Need something to talk about around the office today? You probably don't (office gossip is the best, so good thing we're never short on it), but in case your Wednesday is lacking, here are a few weird but true facts to share with the cubicle next door.
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If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat up one cup of coffee. Or you could use a microwave.
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A cockroach will live 9 days without its head before it starves to death. Not similarly, our front desk girl will live 25 minutes before starving to death. Head or no head.
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Banging your head against the wall burns 150 calories an hour. Our best explanation for why the Alternative Strategies staff stays slender.
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Right handed people live, on average, 9 years longer than left handed people. (do ambidextrous people split the difference?)
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Polar bears are left handed (do they live 9 year less than right handed animals?)
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The cheetah is the only cat in the world that can't retract it's claws. Cheetahs, and a few girls we knew in high school.
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An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain. And the brains of a few girls we knew in high school.
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Pogonophobia is the fear of beards. That said, everyone at Alternative Strategies has recently come down with a case of pogonophobia.
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In 1647 the English parliament abolished Christmas. Imagine their response if those same people could've lived to see the December Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, whew!
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Tigers can see 6 times better than humans in the dark. Lesson: don't go into the jungle at night.
