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[wickedlilgrrl]

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ODD SPOT #53
There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.

ODD SPOT #154
A Shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes

ODD SPOT #118
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing

ODD SPOT #353
There is more than 25,000km of neon tubing in the signs on the strip and downtown Las Vegas

ODD SPOT #377
On average, there are eight peas in a pod.

ODD SPOT #330
Botanically, true berries include the grape, tomato and eggplant, but not raspberries and blackberries

ODD SPOT #280
During menstruation, the sensitivity of a woman's middle finger is reduced.

ODD SPOT #69
Seals sleep underwater and surface for air without waking.

ODD SPOT #358
Tuna suffocate if they stop swimming

ODD SPOT #29
An igloo is so well insulated that you can sit inside without a coat when the outside temperature is as low as -30 degrees.

ODD SPOT #1
The first VCR was made in 1956 and was the size of a piano.

[persiphone]

Originally Posted by wickedlilgrrl

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ODD SPOT #53
There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.

people here "flamingo" neighbors lawns as a surprise :P

[pinkgeek]

Your yard needs flamingos... Seriously... Coffee drinking zombie flamingos...

Originally Posted by persiphone

people here "flamingo" neighbors lawns as a surprise :P

[persiphone]

Originally Posted by pinkgeek

Your yard needs flamingos... Seriously... Coffee drinking zombie flamingos...

YES. wantwantwant

[wickedlilgrrl]

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ODD SPOT #138
Humans produce about 40,000 litres of saliva in a lifetime.

ODD SPOT #340
When a woman is pregnant, her uterus expands to 500 times its normal size

ODD SPOT #319
The average person will consume 50 tonnes of food and 45,000 litres of water in a lifetime

ODD SPOT #371
Chickens can travel up to 15km per hour

ODD SPOT #334
People living at high altitudes have more red blood cells than people living at sea level.

[SoNotHer]

So here ares some Australian facts for Wicked and company -

*Waltzing Matilda - 'Waltzing Matilda' the title of Australia's most famous song, is German for 'carrying a backpack'.

*Long fence - The 'dingo fence' in Australia is the longest fence in the world, and is about twice as long as the Great Wall of China.

* Female vote - Australia was the second country to give women the vote.

*It is estimated that by the time transportation ended in 1868, 40 per cent of Australia's English-speaking population were convicts.

*Gracile - 50, 000 years ago, the more slender 'Gracile' people; the ancestors of Australian Aborigines, arrived in Australia. At the time of their settlement/invasion, the Gracile were the most technologically advanced people in the world.

*Canberra is Australia's capital city, and was built purely for the purpose of it becoming the national capital of Australia

*Australia is the smallest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent in the world. It is the only country which is also a whole continent.

[wickedlilgrrl]

some more interesting Oddities

ODD SPOT #94
The loop on a belt that holds the loose end is called a "keeper"

ODD SPOT #327
Experts say the common cold will delay a child's growth for the cold's duration

ODD SPOT #39
The 50-metre-long wall that gave New York's Wall Street its name was only 3.5 metres tall.

ODD SPOT #372
On average a cow produces 40 glasses of milk daily

ODD SPOT #171
The highest temperature on record was 57.78 degrees on 13 September 1992 in Azizia, Libya.

[Inuus]

So do the 4 peas have twins? Like 2 peas in a pod?

Originally Posted by wickedlilgrrl

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ODD SPOT #377
On average, there are eight peas in a pod.