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http://www.TheArtOfPamela.com (Please, support my creativity!) It takes six months to build a Rolls Royce, and 13 hours to build a Toyota.

Karaoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese.

Obama is left-handed, the sixth post-war president to be left-handed.

The creator of the NIKE Swoosh symbol (Caroline Davidson) was paid only $35 for the design. The first shoe with the Swoosh was introduced in 1972.

You can't create a folder called “Con” in Microsoft Windows.

Organs you can donate include: kidneys, heart, liver, pancreas, intestines, lungs, skin, bone and bone marrow, and cornea.

The Earth weighs roughly 6 billion trillion metric tons.

There are five US states with no sales tax. They are: Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, and Oregon.

Bruce Lee was the Hong Kong 'cha cha' dance champion in 1958. He was also an American born in San Francisco and had a German grandfather.

“Evian” spelled backwards is naive.

The Taco Bell dog is actually a female, and her real name is Gidget.

The moon smells like gunpowder.

Calcium in bones absorbs X-rays the most, so bones look white on the radiograph. Fat and other soft tissues absorb less, and look gray.

While in Alcatraz, Al Capone was inmate No.85.

Lady Astor once told Winston Churchill "if you were my husband, I would poison your coffee". And his reply was, "if you were my wife, I would drink it".

The formula for Coca-Cola has never been patented.

Amphetamines are similar to cocaine, the main difference being that they are synthetic, longer acting, and cheaper to buy.

Singer Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem.

James Bond's creator, Ian Fleming, was a real spy for the British Navy during the World War II.

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A DVD has an about 100 year life span.

Wilma Flinestone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean McBricker.

Obama can bench press an impressive 200lbs.

Every person, including identical twins, has a unique eye and tongue print along with their finger print.

A man weighing 60 kg in the Earth will weigh 1680 kg in the Sun.

Viagra, the well-known blue pill designed to help with erectile dysfunction, made $411 million in profits within the first three months of its release in 1998.

Elvis was a black belt in karate.

You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206, why? Because they fusion one to another.

A shrimp's heart is in its head.

Microsoft is the biggest developer of Mac software outside Apple.

All the numbers on a roulette wheel add up to 666.

A lump of pure gold, the size of a matchbox, can be flattened into a sheet - the size of a tennis court.

Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "E".

Michael Jackson has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (one for himself and one as part of the Jackson Five).

Birds are largely unaffected by spicy things, like chilies, as they are not sensitive to capsaicin, the hot stuff in chilies.

Q. What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common? A. All were invented by women.

The Bible devotes some 500 verses on prayer, less than 500 verses on faith, but over 2000 verses on money and possessions.

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Identify a fake: The second hand on an authentic Rolex watch doesn't tick, it moves smoothly.

Americans, on average, eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

The White House has 35 bathrooms, 3 elevators, 132 rooms, and 412 doors in it.

The ashes of the average cremated person weigh 9 pounds.

La Paz, Bolivia is a virtually fireproof city. At an altitude of about 12,000 feet above sea level, the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere is barely able to support fire.

Pluto is no longer considered a planet, it is now known as a 'Dwarf Planet'.

Michael Jackson paid $17 million for the land in California that became the Neverland Ranch. The 2,700-acre property had a theme park, a menagerie, and a movie theatre. Neverland was valued at $100 million in 2003.

Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."

The Leaning Tower of Pisa has never been straight.

In 1976, fourteen banks merged to form a bank credit card called "Mastercharge." This later was renamed to what is now known as "Mastercard."

Alcohol can be detected in the blood as quickly as 40 minutes after your 1st drink.

The Olympic gold medal must contain at least six grams of gold.

A Boeing 747 airliner contains 6,000,000 parts.

U.S. bills are 2.61 inches wide, 6.14 inches long, and are .0043 inches thick and weigh 1 gram.

Why some people say come to my home page, while others say visit my web site, what is the difference between Home Page and Website? Well, Home page is technically for personal purposes, while Websites are for business activities.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

http://www.TheArtOfPamela.com (Please, support my creativity!) The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine.

Believe it or not but during the average human life, you will consume 70 assorted bugs as well as 10 spiders as you sleep.

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.

Cellulitis is a bacterial infection of the deepest layer of your skin.

A stroke is a medical emergency. Strokes happen when blood flow to your brain stops. Within minutes, brain cells begin to die.

Deja vu is a feeling that one has previously experienced the same situation when one has not.

Warm up before exercise. Cold, stiff muscles and ligaments are more susceptible to injury.

The purpose of getting a doctor's second opinion is to explore options, especially if a person is having difficulty choosing a treatment or if a diagnosis is unclear.

Michael Jackson’s favorite animated character was Pinocchio.

Footprints of the astronauts who landed on the moon should last at least 10 million years since the moon has no atmosphere.

Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button as it was eliminated during surgery.

The Mercedes Benz motto is "Das Beste oder Nichts" meaning "The Best or Nothing".

The Titanic was the first ship to use the S.O.S signal.

It cost $7 million dollars to build the Titanic, and $200 million to make a film about it.

Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.

In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.

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Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country.

Human genetic engineering is the modification of an individual's genotype with the aim of choosing the phenotype of a newborn.

Half of all identity thieves are committed by relatives, friends, or neighbors of their victims.

"Jedi" is an official religion, with over 70,000 followers in Australia.

Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution.

Paraskavedekatriaphobia is the fear of Friday the 13th.

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off.

In 1982 Time magazine named the computer its "Man of the Year".

The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye.

It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times.

One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen.

Microsoft writes the code for autopilot systems in all major airplanes.

Heavy marijuana use lowers men's testosterone levels and sperm count and quality. Pot could decrease libido and fertility in some heavy-smoking men.

Dogs and cats consume almost $7 billion worth of pet food a year.

Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

Pamela Anderson Lee is Canada's Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada's independence.

The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead".

You blink over 20,000,000 times a year.

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The average lead pencil can draw a line that is almost 35 miles long or you can write almost 50,000 words in English.

The earliest maps were made by the Babylonians about 2300 B.C.

"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

Impotence is legal grounds for divorce in 24 American states.

The music industry generates about $4 billion in online music but lose about $40 billion to illegal downloads.

Stalin was only five feet, four inches tall.

Having HIV does not mean you have AIDS. Even without treatment, it takes a long time for HIV to progress to AIDS, usually 10-12 years.

The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water.

Coca-Cola contains neither coca nor cola.

There are currently 4,000 robots serving in the US Military, including reconnaissance Talon bots that scout for roadside bombs in Iraq and PackBots that unsuccessfully poked around for Osama bin Laden’s hideout in Afghanistan.

The "ZIP" in Zip Code stands for "Zone Improvement Plan."

The youngest letters in the English language are "j" "v" and "w."

A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.

The only "real" food that U.S. Astronauts are allowed to take into space is pecan nuts.

Spencer Eldon was the name of the naked baby on the cover of Nirvana's album.

A coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened.

The total mileage driven by all U-Haul trucks in a year is enough to move a person from the Earth to the moon five times a day for an entire year.

The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.

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The name of our galaxy is the Milky Way.

The New Hampshire license plate’s slogan is 'Live Free or Die'. Funny thing is these license plates are manufactured by prisoners in the state prison in Concord.

The Tour de France bicycle race is 2,300 miles long.

Gandhi once covered the Olympics as a newspaper reporter.

The 1912 Olympics was the last time that gold medals were solid gold. Ever since, they've been silver with gold plating.

The giraffe has the highest blood pressure of any animal.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends the use of Tamiflu or Relenza for the treatment of infection with swine flu.

The eyeball of a human weighs approximately 28 grams.

Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.

In a lifetime, the heart pumps about one million barrels of blood.

The Chinese language does not require punctuation.

The most widely spoken language in the world is Mandarin Chinese. There are 885,000,000 people in China that speak that language.

An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 sent the Mississippi River backwards.

Our sun has an expected lifetime of about 11 billion years.

Chimpanzees use tools more than any other animal except man.

Believe it or not but in 1989, Americans threw away enough aluminum cans to build 6,000 DC-10 airplanes.

The skeleton of a spider is located on the outside of the body.

Of the 34,000 species of spiders, only 27 species are known to have caused human fatalities.

http://www.TheArtOfPamela.com (Please, support my creativity!) When the only queen ant dies, so does the entire colony, because no new workers are born.

As late as 1820, the universe was thought to be 6,000 years old, It is now thought to be between 15 and 20 billion years old.

According to an old English system of time units, a moment is considered to be one and a half minutes.

The highest flight by a bird was by a Ruppell's vulture at 37,000 feet. The bird hit a plane at this height.

If the earth were the size of a quarter, the sun would be as large as a 9 foot ball and would be located a football field distance from the earth.

Teflon is the most slippery substance in the world.

You would have to milk 260 cows for an entire year to fill a space shuttle's external fuel tank with 529,000 gallons of milk.

The three most recently discovered planets were Uranus in 1781, Neptune in 1846, and Pluto in 1930.

The Earth’s core is a ball of Iron-Nickel at 7,000 C and is 80% the size of the moon.

If you dig in your backyard, don't worry about running into the earth's core. You'd have to dig a hole 4,000 miles (6,437 kilometers) deep.

“Stressed” is Desserts spelled backwards.

DOM Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, has been translated into more languages than any book outside of the Bible.

"Rhythms" is the longest English word without the normal vowels, a, e, i, o, or u.

A male duck is called a drake, a female is called a duck. Babies are called ducklings.

Jewelers Tiffany & Co., based in New York, is responsible for making the Super Bowl trophy.

Ostriches can run up to 70km/hr (40 mph) and can outpace most pursuers, such as lions, leopards, and hyenas.

The first pick-up truck in the world was made by Gottlieb Daimler in 1886. Gottlieb produced the world's first motorcycle in 1885.

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Red blood cells live about 120 days, platelets 6 days and white cells less than a day.

Tachophobia is the fear of speed.

Believe it or not but we know more about space than we do about our deep oceans.

The first seeing-eye dog was presented to a blind person on April 25, 1938.

Any free-moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere, because of its surface tension.

Count Alessandro Volta invented the first battery in the 18th century.

In 1894 Thomas Edison and W K L Pickson introduced the first film camera.

U2 was originally known as Feedback. To date, U2 have sold more than 70 million records, grossing billion.

Darker green vegetables contain more vitamin C than lighter green vegetables.

The paperclip was invented by Norwegian Johann Vaaler.

If you stack one million US $1 bills, it would be 110m (361 ft) high and weight exactly 1 ton.

Star Trek's Captain James T. Kirk's middle name is Tiberius.

The Bible, the world's bestselling book, is also the world's most shoplifted book.

The last note of a keyboard is C.

The largest movie theatre in the world, Radio City Music Hall in New York, opened in 1932 and it seats almost 6,000 people.

The LP (long-playing) record was invented by Paul Goldmark in 1948. The LP is not dead yet: more than 10 million LPs are sold every year.

454 U.S. dollar bills weigh exactly one pound.

Earth is not round; it is slightly pear-shaped. The North Pole radius is 44mm longer than the South Pole radius.

The Crawler, the machine that takes the Space Shuttle to the launching pad moves at 3km/h (2 mph).

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Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years but so does winter.

Believe it or not but since 1495, no 25-year period has been without war.

The doors that cover U.S. nuclear Silos weigh 748 tons and opens in 19 seconds.

During the 1991 Gulf War, the Allies dropped more than 17,000 smart bombs and 210,000 dumb (unguided) bombs on Iraqi troops.

Global spending on defense total more than $700 billion. Global spending on education is less than $100 billion.

In 1620, Dutch inventor Cornelius van Drebbel launched the world's first submarine in the Thames.

About a quarter of the world still drives on the left, and the countries that do are mostly old British colonies.

In 1955, the Ford Thunderbird outsold the Chevy Corvette 24 to one.

Boxing became a legal sport in 1901.

Sports command the biggest television audiences, led by the summer Olympics, World Cup Football and Formula One racing.

The first modern Olympic Games were held in Athens, Greece in 1896. There were 311 male but no female competitors.

Volleyball was invented by William George Morgan of Holyoke, Massachusetts in 1895.

Sound travels through water 3 times faster than through air.

A scientific satellite needs only 250 watts of power, the equivalent used by two hour light bulbs, to operate.

The thin line of cloud that forms behind an aircraft at high altitudes is called a contrail.

The 12 disciples were not allowed to carry food, money, or extra clothing.

Psalm 118 verse 8 is in the center of the Bible: "It is better to trust in the Lord than put confidence in man".

Seven suicides are recorded in the Bible.

http://www.TheArtOfPamela.com (Please, support my creativity!) America's 5 most common cosmetic surgeries are: liposuction, nose reshaping, breast augmentation, eyelid surgery, and tummy tuck.

