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strange facts

- Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people.

- The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons).

- Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food FROM freezing.

- Strong negative emotions lead to damage of immune system.

- On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year

- The diamond is the only gem composed of a single element.

- A plane uses less fuel the higher it flies.

- Lightning bolts are only about two inches wide.

- The average pencil will draw a line 35 miles long.

- Hippos can run faster than humans.

- It is illegal, in some states, to dance to the Star Spangles Banner.

- With enough training an elephant can throw a baseball faster than a human.

- 19 states celebrate "National Admit You're Happy Day. (tell me if ur state celebrates that!!)

- US Dollar bills are made out of cotton and linen.

- The "57″ on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of pickle types the company once had.

- Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks so that it doesn't digest itself.

- The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.

- The ZIP in "ZIP code" means Zoning Improvement Plan.

- The "save" icon in Microsoft Office programs shows a floppy disk with the shutter on backwards.

- The numbers "172″ can be found on the back of the US 5 dollar bill, in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.

- The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before it.

- It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

- The sound you here when you put a seashell next to your ear is not the ocean, but blood flowing through your head.

- You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.

- If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.

- Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters "MT".

- You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

- The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs melted into it.

- Elwood Edwards did the voice for the AOL sound files (i.e. "You've got Mail!"). He is heard about 27 million times a day.

- Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."

- One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the '30s lobbied against hemp farmers (they saw it as competition).

- If you yelled for 8 years 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

- If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

- A jellyfish is 95% water.

- If you plant an apple seed, it is almost guaranteed to grow a tree of a different type of apple.

- The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

- Johnny Appleseed planted apples so that people could use apple cider to make alcohol.

- Only female mosquitoes bite.

- Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

- In 1958, the Crayola crayon color "Prussian Blue" was changed to "Midnight Blue" by the request of teachers as kids could not relate to Prussian history.

- One billion seconds is about 32 years.

- Over 175 million cubic yards of earth was removed for the creation of the Panama Canal.

- The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.

- The strike note of the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is e-flat.

- The reason why bubbles are round is because this is the most efficient shape that the soap film can take for the amount of air trapped inside.

- Weatherman Willard Scott was the first Ronald McDonald.

- 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

- If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

- If you were to spell out numbers, the letter A wouldnt show up untill u spell up to the number 1000!

- Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight!

- The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.

- 142857 is a cyclic number, the numbers of which always appear in the same order but rotated around when multiplied by any number from 1 to 6. 142857 x 2 = 285714 ,142857 x3 = 428571 ,142857 x 4 = 571428, 142857 x5 = 714285 ,142857 x 6 = 857142

- Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.

- Earth is the only planet not named after a God.

- the movie Halloween took place in the town of Haddonfield, Illinois but almost
all the cars in the film had California license plates.

- If you multiply 526,315,789,473,684,210 with any number you will always find the original number in the result! (who the hell sat there and found this out?!)