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<li>No word in the English language rhymes with the word "month".</li>
<li>All domestic cats hate lemons, or any citrus scent of any kind.</li>
<li>Only one in two billion people will live to be 116 or over.</li>
<li>Casey Kasem is the voice of Shaggy on the cartoon show "Scooby-Doo." Casey Kasem, being a strict vegetarian, also requested that Shaggy follow the same diet on the show. </li>
<li>Thomas Edison, the inventor of the light bulb was afraid of the dark. </li>
<li>Being unmarried can shorten a man's life by ten years. </li>
<li>Scientists have calculated that one 10-36 second (equivalent to one million-million-million-million-mi llion-millionth of a second) after the Big Bang, the universe was the size of a pea, and the temperature was 10 billion million million million C (18 billion million million million F). One second after the Big Bang, the temperature was about 10 billion C (18 billion F). </li>
<li>The mass of an electron is about 0.000000000000000000000000000000911 kilograms. </li>
<li>Purple is the favorite ink colour in the pens used by bingo players. </li>
<li>The only two animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot.</li>
<li>A zebra is white with black stripes.</li>
<li>A pangram is a sentence that contains all 26 letters of the alphabet. For example: Pack my box with five dozen liqour jugs.</li>
<li>Ely is the English city with the fewest number of letters in its name.</li>
<li>"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.</li>
<li>Snails produce a colorless, sticky discharge that forms a protective carpet under them as they travel along. The discharge is so effective that they can crawl along the edge of a razor without cutting themselves.</li>
<li>The word "listen" contains the same letters as the word "silent".</li>
<li>A hippopotamus can run faster than a man.</li>
<li>The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.</li>
<li>Hummingbirds are the only animal that can fly backwards.</li>
<li>It is impossible to lick your elbow.</li>
<li>There are seven digits in 1,000,000 and there are seven letters in a million.</li> 
<li>The chances of a coin landed tails up 200 times in a row are 1606938044255899027554196209234116202522202993782792835301375 to 1.</li> 
<li>If eight walkers walked in single file, in a different order each day, it would take them 110 years to return to the order in which they started out on the first day.</li> 
<li>If you played dominoes with a friend for ten hours a day and made four moves a minute, you could play for 118,000 years before you had played all the different combinations of dominoes that are possible in a game.</li> 
<li>There are no numbers which when divided will produce a row of nines that will go on for ever.</li> 
<li>If you wanted to arrange fifteen books on a bookshelf in all the different ways possible, and you made one change every minute, it would take you 2,487,996 years to do it.</li> 
<li>All the planets in the solar system rotate anticlockwise, except Venus.</li>
<li>A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.</li>
<li>India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history.</li>
<li>Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.</li>
<li>Phobatrivaphobia is a fear of trivia about phobias.</li>
<li>Sanskrit is the mother of all higher languages.</li>
<li> Sanskrit is the most precise and therefore suitable language for the computer software - a report in Forbes magazine.</li>
<li>Twenty-Four-Karat Gold is not pure gold; there is a small amount of copper in it.</li>
<li> Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be moulded with the hands</li>
<li>"A man a plan a canal panama" is the same whether read backwards or forwards. </li>
<li>Did you know: "Eleven plus two" is an anagram of "Twelve plus one". Spooky!</li> 
<li>The number of molecules in a mole of any given substance, which is the specific number of molecules that corresponds to an amount of a solid that fits comfortably into your palm, is about 602,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.</li>
<li>"Rhythms" is the longest English word without any vowels. OK?</li>
<li>Our toenails grow at a rate of 0.1 mm per day. It takes about three months to replace an entire toenail. </li>
