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OMG FACTS .
Chocolate can help you live longer.
Ants stretch and yawn when they wake up.
The original pack of Skittles doesn’t contain the color blue. Therefore, you CAN’T actually taste the rainbow.
It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.
Q is the only letter that never appears in the name of a US State.
The world doesn’t take 24 hours to turn on its axis, it really takes 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4 seconds.
The song “3” by Britney Spears is 3 minutes 33 seconds long.
A 12-year-old’s science project showed that Fast food ice was dirtier than toilet water .
The USA bought Alaska from Russia for 2 cents an acre , adding up to $7.2 million .
“Eleven plus Two” and “Twelve plus One” both equal 13 and both have 13 letters. In fact they both have THE SAME 13 letters.
When a puppy is born, it is blind and toothless.
“Silent” and “listen” are spelled with the same letters..
Cursing when you’re hurt actually helps reduce pain.
A way you can tell if you’re whispering or not is to put your hand at your throat. If you feel vibrations, you’re talking. If you don’t, you’re whispering.
There’s roughly 380 sesame seeds on an average McDonald’s Big Mac bun.
A penny is worth 1 cent but it costs 1.7 cents to make it.
Lightning is 5 times hotter than the sun.
LOL isn’t just laugh out loud. LOL is also “fun” in Dutch.
No matter how hard you squeeze the two ends of an egg, it will NEVER break.
Huge, several hundred pound rocks in Death Valley mysteriously move really far, all on their own. No one knows how, because no one’s ever seen it happen.
If you put two straws in your mouth: one inside a drink and one outside it, you won’t be able to drink through either straw.
Newborn babies cry but they have no tears. Their tear ducts aren’t formed until they are a month old.
A piece of paper can’t be folded in half more than 7 times .
No word in the English language rhymes with purple, orange, month or silver.
Chewing gum can keep you from crying when cutting onions.
Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a “Friday the 13th”.
A mosquito is more likely to bite a blonde than a brunette.
Elephants are the only land mammals that cannot jump.
If you look at the sun RIGHT NOW, you are technically looking back in time. It takes eight minutes for light from the sun to reach Earth.
A strawberry is not an actual berry, but a banana is.
You can’t hum while holding your nose closed.
The lion costume in the film Wizard of Oz was made from real lions.
Eating celery is technically exercise. When you eat celery, you burn more calories than you consume.
A toothpick is the object most-often choked on by Americans.
Men have nipples because, as an embryo, everyone is a female until the Y chromosome kicks in.
A female platypus sweats milk.
‘racecar’ is spelled the same forwards and backwards.
‘Uncopyrightable’ is the longest word in the English language that doesn’t repeat a letter once.
Penguins cannot walk backwards.
Vending machines kill four times more people each year than sharks do.
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
When you put a seashell next to your ear, it’s the sound of your blood surging in your veins, not the ocean.
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