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Al Capone’s business card said he was a furniture dealer.
Actor Tommy Lee Jones and vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.
According to a British law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying.
A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.
A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
A ‘jiffy’ is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can.
A diamond is the hardest natural substance on earth, but if it is placed in an oven and the temperature is raised to about 763 degrees Celsius (1405 degrees Fahrenheit), it will simply vanish, without even ash remaining. Only a little carbon dioxide will have been released.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why. (This is highly debatable and probably not true.) The same claim is made about a wolf’s howl for which there is some scientific corroboration.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A 10-gallon hat barely holds 6 pints.
“Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in “mt”.
315 entries in Webster’s Dictionary are misspelled.
12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily. (That’s one every two hours.)
101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don’t die throughout the movie.
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