The Legend of Hantu Labor

• You can start a fire with ice.
• The Yo-Yo originated as a weapon in the Philippine Islands during the sixteenth century.
• Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.
• Cattle are the only mammals that pee backwards.
• California has issued at least 6 drivers licenses to people named Jesus Christ.
• The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are radioactive...so much so that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear reactor.
• The most pushups ever performed in one day was 46,001.
• The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.
• In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die!
• If you’re over 100 years old, there’s an 80% chance you’re a woman.
• Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the morning.
• No one knows how many people died during the sinking of the Titanic.
• Extremely high pressured water can easily cut through a steel beam.
• On average, a person will spend about five years eating during his or her lifetime.
• The search engine Google got its name from the word ‘googol’, which refers to the number one with a hundred zeros after it.
• Some lions mate over 50 times a day.Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.
• Giraffes are unable to cough.
• The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping the length of a football field.
• Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
• 28.1% of people pee in the pool !
• One of the many Tarzans, Karmuela Searlel, was mauled to death on the set by a raging elephant!
• Each year, there are more than 40,000 toilet related injuries in the United States.
• Males sweat 40% more than females.
• Redheads require more anesthesia to 'go under' than other hair colors do.
• Alaska has the highest percentage of people who walk to work.
• The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
• A roach can live up to nine days without its head.
• Young children can entirely regrow lost fingertips above the top joint, including the bone, skin and nail!
• The average office worker spends 50 minutes a day looking for lost files and other items.
• A blue whale's aorta (the main blood vessel) is large enough for a human to crawl through.

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