexual arousal derived from being buried alive.
The dial tone of a normal telephone is in the key of "F."
The are 225 squares on a Scrabble board.
The penis of a barnacle may reach up to 20 times its body size.
Seven percent of Americans eat at McDonald's on any given day.
The Eiffel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets in it.
Children who are breastfed tend to have an I.Q. seven points higher than children who are not.
The 1951 film Quo Vadis used 32,000 costumes?the most in any one film.
The ostrich has a 46-foot long small intestine.
Assuming Rudolph is in front, there are 40,320 ways to arrange the other eight reindeer.
The sport with the most number of officials with relation to players is tennis. There are 13 officials for two players.
"Nasophilia" is the arousal from the sight, touch, licking or sucking of a partner's nose.
England is smaller than New England.
Jimmy Hoffa's middle name was Riddle.
About 8.5 billion condoms are produced every year worldwide.
The act of yawning and stretching is called "pandiculation."
Billy goats urinate on their own heads to smell more attractive to females.
Giraffes sleep only five minutes at a time, for a total of about 20 minutes a day.
Iolani Palace, in Hawaii, is the only royal palace in the United States.
The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.
The hymen is named after the Greek god Hymenaeus, the god of marriage and weddings.
Girls have more taste buds than boys.
A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
According to psychologists, the shoe and the foot are the most common sources of sexual fetishism in Western society.
The first bird domesticated by man was the goose.
Illinois has more personalized license plates than any other state.
The smallest bone in the human body is the stirrup bone, found in the ear.
The estimated weight of the Great Pyramid of Egypt is 6,648,000 tons.
About a quarter of the world's population are vegetarians.
Ninety percent of men want to have children.
The first Thanksgiving celebration lasted three days.
The Wampanoag chief invited to the first Thanksgiving feast was named Massasoit.
The first Thanksgiving took place in the fall of 1621.
The Pilgrims didn't use forks.
Only about one-third of the original colonists were Puritans.
In 1941, Congress passed a proclamation naming Thanksgiving a legal holiday to be observed on the fourth Thursday in November.
The Mayflower's crossing took 66 days.
It's unclear if the Pilgrims at turkey at the first Thanksgiving. At the time, "turkey" meant any kind of fowl.
Evidence indicates that turkeys have been around for more than 10 million years.
Turkey eggs hatch in 28 days.
A baby turkey is called a "poult."
A mature turkey has about 3,500 feathers.
More than 45 million turkeys are consumed during Thanksgiving.
The average weight of a Thanksgiving turkey is 15 pounds.
The Mayflower weighed 180 tons.
The captain of the Mayflower was named Christopher Jones.
There were at least two dogs on the Mayflower.
The typical 15-pound turkey is 70 percent white meat and 30 percent dark meat.
Pilgrim children, boys and girls, wore linen or wool dresses up until the ages of seven or eight.
The Pilgrims never celebrated a second Thanksgiving.
Cranberries are also called "bounceberries."
Thanksgiving in Canada is celebrated on the second Monday in October.
A male turkey is called a "Tom." A female turkey is called a "hen."
The Mayflower was a merchant vessel. Before transporting the Pilgrims, the ship was in the wine trade, and before that, in the fish trade.
The pet food industry uses about 13 percent of U.S. turkey production.
The Pilgrims did not eat cranberry sauce at the first Thanksgiving.
In the typical Pilgrim household, adults sat down to dinner while the children waited on them.
A nest of turkey eggs is called a "clutch."
The "caruncle" is the reddish, fleshy growth on the head and upper neck of a turkey. The red, fleshy growth from the base of a turkey's beak that hangs down over the neck is called the "snood."
The first native Americans to introduce themselves to the Pilgrims were Samoset and Squanto.
Ninety-five percent of Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving.
"Oculolinctus" is a fetish where people are sexually aroused by licking a partner's eyeball.
A recent survey revealed that wine drinkers are more successful than those who don't drink.
In ancient Greece, if a woman watched even a single Olympic event, she was put to death.
Fifty percent of all marshmallows consumed in the U.S. have been toasted.
Studies indicate that weightlifters working out in blue gyms can handle heavier weights.
Casanova boasted that he made love to the same woman twelve times in one day.
According to experts, there was no punctuation until the 15th century.
There are more nuns over the age of 90 than there are under the age of 40.
Ralph Macchio played a troubled 14-year-old boy in Karate Kid. He was 22 at the time.
A restaurant in China, the Beijing Duck, can seat 9,000 people at one time.
Fifty-four percent of Americans claim to have had sex via phone, e-mail or text message.
Most heart attacks happen between 8:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m.
Almost all monkeys are near-sighted.
McDonald's uses 2,500 tons of sesame seeds a year.
From east to west, Hawaii is the widest state in the United States.
The Civil War produced more than 400,000 morphine addicts.
Eight percent of company presidents use profanity selectively and consciously.
Census details remain anonymous for 100 years.
<font size="4" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">*finds this deliciously hilarious for some reason*.... i just can't stop laughing as i picture it.... mmmmm, c'mere baby, and lemme lick that eyeball.....?.... !!! ..... [img]graemlins/wonder.gif[/img]Originally posted by Pickles:
"Oculolinctus" is a fetish where people are sexually aroused by licking a partner's eyeball.
Sixteen percent of Americans have tattoos. The word "tattoo" comes from the Tahitian word "tattau," which means "to mark."
The sense of smell of sheepdogs is 44 times better than that of humans.
Cats have three eyelids.
The average yawn lasts six seconds.
The largest rock concert ever was a performance by Rod Stewart on New Year's Eve in 1994. More than 3.5 million people took in the show.
Obsessive nose-picking is referred to as "rhinotillexomania."
More than half of lottery jackpot winners go back to work after winning.
The practice of manicuring nails is more than 4,000 years old.
The Old Testament is written with a vocabulary of about 5,800 words. The New Testament, about 4,800.
Tootsie Rolls were the first wrapped penny candy in America.
At one time, Tennessee was called Franklin.
On average, a person passes gas 14 times a day.
In France, the Big Dipper is called the Casserole.
St. Amand of Maastricht is the patron saint of beer.
Hawaii is the only state that grows coffee.
The Sargasso Sea does not have a coastline, because it is located in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
Lobsters always enter their burrows tail-first.
In Africa, a Danakil warrior proves his valor by giving his prospective bride a trophy?a pair of testicles taken from another man, dead or alive.
"Urophobia" is the fear of urine or urinating.
One million dollars in pennies (100 million coins) weighs 246 tons.
*giggling*
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