<li>The average person's life takes up 0.0000016 per cent of the earth's history.</li>
<li>In 1981 a tortoise in Kenya was sentenced to death for murdering six people by magic. It was set free before the punishment was carried out. </li>
<li>In 1959 a rhinoceros was elected to the city council of Sao Paulo in Brazil. The rhino received 50,000 votes. </li>
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<li>Saint Simeon the Younger spent the last 45 years of his life sitting on the top of a stone pillar on the Hill of Wonders near Antioch, in Syria.</li>
<li>The first woman to climb the Matterhorn Mountain in Switzerland was Lucy Walker in 1871. She wore a full-skirted dress and a veiled hat. She took sponge cake and champagne long for food. </li>
<li>It is estimated that at any one time 0.7 percent of the world's population is drunk. </li>
<li>The average bed is home to six billion dust mites. Who's counted them, eh?</li>
<li>Queen Victoria sent 2500 valentine cards during her reign.</li>
<li>Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.</li>
<li>The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.</li>
<li> No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.</li>
<li>Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature.</li>
<li>You use more calories eating celery than are in the celery itself.</li>
<li>Here is a strange sum: 5363222357 x 207123 = 11111111111111111 </li>
<li>Did you know: On average, women say 7,000 words per day while men manage just over 2,000 words. </li>
<li>Did you know: 70% of the composition of dust in your home is made up of shed human skin and hair. </li>
<li>Did you know: Humans are the only animals that cry tears and blush. </li>
<li>Did you know: A cough can reach the speed of 60mph. </li>
<li>Did you know: A molecule of water will stay in Earth's atmosphere for an average duration of 10-12 days. </li>
<li>Did you know: Asteroids and comets are believed to be ancient remnants of the formation of our Solar System (More than 4 billion years ago!). </li>
<li>Did you know: The total amount of skin covering an adult human weighs 6 lbs. </li>
<li>Did you know: Each person inhales about seven quarts of air every minute. </li>
<li>Did you know: Every year in the US, 625 people are struck by lightning. </li>
<li>Did you know: The sex organ on a male spider is located at the end of one of its legs.</li>
<li>Did you know: The average guy will grow about 27 feet of hair out of his face during his lifetime.</li>
<li>Did you know: The heart of a shrimp is located in its head. </li>
<li>Did you know: The International Space Station orbits at 248 miles above the Earth. </li>
<li>Did you know: The risk of a falling meteorite striking a human occurs once every 9,300 years. </li>
<li>Did you know: In one day a hurricane can release enough energy to supply all of the nation's electrical needs for about six months. </li>
<li>Did you know: Near-Earth asteriods have orbits that cross the Earth's orbit. These could potentially impact the Earth. </li>
<li>Did you know: Comets are bodies of ice, rock and organic compounds that can be several miles in diameter. </li>
<li>Did you know: The largest found meteorite was found in Hoba, Namibia. It weighed 60 tons. </li>
<li>Did you know: The coldest temperature ever recorded was a negative 126.9 degrees fahrenheit in Vostok Station, Antarctica. </li>
<li>Did you know: A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length. </li>
<li>Did you know: A cubic mile of ordinary fog contains less than a gallon of water. </li>
<li>Did you know: Hummingbird's consume half of their weight in food daily. </li>
<li>Did you know: Of all known forms of animals life ever to inhabit the Earth, only about 10 percent still exist today. </li>
<li>Did you know: The mortality rate if bitten by a Black Mambo snake is over 95%. </li>
<li>Did you know: Sharks apparently are the only animals that never get sick. They are immune to every type of disease including cancer. </li>
<li>Did you know: There are over 100 billion galaxies in the universe. </li>
<li>Did you know: Some large asteroids even have their own moon.</li>
<li>Did you know: The African Elephant has a gestation period of 22 months while a short-nosed bandicoot gestates for 12 days. </li>
