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- The average pregnancy of an Indian elephant lasts 650 days.
- The three things pregnant women dream most of during their first trimester are frogs, worms, and potted plants.
- When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate; they do the same when you are looking at someone you hate (I made C look at me and his pupils didn't dilate, therefore he doesn't love me! He protested)
- During the First World War, Hitler was asleep in a foxhole when he had a nightmare in which his mouth was filled with dirt. He woke up and went for a walk “to get some air” and a shell scored a direct hit on the foxhole killing all the occupants.
- Annually you will shake hands with 6 men who have recently masturbated and failed to wash their hands. (This reminds me of Manneh)
- Annually you will shake hands with 11 women who have recently masturbated and failed to wash their hands.
- In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.
- In ancient Greece, children of wealthy families were dipped in olive oil at birth to keep them hairless throughout their lives.
- It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
- In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
- A common custom in Spain is to eat one grape for each of the last 12 seconds of every year for good luck.
- The largest toy distributor in the world is McDonalds.
- In World War II, the German submarine U-120 was sunk by a malfunctioning toilet.
- Being unmarried can shorten a man's life by ten years.
- Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
- Pearls melt in vinegar.
- In the movie Willy Wonka, in the scene where squirrels opened up nuts and dropped them onto a conveyor belt, was not animated. 40 squirrels were trained to do that stunt.
oct 17 2009 ∞
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