DID YOU KNOW?

  • Most American car horns honk in the key of F.
  • Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
  • Every time you lick a stamp, you consume 1/10 of a calorie.
  • The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
  • Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
  • Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
  • The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; '7' was selected after the original 7-ounce containers and 'UP' for the direction of the bubbles.
  • 'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
  • To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs - it will let you go instantly.
  • Reindeers like to eat bananas.
  • No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver and purple.
  • Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
  • More people are killed annually by donkeys than airplane crashes.
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