A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.
Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two helpless protesters to death.
In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.
So confident were some people that alcohol was the cause of virtually all crime that, on the eve of Prohibition, some towns actually sold their jails.
The turkey was named for what was wrongly thought to be its country of origin.
The average person loses two ballpoint pens a week
Iraqi terrorist, Khay Rahnajet, didn't pay enough postage on a letter bomb. It came back with "return to sender" stamped on it. Forgetting it was the bomb, he opened it and was blown to bits. .
In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them to mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's."
The portrait of Abraham Lincoln on the penny shows him facing to the right while all other portraits of presidents on U.S. circulating coins face left.
In Maine, it's illegal for a police officer to tell you to have a nice day after giving you a traffic ticket.
Elephants can't jump. Every other maofftopicl can.
Catfish have 100,000 taste buds.
In California, it's against the law to use your dirty underwear as a dust rag.(is this true????)
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
It's against the law in Chicago to eat in a place that is on fire.
Swans are the only birds with penises
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
The largest Great White Shark ever caught measured 37 feet and weighed 24,000 pounds. It was found in a herring weir in New Brunswick in 1930.
The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
A single tree in the rainsforest can be home to thousands of different creatures.
And the best random fact of all!!!!!!!
One acre of hemp(cannibus) will produce as much paper as four acres of trees (and can be replaced next season). (lol, now that will be my excuse for growing it in my backyard, i'm against the destruction of the rain forest, so i will make my own paper!!!)
-if you place one of those massage thingies on your head and look at a TV, the screen will become blurry
-if you try to heat up a marshmallow inside a cup in a microwave, it will burn and melt almost immediately
-different dogs will be scared of totally different things, mine for example is scared of big inanimate objects, be it a box, a printer, or whatever, he never even aproaches it willingly,
-dragons breath fire
-wrydolphin is really a guy (LOL! j/k)
-YODA like spandex *shudders*
-I LIKE CHOCOLATE!
-Music is cool only if you dl it
-I need a life
-jesus was packin'
-Aliens are actually nazis in disguise so they can spread communism across the united states and at the same time stay hidden from the gov't...if you want an example take a look at the skin heads (aka: neo nazis)
-Cougar is really a women (nah j/k again )
-the grass is green
-my shorts are yellow
-my shirt is blue
-my raccoon is gray and black
-god is a gangsta
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All mitochondrial DNA in Europe leads back to seven women.
The term crazy redneck stems from the fact that most rural poor were habitually niacin deficient. Niacin deficiency causes a red neck and can damage the brain enough to cause insanity.
-The slogan for the Apollo 17 mission was "Apollo 17, one big leap for unemployment"
-The crew of the Apollo 13 mission were originally slated to fly Apollo 14, but got bumped up due to crew changes.
-The mission coofftopicnder of the Apollo 13 crew, Jim Lovell, has been to the moon twice, but has never set foot on it.
-Laika, the first dog in space, was deliberatley put to sleep through a remote mechanism as her spacecraft circled the earth, because the Russians couldn't figure out how to get her down.
-Yuri Gagarin's spacecraft did not actually land after orbiting the earth. Gagarin parachuted out as the spacecraft was coming down, but the Russians kept this secret for years, fearing that if the truth came out, his flight would no longer qualify Gagarin as the first man to orbit the earth.
-Sally Ride was not the first woman in space. Valentina Tereshkova was, in 1963. She later married a fellow cosmonaut and had a child. People joked that Tereshkova was only put into space to see if spaceflight affected the reproductive process.
-Despite the fact that Russia flew a woman in space almost 20 years before NASA did, they have only had 2 women in their astronaut corps, and neither flew more than one mission.
-For ever dollar put into the Apollo program, it has been estimated that we have gotten seven dollars out.
-MRI's and CAT scans were derived from Apollo technology. Smoke detectors came from skylab
-Water will boil in a vacuum, no matter what temperature it is at
-Birds die of dehydration in zero-g because they cannot swallow without gravity
-Alexi Leonov was the first man to perform an EVA
-the dried ice cream cubes touted as space food are never actually taken into space. They are too dry and crumbly
-John Glenn ate apple pie on his 3-orbit mission in space
-Alan Shepard's flight was originally sheduled to launch in March, but was delayed until May due to technical difficulties. Yuri Gagarin's flight was in April
-Russia has never succeeded in landing a spacecraft on mars.
-The Apollo 12 Saturn V was struck by lightning during lift-off
-Apollo 17 was the first night launch of a spacecraft
-Prior to the Apollo 1 fire, the atmosphere in spacecrat was comprised of pure oxygen. After tie fire however, they decided that despite the extra weight, adding some nitrogen to the atmosphere might be a good idea.
Deke Slayton was the only one of the original seven not to fly a mercury mission. Gordan Cooper was the only one not to fly after the conclusion of the mercury missions.
-Alan Shepard was the only one of the original seven to set foot on the moon.
-Robert Goddard was the first man to use a liquid propulsion rocket
-if there were an ocean big enough to contain the planet saturn, it would float
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