India is the world's largest democracy with more than 600 million voters.

14 of the 45 vice presidents have become president.

Only Richard Nixon served two terms as Vice President and also was elected to two terms as President.

A Duke is the highest rank you can achieve without being a king or a prince.

When Alexander Graham Bell passed away in 1922, every telephone served by the Bell system in the USA and Canada was silent for one minute.

The people killed most often during bank robberies are the robbers.

Alexander Graham Bell never phoned his wife or mother because they were deaf.

To win a gold disc, an album needs to sell 100,000 copies in Britain, and 500,000 in the United States.

Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera, created Tom and Jerry in 1939.

Mel Gibson has personally earned almost $400,000,000 from his movie "The Passion of the Christ".

The first credit card was issued by American Express in 1951.

The "$" sign was designed in 1788 by Oliver Pollock.

The first neon sign was made in 1923 for a Packard dealership.

Julius Caesar was the first to encode communications, using what has become known as the Caesar Cipher.

Coca-Cola was invented in Atlanta, Georgia by Dr. John S. Pemberton in 1886.

The names of all the continents end with the letter they start with.

The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.

Blood is 6 times thicker than water.

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Traveling at the speed of 186,000 miles per second, light take 6 hours to travel from Pluto to the earth.

Superstition says that the left side is the wrong side of the bed.

Cats have five toes on each front paw, but only four toes on each back paw.

The planet Venus does not tilt as it goes around the Sun therefore it has ho seasons.

It took $7,500,000 to build the Titanic, approximately 20,000,000 tons of iceberg to sink it, and $200,000,000 to make a movie about it.

In August 2006, NASA announced that it had lost all the original tapes of Apollo 11's TV transmission.

An F1 car can go from 0 to 160 kph and back to 0 in 4 seconds.

A used aluminum can is recycled and back on the grocery shelf as a new can, in as little as 60 days. That's closed loop recycling at its finest.

If all our newspaper was recycled, we could save about 250,000,000 trees each year.

The weight a person loses directly after intense physical activity is weight from water, not fat.

The trucking company Elvis Presley worked at as a young man was owned by Frank Sinatra.

Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers were all invented by women.

Pain is measured in units of "dols". The instrument used to measure pain is a "dolorimeter".

Al Gore's roommate in college (Harvard, class of 1969) was Tommy Lee Jones.

The US Army is handing out $2,500 to Fallujah residents whose property was destroyed by US planes and artillery.

According to Genesis 1:20-22 the chicken came before the egg.

Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

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Bill Bowerman, founder of the shoe company Nike, got his first shoe idea after staring at a waffle iron. This gave him the idea of using squared spikes to make the shoes lighter.

In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.

Quebec City, Canada, has about as much street crime as Disney World.

Only 5 percent of the ocean floor has been mapped in as much detail as the surface of Mars.

Nearly one third of New York City public school teachers send their own children to private schools.

There are 45 miles of nerves in the skin of a human being.

128 bit SSL encryption is so strong that it would take much, much longer than the age of universe to crack a message encrypted using it. Even 20 years from now, if computers are a million times faster it would still take longer than the age of the universe to crack it.

The tooth is the only part of the human body that can't repair itself.

A human brain weighs about 3 lbs.

The body stores more than 99% of its calcium in the bones and teeth to help make and keep them strong.

The average raindrop falls at 7mph.

Despite its bump camels has a straight spine.

Your new baby can see best at a distance of only 8-14 inches, and focus when gazing up from the arms of Mom or Dad.

Elvis once said, "I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to".

An atomic clock is accurate to within 1 second in 1.7 million years.

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.

Assuming you could walk to the sun it would take about 2000 years.

The "New York Post" established in 1803 by Alexander Hamilton is the oldest running newspaper in the United States.

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Jean Claude Van Damme was the alien in the original Predator in almost all the jumping and climbing scenes.

Another name for a Microsoft Windows tutorial is 'Crash Course'.

An 8oz glass of water weighs 1/2 a pound, an 8oz glass of gas from the center of the sun would weigh about 75 pounds.

92% of pay cable tv programs contain violence.

While it took the radio 38 years, and the television a short 13 years, it took the World Wide Web only 4 years to reach 50 million users.

The big "Hollywood" sign cost $21,000 to build.

Diana Ross appeared on at least one hit single every year between 1964 and 1996, an incredible 33 years.

A red car can be seen in the movie Ben-Hur.

The star Sirius is 23 times more luminous and about twice the mass and diameter of the Sun.

The letter "L" in the Hollywood sign was once on fire in 1978.

The Good News is: You are 96% more likely to a die a natural death. The Bad News is: You are still going to die.

Some calculators can spell out "G02HELL" after typing in 1134206, then looking at it upside down.

Eating a poppy seed bagel before a drug test, will make you test positive for opium usage.

Impotence is grounds for divorce in 24 states in the US.

There were 13 couples celebrating their honeymoon on the Titanic.

Gold is so rare, only 90,000 tons of it have been taken from the earth in recorded history.

Gold is so heavy that one cubic foot of it weighs one half a ton.

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Russia's president Putin has worked in the KGB's foreign intelligence service.

Mesothelioma lawyers consolidate loans and refinancing mortgage are three of Google's most expensive keywords.

23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.

Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."

The continents names all end with the same letter with which they start.

If the population of China walked past you in single life, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion.

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".

Cat's urine glows under a black-light.

The International Space Station (ISS) is a research facility currently being assembled in Low Earth Orbit.

Sexual dysfunction is more common in people who abuse drugs and alcohol.

Eskimos have over 100 words for ice.

There is no cure for schizophrenia, but many people can effectively manage their symptoms with medicines and professional counseling.

Stress is a physical, mental, and emotional response to life's changes and demands.

The planet Uranus has more than 20 moons.

Because of its enormous size, the Pentagon operates much like a small city; it has its own shopping mall, power plant, water and sewage facilities, medical clinic, fire station, police force and a mayor.

The sport of surfing originated in Hawaii.

http://www.TheArtOfPamela.com (Please, support my creativity!) Oil tycoon, John D. Rockefeller, was the world's first billionaire.

Annually 17 tons of gold is used to make wedding rings in the United States.

A new star is born in our galaxy every 18 days.

The amount of carbon in the human body is enough to fill about 9,000 "lead" pencils.

The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.

Teflon is the most slipperiest substance in the world.

The Titanic's whistles could be heard from 11 miles away.

Frank Wathernam was the last prisoner to leave Alcatraz prison on March 21, 1963.

Gold and Copper are the only two non-white metals.

The term "mayday" used for signaling for help (after SOS) comes from the French "M'aidez" which is pronounced "MAYDAY" and means, "Help Me."

7-Eleven is the largest retail chain in the world.

The first commercial microwave oven was called the "1161 Radarange" and was the size of a refrigerator.

Uranus has 27 moons.

The country of Fiji is made up of 332 islands.

France is known as the perfume capital of the world.

The company Chanel claims that every 30 seconds, somewhere in the world, a bottle of Chanel No 5 is sold.

The Taj Mahal was once scheduled to be torn down in the 1830's.

Even though a red rose looks the same, there are over 900 different types of red roses.

Dry ice is actually solid carbon dioxide.

Less than 1% of the women in the world will ever be able to wear a diamond that is the size of a carat or more.

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Bugs Bunny was originally called "Happy Rabbit."

As of 2008, weapons-grade plutonium cost around $4,000/g (or roughly 150 times more than gold), and californium cost $60,000,000/g.

10 hours of video viewing is uploaded every minute on YouTube.

Construction on the White House began in October of 1792.

Ultraviolet (UV) rays are an invisible form of radiation. They can penetrate your skin and damage your skin cells.

One billion seconds is about 32 years.

The word "Oral-B" is a combination of oral hygiene and the letter B, which stands for the word "better."

In space, astronauts are unable to cry, because there is no gravity and the tears won't flow.

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

California has issued at least 6 drivers licenses to people named Jesus Christ.

About 20% of the videos on YouTube is music related.

Roasted coffee beans start to lose small amounts of flavor within two weeks. Ground coffee begins to lose its flavor in one hour. Brewed coffee and espresso begins to lose flavor within minutes.

When Windows 3.1 was launched, 3 million copies were sold in the first two months.

Liquid air looks like water with a bluish tint.

Bibliomancy is the practice by some people of opening the Bible at random and being guided for the day by whatever verse they see first.

In medical ethics, the patient has the right to dignity.

There are over 1,000,000 swimming pools in Florida, eventhough the ocean is farther than 50 miles away.

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Eclipses can occur only when the Sun, Earth, and Moon are all in a straight line.

Water expands by about 9% as it freezes.

Sharks apparently are the only animals that never get sick. As far as is known, they are immune to every known disease including cancer.

40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.

Natural gas has no smell. The odor is artificially added so that people will be able to identify leaks and take measures to stop them.

Americans will spend more on cat food this year than on baby food.

India used to be the richest country in the world until the British invasion in the early 17th Century.

Hot water weighs more than cold water.

Blondes have more hair than dark haired people do.

The caduceus the classical medical symbol of two serpents wrapped around a staff comes from an ancient Greek legend in which snakes revealed the practice of medicine to human beings.

You will have to walk 80 kilometers for your legs to equal the amount of exercise your eyes get daily.

There are 18 doctors in the U.S. called Dr. Doctor, and one called Dr. Surgeon.

When you walk down a steep hill, the pressure on your knees is equal to three times your body weight.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, which Motorola got their name from.

The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.

Wine is kept in tinted bottles because it will spoil if it's exposed to light.

Chorophobia is the fear of dancing.

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The longest Oscar acceptance speech was made by Greer Garson for 1924's "Mrs. Miniver". It took an hour.

The most abundant metal in the Earth's crust is aluminum.

The life of an eyelash is about 5 months.

The Turkish football club, Galatasaray, has an A for every other letter.

The tongue of a mature Blue Whale has approximately the same mass as that of an entire adult elephant.

Nearly a quarter of all mammals can fly; with a huge 985 known species, bats make up 23.1% of all known mammals by species. . You will have to walk 80 kilometers for your legs to equal the amount of exercise your eyes get daily.

The Chinese used fingerprints as a method of identification back in 700.

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

January is the seasonal equivalent to July in the Southern Hemisphere; and on Jan 14th, 90% of New Year resolutions will be broken.

A greenfly born on a Tuesday can be a grandparent by Friday.

There are more mobile phones in UK than there are people.

Termites are affected by music; the termites will eat your house twice as fast if you play them loud music

Arachnophobia is the fear of spiders.

"Go" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

The Earth receives 94 billion megawatt of energy from Sun. This is equivalent to 40,000 times the power requirement of United States.

Heart transplants are now the 3rd most common organ transplant operation in the U.S.

In mild retardation, IQs range from 50 to 70.

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One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water.

Obama He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics.

Cancer causes about 13% of all human deaths.

Christopher Trace, the first presenter of Blue Peter, was the body double for Charlton Heston in the film Ben-Hur.

Thomas Edison got patents for a method of making concrete furniture and a cigar which was supposed to burn forever.

If you think of the Milky Way as being the size of the continent of Asia, our solar system would be the size of a penny.

The average driver will be locked out of their car nine times during their life time (yes, men are in the stats).

Belief in the existence of vacuums used to be punishable under Church law.

Your skin weighs twice as much as your brain.

There is evidence that resveratrol, which is found in red wine, may be a powerful skin cancer-fighting ingredient.

Michael Jackson was very ticklish.

An owl can see a mouse moving from over 150ft away by a light no brighter than candlelight.

The average person has walked 100,000 miles by the time they reach the age of 85.

Your hearing is less sharp after eating too much.

Carbon is capable of chemical self bonding to form an enormous number of chemically, biologically, and commercially important molecules.

Cleopatra invented her own diaphragm from camel poop.

Koniophobia is the fear of dust.

In the course of a lifetime, the average person spends 2 years on the phone.

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In a lifetime, the average clean-shaven man will spend five months shaving and will remove 28ft of hair.

Beethoven was extremely particular about his coffee, he always counted 60 beans per cup.

In 1943, Navy officer Grace Hopper had to fix a computer glitch caused by a moth, hence the term 'computer bug'.

Jupiter is large enough to contain the other major 7 planets in our solar system.

62% of men aged 80-102 have regular sex.

The water pressure inside every onion cell would be sufficient to explode a steam engine.

If you take any number, double it, add 10, divide by 2, and subtract your original number, the answer will always be 5.

Over a 12 day period your body generates a whole new set of taste buds. (This process continues until you are in your 70's.)

Greyhounds can reach their top speed of 45 mph in just 3 strides.

