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"Mother-in-law" is an anagram of "Hitler woman".
It is forbidden for aircraft to fly over the Taj Mahal.
A cat uses its whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through.
There's a bookstore in Australia where books are wrapped in paper with short descriptions
so no one can "judge a book by it's cover."
The U.S. spends more money per person on health care than any other country, yet its life
expectancy is below average.
Mailing an entire building has been illegal in the U.S. since 1916 when a man mailed a
40,000-ton brick house across Utah to avoid high freight rates.
More than 1,000 different languages are spoken on the continent of Africa.
Cats have over 100 vocal sounds; dogs only have 10.
Two-thirds of the world's caviar is eaten aboard the Queen Elizabeth 2 cruise ship.
Early draft names for Walt Disney's seven dwarfs included Flabby, Dirty, Shifty, Lazy,
Burpy, Baldy and Biggo-Ego.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living.
Beauty pageants for children are banned in France. They are punishable with up to 2 years
in prison and a €30,000 fine.
Walt Disney was so poor in his twenties, he had to eat dog food.
The smallest trees in the world are the dwarf willows of Greenland. They are two inches
tall
Albanian has 27 words for different kinds of moustache and 30 for eyebrows.