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Maggots will only eat flesh if it is dead. Did you know that for this reason, they are often used to remove the burnt skin from severe burn patients?

Did you know that if you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure?

Did you know that the venom of a small scorpion is much more toxic than the venom of a large scorpion?

In San Salvador, drunk drivers can be punished by death before a firing squad.

Did you know that over one million stray dogs live in the New York City metropolitan area?

Did you know that Alaska has the highest percentage of people who walk to work?

Did you know that nearly 10% of American households dress their pets in Halloween costumes?

Did you know that the IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war?

Did you know that slugs have 4 noses?

Did you know that the female pigeon cannot lay eggs if she is alone. In order for her ovaries to function, she must be able to see another pigeon?

Did you know that non-dairy creamer is flammable?

Did you know that the microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket?

Did you ever hear.....according to ancient Greek literature, when Odysseus arrived home after an absence of 20 years, disguised as a beggar, the only one to recognize him was his aged dog Argos, who wagged his tail at his master, and then died.

Did you know that fingernails grow fastest on the hand you favor?

Did you know that in just about every species of mammal, the female lives longer than the male?

Did you know that on some Caribbean islands, the oysters can climb trees?

Did you know that it is possible to go blind from smoking too heavily?

Did you know that, only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older?

Did you know that opossums are immune to rattlesnake venom!?

Did you know that no one knows where Mozart is buried?

Did you know that during the filming of 'Apocalypse Now', director Francis Ford Coppola threatened suicide several times and lost 100 pounds?

Did you know that termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music?

Did you know that on average, a disposable diaper can hold up to 7 pounds of liquid??

Did you know that someone on Earth reports seeing a UFO every three minutes?

Did you know...It has been estimated that the fear of the number 13 costs Americans more than $1 billion per year!?

Did you know that there are some species of snails that are extremely venomous?

Did you know that cats make over 100 different vocal sounds; dogs can make about ten?

Did you know that one in three snake bite victims is drunk. One in five is tatooed?

Did you know frogs sometimes eat enough fireflies that they themselves glow?

Did you know that all major league baseball umpires must wear black underwear while on the job!?

Did you know the liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma?

Did you know that one quarter of the human brain is used to control the eyes?

Did you know that during his or her lifetime, the average human will grow 590 miles of hair?

It is said that the Jack-o-lantern was an Irish tradition. The story tells of Jack who tricked Satan into climbing a tree. He carved a cross into the tree and the Devil begged Jack to let him down because he could not take the sight of the cross anymore. After Jacks death, he refused Heaven because of his evil ways, yet was denied Hell by the devil for tricking him as well. Instead, the devil gave Jack a single ember to find his way through the darkness with. The ember was inserted into a turnip to keep it glowing longer. After the Irish came to America, they opted using pumpkins instead of turnips because the pumpkins were more efficient in keeping the ember lit.

Did you know to make one pound of chocolate about 400 cocoa beans are required?

Did you know that the legendary magician Harry Houdini died in Detroit of gangrene and peritonitis resulting from a ruptured appendix on Halloween in 1926?

Did you know that spiders have transparent blood?

Did you know that you can't create a folder called 'con' in Microsoft Windows!? It's really true! Try it!

Did you know that babies are born without knee caps?

Did you know that most liquid laundry detergents are alive with living organisms that help to break down stains!?

Did you know that mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as any other color?

Did you know the first bomb dropped by the Allies on berlin in WW2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo?

Did you know that one out of 20 people have an extra rib?

Did you know the fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene?

Did you know that it is now possible to print human skin with an inkjet printer!?

Did you know that a man once sued his doctor because he survived his cancer longer than the doctor predicted?

Did you know that Mexican Jumping Beans jump because of moth larvae inside them?

Did you know that in the next seven days, 800 Americans will be injured by their jewelry?

Did you know in Pakistan, goats are often sacrificed to improve the performance of the stock market?

Did you know vaccines contain formaldehyde, ethylene glycol (antifreeze), phenol (disinfectant / pesticide), and aluminum?

Did you know that of all things, Andrew Jacksonâ�™s tombstone does not mention that he served as the president of the United States?!

