- ants don't sleep
- the average human bladder can hold 13 ounces of liquid
- the most popular ice cream flavour is vanilla
- people don't actually get sick from cold weather, it's from being indoors a lot more
- in an average human, one heartbeat pumps 5 tablespoons of blood
- raindrops are not actually teardrop shaped, but rather round on the top and flat on the bottom
- an elephants trunk can hold two gallons of water
- sound travels four times faster in water than in air
- men get hiccups more often than women
- cockroaches can live for nine days after their heads have been cut off
- donald duck cartoons were banned from finland because he doesn't wear pants
- the cigarette lighter was invented before the match
- 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals
- 'typewriter' is the longest word that can be made using only one line of the keyboard
- if you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have built up enough sound energy to heat a cup of coffee
- 20% of tuxedo rentals take place in may
- 23% of photocopier faults world wide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts
- 90% of women who walk into a department store (eg. target, big W, myer, dj etc.) turn automatically to their right
- no word in the english dictionary rhymes with 'month'
- your right lung takes in more air than your left one does
- buttermilk does not contain any butter
- the traditional dollar symbol ($) has two lines not one, and is actually a U combined with an S. one guess as to who thought that one up eh.
- the tune for the alphabet song (a, b, c, d, e, f, g...) has the same tune as 'twinkle twinkle little star'
- a new born baby usually deprives its parent's of an average for between 500-750 hours of sleep in it's first year of life
The Soft Embrace of Forever
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But what keeps me warm is the idea that when we are born, we are taken
apart from the universe, and when we die, we return to it. And I believe I
know w...
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