1. The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
2. The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
3. A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
4. A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
5. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
6. A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
7. Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.
8. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
9. Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants. This one seems dubious.
10. More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes. And how is this accomplished, one might ask? Do the donkeys bore them to death?
11. Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
12. Marilyn Monroe had six toes (not that anybody really noticed).
13. If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
14. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
15. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
16. The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
17. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
18. The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
19. TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
20. If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
21. The words racecar, kayak and Ava are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
22. A snail can sleep for 3 years.
23. China has more English speakers than the United States.
24. The electric chair was invented by a dentist. Anyone surprised here?......
25. Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, with a population of 1000 and a size 108.7 acres.
26. The longest town name in the world has 167 letters.
27. You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
28. "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
29. The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
30. No president of the United States was an only child.
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