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Cockroaches can live for 9 days after their head has been cut off.

The world's largest amphibian is the giant salamander. It can grow up to 5 ft. in length.

The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.

A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.

In Cleveland, Ohio it is illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.
Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating.

Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.

Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult.

When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second.

A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood.

During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.

Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.

There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses.

Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
Duracell, the battery-maker, built parts of its new international headquarters using materials from its own waste.

During World War II, Uncle Ben''s was the exclusive supplier of rice to the U.S. Armed Forces.

Each year, there are more than 40,000 toilet related injuries in the United States.

Early Romans used to use porcupine quills as toothpicks.

Fine-grained volcanic ash can be found as an ingredient in some toothpastes.

From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.

Gardening is said to be one of the best exercises for maintaining healthy bones.

George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.

In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.

In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people''s clothes.
In New York City, approximately 1,600 people are bitten by other humans every year.

Indoor pollution is 10 times more toxic than outdoor pollution.

Infants spend more time dreaming than adults do.

It costs about 3 cents to make a $1 bill in the United States.

It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.

King Kong was Adolf Hitler''s favorite movie.

Leather skin does not have any smell. The leather smell that you sense is actually derived from the materials used in the tanning process.

Left-handed people are better at sports that require good spatial judgment and fast reaction, compared to right-handed individuals.

Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.

Malcolm X''s original name is Malcolm Little.

I will keep posting more when I find them

~JM00