July 2010
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In the 1985 Boise, Idaho, mayoral election, there...
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The pair of fins at the back of a fish's body are...
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Eagles mate while airborn.
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The leech has thirty-two brains.
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The billionth digit of pi is 9.
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All snow crystals are hexagonal.
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The actors in the first English play to be...
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Pirates thought having an earring would improve...
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Before the 1800's, there were no separately...
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Eating chocolate was once considered a temptation...
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When honey is swallowed, it enters the blood...
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effinzombie:
Strange and True Facts about Death:
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
More people are killed each year by coconuts than sharks. Approximately 150 people are killed each year by coconuts.
You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
Fleas have the distinction of killing more people than all the wars...
M&Ms stands for the last names of Forrest Mars...
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When the movie The Wizard of Oz first came out, it...
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alexisnotafish and bellyofthebeast- what are those little tables inside pizza boxes for?
Without it, the box top would sag when other boxes were stacked on top, cheese from the pizza would stick to the inside of the top, and civilization as we know it would end messily. (via)
oscillatingenergyonhigh- How often to you actually check the facts submitted?
We don’t post submitted facts...
Fanta Orange is the third largest selling soft...
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An estimated 2.5 million books will be shipped in...
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lilifer asked: Why is there powder on gum
An ostrich’s eye is the same size as its brain.
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Moths are falsely blamed for eating clothing. It’s...
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Salvador Dali had an older brother who was also...
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Genghis Khan, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini,...
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That baritone voice behind the Jolly Green Giant’s...
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The drug name Premarin is derived from the origin...
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The “black box” on an airplane is actually blaze...
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The Bat is the only mammal that can fly. Flying...
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Ostriches don’t stick their heads underground to...
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Harvard research from 2003 revealed that mothers...
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Elmo Wright of the Kansas City Chiefs became the...
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‘Jay’ used to be slang for ‘foolish person.’ So...
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The urine of patients with diabetes tastes sweet...
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The first cigarettes were rolled by Egyptian...
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The ubiquitous garden earthworms are not...
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Twinkies originally had banana-flavored filling,...
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It is estimated that 1 out of every 55 Canadian...
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The Golden Hamster is native to Syria. In fact,...
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There is a scale for measuring how spicy a food...
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In the classic movie-musical “The Wizard of Oz,”...
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Sleeping through the winter is called hibernation,...
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While they were in the White House, John & Abigail...
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In 1991, the average bra size in the United States...
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Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
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More people use blue toothbrushes than red ones.
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What about you guys, red, blue or other?
About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the...
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Tuesday. You know the drill.
Recommend us? Please? For the educational section? In the directory?
In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is...
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Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning.
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Until 1796, there was a state in the United States...
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Heinz Catsup leaving the bottle travels at 25...
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