• Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.

• Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 2 meters away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

• In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator. Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.

• The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.

• When you die your hair still grows for a couple of months.

• There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long (eye, hip, arm, leg, ear, toe, jaw, rib, lip, gum).

• The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million. I wonder if it was made of Gold.

• The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 9 meters (30 feet).Cats can hear ultrasound.

• When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.

• Police dogs are trained to react to commands in a foreign language; commonly German but more recently Hungarian.

• There are twice as many kangaroos in Australia as there are people. The kangaroo population is estimated at about 40 million.

• The largest number of children born to one woman is recorded at 69. From 1725-1765, a Russian peasant woman gave birth to 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets. ‘Amazing’ is the word.

• In ancient Rome, it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose.

• The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear. Any cup-shaped object placed over the ear produces the same effect. Try it out.

• "Goodbye” came from "God bye” which came from "God be with you.”

• It is forbidden for a plane to fly over TAJ MAHAL. This is because it’s one of those no-fly zone areas. And more to that, nobody knows who built the famous Taj Mahal.

• The names of the architects, masons, and designers that have come down to us have all proved to be latter-day inventions, and there is no evidence to indicate who the real creators were. Hmmm.

• There are 62,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body – laid end to end they would circle the earth 2.5 times.

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