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Americans spend around $3 billion for cat and dog food a year.

The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows.

There are no venomous snakes in Maine.

The longest living cells in the body are brain cells which can live an entire lifetime.

Cacao, the main ingredient of chocolate is the most pest-ridden tree in the jungle.

Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.

A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood.

A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.

Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.

In 21 states, Wal-Mart is the single largest employer.

No word in the the English dictionary rhymes with "MONTH".

The parachute was invented by DiVinci in 1515.

Whitby, Ontario has more donut stores per capita than any other place in the world.

No president of the United States was an only child.

Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.

The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.

Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."

Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum.

The man who played the voice of bugs bunny was allergic to carrots.

Reindeer like to eat bananas.

Which day are there more collect calls than any other day of the year? Father's Day

What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers all have in common? All were invented by women.

There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

The cruise liner, QE 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

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