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Factoids

* About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.
* You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than in any other weather.
* Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
* Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
* The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.
* A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
* The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.
* Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
* Every person has a unique tongue print.
* Only 55 percent of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
* The world population of chickens is about equal to the number of people.
* Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.
* A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
* It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.
* Mosquitoes have teeth.
* Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.
* Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
* 27 percent of U.S. male college students believe life is "a meaningless existential hell." (big surprise, eh?)