<li>Did you know: The human brain is composed of 75% water. </li>
<li>Did you know: Your liver performs over 500 functions in your body. </li>
<li>Did you know: Halley's Comet appears about every 76 years. </li>
<li>Did you know: Lightning bolts can travel 60 miles. </li>
<li>Did you know: Mosquitos are attracted most to the color blue. </li>
<li>Did you know: A dog's sense of smell is 1,000 times stronger than humans. </li>
<li>Did you know: A piece of a neutron star the size of a pin point would way 1 million tons.</li>
<li>Did you know: 3 out of 10 Dalmation dogs suffer from hearing loss due to inbreeding.</li>
<li>Did you know: Each second 10,000,000 cells die and are replaced in your body. </li>
<li>Did you know:  A person produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in an average lifetime. </li>
<li>Did you know: A nail takes around 6 months to grow from base to the tip. </li>
<li>Did you know: The average person spends 1/3 of their lifetime sleeping. </li>
<li>Did you know: The largest hailstone ever recorded in the United States was nearly the size of a soccer ball. It was a 7-inch wide chunk of ice. </li>
<li>Did you know: Humpback whales create the loudest sound of any living creature.</li>
<li>Did you know: Polar Bears are capable of jumping as high as 6 feet and can run as fast as 25mph. </li>
<li>Did you know: An average person laughs about 15 times a day. </li>
<li>Did you know: The most dangerous asteroids, those capable of causing major regional or global disasters, usually impact the Earth only once every 100,000 years on average. </li>
<li>Did you know: The highest temperature ever recorded in the United States was 134 degrees F at Greenland Ranch in Death Valley, California. </li>
<li>Did you know: A cockroach can survive for 9 days without its head before dying of starvation.</li>
<li>Did you know: It takes a lobster about seven years to grow to be one pound. </li>
<li>Did you know: The Sun, composed mostly of helium and hydrogen, has a surface temperature of 6000 degrees Celsius. </li>
<li>Did you know: During a hurricane, 90% of the people who die end up dying from drowning. </li>
<li>Did you know: There has only been one satellite destroyed by a meteor, it was the European Space Agency's Olympus in 1993. </li>
<li>Did you know: Each day, Earth accumulate 10 to 100 tons of material. </li>
<li>Did you know: A corn field of one acre gives of 4,000 gallons off water per day in evaporation. </li>
<li>Did you know: There are over 20 million observable meteors per day. </li>
<li>Did you know: An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts. </li>
<li>Did you know: The typical size of a meteor is about one cubic centimeter, which is equivalent to the size of a sugar cube. </li>
<li>Did you know: A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime. </li>
<li>Did you know: It takes 17 muscles to smile while taking 43 muscles to frown. </li>
<li>Did you know: There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body. </li>
<li>Did you know:  Approximately 1 out of 25 people suffers from asthma. </li>
<li>Did you know: The Great Red Spot on Jupiter is a hurricane-like storm system that was first detected in the early 1600's. </li>
<li>Did you know: The Earth orbits the Sun at 66,700mph. </li>
<li>Did you know: Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does. </li>
<li>Did you know: Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand. </li>
<li>Did you know: Elephants have been known to remain standing after they die. </li>
<li>Did you know: Giraffes have no vocal cords. </li>
<li>Did you know: Light reflecting off the moon takes 1.2822 seconds to reach Earth. </li>
<li>Did you know: The average person will shed 40 pounds of skin in his/her lifetime. </li>
<li>Did you know: A lightning bolt travels at about 14,000mph and brings 300,000 volts of electricity to the ground. </li>
<li>Did you know: The average man sweats 2 1/2 quarts every day. </li>
<li>Did you know: Only one or two meteorites per day reach the surface of Earth. </li>
<li>Did you know: Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas. </li>
<li>Did you know: The human brain uses 20% of the body's energy but is only 2% of the body's weight. </li>
 
