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• The eyes of a donkey are positioned so that it can see all four feet at all times.
• Worcestershire sauce in essentially an Anchovy Ketchup.
• Rhode Island is the only state which the hammer throw is a legal high school sport.
• The average lifespan of an eyelash is five months.
• A spider has transparent blood.
• Every acre of American crops harvested contains 100 pounds of insects.
• Prince Charles is an avid collecter of toilet seats.
• The most common street name in the U. S. is Second Street.
• Tehran is the most expensive city on earth.
• The sweat drops drawn in cartoon comic strips are called pleuts.
• Babies are most likely to be born on Tuesdays.
• The HyperMart outside of Garland Texas has 58 check-outs.
• The Minneapolis phone book has 21 pages of Andersons.
• Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
• The male gypsy moth can “smell” the virgin female gypsy moth from 1 . 8 miles away.
• The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.
• The word “dexter” whose meaning refers to the right hand is typed with only the left hand.
• To “testify” was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.
• Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning “containing arsenic. ”
• The word “Checkmate” in chess comes from the Persian phrase “Shah Mat, ” which means “the king is dead. ”
• Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
• The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
• Two-thirds of the world’s eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
• The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
• Giraffes have no vocal cords.
• The pupils of a goat’s eyes are square.
• Van Gogh only sold one painting when he was alive.
• A standard slinky measures 87 feet when stretched out.
• The highest per capita Jell-O comsumption in the US is Des Moines.
• If a rooster can’t fully extend its neck, it can’t crow.
• There were always 56 curls in Shirley Temple’s hair.

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