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From: fullmer@... <fullmer@...>
To: farmer@... <farmer@...>; biperkin@... <biperkin@...>;
jokes@... <jokes@...>
Date: Wednesday, March 24, 1999 11:28 AM
Subject: FW: Interesting infor


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>> INTERESTING INFORMATION
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>> >- The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
>> >- The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
>> >- A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves
>> to>death.
>> >- A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
>> >- The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896.
>> Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
>> >- A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually
clear.
>> >- Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why
>> Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his
>> brother.
>> >- Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are
>> registered>blood donors.
>> >- Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear
>> pants.
>> >- More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in
>> plane>crashes.
>> >- Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
>> >- Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
>> >- Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
>> >- If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn
white.
>> >- Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
>> >- Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer
>> than>left-handed>people do.
>> >- The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every
>> letter in the English language.
>> >- The name of all the continents end with the same letter that
>> they>start with.
>> >- The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able
>> to>remember the word
>> you want. (Now, if I could only remember the
>> word"lethologica" ...)
>> >- TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on
>> only one row of the keyboard.
>> >- If the population of China walked past you in single file, the
>> line>would never end
>> because of the rate of reproduction.
>> >- The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left
>> to>right or right to left.
>> >- A snail can sleep for 3 years.
>> >- American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from
>> each salad
>> served in first-class.
>> >- China has more English speakers than the United States.
>> >- The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
>> >- Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, with a population
>> of 1000 and
>> a size 108.7 acres.
>> >- The longest town name in the world has 167 letters.
>> >- Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other
>> people in the world.
>> >- "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
>> >- The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it
>> refers to a distinct
>> part of DNA.
>> >- No president of the United States was an only child.
>> >- The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one-mile in every five
>> must be straight.
>> These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times
>> of war or other emergencies.
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