New Funny Facts Facts Volume 4

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Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
Polar bears are left-handed.

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Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

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Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
Starfish haven't got brains.
Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

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The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
The average secretary's left hand does 56% of the typing.
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life".
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N and O-Z, hence "Oz."
The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. 
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the
The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.
The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
There are only four words in the English language which end in "- dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.

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When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? Paul Reiser himself.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

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You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
You know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.