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The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million!

elephants are the only mammal that cant jump

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.

The tallest volcano in our solar system is 69,649 feet high.

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

I hate my sister, and I am not just saying that...

No word in the English language rhymes with "month."

On average, there are about 380 sesame seeds on a McDonald's Big Mac bun.

The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.

An owl has three eyelids

You weigh slightly less when you are under a full moon.

Bubble and normal gum is illegal in Singapore.

The heat from a nuclear explosion is hotter than the surface of the sun

Your skin is your body's largest organ.

Mountain goats aren't really goats, they're antelopes.

The first person to discover that milk from a cow was drinkable was very, very thirsty.

Users JellyBear and JamminDeV, you seem to be posting a lot here recently.

Just to let you know: a lot of your posts have already been posted here. Please, don't spam or copy/paste facts. Check the rules to post in this thread on the first page.
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42 year old Monique Lawless saved the day! She was at the supermarket when three brothers stole some beer from there. She didn't allowed them to run away by doing something weird: She started to jump on the hood of the trio's car and only stopped when the police arrived.

The most expensive rollercoaster is one called "Expedition Everest", located in Orlando, Florida, in a park named animal kingdom. It's cost: U$D 100.000.000

In Munich's Oktoberfest, the beer mugs are not for sale.

In Brazil, Hydraulic suspensions are forbidden.

Rifca Stanescu is the younger grandmother on the world! She had her daughter when she was 12 and her daughter gave birth with 11 years of age!.

McDonald's sells more than 75 burgers per second.

I love random facts,
- Mountain goats are really antelopes
- The average roll of toilet paper has 340 pieces
- printers used to come with fire extinguishers because they frequently caught on fire.

Sorry if someone already posted any of these, I just didn't feel like reading 25 pages of random facts

About 79% of statistics are made up on the spot

Rice paper does not have any rice in it!

Cats sleep 70% of their lives.

The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog" uses every letter in the alphabet.

"Uncopyrightable" is the only 15 letter word that does not repeat a letter.

Humans blink over 10,000,000 times per year.

You wait and do nothing for a minute, you lost 60 seconds of your life.

More monopoly money is printed in a year than real money is printed throughout the world.

A toothpick is the object most choked on by Americans.

After eating, a house fly regurgitates its' food and eats it again.

The letter "E" is the most used word in the alphabet, while "Q" is the least used.

Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel "Gadsby" which contains over 50,000 words, none of which contain the letter "E"!

In alaska, you cannot look at a moose from an airplane.

If you are standing on a mountain top and the conditions are right, you can see a lit match 50 miles away.

On a staircase, the two steps at the top and bottom are the most dangerous.

It takes you longer to read all these facts than for me to type them.