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A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
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Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it
will digest itself.
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The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
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A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down
continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
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A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
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Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
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A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2" by 3-1/2".
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During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur," a small red car can be seen in
the distance (and Heston's wearing a watch).
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On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!
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Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson."
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Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War
II were made of wood.
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The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per
side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
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There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange,
purple and silver.
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Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space
because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
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The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II
killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
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If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will
instantly go mad and sting itself to death. (Who was the sadist who
discovered this?)
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Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down
so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
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The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the
USA."
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The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
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The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which
stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
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The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player
for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was
Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
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Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.
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By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot
sink into quicksand.
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Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
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Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin
look-alike contest.
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An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to
take more than three steps backwards while dancing!
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The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most
often stolen from public libraries.
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The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