Did you know that animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike!?

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Did you know that lima beans contain cyanide!?

Did you know that by feeding hens certain dyes they can be made to lay eggs with varicolored yolks?

Did you know that mailing an entire building has been illegal in the U.S. since 1916 when a man mailed a 40,000-ton brick house across Utah to avoid high freight rates?

Did you know that fifteen people are known to have been crushed to death tilting vending machines towards them in the hope of a free can of soda?

Did you know that you are more likely to get attacked by a cow than a shark?

Did you know the ancient Egyptians bought jewelry for their pet crocodiles?

Did you know that you inhale about 700,000 of your own skin flakes each day?

Did you know that if you are bitten by a poisonous snake, and fail to receive medical attention, you still have a 50% chance of survival?

Did you know that 9 out of 10 lightning strike victims survive!?

Did you know that the average human body contains enough iron to make a small nail?

Did you know the energy of a discharge of an electric eel could start 50 cars?

Did you know that chained dogs are 3 times more likely to bite than unchained dogs?

Did you know that clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them would burn their houses down? - hence the expression "to get fired."

Did you know that vultures fly without flapping their wings!?

Did you know most people who read the word 'yawning' will yawn? It's true! I just did it!

Did you know that McDonald's is the world's largest distributor of toys!?

Did you know that months that begin on a Sunday will always have a 'Friday the 13th'?

Did you know that you're subject to fines and/or imprisonment for making uglyfaces at dogs in Oklahoma?

You know where the term "Running like a chicken with it's head cut off" came from right? The Chicken meets its fate when the owner of the farm decides to have chicken for dinner and then after the axe comes down on the feathered meal's neck it runs around for a few minutes until it eventualy bleeds to death. Yes I believe we all know this. BUT. Did you know that the longest recorded chicken to live without it's head was named Miracle Mike? He lived for around ONE AND A HALF YEARS AFTER his head was removed!

So how was Mike able to survive? Scientists examined him and determined that the hungry owners had not done a very good job at chopping Mike's head off. Most of the head was actually removed, but one ear remained intact. The slice actually missed the jugular vein and a clot prevented him from bleeding to death. Apparently, most of a chicken's reflex actions are located in the brain stem, which was also largely untouched.

Did you know that more than 6,000 people with pillow-related injuries check into U.S. emergency rooms every year!?

Did you know the word Eskimo literally means 'raw meat eater'?

Did you know most tropical marine fish could survive in a tank filled with human blood?

Did you know donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes?

True Story: Debby Mills-Newbroughton, 99 years old, was killed as she crossed the road. She was to turn 100 the next day, but crossing the road with her daughter to go to her own birthday party her wheel chair was hit by the truck delivering her birthday cake

Did you know that anyone who felled a hazel or apple tree was sentenced to death in ancient Ireland, where these trees were considered sacred?

Did you know that a toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans?

Did you know that the ashes of the average cremated person weigh nine pounds?

Did you know that about 60 percent of big city murders are solved whereas about 75 percent or rural murders are solved?

A murder is committed in the US every 23 minutes, which makes about 22852 murders each year. Every year 23400 people in the US are arrested on murder charges.

Did you know that the murder capital of the world is Colombia where the murder rate is ten times higher than that in the united states? Less than 2% of the murders there are ever investigated and less than 2% of those that are investigated are ever solved.

Did you know that Valentine's Day is a day of the year with one of the highest suicide rates?

Did you know that taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive?

Did you know that over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows?

Did you know that men successfully commit suicide three times more frequently than women do? Wwomen, however, attempt suicide two to three times more often than men.

Did you know that most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin? Eeeeew!

Did you know that a mule won't sink in quicksand but a donkey will?

Did you know that in 1643, the British Parliament officially abolishes the celebration of Christmas?

Did you know that the average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night?

Did you know that a can of Spam is opened every 4 seconds? Now that is scary!

Did you know that there are more people alive today than have ever died?!

Did you know that until the 1950s, Tibetans disposed of their dead by taking the body up a hill, hacking it into little pieces, and feeding the remains to the birds?

