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Published September 12, 2007 12:08 pm - Lisa Simpson Strange: Weird facts return to column Weird Things You Never Know!! (But do now!) Thought it might be time for another one of those e-mail lists with lots of weird facts and information.
A shrimp’s heart is in its head. The “sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere. A duck’s quack doesn’t echo and no one knows why. Most lipstick contains fish scales. Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out. In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. More than 50 percent of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call. 
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