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January 11, 2017

* FACTS 25

Hi Friends!

1. The longest time between twins being born is 87 days.

2. In 2007, an American man named Corey Taylor tried to fake his own death in order to get out of his cell phone contract without paying a fee. It didn't work.

3. The oldest condoms ever found date back to the 1640s (They were found in a cesspit at Dudley Castle), and were made from animal and fish intestines.

4. Female kangaroos have three vaginas.

5.  Light doesn't  necessarily travel at the speed of light. The slowest we've ever recorded light moving at 38 mph.

6. The Northern leopard frog swallow its prey using its eyes- it uses them to help push food own its throat by retracting them into its head.

7.Some fruit flies are genetically resistant to getting drunk- but only if they have an inactive version of a gene scientists have named "Happyhour."

8. In 1567, the man said to have the longest beard in the world died after he tripped over his beard running away from a fire.

9. Vladimir Nobokov nearly invented the smiley.

10. The first American film to show a toilet being flushed on screen was Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho.

11. In 2008, Scientists discovered a new species of bacteria that lives in hairspray.

12. The top of the Eiffel Tower leans away from the sun, as the metal facing the sun heats up and expands. It can move as much as 7 inches.

13. There's an opera house on the U.S - Canada border where the stage is in one country and half the audience is in another.

14. The Romans used to clean and whiten their teeth with urine. Apparently it works. Please don't do it, though.

15. Oxford University was founded before the Aztec Empire.

16. The driest place on Earth has seen no rain for nearly 2 million years.

17. Stainless steel will remove the scent of onions, garlic, and fish from your skin.

18. Your smartphone has more germs than a toilet seat.

19. You exhale most of that fat you're losing.

20. Sharks where on earth before trees.

21. Tomatoes didn't exist in Italy until 1548.

22. Polar Bear fur is actually transparent and their skin is black.

23. There are more trees on Earth than there are stars in the milky way Galaxy.

24. The Train was invented before the bicycle.

25. You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206. Find it where it went. 

Enjoy!