Useless Facts

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Want to know if your pet turtle is a boy or girl? Listen closely! Female turtles hiss and male turtles grunt.

 

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Jeannette Rankin was elected to Congress four years before women could even vote.

 

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In ancient Egypt, servants were smeared with honey so flies would flock to them instead of the pharaoh.

 

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George Washington owned a whiskey distillery.

 

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More than two percent of the American population was killed during the Civil War.

 

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No number from one to 999 includes the letter “a” in its word form.

 

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1. Most American car horns honk in the key of F.

 

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1. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."

 

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1. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

 

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

 

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1. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

 

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1. 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 realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.

 

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1. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every 2 weeks otherwise it will digest itself.

 

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1. The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; '7' was selected after the original 7-ounce containers and 'UP' for the direction of the bubbles.

 

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101 Dalmatians, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, and Mulan are the only Disney cartoons where both parents are present and don't die throughout the movie.

 

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1. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

 

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1. 'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

 

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1. To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs - it will let you go instantly.

 

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1. Reindeer like to eat bananas.

 

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1. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver and purple.