1) In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
2) There is a city called Rome on every continent.
3) Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
4) Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
5) Some worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food!
6) Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue.
7) The average person laughs 10 times a day!
8) Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
9) Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
10) The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
11) The first known transfusion of blood was performed as early as 1667, when Jean-Baptiste, transfused two pints of blood from a sheep to a young man.
12) A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years!
13) Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.
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