TRUE, BUT FUNNY, FACTS FOR YOUR YOUTH GROUP!

• Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
• Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
• Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
• Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
• The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
• The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
• A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
• It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
• The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
• The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
• All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
• "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"..
• Almonds are members of the peach family.
• Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
• The youngest pope was 11 years old.
• The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
• A snail can sleep for 3 years.
• China has more English speakers than the United States.
• The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
• A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
• The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
• Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world?
• Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
• On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
• The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.
• "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
• The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
• It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
• You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
• Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
• Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
• You know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
• The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
• There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
• Cat's urine glows under a black light.
• Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
• In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
• Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
• Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
• The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
• Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
• Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. Read More..