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- JazX0
There are about 75 million horses in the world.
A horses height is measured in hands. One hand equals about four inches.
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While humans and most species are divided into only two sexes, mushrooms contain over 36,000 sexes!
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Women wishing to enter Canada to work as strippers must provide naked photos of themselves to qualify for a visa!
- chossy0
monkeys are the only species other than humans to have recreational sex.
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- and octopi. and just cause we haven't seen it yet doesn't mean it hasn't happenedsarahfailin
- ja00
The two-fingered salute or V sign (not a victory/peace sign) derives from a gesture made by longbowmen fighting in the English army at the Battle of Agincourt (1415) during the Hundred Years' War. According to the story, the French were in the habit of cutting off the arrow-shooting fingers of captured English and Welsh longbowmen, and the gesture was a sign of defiance on the part of the bowmen, showing the enemy that they still had their fingers, or, as a widespread pun puts it, that they could still "pluck yew".
- version30
President George W. Bush is related to all other U.S. Presidents!
though i don't understand it
- version30
A pound of potato chips costs 200 times more than a pound of potatoes.
- pango0
10OSFA!!
- JazX0
Thomas Jefferson was the first U.S. President to greet people with a handshake. Earlier Presidents bowed
- pango0
10OSFA!!
- JazX0
The earth's crust is 47% oxygen, while the air we breathe is only 21% oxygen
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It’s a common practice in southern India for a man to marry his elder sister’s daughter.
- JazX0
Female canaries cannot sing
Rubber is one of the ingredients in bubble gum
It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs
It's illegal to own a red car in Shanghai, China
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Reno, Nevada is actually west of Los Angeles, California.
There are more female than male millionaires in the United States.
Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
- gruntt0
once a racoon fucked a rat. that rat then gave birth to the first squirrel.
- JazX0
Armadillos can get leprosy
Men are proportionately stronger than horses
For every gallon of sea water, you get at least a quarter pound of salt
- chossy0
what really gruntt?
- version30
The best recorded distance for projectile vomiting is 27 feet.
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A dime has 118 ridges around the edge, a quarter has 119.