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via noahkai: lickystickypicky:

• Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
• The plastic tips on the ends of shoelaces are called “aglets”
• The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million
• Giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels.
• The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
• The “57” on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of pickle types the company once had.
• In a year, an average person uses the toilet 2500 times
• You lose 60 hairs a day
• Ants do not sleep.
• Barbies parents names are George and Margaret.
• If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
• The average length of an orgasm for a pig is 30 minutes.
• The dot over the letter “i” is called a tittle
• 70% of the poor people in the world are female.
• Monkeys only smile when they are scared
• In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles.
• You are approximately two inches taller when you wake up than when you go to sleep.
• You cannot fold any kind of paper by half more than 8 times. No matter how big it is.
• Jews, on average, have a 0.2cm longer nose than the rest of the population.
• John Tiemens received the same letter 287 times, confirming his credit card cancellation
• If you unfolded and flattened a set of human lungs they would cover a tennis court
• Butterflies taste with their feet.
• An average person farts 16 times a day
• American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
• It would take 1.2 million mosquitoes biting you simultaneously to drain all your blood.
• The most overdue book in the world was borrowed from Sidney Sussex College in Cambridge, England and was returned 288 years later.
• An ostrich’s eye is larger than it’s brain.
• Polar bears are left-handed.
• In “Silence of the Lambs”, Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins) never blinks.
• Camel’s have three eyelids.
• A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
• Cockroaches can live up to 10 days without their head.
• An elephant cannot jump.
• Any month that starts on a Sunday will have a Friday the 13th.
• The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.
• One billion seconds is about 32 years.
• A giraffe is able to clean its ears with its own tongue.
• Thomas Edison created the English word, ‘Hello’.
• The largest number of children born to one woman, who was a Russian peasant, is 69.
• There were 43,687 toilet related accidents in the United States in 1996.
• There is enough iron in a human being to make one small nail.