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“The Paris Hilton sex tape starts with a memorial screen to those who died in 9/11.”

“The male giraffe will continuously headbutt the female in the bladder until she urinates. The male then tastes the pee and that helps it determine whether the female is ovulating. If she is, it’s business time.”

“For every single human being on Earth, there are 2.5 MILLION ants.

Yes, this means that there are about 20 QUADRILLION ants on this planet.”

“The longest place name in the world is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu”

“Of the few people who have top secret clearance at the White House one of them is the person who writes all of the party invitations.”

“Corn flakes were invented to prevent masturbation. John Harvey Kellogg, who invented corn flakes and started the Kellogg brand, believed that a plain diet (including his cereals) would make people masturbate and have sex less. He was also a strong proponent of celibacy, circumcision, and even the removal of the clitoris in cases where people could not kick masturbation.”

“There are clouds of alcohol floating around in space.”

“Lee Harvey Oswald had straight (non curly) pubic hair.”

“The original name for the color orange was “geoluhread,” which means “yellow-red” in Old English”

“Also, the fruit was called orange waaaaay before the colour was.”

“When basketball was first invented, at every game, they would have a man who would go up a ladder to retrieve the ball after every basket. It took them around 20 years to figure out maybe it would be a good idea to cut the bottom of the basket out to make retrieving the ball a lot easier. 20 years!!!”

“When someone gets a kidney transplant they generally just cram the new one in and don’t take out the old ones. So the person ends up with three kidneys.”

“They continue this with multiple kidney transplants too. Had a patient recently on her third transplant and yep, there’s five kidneys crammed into her abdomen. Too risky to take any of the other ones out.”

“When the Lewis and Clark expedition were exploring the west of North America, their diet of dried meat left them constipated. They were all taking these pills called thunder clappers to make themselves sh#t. The active ingredient in thunder clappers is mercury, and historians can track the expedition because they left increased deposits of mercury in the soil.”

“Abalones (a snail) have 5 @$$holes.”

“Sprinkling powdered sugar on a prolapsed anus will cause it to retract back into place.”

“I’m closer to being a millionaire than Bill Gates is.”

“A man named Wilmer McLean owned a farm in Manassas, Virginia USA where the very first battle of the US Civil War was fought. After the battle he’s like “I’m outta here” and bought a farm way out in the country at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia…where Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Gen. Ulysses Grant in McLeans living room four years later.”

“The Atari 2600’s release date and the last execution by guillotine happened less than 24 hours apart.”

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It takes ~108 atoms laid in a row to span the width of a human fingernail (~1 cm.) If the same number of standard wooden pencils were laid end to end, they would circumnavigate the Earth’s equator more than 47 times.

Human’s ability smell petrichor (smell of wet earth from rain) is greater than a Shark’s ability to smell blood in water.

Oregon is the only state with a state nut – the Hazelnut.

Since most people are right handed, in WW2 the Germans were specifically trained to eat with their left hand, so that finding spies from other countries would be easier to spot.

When unable to tell the difference between a bone and a rock in the archaeological field, it’s not uncommon to press it to one’s tongue. If it falls, it’s a rock, and if it sticks, it’s bone.

The reason the plural of Goose is Geese (same with tooth/teeth) but the plural of Moose is still Moose, is because the aforementioned comes from the Latin language while the latter comes from Native American languages, so it doesn’t follow the same rules as most other words.

The word LASER stands for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.

That the patent for the fire hydrant was lost in a fire.

The shell is part of the turtle’s skeleton.

When you are looking at a star, you are literally looking in the past.

The first person to write about tofu in the English language was Benjamin Franklin.

Emma Morano of Italy was the last (documented and verified) person to die that was born in the 1800s. 29th November 1899 – 15th April 2017

There was a time on the Earth where there were, at least, four different human species at the same time. Homo sapiens, Homo Neanderthalensis, Homo denisova and Homo floresiensis.

The General Electric Company for many decades owned NBC. The three chimes of the NBC jingle are the notes G-E-C. During the radio era if that chime ever had a fourth note, that was a signal for NBC employees to go into work because a major news story (i.e. D-Day) was about to break.

German chocolate cake was invented by an English-American baker named Samuel German and has nothing to do with the country of Germany.

Corgi is a translation of the welsh for dwarf dog.

The figure in Munch’s ‘The Scream’ is not screaming but is, in fact, reacting to hearing the scream.

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