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1. In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.
2. The average human has seven sex fantasies in a day.
3. Einstein couldn’t speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.
4. Even if you cut off a cockroach’s head, it can live for several weeks.
5. About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they’re still sitting on it.
6. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn’t wear pants.
7. How can you tell when a gorilla is angry? It sticks its tongue out.
8. In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones - Bhutan.
9. In 1976, a Los Angeles secretary formally married her 50-pound pet rock.
10. The condom - made originally of linen - was invented in the early 1500s.
11. The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.
12. In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting ad space on his cows.
13. Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.
14. An average person laughs about 15 times a day.
15. Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
16. Lee Harvey Oswald’s cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.
17. Cold showers actually increase sexual arousal.
18. Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
19. The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
20. Pollsters say that 40% of dog and cat owners carry pictures of the pets in their wallets.
21. A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn’t give her coffee.
22. An Indian woman can legally wed a goat.
23. What color was Christopher Columbus’s hair? Blonde.
24. When Bugs Bunny first appeared in 1935, he was called Happy Rabbit.
25. You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.
26. In high school, Robin Williams was voted “Least Likely to Succeed.”
27. Chicken soup was considered an aphrodisiac in the Middle Ages.
28. Mosquitos have teeth.
29. An estimated one in five Americans - some 38 million - don’t like sex.
30. Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant “plenty of excrement.”