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1. Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better than men.

2. Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were all invented by women.

3. The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

4. The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)

5. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great; Hearts - Charlemagne; and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

6. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

7. Pearls melt in vinegar.

8. If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.

9. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

10. It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth.Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.

11. If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.

12. Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building, it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realise what is occurring, relax and correct itself.

13. Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.

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

15. More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in aircrashes.

16. Certain frogs can be frozen solid, then thawed, and survive.

17. Cat's urine glows under a black light.

18. A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.

19. A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

20. To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs - it will let you go instantly.

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