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Men fart an average of 17 times a day, and women fart
an average of 9 times a day.
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If you fart constantly for 6 years, 9 months and 23
days you would produce enough gas to explode an atomic bomb.
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The longest ever penis recorded by scientists is 13.5
inches.
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Humans are only second to cats for having the
dirtiest mouths.
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It takes about 40 muscles to smile, but only 4 to
pull the trigger of a decent rifle.
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Beard hair grows at twice its usual rate when you're
in a plane.
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Around 15 men each year have their penises chopped
off by their wives and the highest proportion of men who suffer this are
Italians.
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You use more calories eating celery than there are in
celery itself.
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More than 2,500 left handed people are killed every
year from using right handed products.
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Semen is one of the most fattening substances known
to man.
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An average of 76 people a year die playing twister,
and about 23 of which are through playing the nude version!
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Linda McCartney has sold more vegetarian ready made
meals than Paul has sold records.
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In the course of the 18 year run of Cats on broadway,
3,247 lbs of yak hair was used for wigs.
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The shortest war in history was between England and
Zanzibar in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
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65 people become millionaires every day.
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The average human will eat one pound of insects in
their lifetime.
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You are more likely to be killed by a rogue champagne
cork than a poisonous spider.
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By the time a person is 18, they would have spent
12,000 hours in school, but 14,000 hours watching television.
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Woman blink nearly twice as much as men.
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Humans share one third of their DNA with lettuce!
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You could comfortably fit the entire population of
the planet into a cube with sides 1km long.
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Approximately 69% of all Internet content consists of
pornographic material.
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Porn sites generated $970 million in revenue in 1999.
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Charlie Chaplin once came third in a Charlie Chaplin
look-a-like competition.
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Every 20 minutes a hapless person treads on a land
mine.
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The average adult falls asleep seven minutes after
turning out the light.
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6,000 new computer viruses are released every month.
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Over one trillion matches were being produced every
year at the beginning of the last century.
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Elvis Presley had a twin brother.
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Zeuxis a Greek painter in the 5th Centrury BC laughed
himself to death while looking at one of his paintings.
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A Roman leap year had the same number of days as
ordinary years but January 23rd lasted for 48 hours.
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After being decapitated a human can still see for 20
seconds! (Not sure how 'they' worked this one out!).
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Under EC law it is legal to have sex with inflatable
dolls in the street.
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Winners at the 2001 Ig-Nobel Prize ceremony for
eccentric researchers, inventors and scientists include an American who
claims to have invented anti-flatulence underwear, a Lithuanian who set up
a theme park dedicated to Stalin, and two Indians who discovered that
nose-picking is commonplace.
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Right-handed people live on average, 9 years longer
than left-handed people.
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Human stomachs produce a new layer of mucus every 2
weeks to stop it digesting itself.
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Humans are the only animals to sleep on their backs.
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More boys than girls are born during the day, but
more girls are born at night.
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Julio Iglesias once had five gallons of water flown
from Miami to L.A. so he could wash his hair.
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Clark Gable was listed on his birth certificate as a
girl.
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Johnny Vaughan was born at the precise moment that
England scored the winning goal in the 1966 World Cup final.
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Bernard Manning did his National Service in the
Military Police and one of his duties was guarding Albert Speer and Rudolf
Hess in Spandau.
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Elvis Presley's hip-wiggling started out as a stage
fright. He was so nervous, that his legs would shake.
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John Lennon shoplifted in Holland the harmonica he
used on Love Me Do.
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Mel Gibson broke the school record for the most
strappings in a week - 27.
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Tom Cruise and Robbie Williams were both voted least
Likely To Succeed at school.
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Sir Winston Churchill smoked an estimated 300,000
cigars in his lifetime.
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Michelangelo's cook was illiterate, so he drew her a
shopping list, which today is priceless.
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The architect who built the Kremlin had his eyes
gouged our by Ivan The Terrible so that he would never be able to design
another building like it.
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Pirates wore earrings because they believed it
improved their eyesight.
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Cher's parents married and divorced each other three
times.
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Mike Myers (a.k.a. Austin Powers) is descended from
William Wordsworth.
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If you shouted for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you
would produce enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
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Volleyball is the most popular sport at nudist camps.
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Banging your head against a wall uses a 150 calories
an hour.
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On average, a drop of Heinz tomato ketchup leaves the
bottle at a speed of 25 miles per year!
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If you mouth the word "colorful" to someone, it looks
like you are saying "I love you".
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The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without
repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".
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The fastest service in a restaurant in the world is
13 seconds from the order to the food on the table.
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Wayne Static (from staticX) uses glue to stick his
hair up.
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The letter combination 'ough' can be pronounced in
nine different ways.
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Every time you lick a stamp you consume one tengh of
a calorie.
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Permanent marker is not actually permanent.
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The shortest poem ever goes 'Adam, hae'em'.
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To convert millinches to micrometers you must times
by 25.4
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There is an average of 3000 ft. of electrical wiring
in every car.
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During the battle for Stalingrad, the German army
lost more men attacking a single house defended by sergeant Pavlov's
platoon than it did occupying Paris three years later. Pavlov survived the
war and became a monk.
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Tommy Lee Jones and Al Gore were freshman roomates at
Harvard.
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Kermit the Frog is left handed.
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There is a city called Rome on every continent.
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The Earth is hit by lightning 100 times a second.
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Typewriter is the longest word that can be made using
only the letters on the top row of the keyboard.
