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Weird and Strange Facts You’ve Probably Never Heard of
20 weird and strange facts that you may or may not need to know in your life, but are still interesting nonetheless!
1. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
2. It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
3. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
4. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
5. Two-thirds of the world’s eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
6. Almonds are a member of the peach family.
7. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
8. “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt”.
9. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is “screeched.”
10. The characters “Bert” and “Ernie” on Sesame Street were named after “Bert the cop” and “Ernie the taxi driver” in Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life.”
11. All of the clocks in the movie “Pulp Fiction” are stuck on 4:20.
12. Los Angeles’ full name is “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula.”
13. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
14. Fortune cookies were actually invented in America.
15. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades – King David; Clubs – Alexander the Great; Hearts – Charlemagne and Diamonds – Julius Caesar.
16. The chances of you dying on the way to get your lottery tickets is greater than your chances of winning.
17. Statistically you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
18. 1/4 of your bones are in your feet: There are 26 bones in each foot, 52 bones combined out of your body’s 206 bones.
19. Only humans shed emotional tears: Every other animal that produces tears has a physiological reason for doing so.
20. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. (My wife says I have the memory of a goldfish.. 
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June 17, 2011
Interesting facts. Why did they do that in Pulp Fiction?
June 17, 2011
just additional info on your #9 fact: what about STRENGTHS?
June 17, 2011
Hmm, good question Alyssa, looks like it’s a tie!
The significance of the time 4:20 is that it is slang for smoking marijuana.
June 17, 2011
great post
June 17, 2011
Very interesting! Good to know!
June 17, 2011
Very interesting facts! I only knew 3 of them: 4,7, and 20.
June 17, 2011
these really are very interesting! my favorite is 12, and it would be so funny if people used the whole name!
June 17, 2011
1,11, & 18 were really interesting.
Peanuts? Haha. That’s crazy.