<li>The only country that has a Bill of Rights for cows is India.</li>
<li>A rat can go without water even longer than a camel can. </li>
<li> "Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.</li>
<li>The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."</li>
<li> The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.</li>
<li> An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.</li>
<li>Here is a strange sum: 888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1000. </li>
<li> Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.</li>
<li>The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds. </li>
<li>Seven-tenths of the world's surface is covered with water, 361,749,000 square kilometres.</li>
<li>There is about 200 times more gold in the oceans than has been mined in the entire human history.</li>
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<li>The largest forest in the world is in Siberia. It covers an area of 11 million square kilometres, larger than the USA.</li>
<li>The Earth increases in weight by about 50 tonnes each day, due to space dust - micro-meteorites too small to see - floating down to the ground from space. </li>
<li>An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.</li>
<li>The dot over the letter i is called a tittle.</li>
<li>A Queen bee lays nearly 1500 eggs a day and lives for up to two years.</li>
<li>The cockroach is the fastest animal on six legs. It moves at a metre a second. </li>
<li>Cows and horses sleep standing up. </li>
<li>One year contains 31,557,600 seconds.</li>
<li>Here is a strange sum: 12345679 x 99999999 = 1234567887654321  </li>
<li>A chamois goat can balance on a point of rock the size of a small coin. </li>
<li>Snails can sleep for up to three years without eating. </li>
<li>Did you know: Some frogs are able to be frozen and then thawed, and continue living. </li>
<li>Did you know: The orbits of most asteroids lie partially between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. </li>
<li>Did you know: The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue. </li>
<li>Did you know: Jupiter is larger than 1,000 Earths. </li>
<li>Did you know: The average person (from western culture) consumes 10 liters of alcohol per year. </li>
<li>Did you know: There is a supermassive black hole right in the middle of the Milky Way galaxy that is 4 million times the mass of the Sun. </li>
<li>Did you know: The ears of a cricket are located on the front legs, just below the knee. </li>
<li>Did you know: Armadillos, opossums, and sloth's spend about 80% of their lives sleeping. </li>
<li>Did you know: Comet Hale-Bopp is putting out approximately 250 tons of gas and dust per second. This is about 50 times more than most comets produce.</li>
<li>Did you know: Did you know: A human heart beats 100,000 times a day. </li>
<li>Did you know: The average person spends 1/3 of their lifetime sleeping. </li>
<li>Did you know: The whale shark has over 4,000 teeth. Each tooth is only 3mm long.</li>
<li>Did you know: On average, humans lose 40-100 strands of hair per day. </li>
<li>Did you know: The Moon is moving away from the Earth at about 34cm per year.</li>
<li>Did you know: An albatross can sleep while flying. </li>
<li>Did you know: Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph. </li>
<li>Did you know: Comets are bodies of ice, rock and organic compounds that can be several miles in diameter. </li>
<li>Did you know: In 1872, a virus epidemic killed a quarter of all the horses in the United States. </li>
<li>Did you know: At any given time, on average there are about 1800 thunderstorms occurring on earth with 100 lightning strikes per second. </li>
<li>Did you know: The largest hailstone ever recorded in the United States was nearly the size of a soccer ball. It was a 7-inch wide chunk of ice. </li>
<li>Did you know: The chances of being struck by lightning is about one in three million. </li>
<li>Did you know: The average width of a tornado's funnel averages about 100 to 200 yards but may be as wide as a mile. </li>
<li>Did you know: A mosquito has 47 teeth. </li>
<li>Did you know: The fastest bird, the spine-tailed swift, can fly as fast as 106mph. </li>
<li>Did you know: Snowflakes falling at 2-4 mph can take about 1 hr to reach the ground. </li>
<li>Did you know: On average, pigs live for about 15 years. </li>
<li>Did you know: Lightning sets about 10,000 forest fires every year in the United States. </li>
<li>Did you know: The average human blinks 25 times per minute. </li>
<li>Did you know: One human hair can support 3kg. </li>
<li>Did you know: A goldfish is the only animal that can see infrared and ultraviolet light. </li>
<li>Did you know: Large kangaroos can cover over 30 feet with each jump. </li>
<li>A whip makes a cracking noise because its tip is moving faster than the speed of sound. </li>
<li>A bolt of lightning can strike the earth with a force of 100,000,000 volts.</li>
<li>200 babies are born worldwide each minute.</li>
<li>A chamelon's tongue is twice the length of its body.</li>
<li>A Sultan's wife is called a Sultana.</li>
<li>If you counted at the rate of 200 numbers a minute for twelve hours every day, it would take you 19,024 years, 68 days, 10 hours and 40 minutes to count to 1 billion.</li> 
<li>Here is a strange sum: 846 x 14493 = 12345678. </li>
<li>Here is a strange sum: 9298 x 119.5 = 1111111.   </li>
<li> The most common name in the world is Mohammed.</li>
<li>More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.</li>
<li>Pigs and humans are the only animals that get sunburnt.</li>
<li>10,000 hours of tape are recorded during any one series of Big Brother.</li>
<li>"Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.</li>
<li>On 16 June 1882, two frogs were found frozen inside hailstones at Dubuque, Iowa, USA. A turtle was found inside a hailstone the size of a brick that fell near Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA, in 1984.</li>
<li>Every year there are more than 16 million  thunderstorms - an average of 45,000 a day. At any moment, there are 2000 in progress. There are about 100 lightning flashes each second somewhere on Earth.</li>
</random>
<think><set name="topic">facts</set></think>
<think><set name="emotion">interested</set></think>
</template>
</category>
 
