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Weird Facts:
- Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
- There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
- Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.
- What is called a “French kiss” in the English-speaking world is known as an “English kiss” in France.
- Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a “Friday the 13th.”
- The placement of a donkey’s eyes in its’ heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!
- Some worms will eat themselves if they can’t find any food!
- Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
- It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
- In France, it is legal to marry a dead person.
- Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto.
- There’s an opera house on the U.S.–Canada border where the stage is in one country and half the audience is in another.
- The harder you concentrate on falling asleep, the less likely to fall asleep.
- You can’t hum while holding your nose closed.
- Women have twice as many pain receptors on their body than men. But a much higher pain tolerance.
- There are more stars in space than there are grains of sand on every beach in the world.
- For every human on Earth there are 1.6 million ants.
- The total weight of all those ants, however, is about the same as all the humans.
- On Jupiter and Saturn it rains diamonds.