[Short Hand]

] A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.[*] Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.[*] The dolphins that live in the Amazon river are pink. [*] In 1681, the last dodo bird died. [*] Polar bears are left-handed. [*] A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. [*] Cat's urine glows under a blacklight. [*] Oysters can change again. [*] The oldest goldfish lived 14,975 days. [*] Slugs have 4 noses. [*] The venom in a Daddy Long-Legs spider is more poisonous than a Black Widow's or a Brown Recluse, but they cannot bite humans because their jaws can't open wide enough.


about people
[-] The average person spends about two years on the phone in a lifetime.
[-] Hitler and Napolean both had only one testical.
[-] You cannot kill yourself by holding your breath.
[-] Every person has a unique tongue print.
[-] The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30ft.
[-] It only takes 7 lbs. of pressure to rip your ear off.
[-] When you sneeze, all your bodily functions stop even your heart.
[-] 13 people a year are killed by vending machines falling on them.
[-] Our eyes never grow our nose and ears never stop growing.
[-] The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
[-] On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
[-] We spend one-third of our lives sleeping.
[-] You breathe 13 pints of air a minute.
[-] More people are killed by donkeys than plane crashes.
[-] There are 2,382,500 people with the last name "Smith" in the U.S.
[-] Women blink more than men.
[-] 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
[-] If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.


about food
[^] Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries.
[^] Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
[^] Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking up in the morning.
[^] In the summer, walnuts get a tan.
[^] Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.
[^] Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
[^] The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
[^] Eating several small meals a day is healthier than eating 3 big ones.
[^] Hot dogs were never made of dogs, but when they first introduced to the United States, no one would touch them for fear that they were.


about places
[!] In Kentucky, 50% of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.
[!] The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean.
[!] Pennsylvania was the first colony to legalize witchcraft.
[!] Zip code 12345 is assigned to General Electric in Schenectady, N.Y.
[!] In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.
[!] The United States consumes 25% of all the worlds' energy.
[!] An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 sent the Mississippi River backwards.
[!] New Zealand is the only country that contains every type of climate in the world.
[!] Every year, Mexico City sinks about 10 Inches.


about other things
[+] Airbags explode at 200 mph.
[+] "Naked" means to be unprotected-"Nude" means unclothed.
[+] In the U.S. there is, on average, three sex change operations per day.
[+] The yo yo was originally a weapon in the Philippines.
[+] Coca-Cola was originally green.
[+] No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange,silver or purple.
[+] 1961 was the most recent year that could be written upside-down and rightside-up and appear the same. The next year that this will be possible will be 6009.
[+] Months that begin with Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th".
[+] Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eyes."