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Sunday, October 30

Stuff I bet you never knew...

- It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.


- Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.


- The continents names all end with the same letter with which they start.


- Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other color.


- Almonds are members of the peach family.


- More people are born daily in India then there are people living in Australia


- Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.


- A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.


- The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.


- A "sysygy" occurs when all the planets of the our Solar System line up.


- Anatidaephobia is the fear that somewhere in the world, there is a duck watching you.


- If you touch your tongue while yawning, it can stop the yawn.


- Jellyfish evaporate in the sun. They're 98% water.


- Those stars and colours you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes.


- A Rubik's cube has 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possible configurations.




- In Japan they have square watermelons.




- It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.


- 'Dreamt' is the ONLY WORD in the entire English language that ends in the letters 'mt'.


- 'Dysania' is the state of finding it hard to get out of bed in the morning.


- Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.


- The Bible is the number one most shoplifted book of all time.




The following has nothing to do with random facts... enjoy 



...Dakz out...