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Top 27 unbelievable facts that most people don’t know

27. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...G=Google+Search


26. The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...egs&btnG=Search


25. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

http://www.science-frontiers.com/sf058/sf058b07.htm


24. Its impossible to smoke oneself to death with weed. You won\'t be able to retain enough motor control and consciousness to do so after such a large amount. (Common Sense)

23. Uncle Phil, from Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, did the voice of Shredder in the TMNT cartoon.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0043041/


22. Every drop of seawater contains approximately 1 billion gold atoms.

http://www.webelements.com/webeleme...xt/Au/geol.html



21. The US national anthem actually has three verses, but everyone just knows the first one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star-Spangled_Banner

20. During World War II, IBM built the computers the Nazis used to manage their death/concentration camps.

http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/a.../auschwitz.html

19. The total combined weight of the worlds ant population is heavier than the weight of the human population.

http://www.perceptions.couk.com/superants.html

18. The deadliest war in history excluding World War II was a civil war in China in the 1850s in which the rebels were led by a man who thought he was the brother of Jesus Christ.

http://www.asiawind.com/pub/forum/f...c/msg00451.html


17. Just about 3 people are born every second, and about 1.3333 people die every second. The result is about a 2 and 2/3 net increase of people every second. Almost 10 people more live on this Earth now, than before you finished reading this.

http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/conten...page?d=20000714


16. Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted.

http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/birthday.asp

15. The number of people alive on earth right now is higher than the number of all the people that have died. Ever.

http://www.prb.org/Template.cfm?Sec...d_on_Earth_.htm


14. The average American consumes 1.2 pounds of spider eggs a year and eat 2.5 pounds of insect parts a year.

http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/average.html


13. The Kamp Krusty episode of the Simpson’s was originally meant to be made as the Simpsons movie.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamp_Krusty


12. Men can breastfeed babies

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male_lactation


11. There is a rare condition called Exploding Head Syndrome which you\'ve probably never heard of.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_head_syndrome


10. Scientists have determined that fungi are more closely related to human beings and animals than to other plants.

http://www.factmonster.com/spot/fungus1.html

9. In some (maybe all) Asian countries, the family name is written first and the individual name written second (opposite of the America method). That\'s why Asian athletes like Yao Ming and Ichiro Suzuki have Yao and Ichiro written on their jerseys. Those are their family names and in America their names are written Ming Yao and Suzuki Ichiro.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_name


8. Abe Lincoln bought 50 cents worth of cocaine in 1860

http://www.historycooperative.org/j.../19.1/hall.html


7. A German World War II submarine was sunk due to malfunction of the toilet.

http://forum.axishistory.com/viewto...?t=9684&start=0

6. Washington State has the longest single beach in the United States. Long Beach, WA.

http://www.gonorthwest.com/Washingt.../Long_Beach.htm


5. The largest living thing on the face of the Earth is a mushroom underground in Oregon, it measures three and a half miles in diameter.

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/fungus1.html


4. The town of Los Angeles, California, was originally named El Pueblo la Nuestra Senora de Reina de los Angeles de la Porciuncula.

http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/la/...settlement.html

3. 9 out of 10 people believe Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. This isn’t true; Joseph Swan did.

http://chem.ch.huji.ac.il/~eugeniik/history/swan.html


2. Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.

http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askas...01/gen01338.htm


1. The Population of the world can live within the state boundaries of Texas.

http://www.improb.com/teach/lessons...e-in-texas.html

President Bush was visiting a primary school and he visited one of the classes.
They were in the middle of a discussion related to words and their meanings.
The teacher asked the President if he would like to lead The discussion on the word "tragedy".
So the illustrious leader asked the class for an example of a "tragedy".
One little boy stood up and offered:

"If my best friend, who lives on a farm, is playing in the field and a tractor runs over him and kills him, that would be a tragedy."

"No," said Bush, "that would be an accident."

A little girl raised her hand:
"If a school bus carrying 50 children drove over a cliff, killing everyone inside, that would be a tragedy."

"I'm afraid not," explained the president. "That's what we would call a great loss."

The room went silent. No other children volunteered. Bush searched the room.

"Isn't there someone here who can give me an example of a tragedy?"

Finally at the back of the room a small boy (Lil Johnny) raised his hand.
In a quiet voice he said: "If Air Force One carrying you and Mrs. Bush was struck by a "friendly fire" missile and blown to smithereens, that would be a tragedy."

Fantastic!" exclaimed Bush. "That's right. And can you tell me why that would be tragedy?"

"Well," says Lil Johnny,
"It has to be a tragedy, because it sure as hell wouldn't be a great loss and it probably wouldn't be an accident either."