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# The Paomnnehal Pweor Of The Hmuan Mnid.
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch as Cmabrigde Uinervtisy,
it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are,
the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.
The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
# The original game of "Monopoly" was circular.
# It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.
# One-fourth of the world's population lives on less than $200 a year.
# Ninety million people survive on less than $75 a year.
# The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
# The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
# TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
# Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.
# A snail can sleep for 3 years.
# Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
# The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
# More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
# Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
# The continents names all end with the same letter with which they start.
# Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
# According to tests made at the Institute for the Study of Animal Problems in Washington, D.C., dogs and cats, like people, are either right-handed or left-handed --- that is, they favor either their right or left paws.
# A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can.
# Blue whales weigh as much as 30 elephants and are as long as 3 Greyhound buses.
# Crocodiles and alligators are surprisingly fast on land. Although they are rapid, they are not agile; so if you ever find yourself chased by one, run in a zigzag line. You'll lose him or her every time.
# Birds do not sleep in their nests. They may occasionally nap in them, but they actually sleep in other places.
# Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of the blue whale.
# Butterflies taste with their hind feet.
# Only female mosquitoes bite.
# Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other color.
# If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
# Every night, wasps bite into the stem of a plant, lock their mandibles (jaws) into position, stretch out at right angles to the stem, and, with legs dangling, fall asleep.
# Ants stretch when they wake up. They also appear to yawn in a very human manner before taking up the tasks of the day.
# Bees have 5 eyes. There are 3 small eyes on the top of a bee's head and 2 larger ones in front.
# The outdoor temperature can be estimated to within several degrees by timing the chirps of a cricket. It is done this way: count the number of chirps in a 15-second period, and add 37 to the total. The result will be very close to the actual Fahrenheit temperature. This formula, however, only works in warm weather. (Try it!)
# In the United States, a pound of potato chips cost two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes.
# Caesar salad has nothing to do with any of the Caesar. It was first concocted in a bar in Tijuana, Mexico, in the 1920's.
# A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.
# Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
# You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
# The two longest one-syllable words in the English language is "screeched. & strengths."
# Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
# Barbie's full first name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
# All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
# A coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened
# "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
# The word 'byte' is a contraction of 'by eight.'
# The word 'pixel' is a contraction of either 'picture cell' or 'picture element'.
# Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
# Cat's urine glows under a black light.
# The average ear of corn has eight hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.
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