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About 85% or product warning labels on household products are inadequate.  
 
When two words are combined to form a single word (e.g., motor + hotel = motel, breakfast + lunch = brunch) the new word is called a "portmanteau."  
 
Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.  
 
Oral-B is a combination of oral hygiene and the letter B, which stands for the word better.  
 
An office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.  
 
Fish can be susceptible to seasickness.  
 
By partially filling saucers with vinegar and distributing the saucers around a room, you can eliminate odors.  
 
Hundreds of years ago, only the wealthy people used to wear underwear.  
 
Koalas almost never drink water. They get fluids from the eucalyptus leaves they eat.  
 
On average, a disposable diaper can hold up to 7 pounds of liquid.  
 
In relation to its size, the ordinary house spider is eight times faster than an Olympic sprinter.  
 
The best time for a person to buy shoes is in the afternoon. This is because the foot tends to swell a bit around this time.  
 
The only king without a moustache in a deck of cards is the king of hearts.  
 
The spray WD-40 got its name because there were forty attempts needed before the creation of the "water displacing" substance.  
 
Polar bears can smell seal from 20 miles away.  
 
41% of women apply body or hand moisturizer a minimum three times a day.  
 
A yawn usually lasts for approximately six seconds.  
 
The Ouija board is named for the French and German words for yes - oui and ja.  
 
An average adult produces about half a litre of flatulent gas per day, resulting in an average of about fourteen occurrences of flatulence a day.  
 
Approximately 1-2 calorie are burned a minute while watching T.V.  
 
Even if you eat food standing on your head, the food will still end up in your stomach.  
 
Obsessive nose picking is referred to as rhinotillexomania.  
 
Deer can't eat hay.  
 
One out of 20 people have an extra rib.  
 
People have the tendency to chew the food on the side that they most often use their hand.  
 
Scientists have determined that having guilty feelings may actually damage your immune system.  
 
The right lung of a human is larger than the left one. This is because of the space and placement of the heart.  
 
One billion seconds is about 32 years.  
 
A female ferret can die if she goes into heat and cannot find a mate.  
 
A squirrel cannot carry the rabies virus.  
 
The difference between horns and antlers is that horns never stop growing and antlers shed and grow every year.  
 
Beavers do not eat fish.  
 
Each year, Americans spend more on cat food than on baby food.  
 
The bite of a leech is painless due to its own anesthetic.  
 
MAFIA is an acronym for Morte Alla Francia Italia Anela, or "Death to the French is Italy's Cry"  
 
The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.  
 
Bamboo can grow up to three feet in a 24 hour period.  
 
The bark of a redwood tree is fireproof. Fires that occur in a redwood forest take place inside the trees.  
 
To see at night as well as an owl, you would need eyeballs as big as a grapefruit.  
 
You can cut up a starfish into pieces and each piece will grow into a completely new starfish.  
 
Pentheraphobia is a fear of a mother-in-law.  
 
Canada has more inland waters and lakes than any other country in the world.  
 
Caligynephobia is a fear of beautiful women.  
 
The ZIP in zip code stands for "Zone Improvement Plan."  
 
Evian spelled backwards is naive.  
 
Polish is the only word in the English language that when capitalized is changed from a noun or a verb to a nationality.  
 
A nihilist believes in nothing.  
 
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