A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

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Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.

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The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.

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A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

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A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate. I know some people like that!

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A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.

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A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2 by 3-1/2.

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During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur," a small red car can be seen in the distance.

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On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily! That explains it!

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Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

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Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

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The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.

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There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.

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The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan." There was never a recorded Wendy before.

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The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

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If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

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Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves.

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The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."

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The original name for butterfly was flutterby.

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The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

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The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.

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Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.

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By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.

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Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

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Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.

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Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

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Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Elementary, my dear Watson."

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An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.

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The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.

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The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.

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Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them. Not to mention the other drawback.

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Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.