The chance of having a baby with Down syndrome increases as a woman gets older.

There is more sugar in 1 kg of lemons than in 1 kg of strawberries.

The first known case of robot homicide occurred in 1981, when a robotic arm crushed a Japanese Kawasaki factory worker.

A Viking tribe once raided England because they had run out of beer.

Siderodromophobia is the fear of trains or railroads.

Turtles can breath through their bottoms.

The buzz generated by an electric razor in America is in the key of B flat. In the UK, it is in the key of G.

Some of the most popular lipstick shades in Renaissance England were named, Rat, Horseflesh, Turkey, flood and Puke.

When Thomas Edison died in 1941, Henry Ford captured his dying breath in a bottle.

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Fido means faithful in Latin.

Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" was the first Hollywood film that showed a toilet flushing - thereby generating many complaints.

It is said, grapefruit scent makes middle age women seem six years younger to men (but it does not work the other way round).

The average elephant produces 50lb of dung a day.

The dinosaur noises in Jurassic Park came from slowing down the sounds of elephants, geese and horses.

The chance of hitting 2 holes-in-one during the same round of golf is one in 67 million.

Victorian ladies tried to enlarge their boobs by bathing in strawberries.

Chickenpox has an incubation period of 10-21 days, and is spread easily through coughs or sneezes of ill individuals, or through direct skin contact.

Ophidiophobia is the fear of snakes.

Until the 18th century, India produced almost all the world's diamonds.

The ancient Egyptians thought it was good luck to enter a house left foot first.

During their marriage, Angelina Jolie and Wily Bob Thornton bought an electric chair for their dining room.

The average single man is one inch shorter than the average married man.

Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet of which 80% are in-cloud flashes and 20% are cloud-to-ground flashes.

Alopecia is the medical term for baldness.

Brazil, the world's widest road. On paper they can, as the road (actually it's an avenue) is 865 feet wide, but in reality they can't.

On average women speak 7000 words per day, where as men speak just over 2000.

Disney World is bigger than the world's 5 smallest countries.

A house fly hums in the middle octave key of F.

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A constellation is a group of Celestial bodies (usually stars) that appear to form a pattern in the sky or appear visibly related to each other.

In one gram of soil, about ten million bacteria live in it.

A single ounce of gold can be beaten into a thin film covering 100 square feet.

Pocrescophobia is the fear of gaining weight.

Water (H20) is the most familiar oxygen compound.

Before the 1800, there were ho separately designed shoes for left and right feet.

Paper was invented early in the second century by Chinese eunuch.

The first person to receive a singing telegram was singer Rudy Vallee, in honor of his 32nd birthday, July 28th 1933.

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is screeched.

Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Shaghoopal.

Atlantic City, New Jersey, arrested 42 men on the beach. They were cracking down on topless bathing sorts worn by men.

Dominica, Mexico, Zambia, Kiribati, Fiji and Egypt all have birds on their flags.

Ailurophobia is the fear of cats.

Bees visit over 2,000 flowers and fly over 55,000 miles to produce just 1lb. of honey.

Four out of every ten people who come to a party in your home will look in your bathroom cabinet.

The sound you hear when macho people crack their knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.

Francis Bacon died of hypothermia while trying to freeze a chicken by stuffing it with snow.

Captain Jean-Luc Picard's (Star Trek) fish was named Livingston.

Beethoven dipped his head in cold water before he composed.

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The only food cockroaches won't eat are cucumbers.

Spinal muscular atrophy is a genetic disease that attacks nerve cells, called motor neurons, in your spinal cord.

Hong Kong has the world's largest double-decker tram fleet in the world.

Sciophobia is the fear of shadows.

The words silent and listen have the same letters. Santa and Satan do too.

You can tell the sex of a turtle by the sound it makes, A male grunts, A female hisses.

There are no public toilets in Peru.

Mark Twain was born in 1835 when Haley's Comet came into view. When he died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again.

The pound sign is called a octothorp.

The Queen termite can live up to 50 years and have 30,000 children every day.

A Dalmatian is the only dog that can get gout.

A puff of smoke, such as when someone is smoking a cigarette or a pipe is called "a lunt".

Gilligan of Gilligan's island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy.

Saint Vincent, an island in the Caribbean, once issued Michael Jackson stamps.

The expected life time of Sun is another 5 billion years or so.

Cinderella's slippers were originally made out of fur. The story was changed in the 1600's by a translator.

Walt Disney named Mickey Mouse after Mickey Rooney, whose mother he dated.

Scolionophobia is the fear of school.

Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of "Lorne Greene's Animal Kingdom."

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The magic word 'Abracadabra' was originally intended for the specific purpose of curing hay fever.

The average bed is home to over 5 billion dust mites.

Only female wasps, bees, and mosquitoes sting.

A handful of almonds every day boosts your levels of vitamin E, one of the most important antioxidants for skin health.

Las Vegas means "The Meadows" in Spanish.

Ice hockey was first played in 1885 by British soldiers stationed in Canada.

Che Guevara's real name is Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna.

The word "Laser" stands for "Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission by Radiation."

Pain travels faster than 3000 feet per second.

A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person.

The snail mates only once in its entire life, also a snail has 4 noses.

The Coca-Cola company is the biggest consumer of sugar in the world.

All major league baseball umpires must wear black underwear while on the job (in case their pants split).

The word gymnasium comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means to exercise naked.

Everyone thought Albert Einstein suffered from dyslexia, because he couldn't speak properly until he was 9 years old.

Each second the Sun loses 5 million tons of material.

The nation of Monaco on the French Riviera, is smaller than Central Park in New York. Monaco is 370 acres and Central Park is 840 acres.

Chronophobia is the fear of time.

Gweneth Paltrow's nickname for Steven Spielberg is "Uncle Morty." Steven Spielberg calls Gweneth Paltrow "Gwynnie the pooh."

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The sorcerer's name in Disney's Fantasia is Yensid, which happens to be Disney backwards.

Armadillos arc the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.

Shirley Temple received 135,000 presents on her 8th birthday.

In ancient China, people committed suicide by eating a pound of salt.

Queen Victoria (UK 1837-1901) eased the discomfort of her monthly cramps by having her doctor supply her with marijuana.

Autophobia is the fear of being alone.

The names of the three wise monkeys are: Mizaru: See no evil, Mikazaru: Hear no evil, and Mazaru: Speak no evil.

The Spanish word esposa means "wife." The plural, esposas, means "wives," but also "handcuffs."

The clinical term for hairy buttocks is "Dasypygal."

The water we drink is 3 billion years old.

Everything weighs one per cent less at the equator.

Ants don't sleep.

Electroencephalography (EEG) is the recording of electrical activity along the scalp produced by the firing of neurons within the brain.

Human birth control pills work on gorillas.

Strawberries are members of the rose family.

You can stop everything to quietly reach a "still point." Here the mind is calm and clearly aware, stress is let go, and both mind and body relax, practice Yoga.

Eskimos use refrigerators to keep their food from freezing.

Kolpophobia is the fear of female genitals.

Birmingham (UK) has 22 more miles of canals than Venice.

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Most people stop biting their nails by the age of 30, but those who don't are putting themselves at risk for pain or infections.

Mexico once had three presidents in one day.

The Coca-Cola Company is the largest consumer of vanilla in the world.

Millions of trees are accidentally planted by squirrels that bury their nuts and then forget where they left them.

9 out of every 10 living things lives in the ocean.

'Puffs' tissues didn’t sell well in Germany because 'Puff' in German means brothel.

Parsley is the most widely used herb in the world.

There is 200 times more gold in the world's oceans than has ever been mined.

The Sanskrit word for 'War' means 'Desire for more cows'.

Monaco's national orchestra is bigger than its army.

About 70 per cent of all living organisms in the world are bacteria.

The Zambian authorities don't allow tourists to take pictures of Pygmies.

Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.

There are over 600 types of bacteria found in the average human mouth. Brush your teeth and your tongue.

In China, the bride wears red.

The cashew nut is a member of the poison ivy family.

M&Ms were developed so that soldiers could eat chocolate without getting sticky fingers.

The only wild camels in the world are in Australia.

Any couple making out inside a vehicle, and accidentally sounding the horn during their lustful act, may be taken to jail according to a Liberty Corner, New Jersey law.

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Numbering houses in London streets only began in 1764.

Only 4 percent of babies are born on their due date.

Anthropologists know of no known human society whose children don't play hide and seek.

A snail's reproductive organs are in its head.

The average 4 year old child asks over 400 questions a day.

The first oil well was drilled by Edwin Drake in 1859, in Titusville, PA, USA. It produced up to 800 gallons per day, which far exceeded the demand for this material.

Every year there are more births in India than there are people in Australia.

Sex between snakes lasts from 6 to 12 hours.

It takes about 14 days to adjust to altitudes above 8,000 feet regardless of your physical condition.

A rat can last longer without water than a camel can.

Himalaya means 'Home of snow'.

Gastroenterology is a branch of medicine that deals with the study and care of the digestive system.

In Belgium there is a strawberry museum.

In Chinese the words for 'crisis' and 'opportunity' are the same.

The first time women and men used separate toilets were in 1739 at a Paris ball.

Leonardo da Vinci drew up plans for an armored humanoid machine in 1495. Engineer Mark Rosheim has created a functional miniature version for NASA to help colonize Mars.

Believe it or not but ocean waves can travel as fast as a jet plane.

The creature with the largest brain in relation to its body is the ant.

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Cows can hear lower and higher frequencies than we can.

China uses 45 billion chopsticks per year.

Michael Jackson paid $47 million for the publishing rights to the Beatles back catalogue in 1985 and sold a share of to Sony in 1995 for $95 million.

Geese often mate for life, and can pine to death at the loss of their mate.

Altophobia is the fear of heights.

The sound made by Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe can be heard 40 miles away.

The word 'Sunday' is not in the bible.

In ancient Egypt, when a cat died, it was mandatory for its owner to shave off his eyebrows to show his grief.

Unlike humans, canaries can regenerate their brain cells.

Michael Jackson’s middle name was Joseph.

Vincent Van Gogh's brain was destroyed by the mercury he took to counteract syphilis.

Most of the villains in the bible have red hair.

A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror but a monkey cannot.

Ben and Jerrys send their waste to local pig farmers to use as feed. Pigs love all flavors except 'Mint Oreo'.

Men with a certain rare medical condition can breastfeed babies.

Squirrels cannot contract rabies.

50% of female polar bears also have a penis.

Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) is the leading known cause of mental retardation.

An adult giraffe's kick is so powerful it can decapitate a lion.

A female donkey's milk is closest to human milk.

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A bee can smell with its knees.

There have been 2,036 known nuclear bomb explosions since World War II.

All human beings have four nostrils.

The steam engine was invented in ancient Greece.

In 1993 Michael Jackson’s dermatologist said he had a rare skin disease called Vitiligo, which causes sufferers to lose pigmentation in their skin. Vitiligo, the skin disease affects 1 to 2 per cent to 2 per cent of the population.

The largest thing a blue whale can swallow is a grapefruit.

George Washington's teeth previously belonged to a hippopotamus.

Reindeer were the first animals ever to be domesticated.

Balsa is the world's strongest wood.

Alcoholism is a disease with 4 main features: craving, loss of control, physical dependence, and tolerance.

Loofahs come from trees (not the sea).

An average human breathes around 11,000 liters of air (20% of which consists of oxygen) in 1 day.

Carrots were purple in the middle ages.

The fruit fly was the first animal in space.

The largest man made structure on earth is Fresh kills, the rubbish dump on Staten Island New York.

The guillotine was invented in Yorkshire, England.

The north pole of Uranus is dark for 42 years at a time.

No part of Japan is more than 100 miles from the sea.

A lightning bolt strikes so fast it could circle the globe eight times in a second.

About 5% of people with cirrhosis get liver cancer.

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If you walk outside George Orwell's old house in London you are now captured on surveillance cameras 33 times.

Harry Houdini was the first man to fly a plane in Australia in 1910.

Sir JM Barrie, Sir Isaac Newton and Hans Christian Anderson all died virgins.

Fibriophobia is the fear of fever.

Eric Clapton and Jack Nicholson each grew up believing their mothers to be their sisters.

Mongolians put salt in their tea instead of sugar.

A vulture will never attack a human or animal that is moving.

On the cartoon show 'The Jetsons', Jane is 33 years old and her daughter Judy is 15.

Sonny and Cher originally called themselves Cleo and Caesar.

Women are more likely to report completed rape than attempted rape.

Rapper LL Cool J's name is short for 'Ladies Love Cool James'.

In 1910, a football team was penalized 15 yards for an uncompleted forward pass.

