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Stupid Facts

• The Soap Beetle washes itself with hydrogen peroxide which it secretes from glands behind it eyes.
  

• Geckos don't have eyelids. They lick their eyes with their tongue to clean them.
  

• The Skin is the largest organ of the body.
  

• Odd-numbered highways generally run North/South, and even-numbered highways run East/West.

• The driest place on earth is Arica, Chile.

• The lowest social security number was 001-01-0001, and was given to Grace D. Owen of Concord, New Hampshire, who applied for her number on November 24, 1936.

• The diesel engine was named after German engineer Rudolf Diesel who invented it in the 1890s.

• 3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the population.

• SCUBA is an acronym for Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus.

• A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

• Frogs can breathe through their skin.

• More than 75 different kinds of bacteria are found in human feces.

• The plasma in blood has the same percentage of salt as sea water.
  (see Human Blood)
  
  
• Antarctica doubles in size every winter.
  
  
• Leonardo da Vinci wrote most of his scientific notes backwards.
  
  
• Plastic surgery in one of the oldest types of surgery performed.
  
  
• King Edward II and King Henry forbade football because it had become too popular.
  (see Superbowl Winners)
  
  
• A submarine was used in the American Revolution.
  
  
• The longest recorded filibustering speech lasted 24 hours and 18 minutes.
  
  
• Skunks eat bees.
  
  
• Saint Patrick's birth and death dates are unknown.
  
  
• The amount of uranium in the A-bomb was only about the size of a baseball.
  (See Periodic Table)
  
  
• Cleopatra married her brother.
  
  
• Anableps are four-eyed fish living in rivers in Central and South America.
  
  
• Exobiology is the study of extraterrestrial life.
• A Funambulist is the proper term for a circus tight rope walker.
  
  
• Phrenology is the study of bumps on the head.
  
  
• A U.S. Quarter has 119 grooves on its circumference. A dime has 118 grooves.
  (see Coins and Currency)
  
  
• The original London Bridge, built in 1831, now stands in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
  
  
• The thing dangling in the back of your throat is called the uvula.
  
  
• Queen and worker ants of some species are known to live longer than 15 years.
  
  
• The practice of toasting bread goes back at least 2000 years ago to the Romans, who parched bread over an open fire to remove the bread's moisture and thereby delay spoilage.
  
  
• The term Radar is derived from the phrase "Radio Acquired Detection And Ranging."
  
  
• The platypus and the spiny anteater (aka "echidna") are the only mammals that lay eggs. Together they belong to a group called "Monotremes".
  
  
• There are 250,000 rivers in the United States.