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Katherine Howard (Henry VIII’s fifth wife) and Anne Boleyn (Henry VIII’s second wife) were cousins. They were both executed.

Henry VIII’s body exploded in his coffin - and ironically, when he had married Anne Boleyn, a spanish man said that the dogs would lick up his blood. But when Henry died, a little blood trickled out of his body, and surprise surprise the dogs licked it up.

It took 3 blows to cut of Mary Queen of Scot’s head - the executioner kept hitting at her shoulders and head and had to cut through the gristle to eventually get it off.

The Titanic only took 2 hours to sink - killing 1500 people. Thats 3 quarters of the entire passengers on board. Only 700 survived.

Anne Boleyn’s lips moved after her head was severed - as if in silent, constant prayer.

Hollister is the most visited store!!!

Zebras arn’t white w/ black stripes they’re blck w/ white stripes?

jesus was black so was clyeopatra

Humans are 99.9% the same :) why are people racist? I don’t know, there’s hardly a difference.

In Japan…

They have a snack machine on almost every corner. in some of those snack machines, they sell used womens underwear O.O Almost everyday you’ll see some teens and their bands on the sidewalk hoping to get famous. They eat corn and mayo on their pizza. it’s okay to pick your nose in public, but it’s rude to blow it. they slurp their soup, otherwise it’s considered disrespectful and may hurt some feelings. A few of the most popular bands are: L’Arc~en~Ciel (my fav.), Dir en Grey, Luna Sea, Glay, X Japan, ect.. The more feminine a guy is, the more attractive. Guys kissing is not considered gay, but fanservice. They aren’t as short as what most people think. They know more about American Politics than Americans do. They have about 5000 earthquakes a year. small though. They watch and listen to American t.v. and music.

I quit!! I could go on forever. :)

The pacific ocean is bigger than the whole land mass.

In the weightlessness of space a frozen pea will explode if it comes in contact with Pepsi.

The increased electricity used by modern appliance parts is causing a shift in the Earth’s magnetic field. By the year 2327, the North Pole will be located in mid-Kansas, while the South Pole will be just off the coast of East Africa.

The idea for “tribbles” in “Star Trek” came from gerbils, since some gerbils are actually born pregnant.

Male rhesus monkeys often hang from tree branches by their amazing prehensile penises.

Johnny Plessey batted .331 for the Cleveland Spiders in 1891, even though he spent the entire season batting with a rolled-up, lacquered copy of the Toledo Post-Dispatch.

Smearing a small amount of dog feces on an insect bite will relieve the itching and swelling.

The Boeing 747 is capable of flying upside-down if it weren’t for the fact that the wings would shear off when trying to roll it over.

The trucking company Elvis Presley worked at as a young man was owned by Frank Sinatra.

The only golf course on the island of Tonga has 15 holes, and there’s no penalty if a monkey steals your golf ball.

Legislation passed during WWI making it illegal to say “gesundheit” to a sneezer was never repealed.

Manatees possess vocal chords which give them the ability to speak like humans, but don’t do so because they have no ears with which to hear the sound.

SCUBA divers cannot pass gas at depths of 33 feet or below.

Catfish are the only animals that naturally have an ODD number of whiskers.

Replying more than 100 times to the same piece of spam e-mail will overwhelm the sender’s system and interfere with their ability to send any more spam.

Polar bears can eat as many as 86 penguins in a single sitting.

The first McDonald’s restaurant opened for business in 1952 in Edinburgh, Scotland, and featured the McHaggis sandwich.

The Air Force’s F-117 fighter uses aerodynamics discovered during research into how bumblebees fly.

You can get blood from a stone, but only if contains at least 17 percent bauxite.

Silly Putty was “discovered” as the residue left behind after the first latex condoms were produced. It’s not widely publicized for obvious reasons.

Approximately one-sixth of your life is spent on Wednesdays.

The skin needed for elbow transplants must be taken from the scrotum of a cadaver.

The sport of jai alai originated from a game played by Incan priests who held cats by their tails and swung at leather balls. The cats would instinctively grab at the ball with their claws, thus enabling players to catch them.

A cat’s purr has the same romance-enhancing frequency as the voice of singer Barry White.

The typewriter was invented by Hungarian immigrant Qwert Yuiop, who left his “signature” on the keyboard.

The volume of water that the Giant Sequoia tree consumes in a 24-hour period contains enough suspended minerals to pave 17.3 feet of a 4-lane concrete freeway.

King Henry VIII slept with a gigantic axe.