One year contains 31,557,600 seconds.

About 10,000,000 people have the same birthday as you.

In Bexley, Ohio, Ordinance number 223, of 09/09/19 prohibits the installation and usage of slot machines in outhouses.

In England, corn means wheat.

Starfish have eight eyes- one at the end of each leg.

A word or a sentence that is the same front and back (racecar, kayak) is called a "palindrome".

In 2005, the country of Angola had the highest infant mortality rate in the World with over 1S7 deaths per 1,000 births.

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Kite flying is a professional sport in Thailand.

Keep nitroglycerin with you at all times, if your doctor prescribed it for chest pain.

Lacrosse was invented by American Indians.

Most toilets flush in E flat.

Paraphobia is the fear of sexual perversion.

Although Argentina's name means Land of Silver, there is actually very little silver there. It was misnamed by explorers who thought they saw silver there.

Italy now has over 200,000 coffee bars, and still growing.

Bear wrestling matches are prohibited in Alabama.

Syncope is a loss of consciousness (fainting) that occurs when blood pressure drops very low and not enough blood reaches the brain.

In 1980, the city of Detroit presented Saddam Hussein with a key to the city.

Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.

The first condoms were made from sheep intestines and other animal membranes.

On average, there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonald's BigMac bun.

76,000,000 people go to Major league baseball games each year.

Frigophobia is the fear of cold things.

At 90 weapons per 100 civilians, the US has the world's highest rate of gun ownership, according to the Small Arms Survey 2007.

Paul Raiser is playing the piano in the 'Mad About You' theme.

Ewan McGregor was offered, but turned down, the part of Neo in the Matrix. Will Smith was also approached to play Neo but turned it down in order make Wild Wild West.

Ancraophobia is the fear of the wind.

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If a car is traveling at 55 miles per hour it will travel 56 feet before the driver can shift his foot from the accelerator to the brake.

In 2005, the US government spent about $71 billion for Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Moist air holds heat better than dry air.

Biologic therapy, or immunotherapy, boosts your body's own ability to fight cancer.

Ingrown toenails are hereditary.

Isaac Newton understood the laws of gravity some 40 years before he made his findings public.

Iron weighs more after it rusts.

User stands for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.

Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to "L.A".

Research indicates that plants grow healthier when they are stroked.

Seventy-three percent of Manila residents smoke.

Common symptoms of cataracts are: blurry vision, colors that seem faded, glare, not being able to see well at night, and double vision.

Aviophobia is the fear of flying.

People in parts of Western China put salt in their tea instead of sugar.

Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum.

Men laugh longer, louder, and more often than women.

Mammal rule of thumb: in just about every species, the female lives longer than the male.

In ancient Japan, public contests were held to see who could fart the loudest and longest.

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An adult porcupine has approximately 30,000 quills on its body, which are replaced every year.

September 16-21 is Farm Animal Awareness week.

Most NASCAR Teams use nitrogen in their tires instead of air.

While it is legal to shoot bears, waking a sleeping bear for the purpose of taking a photograph is prohibited in Alaska.

Chiroptophobia is the fear of bats.

If you yelled for S years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

Insects outnumber humans by 1 million to one.

The Miss America Contest was created in Atlantic City in 1921 with the purpose of extending the tourist season beyond Labor Day.

Astronaut Neil Armstrong first stepped on the moon with his left foot.

Automysophobia is the fear of being dirty.

Vitamin K is found chiefly in leafy green vegetables such as spinach, swiss chard, and Brassica (e.g., cabbage, kale, cauliflower, broccoli).

Selachophobia is the fear of sharks.

A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation.

Meteorologists claim they're right of the time.

J. Edgar Hoover liked to fire FBI agents whose palms were sweaty when shaking hands.

No one has ever been able to domesticate the African elephant. Only the Indian elephant can be trained by man.

Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages them.

A starfish doesn't have a brain.

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Women who have had gestational diabetes are more likely than other women to develop type 2 diabetes later on.

On average, 90% of the people that have the disease lupus are female.

The Muppet Show was banned from Saudi Arabian TV because one if its stars was a pig.

There is a possible 25 years in prison for cutting down a cactus in Arizona.

Coffee beam aren't beam - they're fruit pits.

The Michael Jackson son “Thriller” is the world’s best-selling record of all time with an estimated 50 million copies sold worldwide.

Polar bear fur is not white, it's clear.

64% of the population can roll their tongue.

Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet (2 ml away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

Chromophobia is the fear of colors.

The Sun's energy output is 386 billion billion megawatt.

Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.

Each year, approximately 250,000 American husbands are physically attacked and beaten by their wives.

A typist's fingers travel over 12 and a half miles in an average day.

Families who turn off the television during meals tend to eat healthier.

Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.

In 1999, Pepsi, Inc. paid $0.00 in income tax.

In males, testosterone, an androgen, is the principal sex steroid. The hormone that dominates female development is estradiol, an estrogen.

Switzerland has the highest per-capita consumption of soft drinks in the world.

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No one knows how many people died during the sinking of the Titanic.

Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

The eye's blind spot is a result of the absence of retina where the optic nerve leaves the eye, since there are no photoreceptors in this area.

A group of kangaroos is called a mob.

If you head directly south from the west coast of Florida, you will actually pass South America on the west side of the continent.

Hydrogen is the most common element found in the Universe.

Michael Jackson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice.

Mottephobia is the fear of moths.

In 1954, Bob Hawke was immortalized by the Guinness Book of Records for sculling 2.5 pints of beer in 12 seconds. Bob later became the Prime Minister of Australia.

23% of Americans believe we never landed on the moon.

A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.

August 8th is the start of "National Pickle Week".

Snails breathe through their feet.

Regular exercise can prevent or delay diabetes and heart trouble. It can also reduce arthritis pain, anxiety and depression.

Michael Jordan shaves his head on Tuesdays, and Fridays.

Lake Nicaragua in Nicaragua is the only fresh water lake in the world that has sharks.

25% of a human's bones are in its feet.

The Grateful Dead were once called 'The Warlocks'.

The incidence of head injury in the U.S. is 300 per 100,000 per year, or 0.3% of the population, with a mortality of 25 per 100,000.

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About 2/3 of American men prefer boxers to briefs.

The U.S. Army has a stealth reconnaissance helicopter named The Puke in honor of John Wayne.

As of 2002, China had over 100 million manufacturing workers compared to about 17 million in the US, 12 million in Japan, 8.5 million in Germany and 2.3 million in Canada.

The creator of Adidas is Adi Dassler.

Most boat owners name their boats. The most popular boat name is "Obsession".

Rain contains vitamin B12.

Helminthophobia is the fear of being infested with worms.

Alligators may not be kept in bathtubs in Arkansas.

The Chinese were using aluminum to make things as early as 300 AP Western civilizations didn't rediscover aluminum until 1827.

In 2001, there were more than 300 banana-related accidents in Britain, most involving people slipping on skins.

Since Hindus don't eat beef, the McDonald's in New Delhi makes its burgers with mutton.

In 1900, the average age of death in the US was 47.

Long-term effects of methamphetamine may include severe mental disorders, memory loss and severe dental problems.

German Shepherds bite humans more often than any other breed of dog.

Camels' milk can't curdle.

If NASA sends birds into space, they would soon die because birds need gravity to swallow.

South Africa is the only country to have three capital cities: one for each branch of its government (Administrative, Legislative, and Judicial).

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The Bureau of Standards says that the electron is the fastest thing in the world.

Flamingos are able to fly at a speed of approximately 55 kilometers an hour. In one night they can travel about 600 km.

Montpelier, Vermont is the only state capital in the USA without a McDonald's.

Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.

President Eisenhower banished squirrels from the grounds because they were ruining the green.

Reindeer milk has more fat than cow milk.

No one knows why there is a 33 on a Rolling Rock bottle, the secret died with the original brewer.

Ancient Chinese artists would never paint pictures of woman's feet.

Hadephobia is the fear of hell.

Sneeze travels out of your mouth at over 100 miles (161 km) an hour.

In the United States in 1976, a pound of potato chips cost 200 times more than a pound of potatoes.

Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.

Pneumonia is an inflammation of the lung, usually caused by an infection.

Homichlophobia is the fear of fog.

No high jumper has ever been able to stay off the ground for more than one second.

The placenta is usually birthed within 15-30 minutes of the baby being born.

Mysophobia is the fear of dirt or germs.

Seven thousand years ago, the ancient Egyptians bowled on alleys similar to the ones in use today.

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One of the greatest soldiers in history, Alexander the Great, was tutored by the greatest thinker of all time, Aristotle.

Gibraltar is the only place in Europe where you can find wild monkeys.

Rapper Ice Cube's real name is O'Shea Jackson.

Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the death of their cats.

At Arkansas State University, two people cannot hold hands while standing in a doorway, unless, they belong to a union.

Vaccinophobia is the fear of vaccination.

Brazil has the world’s widest road. 160 cars can drive side by side on it.

Coconuts kill more people in the world than sharks do. Approximately 150 people are killed each year by coconuts.

Gephyrophobia is the fear of crossing bridges.

About 1/3 of American adults are at least 20% above their recommended weight.

In Florida, It is illegal to sing in a public place while attired in a swimsuit.

In a University of Arizona study, rails and armrests in public buses were found to be contaminated by the highest concentration of bodily fluids.

70,000 people in the U.S. are both blind and deaf.

6% of men propose over the telephone.

Stay indoors at dawn, dusk, and in the early evening when mosquitoes are the most active.

Britain's first escalator was installed in Harrods in 1878.

45.2% of people pee in the shower.

Columbus brought cacao (chocolate) beans back to Spain on his fourth voyage in 1502.

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In California, no vehicle without a driver may exceed 60 miles per hour (it's a law).

Each year in America, there are about 300,000 deaths that can be attributed to obesity.

Sophophobia is the fear of learning.

Paul Revere rode on a horse that belonged to Deacon Larkin.

A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.

In Clinton, Arkansas, molesting an automobile is illegal.

Betsy Ross's other contribution to the American Revolution, besides sewing the first American flag was running ammunitions factory in her basement.

Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.

On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.

The creator of Casio is Tadao Kashio.

Typewriter is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

Amelia Earhart designed the first lightweight luggage for air travel.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

Up until 1884, a Victorian-era woman could be sent to prison for denying a husband sex.

A typical American eats 28 pigs in his/her lifetime.

Crocodiles have brains no larger than a cigar.

Apparently, 1/3 of people with alarm clocks hit the 'snooze button every morning; from 25-34 age group - It is over 1/2

No president of the United States was an only child.

Bilbo Baggins was born on September 22, 1290.

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A car that shifts manually gets 2 miles more per gallon of gas than a car with automatic shift.

An Arabica coffee tree can produce up to 12 pounds of coffee a year, depending on soil and climate.

Pittsburgh is the only city where all major sports teams have the same colors: Black and gold.

Acorns were used as a coffee substitute during the American Civil War.

Active membership in the United Auto Workers union at the Big Three auto makers has declined from 800,000 members in 1970 to around 270,000 members in 2005.

Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers (Moe, Curly, and Shemp).

In the U.S, Frisbees outsell footballs, baseballs, and basketballs combined.

Infants spend more time dreaming than adults do.

Barack Hussein Obama is named after his father, Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. (1936- 1982). “Barack” means “blessing/blessed/to bless” in Swahili and Semitic languages, and “Hussein” is a Semitic word meaning “good” or “beautiful.” Swahili was Obama Sr.’s native language.

More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

Osteoporosis is caused by a lack of bone strength or bone density.

Phobatrivaphobia is fear of trivia about phobias.

Men can have breast cancer, too, but the number of cases is small.

Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow the film down so you could see his moves.

All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.

Strabismus is a condition in which the eyes are not properly aligned with each other.

It's illegal in Alabama to wear a fake mustache that causes laughter in church.

Ranidaphobia is the fear of frogs.

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A citizen of Calcutta, India, grew the fingernails on his left hand to a length of 76 inches.

2,000 pounds of space dust and other space debris fall on the Earth every day.

Tomophobia is the fear of surgical operations.

In the United States, approximately seven billion pounds of chocolate and candy are manufactured each year.

111,111,111 X 111,111,111 = 12345678987654321 (12,345,678,987,654,321)

Research shows that up to 1/3 of people with depression may have a diet deficient in folic acid, leading to low serotonin levels in the brain.

Nyctophobia is the fear of darkness.

Irving Berlin has never learned to read music or to write it. He hums or sings his songs to a secretary, who takes them down in musical notation.

Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.

More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.

Kim Basinger fears large crowds. She even locked herself in her house for 4 months because of this fear.

In Australia, there is no death penalty.

Asthma and isthmi are the only six-letter words that begin and end with a vowel and have no other vowels between.

