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True things you cannot live without knowing

6/26/2003 general humour No comments

Armadillos always have four babies at a time, and they are always all the same sex.
Taxicab drivers have a 70% greater chance of getting skin cancer of the left arm.
Fossilized bird droppings are one of the main exports of the island of Nauru.
On average, 100 stupid people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
In Canada, the most productive day of the workweek is Tuesday.
Polar bear livers contain so much Vitamin A that it can be fatal if eaten by a human.
Geritol is a combination of the words geriatric and tolerance.
There is a Nike commercial that was shot in Kenya with Samburu tribesman speaking in their native language, Maa. “Just Do It,” appears when the tribesman is talking. He was actually saying, “I don’t want these. Give me big shoes.”
Discovered in 1996, Ridley’s Crested Penguin is the world’s only venomous penguin.
It only takes one gallon of used motor oil to ruin over one million gallons of fresh water.
Bill Gates’ house was partially designed using a Macintosh.
The average house cat spends approximately 10,950 hours purring.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world’s nuclear weapons combined.
In 1999, two women were killed by a single lightning bolt. The underwire in their bras acted as a electrical conductors, and when lightning struck the bras, it burned their chests.
The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
It takes 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the Sunday edition of The New York Times.
A snail can sleep for three years, while the mighty ferret sleeps 20 hours a day. This is 19 minutes longer than a US senator.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
There is now an ATM in Antarctica.
Mosquitoes prefer children over adults.
The most commonly stolen book in the US is the bible.
The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com
0.3% of all road accidents in Canada involve a moose.
Over 11,000 people are injured every year trying out new sexual positions. Heh. Amateurs!