Because printed materials are being replaced by CD-ROM, microfiche and the Internet, libraries that previously sank into their foundations under the weight of their books are now in danger of collapsing in extremely high winds.

In 1843, a Parisian street mime got stuck in his imaginary box and consequently died of starvation.

Touch-tone telephone keypads were originally planned to have buttons for Police and Fire Departments, but they were replaced with * and # when the project was cancelled in favor of developing the 911 system.

Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water.

Calvin, of the “Calvin and Hobbes” comic strip, was patterned after President Calvin Coolidge, who had a pet tiger as a boy.

Watching an hour-long soap opera burns more calories than watching a three-hour baseball game.

Until 1978, Camel cigarettes contained minute particles of real camels.

You can actually sharpen the blades on a pencil sharpener by wrapping your pencils in aluminum foil before inserting them.

To human taste buds, Zima is virtually indistinguishable from zebra urine.

Seven out of every ten hockey-playing Canadians will lose a tooth during a game. For Canadians who don’t play hockey, that figure drops to five out of ten.

A dog’s naked behind leaves absolutely no bacteria when pressed against carpet.

A team of University of Virginia researchers released a study promoting the practice of picking one’s nose, claiming that the health benefits of keeping nasal passages free from infectious blockages far outweigh the negative social connotations.

Among items left behind at Osama bin Laden’s headquarters in Afghanistan were 27 issues of Mad Magazine. Al Qaeda members have admitted that bin Laden is reportedly an avid reader.

Urine from male cape water buffaloes is so flammable that some tribes use it for lantern fuel.

At the first World Cup championship in Uruguay, 1930, the soccer balls were actually monkey skulls wrapped in paper and leather.

Every Labrador retriever dreams about bananas.

If you put a bee in a film canister for two hours, it will go blind and leave behind its weight in honey.

Due to the angle at which the optic nerve enters the brain, staring at a blue surface during sex greatly increases the intensity of orgasms.

Never hold your nose and cover your mouth when sneezing, as it can blow out your eyeballs.

Centuries ago, purchasing real estate often required having one or more limbs amputated in order to prevent the purchaser from running away to avoid repayment of the loan. Hence an expensive purchase was said to cost “an arm and a leg.”

When Mahatma Gandhi died, an autopsy revealed five gold Krugerrands in his small intestine.

Aardvarks are allergic to radishes, but only during summer months.

Coca-Cola was the favored drink of Pharaoh Ramses. An inscription found in his tomb, when translated, was found to be almost identical to the recipe used today.

If you part your hair on the right side, you were born to be carnivorous. If you part it on the left, your physical and psychological make-up is that of a vegetarian.

When immersed in liquid, a dead sparrow will make a sound like a crying baby.

In WWII the US military planned to airdrop over France propaganda in the form of Playboy magazine, with coded messages hidden in the models’ turn-ons and turn-offs. The plan was scrapped because of a staple shortage due to rationing of metal.

Although difficult, it’s possible to start a fire by rapidly rubbing together two Cool Ranch Doritos.

Napoleon’s favorite type of wood was knotty chestnut.

The world’s smartest pig, owned by a mathematics teacher in Madison, WI, memorized the multiplication tables up to 12.

Due to the natural “momentum” of the ocean, saltwater fish cannot swim backwards.

In ancient Greece, children of wealthy families were dipped in olive oil at birth to keep them hairless throughout their lives.

It is nearly three miles farther to fly from Amarillo, Texas to Louisville, Kentucky than it is to return from Louisville to Amarillo.

The “nine lives” attributed to cats is probably due to their having nine primary whiskers.

The original inspiration for Barbie dolls comes from dolls developed by German propagandists in the late 1930s to impress young girls with the ideal notions of Aryan features. The proportions for Barbie were actually based on those of Eva Braun.

The Venezuelan brown bat can detect and dodge individual raindrops in mid-flight, arriving safely back at his cave completely dry.

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king henry [[I don’t know which one]] killed all 8 of his wives because none of them conseved a son

Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end.

Daffy Duck’s middle name is “Dumas”

Betty Boop is a red head. She appeared in her only colour cartoon, Cinderella, with red hair

In Disney’s Fantasia, the Sorcerer’s name is “Yensid” (Disney backwards.)

In the Wizard of Oz Dorothy’s last name is Gail. It is shown on the mail box.

