Unusual Trivia Facts You Might Want To Know

• A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
• The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.
• The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."
• The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
• The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
• Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."
• Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
• Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
• The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead".
• Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."
• Camel's milk does not curdle.
• In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
• An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.
• Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.
• The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.
• Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.
• All porcupines float in water.
• Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.
• Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of "Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom."
• Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
• If you take a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town hall, you are entitled to receive $10.00 from the town.
• The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
• Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
• The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)
• Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at the same height as the U.S. flag.
• The only nation who's name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan.
• When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
• The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
• A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
• The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
• Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realise what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
• Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
• 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie.
• 'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
• To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs - it will let you go instantly.
• Reindeer like to eat bananas.
• No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver and purple.
• The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."
• Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
• The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
• More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
• A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
• It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up.  The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
• Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

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