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- The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado!
- Johnny Depp suffers from self-injury.
- Most liquid laundry detergents are alive with living organisms that help to break down stains!
- The U.S. has more bagpipe bands than Scotland does.
- The average American eats at McDonalds more than 1,800 times in their life.
- In January of 2013 security officials at O’Hare International airport in Chicago found 18 human heads still covered in skin. In 2010 an Arkansas airport found 60 human heads and pieces of heads. Both were in route to medical facilities but had errors in the paperwork.
- Other than the Earth, the moon is the only other known natural astrological object ever walked on.
- Humans and giraffes both have seven vertebrae bones in the neck. It’s not unusual for a mammal to have 7 vertebra bones in the neck but it’s interesting that the long neck of a full grown giraffe has the same amount.
- Over 3 million people globally every month search for something online with the words interesting facts in it according to the most popular search engine.
- New Zealand is free of heartworm disease and rabies.
- During the Gold Rush in 1849, some people paid as much as $100 for a glass of water!
- For beer commercials, they add liquid detergent to the beer to make it foam more.
- A cubic yard of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level.
- Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine.
- It took 20,000 men 22 years to build the Taj Mahal.
- The incubation temperature of a sea turtle's nest is a major factor in the determination of the sea turtle's sex. Females are more likely to be produced in warmer temperatures.
- History records numerous remarkable tales of heroism by our canine companions, and stories that tug at the heartstrings as they recount dog's devotion to Man and vice-versa. Dogs have been immortalized in nearly every art form there is, and now that art has found a home in one place, a dog art museum in St. Louis, Missouri, which belongs to the American Kennel Club.
- The first recorded evidence of an ice/milk combination food, goes back to the fourth century B.C. More detailed evidence of ice and fruit toppings can be found in Nero’s Roman history from the first century A.D. But the most solid evidence of all, is seventh century writings from China, which detail King Tang’s personal recipe for ice and milk dishes.
- The bear diet at other times varies, often leaning heavily towards protein in the spring, when they will consume small animals, unprotected moose or deer offspring, and animals that died over the winter. As the weather warms up, they move on to shoots, grasses, and other vegetation, and then the berry bonanza in summer.
- Not only do tornadoes churn up the air, water and dirt, frequently dropping the same along with some odd items in your backyard, but they also spawn some of the hardest to believe stories. Tales abound of grass driven through cement walls, and bottles blown inside of other bottles without so much as scratching the glass, let alone breaking it. But perhaps the strangest story of all, is that of the naked chicken.
TWO ADDITIONAL EXTENTION OF FACTS.
Animals that cannot be brought into New Zealand include:
- Birds
- Mice and rats (except for use as laboratory animals)
- Snakes
- Reptiles
- Guinea pigs
- Ferrets
Certain breeds of dog are prohibited from entering New Zealand. Banned breeds (including cross-breeds) are:
- Japanese Tosa
- Brazilian Fila
- American Pit Bull Terrier
- Dogo Argentina
