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a slight overdose of useless information (but only a quarter of what i have handy)

 

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

 

There are more chickens than people in the world.

 

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is ‘screeched’.

 

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

 

A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.

 

Marilyn Monroe had 6 toes on one foot.

 

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

 

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

 

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

 

Vatican City is the smallest country in the world with a population of 1,000 and a size of 108.7 acres.

 

Canada is an Indian word meaning ‘Big Village’.

 

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

 

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

 

A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

 

The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from and old English law that stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

 

In the 40's, the Bich pen was changed to Bic for fear that Americans would pronounce it 'Bitch.'

 

and possibly my favourite...

 

Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.

 

who the fuck found out that world-advancing gem of scientific information?

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