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Nearly 100 percent of the dirt in the average home originated from outside – 80 percent of that comes in on people, stuck to their clothes and their feet.

If you multiply 2,178 by 4 it turns backwards.
All perfect numbers end in 6 or 8.
Ironically, hippopotomonstresquippedaliophobia is fear of long words.

The beluga whale is often referred to as the "sea canary" because of the birdlike chirping sounds it makes.

Possibly the worst musician in the history of man, GG Allin, who was originally named "Jesus Christ Allin", but because of his fathers poor mental health his mother decided he might not actually be the savior of mankind. In School he dressed in drag, sold drugs, broke into houses, ect. Eventually he got into music, and by the 1980s was a drug addict, alchoholic, heavy smoker "and generally abused all intoxicants given to him." He rarely cleaned himself, and at this point was taking laxitives to help him defecate on stage as part of the show. By this point, Allin's performances, which often resulted in considerable damage to venues and sound equipment, were regularly stopped after only a few songs by police or venue owners. Allin was charged with assault and battery or indecent exposure a number of times. His constant touring was only stopped by jail time or by long hospital stays for broken bones, blood poisoning, and other trauma. Audiences often attended Allin's performances less for the music than to witness his regular stage antics which included Allin performing nude, attacking the audience and his own band members, defecating, urinating, throwing feces at the crowd, self-mutilation and other shocking acts. It has been attested by sources such as bandmates and his brother, Merle, that GG Allin possessed extraordinary mental and physical resistance considering the amount of times he had been shot, stabbed, poisoned, self-mutilated and had consumed large amounts of hard drugs. Allin inflicted an obscene amount of punishment on himself as a deliberate intent to toughen himself up - he welcomed pain and danger as much as pleasure. Onstage, he once clenched his teeth and bashed his front teeth in with a microphone.

But dispite all this he was clinically sane, "courteous, cooperative and candid" when not on stage and would often hug fans while still covered in his own blood, feces, piss, vomit, ect.

(Some of this was stolen straight from Wikipedia, but I just had to tell you a bit about him because he's an "Amazing" person).

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=am ... ett7q7m~T1

Bird droppings are a chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the Western Pacific.

Saint Nicholas of Myra, the original Santa Claus, was the patron saint of children, thieves and pawnbrokers.

A Mongolian wild ass can run 8 mph faster than a reindeer.

A traditional Christmas dinner in early England was the head of a pig prepared with mustard.

A shrimp has five pairs of legs.

Beer was invented in Mesopotamia because the local water was sometimes too bad to drink. And people in Medieval Europe would drink it with breakfast.

Shakespeare invented the word "bubble".

Cattle are the only animals known to have spontaneously combusted through mis-directed farts.

A sneeze is the closest the average person comes to death in the normal waking course of life.

Canadian orcas like to masturbate using pebbles on the sea floor.

Jackrabbits are powerful jumpers. A twenty inch adult can leap twenty feet in a single bound.

56 percent of Americans sing holiday carols to their pets.

53 percent of Americans plan to "re-gift" this year.

Based on a 1999 estimated population count of North America and Europe, on Christmas Eve of that year Santa Claus had to visit 42,466,666 homes in a 12-hour period -- that's 983 homes per second.

1 in 3 men will wait until Christmas Eve to finish their shopping.

1 in 6 men would like to get rid of all the "gift-giving nonsense."

Kris Kringel, a man in his 40s, lives in North Pole, Alaska, and delivers pizzas for a living. He drives a 1984 Ford Tempo.

It's Donder, not Donner.

It's "God rest ye merry, gentlemen," not "God rest ye, merry gentlemen."