The U.S. Government spent $277,000 on pickle research in 1993.

Having gum disease may increase a pregnant woman's risk of having a premature, low- birth-weight baby.

The U.S. eastern seaboard consumes almost 50% of all ice cream sandwiches.

A state law in Illinois mandates that all bachelors should be called master, not mister, when addressed by their female counterparts.

Conception occurs more often in December than any other month.

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Giant Panda Bears give birth to a 4 ounce Baby Panda.

At 300 pounds, William Howard Taft was the only US President to get stuck in the White House bathtub.

Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on his famous transatlantic flight.

The Bank of America was originally the Bank of Italy.

Dentists, in medieval Japan, extracted teeth by pulling them out with their fingers.

Pound cake is so named not just because of the pound of butter, but more precisely because each of the four main ingredients (flour, butter, sugar and eggs) are weighed out as a pound.

Global aphasia means you can't speak, understand speech, read or write.

Americans are responsible for generating roughly 20% percent of the garbage in the world.

The creator of the company Ericsson is Lars Magnus Ericsson.

Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant called diamond Star.

Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.

Larry Ellison, Oracle's CEO, holds the records for highest executive compensation in one year - #706 million in 2001. less than 10% of criminals commit about 67% of all crime.

The 1st buffalo ever born in captivity was born at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo in 1884.

Olfactophobia is the fear of smells.

In 2005, each person in the world consumed, on average, 77 beverages made by The Coca-Cola Company.

Because of Davy Jones's popularity as a member of The Monkees, another young singer in London, also named David Jones, was forced to change his name to David Bowie.

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Finagles Law was the one that went "Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong". Not Murphy's law.

One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen.

The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.

40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.

Sylvia Miles had the shortest performance ever nominated for an Oscar, in "Midnight Cowboy". Her entire role lasted only 6 minutes.

In February 1901, Pixie Coca-Cola Bottling Company in Atlanta, Georgia changed it's name to The Coca-Cola Bottling Company.

Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep cool.

Textophobia is the fear of fabrics.

Someone on Earth reports seeing a UFO every three minutes.

People say that cracking your bones will cause arthritis when you get older. Actually all you are doing is popping air pockets, and does not cause arthritis.

The founder of Ferrari is Enzo Ferrari.

In Kansas, it is illegal to catch bullfrogs in a tomato patch.

Electrical stimulation of certain areas of the brain has been proven to revive long-lost memories.

Black Whales are born white.

Before the 984 foot high Eiffel Tower was built in 1889, the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C. was the tallest building in the world at 555 feet.

20252 is Smokey the Bear's own zip code.

Lenity Kravitz's mother played the part of "Helen" on "The Jeffersons".

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history to not have a full moon.

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Obama was known as "O'Bomber" at high school for his skill at basketball.

A catfish has approximately 100,000 taste buds.

Abo elementary school, built in 1976 in Artesia New Mexico, was the first ever underground school.

Devon is the only county in Great Britain to have two coasts.

Children are poisoned most frequently by eating harmful plants.

Sperm have to swim 100,000 times their length to get a woman pregnant. That's the equivalent of man swimming over 100 miles in one go.

The Hindu holy day begins at sunrise, the Jewish holy day begins at sunset, and the Christian holy day begins at midnight.

Pre-hypertension is blood pressure between 120/80 and 139/89.

In a year approximately 900 million trees are cut down to make the raw materials needed for American pulp mills and paper.

If a lobster loses an eye, it will grow another one.

Andrew Jackson spent most of his adult life with a bullet, no more than two inches away from his heart, as a result of a duel he fought before becoming President.

Spheksophobia is the fear of wasps.

After the Civil War the U.S. sued Great Britain for damages that were caused by them building ships for the Confederacy. They originally asked for $1 billion but settled on $25 Million.

Malcolm X's real name is Malcolm little.

Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book published in every major Dewey Decimal category.

Leather skin does not have any smell. The leather smell that you sense is actually derived from the materials used in the tanning process.

James Bond is also known as Mr. Kiss-Kiss-Bang-Bang.

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"Tom Sawyer" was the first novel written on a typewriter.

Clans (long time ago) that wanted to get rid of unwanted people, without killing them, used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired".

Homophobia is the fear of homosexuality.

The Mongol emperor Genghis Khan's original name was Temujin.

The National Health Service recommends that overall weight gain during the 9 month period of pregnancy be 22-26 pounds.

In Britain, failed suicides were hanged in the 19th century.

Wet Pepsi was originally called Patio Diet Cola.

Shell color is determined by the breed of hen and has no effect on its quality, nutrients or flavor.

An estimated 26.6 million people worldwide had Alzheimer's disease in 2006; this number may quadruple by 2050.

A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood.

Every year, about 4 people in the UK die putting their trousers on.

Sometime around 1050 some English boys looking for a diversion blew up an old cow bladder and began to kick it around. The new game would go on to be called soccer.

7,000 new insect species are discovered every year.

The founder of the company Honda is Soichiro Honda.

In the 14th century, the Arabs started to cultivate coffee plants. The first commercially grown and harvested coffee originated in the Arabian Peninsula near the port of Mocha.

In ancient China, people committed suicide by eating a pound of salt.

Elvis Presley got a 'C in his eighth grade music class.

While Georgia operates its own lottery, it protects its citizens by making it illegal to promote a private lottery.

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Before roasting, some green coffee beans are stored for years, and experts believe that certain beans improve with age, when stored properly.

Elephant trunks can hold 4 gallons of water.

In an average lifetime a person will walk the equivalent of three times around the world.

Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

Calvin Coolidge's Vice President Charles Dawes earned a Nobel Peace Prize.

Istanbul, Turkey, is the only city in the world located on two continents.

Dendrophobia is the fear of trees.

An albatross can sleep while it flies. It apparently dozes while cruising at 25 mph.

People who are lying to you tend to look up and to the left (their left).

In England, in the 18 80's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.

Sperm banks keep their donor semen at approximately -321 degrees Fahrenheit. At that temperature, it could be kept indefinitely.

Mosquitoes prefer children to adults, blondes to brunettes.

Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.

The Olympic was the sister ship of the Titanic, and she provided twenty-five years of service.

According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction.

More people have seen David Copperfield perform live than any other performer in the world.

Assuming that all the offspring survived, 190,000,000,000,000,000,000 flies could be produced in four months by the offspring of a single pair of flies.

Topophobia is the fear of stage fright.

The Barramundi, a fish, grows up as a male, but after 2 years or so, it turns into a female to breed.

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Apple seeds are poisonous.

Bulls don't really get angry when they see the color red, it's really movement that makes them charge.

Fifteen people are known to have been crushed to death tilting vending machines towards them in the hope of a free can of soda.

85% of men don't use the slit in their underwear.

Nicotine contained in cigarettes and other smoked tobacco products is a stimulant and is one of the main factors leading to continued tobacco smoking.

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

Onions have no flavor, only a smell.

In Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, pigs less than 32 inches in length may be kept as pets provided there are no more than two in a house.

At race tracks, the favorite wins fewer than 30% of the time.

It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk.

Antlophobia is the fear of floods.

In Michigan, it is illegal to kill a dog using a decompression chamber.

Check your map! The Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal is farther East than the Atlantic entrance.

Texas reserves the right to become 4 separate states at a time of its choosing (a condition of statehood 1845).

Israel is one quarter the size of the state of Maine.

Smartest dogs: (in order) 1) Border Collie 2) Poodle 3) Golden Retriever.

A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness beer.

Texas horned toads can shoot blood out of the corners or their eye.

Alexander Graham Bell's wife and mother were both deaf.

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Australian termites have been known to build mounds -twenty feet high and at least 100 feet wide.

60% of electrocutions occur while talking on the telephone during a thunderstorm.

Anablephobia is the fear of looking up.

Jim Henson first coined the word "Muppet". It is a combination of "marionette" and "puppet".

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Migraine attacks may be triggered by allergic reactions, bright lights, loud noises, and certain odors or perfumes, or physical or emotional stress.

Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard their hooves fall off.

The U.S. has more bagpipe bands than Scotland does.

A research study shows that 40% of adult panic disorder patients reported that their disorder began before the age of 20.

A full-moon is nine times brighter than a half-moon.

A bruise is a mark on your skin caused by blood trapped under the surface.

"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you".

In Bensalem, Pennsylvania, it is illegal to race mufflerless go-karts after 6 p.m. on Sunday.

In Minnesota, all men driving motorcycles must wear shirts.

A tortoise can live up to 140 years.

Coffee is graded according to 3 criteria: Bean quality (Altitude and Species) Quality of preparation and Size of the beans.

ABBA GOLD has been in the UK charts for over 280 weeks - that's over 5 years.

Gymnophobia is the fear of nudity.

The IRS employee’s tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war.

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In the early 1960's, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors.

Sperm cour measures the concentration of sperm in a man's ejaculate; a concentration of over 20 million sperm per millilitc is considered normal.

Ballroom dancing is a major at Brigham Young University.

Betsy K.oss is the only real person to ever have been the head on a Pez dispenser.

In Montana, prostitution is considered a crime against the family.

Michael Jackson song “Billie Jean” was the first video by a black artist to air on MTV.

Polar bears are the only mammal with hair on the soles of its feet.

The Pantheon is the largest building from ancient Rome that survives intact.

In 2005, Canada was the single-largest trading partner with the United States. China was second and Mexico was third.

A chance of a woman having twins is increased after the age of 35. About 1 in 27 women will give birth to twins after this age. After 50, the chances of having twins is 1 in 9.

Most Caucasian babies are born with dark blue eyes, although it normally changes color after child birth.

In Idaho, walking along the street with a red-tipped cane is strictly prohibited.

Left testicles usually hang lower than the right.

Full, deep breathing is a good way to reduce tension, feel relaxed, and reduce stress.

Pocahontas appeared on the back of the $20 bill in 1875.

80% of Publishers' Clearing House 10 million winners did not purchase any magazine subscriptions.

It's more likely you would be attacked by a cow than a shark.

Alaska's borders make it the farthest state east, west and north. Its Aleutian Islands extends across the 180th meridian, which puts the islands chain's end in the eastern hemisphere.

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Alligators cannot move backwards.

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

A comet's tail always points away from the sun.

You can lower your cholesterol by exercising more and eating more fruits and vegetables. You may need to take medicine to lower your cholesterol.

Most lipstick contains fish scales.

In Massachusetts, it is illegal to go to bed without first having a full bath.

The Star Trek theme actually has lyrics.

In Washington, anyone under the age of 1 must have parental permission to throw a tear gas canister.

Israel's Dead Sea is 1,312 feet below sea level.

In 1670, Dorothy Jones of Boston was granted a license to sell coffee, and so became the first American coffee trader.

85% of us will eat Spam this year.

A vision test is recommended at age 3 to 4 years.

Sugar-free chewing gum stimulates saliva production, and helps to clean the surface of the teeth.

Sheep can recognize other sheep from pictures.

If you had $10 billion in $1 bills and spent one every second, it would take 317 years to spend them all.

Pack in 1924, a monkey was convicted in South Bend of the crime of smoking a cigarette and sentenced to pay a 25 dollar fine and the trial costs.

Peccatophobia is the fear of sinning.

Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.

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According to studies, men change their minds two to three times more often than women.

If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.

The Honda Accord has the highest stolen rate in the US according to NCIB.

Moderate drinking is 1 drink a day for women or anyone over 65, and 2 drinks a day for men under 65.

Seeing eye dogs are color blind but can still read stop lights by the position of the 'on' light.

In the middle ages, chicken soup was believed to be an aphrodisiac.

More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world.

Approximately 20% of Americans have a passport.

In Illinois, it is illegal for barbers to use their fingers to apply shaving cream to a customer's face.

If you unfolded your brain, it would cover an ironing board.

In New Hampshire, you cannot sell the clothes you are wearing to pay off a gambling debt.

A woman's heart beats faster than a man's heart.

At Andrew Jackson's funeral in 1845, bis pet parrot had to be removed because it was swearing.

Chocolate melts in your mouth because cocoa butter has a melting point of just below 35 degrees C, a little under body temperature.

An estimated 405,000 U.S. houses still lack indoor plumbing.

A survey reported that 12% of Americans think that Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.

Lilapsophobia is the fear of tornadoes and hurricanes.

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Virginitiphobia is the fear of being rape.

Physiatrists are medical doctors specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation.

The Eiffel Tower was built for the 1889 World’s Fair.

Mailing an entire building has been illegal in the U.S. since 1916 when a man mailed a 40,000-ton brick house across Utah to avoid high freight rates.

Charlie Brown's father was a barber.

