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hiccups, hiccough
  • A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years
  • You can effectively stop hiccups by holding your breath for 30 seconds. If you hiccup while attempting this, you will need to breathe in and start again

hippopotamus
  • A hippopotamus can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside
  • Hippopotami kill more people in Africa when compared to crocodiles
  • During the warm summer days, hippos secrete a reddish, oily fluid, called pink sweat, which acts as a skin conditioner to keep their skin moist
  • Despite resembling pigs, or even a fat deer, the hippopotami’s closest living relatives are actually whales and porpoises

Hitler, Adolf
  • Hitler was born in Austria, not Germany
  • His original name was Adolf Schicklgruber
  • Hitler had only 1 testicle.
  • Mickey Mouse movies were found among his posessions
  • In 1923, Nazi press secretary Dr. Sedgwick tried to convince Hitler to get rid of his trademark mustache or grow it normally. Hitler answered: “Do not worry about my mustache. If it is not the fashion now, it will be later because I wear it!”
  • Hitler was voted Time Magazine’s man of the year in 1938
  • Adolf Hitler failed the entrance exam at an Art school in Austria (run by Jewish people) because his drawings were ‘child like’ and also fell in love with a Jewish girl from a rich family who wanted her to have nothing to do with him. This was where Nazism and Hitler’s hate for Jews and contemporary art was born
  • Nobody was allowed to see him naked or while he was bathing.
  • He refuses to use cologne or scents of any sort on his body
  • Hitler never took off his coat in public
  • Hitler loved German sausages. However, due to gastrointestinal discomfort (i.e, really bad gas), he often stopped eating meat for short periods of time. He was not vegetarian
  • HItler used to pace around his room in a methodical manner, always diagonally from corner to corner. During this time, he often whistled the same tune to himself.
  • Hitler’s handwriting was once described by psychologist Carl Jung as “essentially feminine”
  • Adolph Hitler loved Wagner’s operas and was known to even like a few Jewish singers
  • Hitler’s rallying cry “Sieg Heil!” was modeled after American football cheerleaders.
  • He married his long time Mistress the day before they both killed themselves

Homosexuality, Gay
  • There are over 400 known animals that engage in homosexual practices
  • Male lions will engage in same sex practices until they encounter a mixed pride
  • Many cheetah brotherhoods only allow male members
  • Male Orang Utans can retract their penises to create a cavity for other males to penetrate
  • Rhesus Macaques and the Big Horn Sheep are one of the few animals that has anal sex
  • River dolphines are known to insert their penis into the blowhole of another male’s head

Honda
  • The Honda Accord has the highest stolen rate in the US according to NCIB. thanx jon cook
  • The founder of Honda, Soichiro Honda, actually tried to sell his new piston design to Toyota in 1938, before finally starting his own company after World War II
  • Honda was the first company to build a robot (ASIMO) that could walk up and down stairs

honey
  • Honey is the only food that will not spoil because it is hydroscopic, and kills bacteria by sucking water out from them
  • Honey is better than commercial syrups in helping children battle the cough at night
  • Honey has also been found in the tombs of egyptian pharoahs

Honey badger
  • The Honey badger is the most fearless animal in the world. It will approach and track animals much bigger than itself
  • The honey badger has very loose skin that allows it to twist and turn even if bitten by a predator
  • Honey badgers are not part of the badger subfamily but are more closely related to weasels
  • The honey badger can withstand the venom of a snakebite that could kill an elephant
  • Eventhough a badger cub might be 2-3 kg larger than their mother, they are still entirely dependent on her for food
  • The honey badger has thick skin which is almost 6mm thick at the back of his neck
  • This badger has a pair of anal glands can emit a profuse, unpleasant secretion, often used to mark out territory

horses
  • When race horses die, most of their body parts are discarded. Only their head, heart, and feet are burried. This was to symbolize intelligence, courage and strength. The only racehorse to have been buried whole was the greatest thoroughbred named Man O’ War
  • Man O’ War was the greatest racehorse. It won 20 of 21 races over 2 years. In it’s only loss, it was still circling with it’s back to the starting line when the flag was dropped. But despite this, it still managed to finish second
  • A horse can sleep standing up
  • A Horse has 18 more bones than a Human
  • A recent study found that a horse’s heart rate mirrors those of the people touching them

horseshoe crab
  • The horse shoe crab has blue blood which can be used to kill bacteria

hummingbird
  • A humming bird flaps its wings up to 90 times in one second or over 5000 times a minute
  • A hummingbird weighs less than a penny
  • The eyes of hummingbirds are attuned to wavelengths of light outside the visible range that humans see in


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