Unnecessary Knowledge

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1- Every year approximately 2,500 left-handed people are killed by using object or machinery designed for right-handed people.

2- The brain continues sending electrical wave signals for 37 hours after death

3- Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.

4- Ants do not sleep.

5- There are 1 million ants for every person in the world

6- Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.

7- If you unfolded and flattened a set of human lungs they would cover a tennis court

8- The most overdue book in the world was borrowed from Sidney Sussex College in Cambridge, England and was returned 288 years later.

9- A giraffe can run faster then a horse, and can live without water longer than a camel.

10- A snail can crawl across a razor blade without getting injured. This is possible because they excrete a slime that protects them.

11- During World War II, the very first bomb dropped on Berlin by the Allies killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

12- Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word in the English dictionary. It refers to a lung disease caused by inhaling particles from volcanoes.

13- On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents every day. 
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Art, thanks for sending this my way..

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