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Did you know that children don't have knee caps when they are born, the get the at around 2 years of age.

1. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.. Who has checked out every species of fish???

2. A gold fish has the memory span of three seconds.  This has been proved wrong.. I watched it on a documentary then again on Myth Busters...

3. The average person eats 8 spiders in their life time while sleeping.   Yuck how do they work this out???

4. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.  Who was the cruel person who did this??? And I bet they did it more then once to prove it to others.

5. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.  I watch a DVD before I fall asleep so why the hell am I not losing any weight??? 

Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

Ear wax is actually sweat and some people have more then others because of where there ancestors way be from. 

Amazing Facts
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> >The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the
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> >A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
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> >A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves
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> >Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories a hour
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> >The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head
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> >The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human
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> >Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than
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> >Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
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> >Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for
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> >(What about that pig??)

"One thousand" contains the letter A, but none of the words from one to nine hundred ninety-nine has an A.

Turtles can breathe through their bums!!!!

When bats fly out of caves they always fly to the left.

You cant fold a piece of paper more then 7 times.

Did you know that there is more bacteria in your mouth alone than the combained population of Canada and the USA .. That's pretty sick if you ask me.. I kiss my husband with this mouth LOL.. I was watching Access TV (channel 13 for us Calgarians) and they always have did you know sometimes after shows are finished and I saw it and was grossed out sooo bad LOL!!

Not sure if anyone knows this but Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.. Pretty cool.. I knew this when I was real young.. Like in grade school.. Elementary School I mean... I went to the museum in Baddeck Nova Scotia.. A very lovely place to go visit if you are ever there!!