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Fast Facts
February 5, 2007
- Antarctica is the only continent without reptiles.
Two percent of Americans have an extra nipple somewhere on their body.
Only 3 percent of mammals practice monogamy.
If you feed a rhesus monkey a “”typical American diet”” it will die within two years.
Skull island is the jungle home of King Kong.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients used to make dynamite.
More Americans have died in automobile accidents than have died in all U.S. wars.
Polar bears are so perfectly insulated from the cold that they spend most of their time
trying to cool down.
Women shave an area nine times as large as men do.
It’s illegal to ship live mice through the U.S. mail.
Gadsby, a 50,000-word novel by Ernest Wright, contains no words with the letter e.
After a three-week vacation, your IQ can drop as much as 20 percent.
Thirty-five percent of people yell at their televisions while watching them.
If a female ferret goes into heat and can’t find a mate, she’ll die.
