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OK, fun facts are just what it implies, factual things that are funny, or just make you think. I have a few thousand, so I'll start off slow;

People who have pet fish fall asleep easier than people who don't

Ants don't sleep

There are no turkeys in Turkey

The Mayflower only held 102 people

The District of Columbia has one lawyer for every 19 residents

The Blue Whale's tongue weighs as much as an adult elephant

Onions have no flavor, only smell (hence breath through your mouth when cutting them and you won't cry)

Smallest mammel on earth: The bumblebee bat. It weighs less than a penny

The American Goldfinch's nest is so thick-walled, it will hold water... some hatchlings actually drown

YUM! You swallow and recycle about a quart of mucus a day

A cow has 4 stomachs

Each year more people are killed by bee stings, than by sharks

Speed Demon: The ruby-throated hummingbird's heart beats 615 times per min

It takes 268 Rhode Islands to make one Texas

Second Street is the most common street name in the US. First Street is actually 6th

Total number of concerts played by the Greatful Dead: 2,317

A cow spends 18 hours of every day chewing

Before Columbus, no Indian had type B blood

Despite having six wives, Henry VIII only had 3 children and no grandchildren

The Wright Brothers, built their first airport for less than $1,000

To this day, every US president with a beard, has been a Republican

OK, this is a good start.............

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There is always a bigger fish...

I like my long words. Here are a few, but since I'm getting them off the top of my head I dunno if I'm spelling them right.

Discounting those weird stupid gene sequence "words", the longest word in the English language is said to be pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconeosis, a disease that you get from breathing in particles of silicon from volcanoes. The only word as long is it's plural form, pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconeoses.

How's this for irony? The word Hippopotomonstrosessquippedaliophibia is the fear of long words.

Floccinaucinihilipilification means the estimation of something to be useless. I think it's funny, since the word itself is basically useless.

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The aquarist is one who must learn the ways of the biologist, the chemist, and the veterinarian.