The stop-motion puppet for King Kong was covered with rabbit fur

Red Dawn was the first movie to have a PG13 rating

In E.T: The Extra Terrestrial, there was a matte painting which showed all the fast food restaurant chains in the world along one street, and a drive in movie theater showing Star Wars

In Star Wars the aliens playing in the band are played by members of the ILM creature shop, including Phil Tippett, and the executive producer

“Jaws” is the first movie ever to make over 100 million dollars

In The Empire Strikes Back there is a potato hidden in the asteroid field

Gary Cooper was the first Academy Award winner for best actor to make his acceptance speech on television

101 Dalmatians, Peter Pan, Hercules and Mulan are the only Disney movies where both parents are present and don’t die by the end of the movie

Paul McCartney purchased the rights to the Happy Birthday song we all know, so if you want to use it in a production, you have to pay him royalty fees

Cheech and Chong were awarded the first Bronze Taco, on July 24 1984

Humphery Bogart never said “Play it again, Sam” in Casablanca

Captain Kirk never said “Beam me up, Scotty”

Sherlock Holmes never said “Elementary, my dear Watson.”

Gone With the Wind had the working titles Tote the Weary Load and Ba! Ba! Black Sheep

The Brothers Grimm wrote 211 fairy tales

It used to be illegal to swim by daylight

Pinocchio is Italian for “pine head.”

The original story from Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights begins, “Aladdin was a little Chinese boy.”

William Shakespeare claimed that honorificabilitudinitatibus was the longest word used in any of his plays

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When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state’s third largest city.

Most car horns honk in the key of ‘F’.

A frog can’t empty its stomach by vomitting. To empty its stomach contents, a frog throws up it’s stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it’s mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach’s contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.

The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on its fur.

In ancient Rome it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose.

Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.

315 entries in Webster’s 1996 dictionary were mispelled.

For every ‘normal’ webpage, there are five porn pages.

Sex is biochemically no different from eating large quantities of chocolate.

There are 23 doctors in the U.S. called Dr. Doctor, and one called Dr. Surgeon!

A roach can live up to nine days without its head

Anteaters prefer termites to ants.

The most popular condom sold in Taiwan is only 4.2 inches long!

If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.

Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny, was allergic to carrots.

The speed of a typical raindrop is 17 miles per hour.

Pain travels through your body at 350 ft. per second

Until 1990, the deadly poison mercury was used in about 30% of latex paints!

It takes up to four hours to hard boil an ostrich egg.

When your face blushes, the lining of your stomach turns red, too.

If your stomach didn’t produce a new layer of mucous every two weeks, it would digest itself.

Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.

A group of kangaroos is called a mob.

Whispering is more wearing on your voice than a normal speaking tone.

Spinach consumption in the U.S. rose 33% after the Popeye comic strip became a hit in 1931.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

35% of the people using personal ads for dating are already married!

35% of the people using personal ads for dating are already married!

There are no hog lips or snouts in SPAM.

All clams start out as males; some decide to become females at some point in their lives.

You have no sense of smell when you’re sleeping!

By feeding hens certain dyes they can be made to lay eggs with multi-colored yolks.

Until President Kennedy was killed, it wasn’t a federal crime to assassinate the President.

‘Second Street’ is the most common street name in the U.S.; ‘First Street’ is the sixth!

Polar Bears can eat more than 50 lbs. of meat in one setting.

The venom of a small scorpion is much more toxic than the venom of a large scorpion.

On average, it takes 660 days from conception for an elephant to give birth.

About 10% of U.S. households pay their bills in cash.

A real estate agent’s rule of thumb: To estimate what a house will sell for, ask the owner what its worth and subtract 10%.

The U.S. eastern seaboard consumes almost 50% of all ice cream sandwiches.

Mosquitoes prefer children to adults, blondes to brunettes.

Each year, the average family uses about 18,000 gallons of water just to do its laundry!

Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper.

Maggots will only eat flesh if it is dead. For this reason, they are often used to remove the burnt skin from severe burn patients.

Your heart rate can rise as much as 30% during a yawn.

Italianabella567 was SOOO wrong. It was Henry VIII, he had six wives and he killed two of them - two of his wives (Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn) gave him daughters, but he executed Anne. His third wife Jane Seymour gave him a son, Edward, who succeeded him as Edward VI. Thought I’d correct ya there.

italianabella567 said that “king henry [[I don’t know which one]] killed all 8 of his wives because none of them conseved a son”

King henry the 8th have SIX wives in which one gave him a son … 2 gave him daughters

he killed 2,one died from giving birth to his boy,one lived,two was divorced