Did you know that if you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die?

Did you know that the infamous Black Plague in Europe was due in part to the fact that people believed those with cats were witches. So all the cats were rounded up, caged and burned, leaving the rats (with there disease causing parasites) to run free and multiply. Those harbouring cats were many who survived?

Did you know that Napoleon was terrified of cats.

Did you know that there is a phenomenon called the last laugh. A bullet shot through a victim's heart sometimes precipitates a final laugh before death?

Did you know that 83% of people hit by lightning are men?

Did you know that Elephants have been known to remain standing after they die?

Did you know that grenade-throwing is an official sporting event in the People's Republic of China?

Did you know that Beelzebub, another name for the devil, is Hebrew for Lord of the Flies, and this is where the book's title comes from?

Did you know that Apart from its vulnerability to fire, human hair is almost impossible to destroy. It decays at a very slow rate, so slow that is almost non-disintegrative. It can't be destroyed by cold, change of climate, water, etc., and it is resistant to many kinds of acids and corrosive materials?

Did you know that A fog belt 50 ft. deep over an area of 104 square miles contains no more moisture than single bucket of water?

Did you know that if you add together all the numbers on a roulette wheel (1 to 36) the total is the mystical number 666.

Did you know that Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously?

Did you know that foods increase in nutritional value as they decompose?

Did you know that a sport practiced in ancient China consisted of placing two angry male quails in a large glass bowl and watching as the creatures clawed each other to death.

Did you know that Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button for it was eliminated during surgery?

Did you know that a scorpion could survive for three weeks if it was embedded in a block of ice?

Did you know that Albert Einstein's last words will never be known? He spoke them in German, and the attending nurse did not speak German.

Did you know that on average people fear spiders more than they do death.

Did you know that in the 1800's photographs of dead children were often published in collections and called "Sleeping Beauties"?

Did you know that Adolph Hitler was Time's Man of the Year for 1938?

Did you know that the Ebola virus kills 4 out of every 5 humans it infects?

Did you know that during the Renaissance, fashionable aristocratic Italian women shaved their hair several inches back from their natural hairlines.

Did you know that 10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.

Did you know that men have more blood than women? Men have 1.5 gallons versus .875 gallons for women.

Did you know that a rat can go without water longer than a camel can?

Did you know that Astronauts cannot belch? In space there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.

Did you know that Alfred Hitchcock used chocolate syrup to simulate blood going down the drain in the famous shower scene in "Psycho"?

Did you know that if you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee? It's true!

Did you know that you lose a pound every time you donate blood? You do so because a pint is a pound.

Did you know that Al Capone's business card said that he was a used furniture dealer?

Did you know that by some unknown means, an iguana posesses the ability to end its own life?

Did you know that Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living?

Did you know that bats fly with their hands, not their arms, and can achieve speeds of up to 60 mph?

Did you know that the fastest speed a falling raindrop can hit you is 18mph?

Did you know that If you take one pound of cobwebs and spread them out in one straight line, it will go around the earth 2 times.

Did you know that when opossums are playing 'possum, they are not playing. They actually pass out from sheer terror.

Did you know that American poet Emily Dickinson used to talk to visitors from an adjoining room, because she was so self-conscious about her appearance?

Did you know that the reason for male shirts having the buttons are on the right side, and female shirts the left side is because in Victorian times, the men were right handed and buttoned their own shirts, but women had a maid to dress them and the buttons were on the correct side for the maids to do up?

Did you know that dirty snow melts faster than white snow because it's darker and absorbs more heat?

Did you know that you can have a permanent record of snowflakes if you freeze a piece of glass and some hairspray before the next snowfall? (Both may be stored in the freezer until you need them.) When you're ready to collect some snowflakes, spray your chilled glass with the chilled hairspray and go outside and let some snowflakes settle on the glass. When you have enough flakes bring the glass indoors and allow it to thaw at room temperature for about 15 min. Now you have a permanent record of your snowflakes!

Did you know that the star fish is one of the few animal who can turn its stomach inside - out.

Did you know modern embalming is designed to retard tissue decomposition long enough for a viewing but has been known to keep a body intact for decades?

