Weird Facts #2

Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.

Lip stick contains fish scales.

The Poison Arrow frog has enough poison to kill 2200 people.

The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36 kilograms.

Kidney stones come in any color from yellow to brown.

Women blink twice as many times as men do.

A bowling pin only has to tilt 7.5 degrees in order to fall down.

The first episode of Leave It To Beaver aired on October 4, 1957.

Beaver Cleaver's locker number is 9.

The first flushing toilet seen on TV was on Leave It To Beaver.

Jerry Seinfeld's apartment number (on the show) is 5A. In the old episodes it was 3A.

The life span of a taste bud is ten days.

Pi has been calculated to 2, 260, 321, 363 digits.

The billionth digit in Pi is 9.

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A stretched out Slinky is 87 feet long.

An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.

Emus can't walk backwards.

A group of unicorns is called a blessing.

A group of kangaroos is called a mob.

A group of whales is called a pod.

A group of geese is called a gaggle.

A group of owls is called a parliament.

A group of ravens is called a murder.

A group of bears is called a sleuth.

12 or more cows is called a flink.

A baby oyster is called a spat.

Chickens can't swallow while they are upside down.

In the October 22, 1945 edition of Life magazine there was a picture of a chicken with its head cut off. It was alive too!

The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.

Pinocchio was made of pine.

The largest pumpkin weighed 1262 lbs.

A mule won't sink in quicksand but a donkey will.

More people are killed annually by donkeys than in airplane crashes.

Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button for it was eliminated during surgery.

There are 22 stars in the Paramount logo.

The average human produces 10, 000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime.

A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

Cranberry Jell-0 is the only kind that contains real fruit.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

Every time you lick a stamp you consume 1/10 of a calorie.

The pound sign .. is called anoctothorpe.

Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.

New Jersey has a spoon museum with over 5, 400 spoons from almost all the states.

There was once a town in West Virginia called "6".

Singapore only has one train station.

The parking meter was invented in North Dakota.

Napolean made his battle plans in a sandbox.

Roman Emperor Caligula made his horse a senator.

Posted: 2:46 p.m. EST June 30, 2006 by me ts