In Kentucky, it is illegal to carry ice cream in your back pocket.

A full-grown bear can run as fast as a horse.

Pyrophobia is the fear of fire.

The 1st heart transplant involving a human was completed by a team led by Dr. James D. Hardy in 1964 at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.

Benjamin Franklin lived at 141 Market Street, Philadelphia, P.

City with the most Rolls Royces is Hong Kong.

Revolvers cannot be silenced because of all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the barrel.

In 1933, Mickey Mouse, an animated cartoon character, received 800,000 fan letters.

About 70% of Americans who go to college - do it just to make more money.

In New Jersey, it's illegal to sell handcuffs to minors.

Every year, more people are killed by monkeys than by aircraft crashes.

Several buildings in Manhattan, NY have their own zip code. For example the former World Trade Center had several.

A completely blind chameleon will still take on the colors of its environment.

Achluophobia is the fear of darkness.

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7.5 million toothpicks can be created from a cord of wood.

The Waver, is America's largest rodent and can remain underwater for 20 minutes.

Fattest newspaper ever printed: New York Times, October 17, 1965 at 946 pages. It weighed 7 lbs.

Only 1 person in 2 billion will live to be 116 or older.

Glaucoma damages the eye's optic nerve. It is a leading cause of blindness in the U.S.

More than 25% of the world's forests are in Siberia.

On average, you produce 200g of poo per day.

It's believed that India gets its name from the Indus River. The interesting thing is that none of the river is actually in India, it’s in Pakistan.

Slugs have four noses.

In 2003, the U.S. Government spent about $2,000,000.00 on potato research.

Thanks to the electric light, the average American today sleeps 1.5 hours less each day than Americans of 60 years ago.

35% of the people using personal ads for dating are already married.

More than 10% of the world's annual production of salt is used to de-ice American roads.

Coca-cola used to use the slogan 'Good to the last drop', in 1908. This slogan was later used by Maxwell House.

Polar Pears can eat 50 lbs. of meat in one setting.

A stroke is a medical emergency. Strokes happen when blood flow to your brain stops. Within minutes, brain cells begin to die.

First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.

At one 'feeding', a mosquito can absorb one and a half times its own weight in blood.

Verminophobia is the fear of germs.

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In New York, you may not smoke within 100 feet of the entrance to a public building (by law).

Dirty snow melts faster than clean.

Tablecloths were originally meant to serve as towels with which guests could wipe their hands and faces after dinner.

Most productive day of the workweek: Tuesday.

The U.S. founding fathers' name for the American Revolution was 'The War with Britain'.

Most car horns honk in the key of "F.

Every year, the moon moves 1/2 an inch further from the earth.

Babies start dreaming even before they're born.

Bullfrog Dietrich of the Chicago White Sox was the first pitcher to throw a no-hitter while wearing eyeglasses. He did it in 1937.

Giraffes and humans have the same amount of vertebrae in their necks.

A rodent's teeth never stop growing.

Leopards were originally called Pard, Pardus, and Panther.

Ancient Romans at one time used human urine as an ingredient in their toothpaste.

There are over 200 parts in a typical telephone.

An object weighing 100 pounds on Earth would weight just 38 pounds on Mars.

Cleptophobia is the fear of stealing.

The Ostrich people in Africa are a group of people who have only 2 toes due to inbreeding.

In 1947, heavy snow blanketed the Northeast, burying New York City under 25.8 inches of snow in 16 hours; the severe weather was blamed for some 8O deaths.

Did you know a tuna called the 'Slue Fin'? It can be sold for over $20,000 around the world.

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Bourbon whiskey gets its name from Bourbon County, Kentucky, where local distillers developed the drink around 1800.

Nyctophobia is the fear of darkness.

Prey like buffalos react poorly to slow movements. That's why crocs can swim slowly over to them without them scattering off.

It has been calculated that a single breath from a mature blue whale can inflate up to 2000 balloons.

The human hand has 27 bones.

40 to 50 percent of body heat can be lost through the head (no hat) as a result of its extensive circulatory network.

Despite the hump, a camel's spine is straight.

Playing cards were issued to British pilots in World War II. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.

One punishment for an adulterous wife in medieval France was to make her chase a chicken through town naked.

If you travel across the former Soviet Union you will cross seven time zones.

In America, 38% of doctors are Indians.

Roughly 44% of junk mail is thrown away unopened.

An airplane mechanic invented Slinky while he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use for the springs.

Founder of Lamborghini is, Ferruccio Lamborghini.

Rhode Island is the smallest state with the longest name. The official name, used on all state documents, is "Rhode Island and Providence Plantations".

Nylon is a man-made fiber that is made from coal and petroleum.

The Coca-Cola company offers more than 300 different beverages.

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Mexico has more American residents than any other country except the United States.

To manufacture a new car approximately 148,000 liters of water are needed.

Americans drink about five billion bottles and cans of soda, and about a billion and a half pounds of coffee every year.

Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.

1OU of us would switch tags in the store to pay less for an item.

Picasso's full name was Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de los Kemedios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad Ruiz Picasso.

According to the film's animators, you'll see 6,469,952 black spots every time you watch 101 Dalmatians.

Americans spend approximately $25 billion each year on beer.

Even Antarctica has an area code. It's 672.

At the beginning of the year 2001, all Canadian cigarette packaging will depict graphic images of rotting teeth and deteriorating organs.

Beaver teeth are so sharp that Native Americans once used them as knife blades.

The most common cause of sinusitis is allergy, not infection, so antibiotics are often not the best choice.

Only 1% of bacteria cause disease in humans.

If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.

Warm up before exercise. Cold, stiff muscles and ligaments are more susceptible to injury.

Benjamin Franklin was the fifth in a series of the youngest son of the youngest son.

Pill seeds are so small that approximately 10,000 dill seeds would be required to make an ounce.

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At Hancock Secondary School in Mississippi, there is actually a McDonald's in the high school.

Owls are the only birds that can see the color blue. eBay was created in September 1995, by a man called Pierre Omidyar, who was living in San Jose. The site was officially launched on Labor Day, Monday, 4 September 1995, under the more prosaic title of “Auction Web”.

In Kentucky, it's illegal to fish in the Ohio River without an Indiana Fishing License.

Chickens can't swallow while they are upside down.

Columbia University is the second largest land owner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.

In Brazil, Christmas is celebrated with fireworks.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder can begin as early as the age of 2, but most often begins in the late teens for males and the early 20s for females.

A Horse has 18 more bones than a Human.

The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.

Roses generally need around 6 hours of sunlight to grow properly.

The first jet engine was invented by Frank Whittle of of England in 1930.

Each nostril of a human being registers smell in a different way. Smells that are made from the right nostril are more pleasant than the left.

In 2002, the most popular car color in North America was silver.

Every year, 50,000,000 automobiles are produced in the world.

Although not named in the New Testament, tradition names the two thieves crucified at the same time as Jesus as Dismas and Gestas.

A rat can fall from a five story building without injury.

A raisin, dropped in a glass of fresh champagne, will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

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Charles de Gaulle's final words were, "It hurts".

A Canadian tattoo artist had 4,831 tattoos on his body.

Radiation therapy is standard treatment for many types of cancer. It may be used in combination with surgery, chemotherapy, or hormonal therapy.

A kangaroo cannot jump if its tail is of the ground.

Europium is one of the most reactive of the rare earth elements.

4,000 people are injured by tea pots every year.

Once a human reaches the age of 35, he/she will start losing approximately 7,000 brain cells a day. The cells will never be replaced.

Pumpkin rule of thumb: the darker the shell, the longer the pumpkin lasts.

70% of dust of house dust is dead skin cells.

Moon was Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name. (Buzz Aldrin was the second man on the moon in 1969).

More redheads are born in Scotland than in any other part of the world.

Check your map! Virginia extends farther west than West Virginia.

Agrizoophobia is the fear of wild animals.

A person infected with the SARS virus, has a 95-98% chance of recovery.

Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.

Bill Clinton is the only President ever to be elected twice without ever receiving 50% of the popular vote. He had 43 percent in 1992 and 49 percent in 1996.

Oikophobia is the fear of home surroundings.

Children grow faster in the springtime than any other season during the year.

All of the Earths continents are wider at the north than in the south -and nobody knows why.

On average, pigs live for about 15 years.

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Badgers and coyotes hunt ground squirrels together. The badger tracks the squirrel and digs into its tunnels, and the coyote catches it when it tries to escape.

The Queen Elizabeth ship burns a gallon of oil to move 1 foot.

BVP stands for the organizers of the company: Bradley, Voorhies, and Pay.

Smoking, high blood pressure, excess weight, and diabetes are major risk factors for increasing the size of the heart's left ventricle.

On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.

90% of arrested criminals are male.

The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.

Einstein couldn't speak fluently until after his ninth birthday. His parents thought he was mentally retarded.

6 million tourists a year visit California. 58,000 visit Mississippi.

Pablo Picasso almost died at birth. The midwife present though he was stillborn and left him on the table. His father, a physician, revived Pablo by breathing air into his lungs.

Algophobia is the fear of pain.

"Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson was the first video to air on MTV by a black artist.

Broccoli and cauliflower are the only vegetables that are flowers.

Pablo Picasso almost died at birth. The midwife present though he was stillborn and left him on the table. His father, a physician, revived Pablo by breathing air into his lungs.

Some amputees have phantom pain, which is the feeling of pain in the missing limb.

Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive.

Before toilet paper was invented, French royalty wiped their bottoms with fine linen.

Apiphobia is the fear of bees.

Aunt Jemima pancake flour, invented in 18S9, was the first ready-mix food to be sold commercially.

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Europe is the only continent without a desert.

About 1 in 30 people, in the U.S., are in jail - on probation, or on parole.

The National Mental Health Association reports that 30-70% of suicide victims have suffered from a form of depression.

A B-25 bomber airplane crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.

22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong bank accounts in the next hour.

The black widow spider eats her male during or after sex.

One third of the electricity produced on earth is used to power electric light bulbs.

Astronauts brought back about 300 pounds of lunar rock to Earth. Most of it has not been analyzed.

Bayer was advertising cough medicine containing heroin in 1898.

Cows poop 16 times per day.

Smokers are likely to die on average six and a half years earlier than non-smokers.

In Florida, Penalty for horse theft is death by hanging.

Autism is a brain development disorder characterized by impaired social interaction and communication, and by restricted and repetitive behavior.

Americans did not commonly use forks until after the Civil War.

A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats 9,192,631,770 times per second.

Over 10,000 coffee cafes plus several thousand vending machines with both hot and cold coffee serve the needs of Tokyo alone.

Nucleomituphobia is the fear of nuclear weapons.

An ear of corn always has an even number of rows because of the genetic formula which divides the cells.

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The RAM required to run WordPerfect for Win95is$ times the amount needed aboard the space shuttle.

Lemons have more sugar than oranges.

Each year, 30,000 people are seriously injured by exercise equipment.

If you were to spell out numbers, you would have to go to one thousand before you would find the letter "A".

By the time they reach grade 12, an American will have been in school for about 17,000 hour.

A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.

Bumping foreheads with a hand shake is the traditional greeting in Tibet.

If you are exposed to poison ivy, oak, or sumac, wash your skin with dish soap and water within 30 minutes to get the allergy-causing oil off.

Spat-out food is called chanking.

A group of owls is called a parliament.

90 percent of women who walk into a department store immediately turn to the right.

The Bible, the world's best-selling book, is also the world's most shoplifted book.

Any modern jet is capable of breaking the sound barrier.

A crocodiles tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth that’s why they cannot stick its tongue out.

It is illegal for a man to kiss a woman while she is asleep in Logan County, Colorado.

For every gallon of sea water, you get more than a quarter pound of salt.

Of the 3,000 islands in the Bahamas chain in the Caribbean, only 20 are inhabited.

Menophobia is the fear of menstruation.

In Los Angeles, California, it is legal for a man to beat his wife with a leather strap as long as it is less than two inches in width, or she gives him permission to use a wider strap.

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If a child burps, during a church service in Omaha, Nebraska, his or her parents may be arrested.

For a short distance, the Bluefin tuna can swim as fast as 50 miles per hour.

Brain tumors are growths inside your skull. They are among the most common types of childhood cancers.

By the age of 60, most people have lost 50% of their taste buds.

Queen Elizabeth was good friends with William Shakespeare.

In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.

"101 Dalmatians" and "Peter Pan" are the only Disney animations in which both of a character's parents are present and don't die during the movie.

A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brothers first flight.

Left-handed people are better at sports that require good spatial judgment and fast reaction, compared to right-handed individuals.

Bacteriophobia is the fear of bacterias.

