Complete and Utter Randomness!!

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>I found some really interesting random facts that are just flippin wierd does anyone else know anymore of them??</p>

<p>The female pigeon cannot lay eggs if she is alone. In order for her ovaries to function, she must be able to see another pigeon. </p>

<p>An ounce of platinum can be stretched 10,000 feet. </p>

<p>Spinach consumption in the U.S. rose 33% after the Popeye comic strip became a hit in 1931. </p>

<p>It is illegal to purchase or consume Jack Daniel's Whiskey in the town in which it is produced! </p>

<p>There is a giant mushroom in Oregon that is over 2,400 years old, covers 3.4 square miles of land, and is still growing! </p>

<p>When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt. </p>

<p>Their just wierd can anyone give any other ones?</p>

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<p>I'm not surprised abou the spinach. Popeye is very persuasive. </p>

<p>I'd hate to imagine what would have happened if he'd used steroids to make his muscles grow instead of spinach...</p>

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<p>lol, I think it made me like spinach less... before I heard about popeye I didn't realize people weren't supposed to like spinach.
I was sort of young though...</p>

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<p>that giraffe thing is weird- i always sort of wondered haha</p>

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<p>haha anyone have any more random facts?</p>

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<p>The majority of babies are born with 300 bones and yet the average adult has 206.</p>

<p>Neutrons have a half life of fourteen minutes.</p>

<p>Macadamia nuts require 300 psi to crack their shell, which is eight times the average grip of a man. They also origninated in Australia not Hawaii like most think (history channel).</p>

<p>Worker ants can carry objects fifty times their weight and in most species the worker ants are female.</p>

<p>There's some other weird facts I know, but I am tired.</p>

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<p>the 300 bones in a baby one is just weird. </p>

<p>i knew the one about the giraffes, and i heard the jack daniel's whiskey ban applies to the entire county in which it is manufactured, but i could be very wrong.</p>

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<p>I think to date, at least 37 people have been killed by vending machines.</p>

<p>There's a reason why it says to not shake it.</p>

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<p>Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same time
Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite
To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe.
Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.
Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants watered with cold water
Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum doesn't stay in
the gut. It will pass through the system and be excreted.
There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year.
Onions help reduce cholesterol if eaten after a fatty meal</p>

<p>Are these random enough?</p>

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<p>*The longest word in the English language is Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
*A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.
*Female Chinese Fighting Fish (Betas) will kill each other if 2 are placed in a tank together, but if there are 3 female betas in the tank, they will form a hierarchy.
*Marie Antoinette never said "Let them eat cake."
*An Ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.</p>

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<p>jello won't melt in the microwave; it explodes.</p>

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<p>*The term "to testify" comes from the ancient greek practice to swear on your testicles when in court.
*The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
*Warner Chappel Music owns the copyright to the song 'Happy Birthday'. They make over $1 million in royalties every year from the commercial use of the song.
*The New York Stock Exchange started as a coffee shop!
*Male hospital patients fall out of bed twice as often as female hospital patients.
*Male monkeys lose the hair on their heads in the same way men do.
*The first bomb dropped by the Allies on berlin in WW2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
*Mosquitoes prefer children to adults, blondes to brunettes.
*Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the morning.
*It is illegal NOT to smile in Pocatello, Idaho.
*In Colombia, one can be fined up to $90,000 for gossiping.
*World’s heaviest primates: morbidly obese humans. After that: gorillas at 485 lbs.</p>

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<p>-A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
-The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
-Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.</p>