Evelyn's super cool useless fun facts

hi! these are amazing weird fun facts! these are all true and i guarantee it! well, i don't wanna sound like bob lucido or anything! enjoy!
horses and rats cannot vomit! the have the muscle thing in their esophagus preventing anything from coming back up! disgusting!
the lifespan of a common housefly of 2 weeks. and caused by their habit of eating poop, the are the animal that spreads the most diseases!
the human eyes only grow very slightly since they were born. the nose and ears never stop growing!
the slogan on new hampshire license plates is "live free or die"
the most significant thing about a statue of a person on a horse is the number of legs raised on the horse! 2 front legs= the person died in a battle, 1 front leg= the person died of battle wounds, 4 legs on the ground= the person died of other causes!
alabama is a weird state. wanna know what makes me say that? it is illegal to play dominoes on sunday! also, is you put salt on a train track, you can get killed! ahhh!
the lowest temperature ever recorded is -128.6 degrees fahrenheit! or -86.6 degrees celsius. it was in antarctica!
in quitman, georgia, it is illegal for a chicken to cross the road! it is also illegal to change clothes on a storefront mannequin unless the shades are down!
golf ball were once made of feathers wrapped in horse or cow hide!
the first cd ever pressed in the USA was bruce springsteen's "born in the usa". it sold more than 20 million copies!
the only state's capital without a mcdonalds is Vermont's capital montpelier! i does not have a single mcdonalds!
tomatoes and cucumbers are technically called fruits cuz they have seeds. it doesn't make sense cuz peppers have seeds and their veggies!
human babies are born without kneecaps! they don't appear until a child reaches about 2-6 years old!
mohammed is the most common name in the world! smith is the most common last name!
in new jersey, it is illegal to slurp soup! also to frown at a police officer!!
this keyboard symbol (#) is called an octothorpe! i don't know why it's called that but i'm guessing the reason why cuz it has 8 (octo) lines ends on the outsides. an & is called an ampersand!
a "jiffy" is an actual measure of time! it is 1/100th of a second!
pluto is no longer considered a planet! it was too small!
toyota and honda are both car companies named after rice! something random: the most common last name in japan is suzuki!
in switzerland it is illegal to flush an apartment toilet after 10 PM! it is a popular myth that toilets south of the equator flush the opposite direction than those in the northern hemisphere!
george crum was a north american indian that invented the potato chip!!
there are 13 in the bakers dozen cuz bakers used to be fined if their loaves were under weight, so they added one extra just in case!
peaches were once known as persian apples, and there are 700 varieties of peaches!!
strawberries are related to roses!
the most widely grown crop in the world is citrus! inn florida alone there are 10.3 million citrus trees on 853,000 acres of land
There used to be fake Apple stores in China, and the employees were convinced they worked at Apple itself.
Your taste in music develops through experience and is not something you're born with.
The offspring of two sets of identical twins are legally cousins but genetically siblings.
The Hudson Bay area, an area of Canada has less gravity than the rest of Earth. 
You can remember the beginning of the value of Pi (3.1415926) by counting the letters of each word in the phrase "May I have a large container of coffee".
The temperature of a woman's face rises when she makes contact with a male, causing her to "glow".
People with the highest IQ's stay up late at night because their brains have increased mental stimulation.
Cats have been blamed for the global extinction of 33 species (I'm assuming they're not talking about house cats. hahahahaha.
According to study, the key to a perfect night's sleep is going to bed at exactly 10PM, wearing pyjamas, and having a cup of tea.
A software company buried a $1,000 prize deep in its terms of service to see if people actually read them. After about 5 months and over 3,000 sales, someone finally asked about the prize.
New Google employees are called "nooglers" and given a propeller beanie cap to wear on their first Friday. I just love Google. XD
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear trousers.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
Every day more money is printed for monopoly than the US Treasury.
The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
The youngest Pope was 11 years old.
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair. (Does that mean gingers are evidently smarter? Hahaha.)
Coca Cola was originally green.
If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom. 
To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs - it will let you go instantly.
More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in aircrashes. 
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building, it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realise what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great; Hearts - Charlemagne; and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were all invented by women.
Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better than men. (I'm a girl myself and I find that last one ahrd to believe. xD)
11,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
"I am" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".
Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.
Porcupines float in water.
The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
Starfish don't have brains. (Woa. Maybe that's why Patrick Star was written as a "dumb" character...)
Polar bears are left handed.
The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. (Insomniacs unite!)
A person cannot taste food unless it is mixed with saliva. For example, if strong-tasting substance like salt is placed on a dry tongue, the taste buds will not be able to taste it. As soon as a drop of saliva is added and the salt is dissolved, however, a definite taste sensation results. This is true for all foods. Try it!
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories and hour.
The strongest muscle in proportion to its size in the human body is the tongue.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
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