Celery does make you lose calories, it doesn't have a special chemical to do so but it has no calories so the chewing burns the calories burned.

According to Illinois state law, it is illegal to speak English. The officially recognized language is American.

During puberty, 13% of males experience their 1st ejaculation as a result of a nocturnal emission.

Porphyrophobia is the fear of the color purple.

Top-selling albums used to reach sales of 20 million copies before the advent of online piracy - by 2009 it had dropped to about 5 million.

Table tennis balls have been known to travel off a paddle at speeds up to 160 km/hr (approx. 100 mph).

In Oregon, there's a law that one may not test their physical endurance while driving a car on a highway.

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In 1938, Hewlett-Packard became the first corporation to move to Silicon Valley.

National pi day is March 14.

In Texas, it is illegal to milk another person's cow.

Last 2 European countries to let women vote: Switzerland (1971) and Liechtenstein (1984).

For people that are lactose intolerant, chocolate aids in helping milk digest easier.

Goethe couldn't stand the sound of barking dogs and could only write if he had an apple rotting in the drawer of his desk.

Hemophobia is the fear of blood.

In Kentucky, 50% of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.

The 7th most common word used on the Internet is "HTML".

Urinary incontinence is not a disease, but it may indicate a problem with the urinary tract, such as a urinary tract infection.

The "save" icon in Microsoft Office programs shows a floppy disk with the shutter on backwards.

Everyone in the middle ages believed - as Aristotle had - that the heart was the seat of intelligence.

A syzygy occurs when all the planets of our Solar System line up.

In Alabama, it is illegal to wear a fake mustache that causes laughter in church.

Dibble means to drink like a duck.

Diamonds were first discovered in the river beds of the Golconda region of India over 4,000 years ago.

For a hangover, drink plenty of water and avoid coffee since coffee is dehydrating.

Alligators can live for more than 100 years.

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"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

Entomophobia is the fear of insects.

Salmon is a great source of protein and is also packed with heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids.

A Californian doctor has set the record of eating 17 bananas in two minutes.

The U.S. motto, in God We Trust', was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.

A typical full-time worker in the US with a four-year college degree earns about $50,000. This is 62% more than a worker with only a high-school diploma.

March 13, 1986 Microsoft stock goes public.

Paper money is not made from wood pulp but from cotton. This means that it will not disintegrate as fast if it is put in the laundry.

China has more English speakers than the United States.

Diet Coke was only invented in 1982.

Altitude sickness is a pathological effect of high altitude (above 8000 feet) caused by acute exposure to low air pressure.

Bowlers are allowed to have a maximum of five finger grip holes on a regulation bowling ball.

Elephants only sleep for two hours each day.

Cows produce around 30 kg of manure per day.

The Hubble telescope is so powerful that it is like pointing a beam of light at a dime that is two hundred miles away.

Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year.

Ballistics is the science that deals with the motion of projectiles.

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A signature is called a -John Hancock because he signed the Declaration of Independence.

State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska.

A nocturnal emission is an ejaculation during sleep by a male, most common during teenage and early adult years.

Sound carries so well in the Arctic that on a calm day, a conversation can be heard from 1.8 miles away.

Racehorses can wear out new horse shoes in one race.

In San Salvador, drunk drivers can be punished by death before a firing squad.

Tight hats do not cause baldness. In fact, it is a good idea to wear a hat while at the beach. A heavily sun-burned scalp can speed hair loss.

In San Salvador, drunk drivers can be punished by death before a firing squad.

Peniaphobia is the fear of poverty.

Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England, but only in tropical fish stores.

Monopathophobia is the fear of diseases.

It takes about 4 months for healthy hair to grow an inch Most hairs grow for up to 6 years and then fall out. New hairs grow in their place.

Fine-grained volcanic ash can be found as an ingredient in some toothpastes.

If it isn't moving, a frog can't see it. If the frog can't see it, he won't eat it.

In Holland, you can be fined for not using a shopping basket at a grocery store.

Electrophobia is the fear of electricity.

In 2005, workers at General Motors earned an average hourly wage of nearly $26, about 70% more than the average manufacturing wage.

Experiments have shown that, ants are capable of lifting 50 times their own weight and pulling loads 300 times their own weight.

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Scholars estimate that the 66 books of the King James Version of the Bible were written by some 50 different authors.

For beer commercials, they add liquid detergent to the beer to make it foam more.

Contrary to popular belief, dogs do not only sweat by salivating. They also sweat through the pores on their feet.

As bananas ripen, the starch in the fruit turns to sugar. Therefore, the riper the banana - the sweeter it will taste.

According to an Old English system of time units, a moment is considered to be one and a half minutes.

Obama favourite meal is wife Michelle's shrimp linguini.

Domestic cats hate lemons or other citrus scents.

If all numbers are arranged in alphabetical order, eight would be the first number. Zero would be the last number.

On average, we lose 11 oz. of weight while we are asleep at night.

Pope Adrian VI choked to death after a fly got stuck in his throat as he was taking a drink from a fountain.

In 1950, UNIVAC became the first computer to tabulate the United States census.

In Santa Cruz, Bolivia it is illegal for a man to have sex with a woman and her daughter at the same time.

In 1920, 57% of Hollywood movies billed the female star above the leading man. In 1990, only 18% had the leading lady given top billing.

After human faces, brightness and movement are the things a newborn likes to look at best.

Do you talk to your car? According to polls, more women do than men.

Abe Lincoln's mother died when the family dairy cow ate poisonous mushrooms and Ms. Lincoln drank the milk.

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Canadian researchers have found that Einstein's brain was 15% wider than normal.

Neil Armstrong first stepped on the moon with his left foot.

More than 100 pizza box-related patents have been issued since 1976.

In Bromide, Oklahoma, it is illegal for children to use towels as capes and jump from houses pretending to be Superman.

Cats average 16 hours of sleep a day, more than any other mammal.

Paper bags are outlawed in grocery stores in Afghanistan. They believe paper is sacred.

It is forbidden for aircraft to fly over the Taj Mahal.

Despite a population of well over one billion people, there are only an estimated 250 million televisions in use in China.

Contreltophobia is the fear of sexual abuse.

In Connersville, Wisconsin, no man shall shoot off a gun while his female partner is having a sexual orgasm.

Ears of corn always have an even number of rows of kernels.

Melancholic depression is a type of depression characterized by an inability to feel pleasure, physical agitation, insomnia, and decreased appetite.

Ataxiophobia is the fear of being uncoordinated.

The iron disulfide (Pyrite) is considered "fool's gold" because il looks very similar to gold.

As of May 2009, there are 348 exoplanets listed in the Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia.

Next to Warsaw, Chicago has the largest Polish population in the world.

Antarctica is visited by over 10,000 tourists a year.

In his book 'The Insects', naturalist Url N. Lanham reports that the aphid reproductive cycle is so rapid, that the females are born pregnant.

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Abdominal obesity is defined most often as a waistline greater than 35 inches for women, and 40 inches for men.

More than 50% of Americans fall asleep on their sides.

Space is a vacuum which means sound can't travel. Hence, "Nobody can hear you scream in space".

If you put a T-Bone steak in a bowl of Coca-Cola Syrup, it will dissolve in 2 to 3 days.

Crocodile babies don't have sex chromosomes; the temperature at which the egg develops determines their gender.

Over 5 million people in Brazil are employed by the coffee trade. Most of those are involved with the cultivation and harvesting of more than 3 billion coffee plants.

41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.

The 3rd closest star to the Sun is Beta Centauri (HD 128621) at a distance of 4.3650 light years.

21.9% of UK men's penises are circumcised.

America's first stock exchange was the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, established in 1791.

ABBA got their name by taking the first letter from each of their first names (Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, Anni-Frid (Fridaj).

Geliophobia is the fear of laughter.

The Academy Award was rumored to have gotten its nickname of Oscar for its resemblance to a film librarian's Uncle Oscar.

Astronauts become between two and three inches taller when in space.

Too much bilirubin causes jaundice. Bilirubin is a yellow chemical in hemoglobin, the substance that carries oxygen in your red blood cells.

The name ecliptic is derived from being the place where eclipses occur.

China grows more pears than any other country in the world.

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Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.

In the Spanish Pyrenees, when a beekeeper dies, each of his bees is splashed with a drop of Black Ink.

63 years ago (as of 2001) the Bugs Bunny prototype appeared in Porky's Hair Hunt.

Most common name in the world is Mohammad.

Chickenpox is an infectious disease caused by the varicella virus. Most cases occur in children under age 15, but adults can also get it.

Spam stands for Shoulder Pork and Ham.

The color of a star, as determined by the peak frequency of the visible light, depends on the temperature of the staris outer layers.

The 1st Academy Awards were presented in 1927.

Over 50% of the wedding in the U.S. occur in the afternoon.

According to the International Labor Organization, a member of the labor force is someone between the age of 15 and 64.

Dolphins sleep at night just below the surface of the water. They frequently rise to the surface for air.

Only 1/3 of the people that can twitch their ears can twitch only one at a time.

Pac-Man, Namco's 1979 arcade game, was originally called Puck Man. The name was changed when they realized that vandals could easily scratch out part of the letter P.

14% of us eat the watermelon seeds.

It is an act of treason to place a postage stamp bearing the British monarch upside down.

An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.

City dwellers have longer, thicker, denser nose hairs than country folks do.

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Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every game.

All 17 children of Queen Anne died before her.

Perseus is a constellation in the northern sky, named after the Greek hero Perseus.

An 'aglet' is the plastic or metal tip of a shoelace.

It is only appropriate to fly the US flag upside down in emergencies. It means Help Me, I am in Trouble.

A species of earthworm in Australia grows up to 10 feet in length.

West Nile can spread through an organ transplant or a blood transfusion. So all donated blood in the U.S. is screened to see if the virus is present.

Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty," but he did say, "Beam me up, Mr. Scott".

22% of people leave the glob of toothpaste in the sink.

Captain Jean-Luc Picard's fish was named Livingston.

Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their first cousins (Elsa Lowenthal and Emma Wedgewood, respectively).

Jimmy Hoffa's middle name is, appropriately. Riddle.

Elephants, horses, and camels all descended from animals that originally came from North America, despite their present homes in Eurasia.

At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.

Potamophobia is the fear of rivers.

Jacksonville, Florida, has the largest total area of any city in the United States.

One can see the stars during the day from the bottom of a well.

Olympic badminton rules say that the bird has to have exactly fourteen feathers.

If you told someone that they were one in a million, you'd be saying there were 1,800 of them in China.

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Claustrophobia is the fear of small space.

In the movie 'The Wizard Of Oz', Toto the dog's salary was $125 a week, while Judy Garland was $500 a week.

Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order.

A person afflicted with hexadectylism has six fingers or six toes on one or both hands and feet.

"Hang On Sloopy" is the official rock song of Ohio.

The moon is about the poorest reflector in the solar system and reflects only about 7% of the light incident upon it.

Polar bears are left-handed.

Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.

If you plant an apple seed, it is almost guaranteed to grow a tree of a different type of apple.

A fire in Australia has been burning for more than 5,000 years.

There is no cure for schizophrenia, but many people can effectively manage their symptoms with medicines and professional counseling.

An ostrich egg can make approximately eleven and a half omelets.

Binary stars are often detected optically, in which case they are called visual binaries.

It is illegal to frown at cows in Bladworth, Saskatchewan.

Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is number 47. Until August 7, 1953, congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the Union.

First World War (1914-17) 8.5 million killed.

Girls have more taste buds than boys.

On average, a car driver will swear or blaspheme 32,000 times in their lifetime while driving.

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Cometophobia is the fear of comets.

Neil Armstrong the first human to set foot on the Moon has spent a total of 8 days 14 hours and 12 minutes in space over his career.

It is impossible for anyone to verbally count up to the number 1 trillion.

Nike Air Soles do not actually have 'air' in them.

Because Uranus has the lowest escape velocity of the four gas giants, it has been proposed as a mining site for helium-3 in the future.

Americans use about 100 million pounds of tea leaves every year.

Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been struck by lightning.

Terminator 2 cost $647,000 per minute of film to make.

The typical U.S. family will spend 17,000 in the first year of their child's life.

A galactic year is 250 million Earth-years. This is the time it takes for our solar system to make one revolution around the Milky Way Galaxy.

The total surface area of Venus is 460,200,000 square km or 177,700,000 square miles.

902 of New York City cab drivers are recently arived immigrants.

Elvis was once appointed Special Agent of the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs.

Before the first French cafe in the late 1700's, coffee was sold by street vendors in Europe, in the Arab fashion. The Arabs were the forerunners of the sidewalk espresso carts of today.

Titan orbits the planet Saturn every 15.95 Earth days.

According to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week.

