ABBA GOLD has been in the UK charts for over 280 weeks, thats
over 5 years.

A typical American eats 28
pigs in his/her lifetime.

A total of 63 errors were made
in the 1886 World Series.

A teaspoon of neutron star
material weighs about 110 million tons.

"Hang on Sloopy" is
the official rock song of Ohio.

"Flushable" toilets
were in use in ancient Rome.

"Canada" is an Indian
word meaning "Big Village".

"Asthma" and "isthmi" are the only six-letter words that begin and end with
a vowel and have no other vowels between.

"A motion to table a motion
to reconsider a vote to table an appeal of a ruling that
a point of order was not in order against a motion to
table another point of order against a motion to bring
to a vote the motion to call up the resolution that would
institute a rules change."

Frank Baum, the writer of "The
Wizrd of OZ", looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."

On average, every chocolate
bar contains at least three insect legs.

Alfred Hitchcock did not have
a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up
after surgery.

About a third of all Americans
flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.

Penguins are not found in the
North Pole.

More Monopoly money is printed
yearly than real money throughout the world.

A dentist
invented the Electric Chair.

Electrical stimulation of certain
areas of the brain has been proven to revive long-lost
memories.

Crocodiles have brains no larger
than a cigar and they cannot stick their tongue out.

'Crack Cocaine' is still cocaine.
It is simply a different chemical process applied to cocaine
powder that allows cocaine to be smoke able. This means
that the 'high' from Crack Cocaine is much stronger and
more immediate (taking about 8 seconds to reach the brain);
and also shorter lived then from the powder.

Cocaine works in a totally
different way from narcotics such as morphine or heroin.
Heroin works on receptor sites in the brain which are
stimulated by the drug to produce pain-relieving and mood-enhancing
chemicals. Cocaine on the other hand works by stimulating
the central nervous system, and like alcohol, is processed
through the liver.

There was no soap in the ancient
Mediterranean world. Olive oil was used to wash the body
in addition to cooking.

The largest body of fresh water
in the world is Lake Superior.

The body's largest internal
organ is the small intestine at an average length of 20
feet.

Chameleons can reel in food
from a distance as far away as more than two and a half
times their body lengths.

A millipede has 4 legs on each
segment of its body.

A leech is a worm that feeds
on blood. It will pierce its victim's skin, fill itself
with three to four times its own body weight in blood,
and will not feed again for months. Leeches were once
used by doctors to drain "bad blood" from sick
patients.

A flea can jump 350 times is
own body length. (say. you jumping the length of a soccer
field)thanks seraph .

A chameleon's tongue is twice
the length of its body.

When Swiss cheese ferments,
a bacterial action generates gas. As the gas is liberated,
it bubbles through the cheese leaving holes. Cheese-makers
call them "eyes."

The song "When Irish Eyes
are smiling" was written by George Graff, who was
German, and was never in Ireland in his life.

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