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Friday, November 18, 2005

Crazy facts - part 2

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
All 50 US states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories per hour
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.
The stomach must produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

To be continued...

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