- Emperor Penguins can hold their breath for 20 minutes.
- Except for blueberries, no fruit or vegetable is naturally blue.
- No piece of normal-size paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
- Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
- For every 10 successful attempts to climb Mount Everest there is one fatality.
- If you can see a rainbow you must have your back to the sun.
- Guinea pigs and rabbits can't sweat.
- Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the U.S. treasury.
- If you went out into space (without suitable equiptment), you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure
- A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink.
- In New York State, it is illegal to shoot a rabbit from a moving trolley car.
- A new book is published every 13 minutes in America.
- On average, a 4-year-old child asks 437 questions a day.
- Most toilets flush in E flat.
- A dime has 118 ridges around the edge
- You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
- A person standing under an oak tree is 16 more times liable to be hit by lightning than if he had taken refuge beneath a beech tree.
- If you earn twenty thousand dollars a year, one minute of your time is worth a little more than seventeen cents.
- Oak trees do not have acorns until they are fifty years old or older.
- An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.
- Phobophobia is a fear of fearing.
- The largest school in the world is a in the Philippines, with about 25,000 pupils.
- Your statistical chance of being murdered is one in twenty thousand.
- The world's record for continuous pogo stick jumping is 41 hours.
- Pinocchio was made of pine.
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