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Be the interesting person in the room and share a fact or two. But before you do that, try not to say woah to any of these facts. Ready?
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1. Hot water will turn into ice faster than cold water.
2. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
3. The sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
4. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
5. Ant's take rest for around 8 Minutes in 12 hour period.
6. "I Am" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
7. Coca-Cola was originally green.
8. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
9. When the moon is directly overhead, you will weigh slightly less.
10. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from the blowing desert sand
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11. There are only two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
12. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
13. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
14. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
15. Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
16. Chocolate can kill dogs, as it contains theobromine, which affects their heart and nervous system.
17. Women blink nearly twice as much as men!
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18. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
19. It is impossible to lick your elbow.
20. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
21. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
22. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky
23. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
24."Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.
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25. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
26. It is impossible to lick your elbow.
27. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
28. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
29. A snail can sleep for three years.
30. All polar bears are left handed.
31. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
32. Butterflies taste with their feet.
33. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
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34. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
35. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
36. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
37. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
38. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
39. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
40. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
41. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times
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