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anesthetic
  • Local anesthetic works 5 times longer in the afternoon

ladybugs
  • There are 4,300 known species of ladybugs in the world

Las Vegas
  • There ARE clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.Thanx CPPnz and udamann (who lived there for 5 years)
  • To prevent some numbers from occurring more frequently than others, dice used in crap games in Las Vegas are manufactured to a tolerance of 0.0002 inches, less than 1/17 the thickness of a human hair.

leather
  • A person who is lost in the woods and starving can obtain nourishment by chewing on his shoes. Leather has enough nutritional value to sustain life for a short time

Led Zeppelin
  • Led Zeppelin deliberately misspelled their first part of their name so people would not mispronounce it

leeches
  • A leech has 32 brains
  • Leeches are used to treat some diseases. In the past, they were used to cure anything from a headache to gout
  • The bite of a leech is actually painless
  • Leeches can bite through a hippos hide
  • A leech has three mouths and Millions of teeth

left-handed
  • Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people. “left” in Latin is “sinister” and “right” is “dexter”. Ambidextrous simply means “both right”. Don’t believe me?.Thanx De Composed
  • Men are more likely to be left-handed(10%) than females(8%)
  • An average secretary’s left hand does 56% of the typing

Leno, Jay
  • Jay Leno hosted ‘The Tonight Show’ for 17 years and has almost never taken a night off
  • He reportedly earns USD$17,000,000 a year according to Forbes
  • Leno has earned almost USD$1 billion in revenue for NBC since going on air
  • Jay Leno the comedian, was once legally banned from telling jokes
  • Jay Leno is a car enthusiast and has almost 80 exotic cars and bikes in his collection. His Harley Davidson was auctioned for charity, and sold for USD$1,550,100. See Leno’s collection.
  • Jay Leno is what you get when you cross an Italian man and a Scottish woman

leprosy
  • More than 92 465 people that did the death test in www.thespark.com claimed they had leprosy. (everybody’s a joker)

lice
  • Head lice actually prefer to live on clean heads, not dirty ones


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