South Marysburgh Mirror (Milford, On), 1 May 1999, p. 12

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A EEE Did YOU know??? 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. 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. Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors. Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants. More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand. Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump." Marilyn Monroe had six toes. (Total or on one foot?) If you keep a Goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white. Women blink nearly twice as much as men. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do. The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language. The name of all one name continents end with the same letter that they start with. The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want. TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard. If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction. The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left. A snail can sleep for 3 years. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class. China has more English speakers than the United States. The electric chair was invented by a dentist. Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million otherpeople in the world. "Iam." 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. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere. If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39- 23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck. Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon. The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites. No word in the English language rhymes with month. (nor Orange) The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for eachgallon of diesel fuel 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. - Submitted by Ron Hammett