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Mark Twain is pretty awesome.
Kittens are a wonderful addition to your home.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
A snail can sleep for three years.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
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Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand; "lollipop" with your right.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
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If you laid all the DNA in your cells end to end, it would go from the earth to the moon more than 245,000 times.
The English invented football when kicking around the heads of slaughtered Danish invaders.
In the classic Alfred Hitchcock movie Psycho, they used chocolate syrup for blood, and the 45-second scene took seven days to shoot.
Animal cracker boxes were made with a string on the box so they could be used as Christmas tree ornaments.
What do bulletproof vests, windshield wipers, and fire escapes all have in common? Women invented all of them!
The Statue of Liberty was originally planned to be put in Egypt to celebrate the completion of the Suez Canal.
Mel Blanc's tombstone reads, "That's all folks."
The first two female FBI agents were hired in 1972. One was a former nun, the other a former U.S. marine.
In the American Civil War, soldiers were required to have at least two opposing front teeth so they could open a gunpowder pouch. Some draftees had their front teeth removed to avoid service.
The original Oxford English Dictionary defined terrorism as, "government by intimidation."
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Some flavors of Jell-O that never caught on include cola, chocolate, celery, apple, and coffee.
There are more plastic flamingos in the United States than real ones.
In England, all the swans belong to the queen.
The can opener wasn't invented until 48 years after the invention of the sealed can.
Given her proportions, if Barbie were a real woman, she would be 7'2" and her measurements would be 38-18-34.
Technically, bananas are herbs.
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The only job of male bees is to mate with the queen. Those that do die in the act.
To this day, the ingredients of WD-40 remain a highly protected trade secret.
Humans and giraffes have the same number of neck bones, the giraffe's neck bones are just longer.
The machine used in shoe stores to measure shoe size is called a Brannock device.
A U.S. spinning penny is actually slightly more likely to end up tails because slightly more material is used to make the heads side.
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Taco Bell uses at least 600,000 cows' worth of beef per year.

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