<category>
<pattern>AMAZE ME</pattern>
<template>
<srai>FACTS NEXT QUESTION</srai>
</template>
</category>
 
<category>
<pattern>FACTS</pattern>
<template>
<srai>FACTS NEXT QUESTION</srai>
</template>
</category>
 
<category>
<pattern>* HAILSTONES *</pattern>
<template>
On 16 June 1882, two frogs were found frozen inside hailstones at Dubuque, Iowa, USA. A turtle was found inside a hailstone the size of a brick that fell near Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA, in 1984.
</template>
</category>
 
<category>
<pattern>* THUNDERSTORMS *</pattern>
<template>
Every year there are more than 16 million  thunderstorms - an average of 45,000 a day. At any moment, there are 2000 in progress. There are about 100 lightning flashes each second somewhere on Earth.
</template>
</category>
 
<category>
<pattern>MOLECULES</pattern>
<template>
The number of molecules in a mole of any given substance, which is the specific number of molecules that corresponds to an amount of a solid that fits comfortably into your palm, is about 602,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. <think><set name="topic">science</set></think>
</template>
</category>
 
<category>
<pattern>RATS AND CAMELS</pattern>
<template>
A rat can go without water even longer than a camel can. 
<think><set name="topic">facts</set></think>
</template>
</category>
 
<category>
<pattern>MASS OF ELECTRON</pattern>
<template>
The mass of an electron is about 0.000000000000000000000000000000911 kilograms. OK?
<think><set name="topic">science</set></think>
</template>
</category>
 
<category>
<pattern>AVERAGE LIFETIME</pattern>
<template>
The average person's life takes up 0.0000016 per cent of the earth's history. 
<think><set name="topic">science</set></think>
</template>
</category>
 
<category>
<pattern>INNOCENT TORTOISE</pattern>
<template>
In 1981 a tortoise in Kenya was sentenced to death for murdering six people by magic. It was set free before the punishment was carried out. 
<think><set name="topic">science</set></think>
</template>
</category>
 
<category>
<pattern>TORTOISE</pattern>
<template>
In 1981 a tortoise in Kenya was sentenced to death for murdering six people by magic. It was set free before the punishment was carried out. 
<think><set name="topic">science</set></think>
</template>
</category>
 
<category>
<pattern>* TORTOISE *</pattern>
<template>
In 1981 a tortoise in Kenya was sentenced to death for murdering six people by magic. It was set free before the punishment was carried out. 
<think><set name="topic">science</set></think>
</template>
</category>
 
<category>
<pattern>POLITICAL RHINO</pattern>
<template>
In 1959 a rhinoceros was elected to the city council of Sao Paulo in Brazil. The rhino received 50,000 votes. 
<think><set name="topic">politics</set></think>
</template>
</category>
 
<category>
<pattern>RHINO</pattern>
<template>
In 1959 a rhinoceros was elected to the city council of Sao Paulo in Brazil. The rhino received 50,000 votes. 
<think><set name="topic">politics</set></think>
</template>
</category>
 
<category>
<pattern>* RHINO *</pattern>
<template>
In 1959 a rhinoceros was elected to the city council of Sao Paulo in Brazil. The rhino received 50,000 votes. 
<think><set name="topic">politics</set></think>
</template>
</category>
 
<category>
<pattern>SAINT SIMEON</pattern>
<template>
Saint Simeon the Younger spent the last 45 years of his life sitting on the top of a stone pillar on the Hill of Wonders near Antioch, in Syria. More religion?
<think><set name="topic">religion</set></think>
</template>
</category>
 
<category>
<pattern>MATTERHORN</pattern>
<template>
The first woman to climb the Matterhorn Mountain in Switzerland was Lucy Walker in 1871. She wore a full-skirted dress and a veiled hat. She took sponge cake and champagne along for food. 
<think><set name="topic">sports</set></think>
</template>
</category>
 
</aiml>
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