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1. The longest time between two twins being born is 87
days.
2. The world's deepest postbox is in Susami Bay in
Japan . It's 10 metres underwater.
3. In 2007, an American man named Corey Taylor tried to
fake his own death in order to get out of his cell phone
contract without paying a fee. It didn't work.
4. The oldest condoms ever found date back to the
1640s (they were found in a cesspit at Dudley Castle),
and were made from animal and fish intestines.
5. In 1923, jockey Frank Hayes won a race at Belmont
Park in New York despite being dead — he suffered a
heart attack mid-race, but his body stayed in the saddle
until his horse crossed the line for a 20–1 outsider
victory.
6. Everyone has a unique tongue print, just like
fingerprints.
7. Most Muppets are left-handed. (Because most
Muppeteers are right-handed , so they operate the head
with their favoured hand.)
8. Female kangaroos have three vaginas.
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9. It costs the U.S. Mint almost twice as much to mint
each penny and nickel as the coins are actually worth.
Taxpayers lost over $100 million in 2013 just through
the coins being made.
10. Light doesn't necessarily travel at the speed of light.
The slowest we've ever recorded light moving at is 38
mph .
11. Casu marzu is a Sardinian cheese that contains live
maggots. The maggots can jump up to five inches out of
cheese while you're eating it, so it's a good idea to
shield it with your hand to stop them jumping into your
eyes.
12. The loneliest creature on Earth is a whale who has
been calling out for a mate for over two decades — but
whose high-pitched voice is so different to other whales
that they never respond .
13. The spikes on the end of a stegosaurus' tail are
known among paleontologists as the "thagomizer" — a
term coined by cartoonist Gary Larson in a 1982 Far Side
drawing.
14. During World War II, the crew of the British
submarine HMS Trident kept a fully grown reindeer
called Pollyanna aboard their vessel for six weeks (it
was a gift from the Russians).
15. The northern leopard frog swallows its prey using its
eyes — it uses them to help push food down its throat
by retracting them into its head.
16. The first man to urinate on the moon was Buzz
Aldrin, shortly after stepping onto the lunar surface.
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17. Some fruit flies are genetically resistant to getting
drunk — but only if they have an inactive version of a
gene scientists have named "happyhour" .
18. Experiments show that male rhesus macaque
monkeys will pay to look at pictures of female rhesus
macaques' bottoms.
19. In 1567, the man said to have the longest beard in
the world died after he tripped over his beard running
away from a fire .
20. The Dance Fever of 1518 was a month-long plague of
inexplicable dancing in Strasbourg , in which hundreds
of people danced for about a month for no apparent
reason. Several of them danced themselves to death.
21. Vladimir Nabokov nearly invented the smiley .
22. In 1993, San Francisco held a referendum over
whether a police officer called Bob Geary was allowed to
patrol while carrying a ventriloquist's dummy called
Brendan O'Smarty. He was.
23. Sigurd the Mighty, a ninth-century Norse earl of
Orkney, was killed by an enemy he had beheaded
several hours earlier. He'd tied the man's head to his
horse's saddle, but while riding home one of its
protruding teeth grazed his leg . He died from the
infection.
24. The Dutch village of Giethoorn has no roads; its
buildings are connected entirely by canals and
footbridges.
Flickr: bertknot / Creative Commons
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25. A family of people with blue skin lived in Kentucky
for many generations. The Fulgates of Troublesome
Creek are thought to have gained their blue skin through
combination of inbreeding and a rare genetic condition
known as methemoglobinemia.
26. Powerful earthquakes can permanently shorten the
length of Earth's day , by moving the spin of the Earth's
axis. The 2011 Japan earthquake knocked 1.8
microseconds off our days. The 2004 Sumatra quake
cost us around 6.8 microseconds.
27. The first American film to show a toilet being flushed
on screen was Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho.
28. Melting glaciers and icebergs make a distinctive
fizzing noise known as "bergy seltzer" .
29. There is a glacier called "Blood Falls" in Antarctica
that regularly pours out red liquid, making it look like
the ice is bleeding. (It's actually oxidised salty water .)
30. In 2008 scientists discovered a new species of
bacteria that lives in hairspray .
31. The top of the Eiffel Tower leans away from the sun ,
as the metal facing the sun heats up and expands. It
can move as much as 7 inches.
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32. Lt. Col. "Mad" Jack Churchill was only British soldier
in WWII known to have killed an enemy soldier with a
longbow. "Mad Jack" insisted on going into battle armed
with both a medieval bow and a claymore sword.
33. A U.S. park ranger named Roy C. Sullivan held the
record for being struck by lightning the most times,
having been struck — and surviving — seven times
between 1942 and 1977. He died of a self-inflicted
gunshot in 1983.
34. The longest musical performance in history is
currently taking place in the church of St. Burchardi in
Halberstadt, Germany. The performance of John Cage's
"Organ²/ASLSP (As Slow As Possible)" started on Sept.
5, 2001, and is set to finish in 2640. The last time the
note changed was October 2013; the next change isn't
due until 2020.
35. There's an opera house on the U.S.–Canada border
where the stage is in one country and half the audience
is in another .
36. The tiny parasite Toxoplasma gondii can only breed
sexually when in the guts of a cat. To this end, when it
infects rats, it changes their behaviour to make them
less scared of cats .
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37. The katzenklavier ("cat piano" was a musical
instrument made out of cats. Designed by 17th-century
German scholar Athanasius Kircher, it consisted of a row
of caged cats with different voice pitches, who could be
"played" by a keyboardist driving nails into their tails.
38. There is a single mega-colony of ants that spans
three continents, covering much of Europe, the west
coast of the U.S., and the west coast of Japan.
39. The largest snowflake ever recorded reportedly
measured 15 inches across.
40. An epidemic of laughing that lasted almost a year
broke out in Tanganyika (now Tanzania) in 1962. Several
thousand people were affected, across several villages.
It forced a school to close. It wasn't fun, though — other
symptoms included crying, fainting, rashes, and pain.
41. The Romans used to clean and whiten their teeth
with urine. Apparently it works. Please don't do it,
though.
42. There are around 60,000 miles of blood vessels in
the human body. If you took them all out and laid them
end to end, they'd stretch around the world more than
twice. But, seriously, don't do that either.

Nice

President jonathan leave office February 2015.

My frnds are enlightened,dey wouldnt wanna hear this

jerryboiii:
My frnds are enlightened,dey wouldnt wanna hear this

hmmmmm

Lie lie

Year 1567
Year 1511

Unverified fact

Light travels at 3*10^8 gbam!!!!!!!! Ote

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tell me sumtin

rattlesnake:
Lie lie

Year 1567
Year 1511

Unverified fact

Light travels at 3*10^8 gbam!!!!!!!! Ote

okay u've measured d speed of light before ? Pls tell us more

Who's playing the music in number 34?

rattlesnake:
Lie lie

Year 1567
Year 1511

Unverified fact

Light travels at 3*10^8 gbam!!!!!!!! Ote

you're sounding as if you measured it yourself,is it not the same people that told you that light travels at 3*10^8m/s that are now telling you that it travels at 38mph . . If you can believe the former,then why can't you believe the latter?

Lalasticlala ,FP please,it's been long we've read something enlightening on FP