According to a British law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was
a capital offence. Offenders could be hanged for trying.

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A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.

It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog
throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth.
Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach’s contents
and then swallows the stomach back down again.

More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II
killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

wasn’t there a blue peter dog called bonnie?

‘Stewardesses’ is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.