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Amazing fact 35

Mexican Jumping Beans jump because of moth larvae inside them.

Men laugh longer, louder, and more often than women.

Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.

Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women!

Mel Gibson has a horseshoe kidney (two kidneys fused into one)!

Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny, was allergic to carrots.

Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots!

Medical studies show that intelligent people have more copper and zinc in their hair.

McDonald's salads contain up to 60% more fat than their burgers!

McDonald's is the world's largest distributor of toys!

Martha Stewart became a billionaire while in prison.

Marlboro cigarettes sold in New York contain more tar and nicotine than those sold in all other states!

Mark Twain didn't even make it through elementary school.

Many people in parts of China eat insects. Some common insects are bean worms, scoprions, and locusts.

Manhattan Island of New York City was purchased for $24 from the Algonquian Indians in 1624!

Males sweat 40% more than females.

Male monkeys lose the hair on their heads in the same way men do.

Male hospital patients fall out of bed twice as often as female hospital patients.

Malaysians protect their babies from disease by bathing them in beer.

Mailing an entire building has been illegal in the U.S. since 1916 when a man mailed a 40,000-ton brick house across Utah to avoid high freight rates.

Maggots will only eat flesh if it is dead. For this reason, they are often used to remove the burnt skin from severe burn patients.

Louisiana is the only state that grows in land area every year (Due to alluvial deposits from the Mississippi River).

Los Angeles's full name is 'El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula'!

London's Pall Mall became the first street lit by gaslight in 1807!

Liquid TIDE laundry detergent glows under a blacklight.

Linen is actually stronger when wet.

Linen can absorb up to 20 times its weight in moisture before it feels damp!

Lima beans contain cyanide!

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!

Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!

Less than 3% of the water produced at a large municipal water treatment plant is used for drinking purposes!

Less than 10% of criminals commit about 67% of all crime.

Leonardo DiCaprio got his first ?onscreen kiss? from a man!

Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors.

Lenny Kravitz's mother played the part of 'Helen' on 'The Jeffersons'.

Last 2 European countries to let women vote: Switzerland (1971) and Leichtenstein (1984).

Large kangaroos can cover more than 30 feet with each jump!

Lake Nicaragua in Nicaragua is the only fresh water lake in the world that has sharks.

Koala Bears are not bears.

Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.

Kittens are born both blind and deaf.

Kite flying is a professional sport in Thailand.

King George I could not speak English!

Kilts are not native to Scotland. They originated in France.

Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine.

Kermit the frog delivered the commencement address at Southampton College located in the state of New York in 1996.

Keanu Reeves is afraid of the dark.

Karate actually originated in India, but was developed further in China.

Justin Timberlake's half-eaten french toast sold for over $3,000 on eBay!

Just one in three consumers pays off his or her credit card bill every month.

Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!

Jumbo jets use 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off .

Johnny Depp suffers from self-injury.

John F. Kennedy was the first Roman Catholic President of the USA!

John F. Kennedy was buried without his brain after it was lost during the autopsy!

Jimmy Hoffa's middle name is, appropriately, Riddle.

Jimmy Carter is the first U.S. President to have been born in a hospital.

Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison were all 27 years old when they died.

Jericho is the oldest walled city in the world at 9,000 yrs old!

Jennifer Aniston's original name is Jennifer Anastassakis!

Jean -Claude Van Damme learned to speak English by watching the cartoon 'The Flintstones.''

James Bond is also known as Mr. Kiss-Kiss-Bang-Bang.

Jacksonville, Florida, has the largest total area of any city in the United States.

Jackie Kennedy Onassis was secretly a chain smoker.

J. Edgar Hoover liked to fire FBI agents whose palms were sweaty when shaking hands.

It?s a common practice in southern India for a man to marry his elder sister?s daughter.

It's possible to lead a cow upstairs, but not downstairs.

It's illegal to own a red car in Shanghai, China.

It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas.

It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas!

It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska!

It would take twenty new mid-size cars to generate the same amount of pollution that a mid-size 1960's car did.

It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland!

It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland!

It was illegal to sell E.T. dolls in France because there is a law against selling dolls without human faces.

It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up.

It took 20,000 men 22 years to build the Taj Mahal.

It takes up to four hours to hard boil an ostrich egg.

It takes twelve ears of corn to make a tablespoon of corn oil.

It takes the same amount of time to age a cigar as wine.

It takes six months to build a Rolls Royce...and 13 hours to build a Toyota.

It takes Several hundred thousand years for newly made photons (light) to travel from the core of the sun to it's surface.

It takes five minutes to execute someone in a gas chamber.

It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.

It takes about a week to make a jelly bean.

It takes a drop of ocean water more than 1,000 years to circulate around the world.

It takes 492 seconds for sunlight to reach the Earth!

It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.

It takes 17 muscles to smile, 43 to frown.

It takes 100 pounds of rain water to produce a single pound of food from the earth.

It snows more in the Grand Canyon than it does in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

It is possible to see a rainbow at night!

It is possible to go blind from smoking too heavily.

It is possible for a scorpion to sting itself to death as they are not immune to their own poison!

It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

It is now possible to print human skin with an inkjet printer!

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

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