Unnecessary Knowledge

• An adult giraffe’s kick is so powerful that it can decapitate a lion.
• The word “lethologica” describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
• Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
• The brain continues sending electrical wave signals for 37 hours after death.
• Between 1902 and 1907, the same tiger killed 434 people in India.
• Every year approximately 2,500 left-handed people are killed by using object or machinery designed for right-handed people.
• During their periods womens middle fingers shrink. No one knows why.
• In “Silence of the Lambs”, Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins) never blinks.
• During World War II, the very first bomb dropped on Berlin by the Allies killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
• More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
• 45% of Americans don’t know that the sun is a star.
• If you unfolded and flattened a set of human lungs they would cover a tennis court.
• The clown fish has the ability to change its sex. If a breeding female dies, the male fish will change its sex and mate with another male.
• The largest number of children born to one woman, who was a Russian peasant is 69.
• The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

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