some facts for you....

I came across some random facts and thought
i'd pass them along to you. Not sure how many
of these are true, but they are
nonetheless entertaining.


The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
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A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually
clear.       
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Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
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Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."
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If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
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Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
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Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than
left-handed people do.                                       
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The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which
they start.
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Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or
it will digest itself. (YUCK!)
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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 duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
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On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!
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Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear
pants.
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There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple
and silver.
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The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan". There was
never a recorded Wendy before
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The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War 2
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.
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Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w the film down
so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.