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= Useless facts you'll never need, but they might save your life! = The ancient Aztecs gave medicine for kidney problems with the left hand, and medicine for liver problems with the right hand. Abraham Lincoln had a high squeaky voice Duck quacks do echo, just not so loud as other echoes. Bill Clinton was allergic to his cat, Socks. There are more creatures in your mouth then there are people on earth. A girrafe was once called a cameleopard, because it looked like both. The blue whale needs to consume a million-and-a-half-calories every day. Pigs are at least as smart as a dog. Some experts say that deer like to eat marijuana.(Dont try that.) Depending on the geographic region, about 30-60% of all animals brought in to animal shelters in the United States are euthanized. At fifteen years old, James Brown was arrested and sent to jail for stealing clothes out of parked cars. Brown said, “They sent me to prison for being dumb.” An old Irish saying states, "The left hand of a dead man dipped in a milk pail makes cream." If you leave a ton of iron alone for a while, it can turn into three tons of rust. If you compare oysters and eggs pound for pound, oysters have 20x as much cholesterol as eggs. You would weigh nothing at the center of the earth. But you'd be dead. The Nazis, during the Holocaust, used human skin as a substitute for leather in the manufacture of lampshades and shoes, among other things. American Pit Bull Terriers do not have locking jaws, no matter what Animal Planet says. Benjamin Franklin signed the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence with his left hand. 5 presidents of the United States were left-handed: James Garfield, Harry Truman, Gerald Ford, George Bush, and Bill Clinton The Mona Lisa had no eyebrows. Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours. Slugs have 4 noses. Of the five people that designed the Macintosh computer, four were left-handed. According to SAT results, left handed students have higher math scores than right handed students do. England's Queen Victoria was left-handed. She also had the longest reign in British history, 63 years. One gallon of used motor oil can ruin about 1000000 gallons of fresh water. Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women. It is against the law to mispronounce the name of the State of Arkansas in Arkansas Hippos and Rhinos kill more people each year than big cats. D'OH is considered a word in a dictionary. It is impossible to lick your elbow. On a standard "qwerty" keyboard, there are 1,447 English words that are typed solely with the left hand, and there are only 187 words typed with the right hand alone. = List of Phobias! = ablutophobia: washing or bathing acarophobia: itching acerophobia: sourness vaccinophobia: vaccination (obvious venustraphobia: beautiful women verbophobia: words tachophobia: speed taeniophobia or teniophobia: tapeworms taphephobia: being buried alive tapinophobia: being contagious taurophobia: bulls technophobia: technology teleophobia: definate plans telephonophobia: telephones theatrophobia: theatres theologicophobia: theology telosphobia: being last teratophobia: bearing a deformed child testophobia: taking tests tetanophobia: lockjaw, tetanus teutophobia: German or German things textophobia: certain fabrics thaasophobia: sitting thalassophobia: the ocean thanatophobia: death or dying verminophobia: germs vestiphobia: clothing achluophobia: darkness acousticophobia: noise urophobia: urine or urinating (wierd) tropophobia: moving or making changes trypanophobia: injections tuberculophobia: tuberculosis tyrannophobia: tyrants acrophobia: heights triskaidekaphobia: 13 aerophobia: air zelophobia: jealousy zemmiphobia: mole rat zeusophobia: God/gods zoophobia: animals (obvious) aeruophobia: flying agliophobia: pain agoraphobia: open spaces arachnophobia: spiders More to come as I (or other people) learn more! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OHH OHH! Can we post stuff if we know stuff? - Heir_of_Lindeen Sure! -Ip not found What's with all the left hand stuff? ~CB Are you getting these from the tops of Snapple bottles? I remember the Recycle-TV one and the "Slugs have 4 noses" one. -The pink lemonade snapple guy |