Did you know that If you place a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death?

Did you know that the electric chair was invented by a dentist?

Did you know that bats always turn left when exiting a cave?.

Did you know that the largest pumpkin weighed 377 pounds?

Did you know that elephants have been known to remain standing after they die.

Did you know that cat urine glows under a black light?

Did you know that Crocodiles kill 2,000 people each year?

Did you know that it would take 27,000 spiders, each spinning a single web, to produce a pound of web?

Did you know that A hippopotamus can open its mouth wide enough to accommodate a 4-foot-tall child?

Did you know that the odds say that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider?

A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.

Beelzebub, another name for the devil, is Hebrew for Lord of the Flies, and this is where the book's title comes from.

Did you know that a group of crows is called a murder.?

Did you know that Bela Lugosi was buried, as he requested, in his famous Dracula cape?

Did you know that 2,500 lefties die each year using products designed for righties.

Black metal band Mayhem was forever committed to infamy when lead singer, â�œDeathâ� committed suicide in 1991. Immediately upon discovering the body of their comrade, the band's initial conclusion was to snap a photo of the body for later use as cover art to one of their later releases, the Dawn of the Black Hearts LP. Hellhammer (another Mayhem bandmate) reputedly gathered Death's skull fragments, and fashioned a necklace from them, while Euronymous (also of the band Mayhem) cooked a stew of the remaining brain matter.

Did you know that the termites of the world outweigh humans by 10 to 1?

Did you know that if you have your head chopped off (all the rage this season) you can expect seven seconds of consciousness before all the blood drains from your brain. You would have time to view the world from a bodiless perspective.

Regarding the case of Jack The Ripper: Did you know that in this notorious case of serial murder, there were only 5 confirmed victims? The suspects in this case far out-numbered the victims at 19 (including Prince Albert Victor and Lewis Carroll !).

Elizabeth Bathory (Countess of Transylvania, born 1560/61; died,August 21, 1614) was said to have been a vampire. She became notorious for her cruel and sadistic treatment of others, and is probably most famousâ�¦or infamous, for her bizarre take on beauty and skincare.

In order to improve her complexion and also to maintain her failing grasp on her youth and vitality, she is said to have slaughtered six hundred innocent young women from her tiny mountain principality. Apparently it all began as she viciously struck a servant girl for a minor oversight. She drew blood when her pointed nails raked the girl's cheek. The wound was serious enough that some of the blood got onto Elizabeth's skin. Later, Elizabeth was quite sure that that part of her own body - where the girl's blood had dropped - looked fresher somehow; younger, brighter and more pliant. It is then that she began bathing in the blood young girls as a beauty treatment for her skin.

BLUE SPRINGS, Mo. (AP) -- Almost half of a $273,000 grant awarded in 2002 to fight the Goth culture in Blue Springs has been returned because of a lack of interest -- and the absence of a real problem. Blue Springs received the grant two years ago from the Youth Outreach Unit, money the city and U.S. Rep. Sam Graves trumpeted proudly as a way to fight a perceived "Goth problem".

$132,000 of the grant was returned because officials never found much of a problem with the Goth culture, which some students called a fad that most people eventually outgrow.

Slightly more than $118,000 of the money was earmarked for therapy, assessment and case management, and the plans also included a series of town meetings to discuss the issue.

"It never happened because referring someone for looking or acting Goth is not a concept that ever got imbedded in people's heads," project manager Allyce Ford said of the therapy proposal.

The town hall meetings didn't happen, either, she said, because there wasn't enough interest in the community to conduct them. About halfway through the project, the focus shifted from Goths to counter cultures and negative influences facing children, Ford said.

"You have to admit if you saw one, two, three, four or more people dressed in traditional Goth, it would be discerning," she said. "Those kids have every right to be there. I hope the lessons you're teaching are tolerance and understanding."

Assistant City Administrator Eric Johnson said despite the change in focus, the project helped dispel myths and stereotypes associated with the Goth culture. "That was part of the goal," Johnson said. "If we were able to accomplish that, we are able to accomplish something effective."

Did you know that a person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.

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