Here is some useless trivia knowledge for those of you gearing up for the Purim Panoply Trivia for Charity Event:
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The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
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111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
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The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
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"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
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The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
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A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
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Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
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More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
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Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
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If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
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Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
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The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
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The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
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TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
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If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction
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The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
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A snail can sleep for 3 years.
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China has more English speakers than the United States.
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The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
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Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world.
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The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
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Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.
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Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
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Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
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Cat's urine glows under a black light.
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Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
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Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
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Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
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Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
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If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
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The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
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On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
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The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.
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It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
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A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
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The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
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Polar bears are left-handed.
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The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.
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A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
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Butterflies taste with their feet. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
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An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
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Starfish haven't got brains.
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Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
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Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
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The average secretary's left hand does 56% of the typing.
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A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
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There are more chickens than people in the world.
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Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
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The longest one-syllable word in the English language is
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No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
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"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
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Almonds are members of the peach family.
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There are only four words in the English language which end in "- dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
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An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
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Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
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In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time
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A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
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A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
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The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
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In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
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The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N and O-Z, hence "Oz."
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The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
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The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
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There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.