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Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed.
猫狗和人一样也有左、右撇子之分；
The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!
大象是唯一一种不会跳的哺乳类动物；
Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!
美国人的姓名中没有“Q”这个字母；
The most used letter in the English alphabet is “E”, and “Q”is the least used!
在英语字母表中，“E”是用得最多的字母，“Q”则是被用得最少的；
Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gatsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
作家厄尔尼斯特·文森特·莱特曾经写过一本名叫《加斯比》的小说，小说的5万个单词中没有一个是有“E”这个字母的；
Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States!
在美国，每45秒就有一所房子着火。
More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones!
用蓝色牙刷的人比用红色的人多；
One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet!
人体内的骨头有1/4集中在双脚上；
During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!
人一生要吃6万磅食物，这相当于6只大象的重量；
Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
海豚睡觉睁一眼闭一眼；
A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!
人打喷嚏时，嘴里的气流速度超过每小时100英里；
In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!
白宫里的刀、叉、勺子一共有13092件；
Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women!
男人被闪电击中的概率比女人高5倍。
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times!
驴子眼睛的位置能让它随时看到自己的四条腿；
Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks!
人的牙齿几乎和石头一样硬；
It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas!
在拉斯维加斯，典当自己的假牙是违法的；
It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska!
在美国内布拉斯加州的奥马哈市，在某个教堂里打饱嗝和打喷嚏是违法的；
In Natoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits
在美国堪萨斯州的纳托马市，向穿着条纹西服的男子扔刀子是非法行为；
It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland!
在冰岛，在任何一座城市里养狗即属违法；
It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis!
在圣路易斯，坐在路缘上喝从酒桶里接下来的啤酒就违反了法律。
You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!
人刚出生的时候有300块骨头，但成年时却只剩下206块。
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!
世界上最早有条形码标记的商品是箭牌香口胶；
No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
任何一张干燥的方型纸片都不能被对折超过7次以上；
There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
美国纽约的帝国大厦上的砖头超过1000万块；
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!
鸡的最长飞行纪录是13秒；
Cat urine glows under a black-light!
猫尿能在黑光灯下发光；
Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!
古代埃及人的枕头是石头做成的；
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!
一个普通人每年要做1460个梦；
Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!
全球每年有超过一万只鸟因为撞到窗户死亡；
Most lipstick contains fish scales!
绝大部分的唇膏里都含有鱼鳞成分；
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!
骆驼有三层眼睑用来防风沙；
Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
每年有超过2500名左撇子在使用为“右撇子”设计的产品时死亡；
Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee!
在1796年前，美国有一个富兰克林州，现在这个州叫作田纳西；
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation!
蟑螂在被砍头之后还能活几个星期，最后死也是饿死；
One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television!
每4个美国人中，就有一个人上过电视；
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie!
每次你舔邮票的背面时，你就吃下了1/10个卡路里。
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