In France, it is forbidden to call a pig Napoleon.

In the U.S., obesity is linked with 14% of cancer deaths in men and 20% of cancer deaths in women.

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It is possible to go blind from smoking too heavily.

Coffee represents 75% of all the caffeine consumed in the United States.

In 1936, England became the first country in the world to provide regular public broadcasting on television.

Samhainophobia is the fear of Halloween.

Second string, meaning replacement or backup, comes from the middle ages. An archer always carried a second string in case the one on his bow broke.

Second World War (1939-45) 20 million casualties.

Boys who have unusual first names are more likely to have mental problems than boys with conventional names. Girls don't seem to have this problem.

Leprophobia is the fear of leprosy.

The U.S. army packs Tabasco pepper sauce in every ration kit that they give to soldiers.

There has only been 193,000 metric tons of gold discovered to date.

Estimated cost for having your whole body tattooed: $30,000 -$50,000.

The diameter of the planet Mercury is 4,880km or 3,032 miles.

Alfred Hitchcock directed the first talking film ever made in England. It was called "Blackmail" and was made in 1931.

One of the many Tarzans, Karmuela Searlel, was mauled to death on the set by a raging elephant.

A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day.

If done perfectly, any Rubik's Cube combination can be solved in 17 turns.

In the Scottish Hebrides, an island is defined as being an island, only if it is big enough to sustain 1 sheep.

Second and third Presidents, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, both died on July 4, 1826.

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Cheese was first made in the Middle East when hunters became herders and realized that milk could solidify (sour milk).

Vietnam War (1965-73) 1.2 million killed.

Only 51% of South Carolina high school students will graduate the lowest of any state.

German chemists made a replica of a trophy the size of one molecule.

In Alzheimer's disease the hippocampus is one of the first regions of the brain to suffer damage.

Each year 96 billion pounds of food is wasted in the U.S.

One 75-watt light bulb gives off more light than three 25-watt light bulbs.

Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.

In England and the American colonies the year 1752 only had 354 days. In that year, the type of calendar was changed, and 11 days were lost.

Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.

Most tropical marine fish could survive in a tank filled with human blood.

Most people button their shirt upward.

Google started in January, 1996 as a research project at Stanford University, by Ph.D. candidates Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were 24 years old and 23 years old respectively.

The G- in 'g-string' stands for groin.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was originally entitled Headcheese, but was changed at the last minute.

Dolphins don't automatically breath, they have to tell themselves to.

A black hole is often defined as an object whose escape velocity exceeds the speed of light.

Mexico and Iceland have the highest per capita consumption of Coca-Cola.

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Although the Pony Express was one of the most famous chapters in U.S. history, it only lasted one year, from 1860-61.

Over 98 percent of Japanese people are cremated after they die.

People die by suicide more often during spring and summer. The idea that suicide is more common during Christmas is a common misconception.

Elizabeth the First suffered from Anthophobia (a fear of roses).

Australia is the only continent without active volcanoes.

An African American chef in Albany, NY, is thought to have been the inventor of potato chips sometime in 1865. Unfortunately, nobody knows his name.

Bibliophobia is the fear of books.

A chef's hat is tall and balloons at the top so as to counteract the intense heat in the kitchen. The unique shape allows air to circulate around the scalp, keeping the head cool.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

Little more than half of the people living in the U.S. would rather fold, than wad their toilet paper.

Coca-Cola was the first soft drink to be consumed in outer space.

A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.

A galaxy is an enormous collection of a few million to trillions of stars, gas, and dust held together by gravity.

The IRS processes more than 2 billion pieces of paper each year.

Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be molded with hands.

The health risks of piercings and tattoos include: allergic reactions, keloids (a type of scar that forms during healing), and infections.

George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.

Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, UNIX is a registered trademark of AT&T.

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First-cousin marriages are legal in Utah, so long as both parties are 65 or older.

An adult giraffe's tongue is about 17 inches long.

Pack in the mid to late'80s, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered 100% compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.

The escape velocity of Uranus is 76,640 km/h or 47,620 mph.

In 2004, there were about 36 million people in the US aged 65 and over.

On April 12, 1938, the state of New York passed a law requiring medical tests for marriage license applicants, the first state to do so.

Woody Allen (Allen Stewart Konigsberg).

The very first item sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer for $14.83.

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

If the average person had started counting the moment they were born and continued counting, without stopping, until they turned 65 years old, they still would not have counted to a billion.

Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

Pageant Models often smear Vaseline on their teeth so their lips won't stick when smiling.

Kiwi birds are blind, they hunt only by smell.

In Vulcan, Alberta Canada, the tourist welcome sign is written in both English and Klingon (alien language from "Star Trek").

A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel.

Giraffes are unable to cough.

People, photocopying their buttocks, are the cause of 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide.

Eyes are always the same size from birth but our nose and ears never stop growing.

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Over 21 million Americans have diabetes and over half of them will have some form of nerve damage due to their diabetes.

Every citizen of Kentucky is required by law to take a bath at least once a year.

Bibliophobia is the fear of books.

In Alaska it is illegal to whisper in someone's ear while they are moose hunting.

About 20% of bird species have become extinct in the past 200 years, almost all of them because of human activity.

Eskimos don't gamble.

Mexicans consumed more Coca-Cola products than Americans, on average, in 2005. The average Mexican consumed 533 beverages during 2005, while the average American consumed 431.

Buckingham Palace has 602 rooms.

Immunology is the study of the immune system, which includes the innate and adaptive immune system in humans.

In Ohio, it is against state law to get a fish drunk.

Pontius Pilate was born in Scotland.

One in eight Americans is considered poor, but one home in six has at least three cars or trucks.

The Puritans forbade the singing of Christmas carols.

Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis middle name was spelled Aron, in honor of his brother.

Heatstroke is a life-threatening illness in which body temperature may rise above 106°F in minutes.

The fwcutter finger candy bar was first produced by Chicago's Curtiss Candy Co. in 1923. As an advertising ploy, candy bars were dropped from an airplane on cities in 40 states.

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Connecticut and Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment (Prohibition).

Chemophobia is the fear of chemicals.

Chop-suey is not a native Chinese dish, it was created in California by Chinese immigrants.

In Miami, Florida, it is illegal to skateboard in a police station.

Artificial insemination is the process by which sperm is placed into the reproductive tract of a female for the purpose of impregnating the female.

An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.

Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.

Physical activity can be considered from walking to gardening to working out at the gym. The important thing is to be active almost every day.

A woman's sense of smell is most acute during ovulation.

Midgets and dwarfs almost always have normal sized children.

The cause of autism is not known. Autism lasts throughout a person's lifetime. There is no cure, but treatment can help.

A group of unicorns is called a blessing.

Cleveland spelled backwards is "PNA level C".

The human lungs contain approximately 1500 miles of airways and 300-500 million alveoli, having a total surface area of about 70 square meters.

Billy goats urinate on their own heads to smell more attractive to females.

On Sunday, it is illegal to sell cornflakes in Columbus, Ohio.

Mexico's east coast is sinking into the sea at the rate of one to two inches per year.

Lee Harvey Oswald’s body tag was auctioned off for $6,600.

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Extremely high pressured water can easily cut through a steel beam.

People in nudist colonies play volleyball more than any other sport.

The color of a star, as determined by the peak frequency of the visible light, depends on the temperature of the staris outer layers.

It is illegal in Hawaii to insert pennies in your ear.

Ganymede, a moon of the planet Jupiter, is the largest moon in the solar system.

Each year, 76 million people in the U.S. get sick from contaminated food.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

Gloucestershire airport in England used to blast Tina Turner songs on the runways to scare birds away.

In 1956, 80% of all U.S. households had a refrigerator, but only 8% of British households had one.

By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.

Alaska is the US state with the most national park sites (eight).

$203,000,000 is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.

Hypnosis can help with anxiety, insomnia, phobias, obesity, asthma, and irritable bowel syndrome.

Over-roasted coffee beans are very flammable during the roasting process.

Slow food: The average French citizen eats 500 snails a year.

As of July 2005, China was the largest country in the World with a population of over 1.3 billion people (over 20% of the World's population).

"Hard Bean" means the coffee was grown at an altitude above 5000 feet.

On average, it takes 660 days from conception for an elephant to give birth.

Approximately 16 Canadians have their appendix removed when not required everyday.

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Lee Harvey Oswald had dyslexia.

At lift off, US space shuttles weight about 4.5 million pounds.

President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.

A loss of consciousness for longer than 60 seconds needs to be evaluated by a health professional.

In downtown Lima, Peru, there is a large brass statue dedicated to Winnie-the-Pooh.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

During the Alaskan Klondike gold rush, (1897-1898) potatoes were practically worth their weight in gold. Potatoes were so valued for their vitamin C content that miners traded gold for potatoes.

The 1st human X-Ray image was taken in 1895.

An average adult produces about half a liter of flatulent gas per day, resulting in an average of about fourteen occurrences of flatulence a day.

Salmon can jump as high as 6 feet.

Koala bears have fingerprints so similar to humans that they could be confused at a crime scene.

A person will burn 7 percent more calories if they walk on hard dirt compared to pavement.

In France, it is legal to marry a dead person.

Spot, Data's cat on Star Trek: The Next Generation was played by six different cats.

In one day, an average person will take about 18,000 steps.

One in three snake bite victims is drunk. One in five is tattooed.

John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe died on July 4th. Adams and Jefferson died in the same year. Supposedly, Adams last words were "Thomas Jefferson survives".

40% of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

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Even a long human life only adds up to about 650,000 hours.

It is illegal to purchase or consume Jack Daniel’s Whiskey in the town in which it is produced.

The rabies virus makes its way to the brain by following the peripheral nerves.

Pharmacophobia is the fear of taking medicines.

By the time you turn 70, your heart will have beat two-and-a-half billion times (figuring on an average of 70 beats per minute).

It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona.

According to the Pentagon, Russia has supplied more than 85% of all of China's arms imports since early 1990.

In Oregon anyone with a bad reputation is prohibited from distributing malt beverages.

Suriphobia is the fear of mice.

People who ride on roller coasters have a higher chance of having a blood clot in the brain.

In Haiti, only 1 out of every 200 people owns a car.

A parsec is a unit of length used in astronomy, approximately equal to 3.261 light years.

On average, Elizabeth Taylor remarries every 4 years, 5 months.

The declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.

In 1894, there were only 4 automobiles in the US.

One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the '30s lobbied against hemp farmers (they saw it as competition).

A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber.

A 41-gun salute is the traditional salute to a royal birth in Great Britain.

Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.

An ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

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123,000,000 cars are being driven on highways in the United States.

An arrhythmia is any disorder of your heart rate or rhythm. It means that your heart beats too quickly, too slowly or with an irregular pattern.

In 21 U.S. states, Wal-Mart is the single largest employer.

40% of women have hurled footwear at a man.

The WHO has estimated that 664,500,000 males aged 15 and over are circumcised (30% global prevalence), with almost 70% of these being Muslim.

It is possible to see a rainbow at night.

Maine is closer to Bermuda than Florida.

The Sudan is the largest country in Africa. It covers about 967,500 square miles of the continent.

South Africa used to have two official languages, now it has eleven.

Poll results: Nachos is the food most craved by mothers-to-be.

Nail-biting is a common stress-relieving habit. You may bite your nails in times of stress or excitement, or in times of boredom or inactivity.

Epistaxiophobia is the fear of nosebleeds.

The Pittsburgh Steelers were originally called the Pirates.

The Ramses brand condom is named after the great Pharaoh Ramses II, who fathered over 160 children.

Goldfish lose their color if they are kept in dim light or are placed in a body of running water, such as a stream.

An average ear of corn has 800 kernels, arranged in 16 rows.

It is impossible for a pig to look up at the sky.

Each of your feet has 26 bones, 33 joints, and more than 100 tendons, muscles and ligaments.

Cheetahs were originally called Leopards.

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Uranus is the only planet whose name is derived from a figure from Greek mythology rather than Roman mythology.

Australia has no native monkeys (in the wild).

Chemotherapy is a cancer treatment that uses drugs to stop the growth of cancer cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing.

Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold.

A pipe, 2 feet in diameter, will allow four times more fluid to pass through it than a 1 foot in diameter pipe.

An adult lion's roar can be heard up to five miles away, and warns off intruders or reunites scattered members of the pride.

Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.

Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.

Anthropophobia is the fear of people.

In the US all 50 states have laws against elder abuse.

Jimmy Carter is the first U.S. President to have been born in a hospital.

The Beatles were George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and Ringo Starr. But there were also two lesser known, previous members of the band: Pete Pest and Stu Sutcliffe.

Strawberries have more vitamin C than oranges.

About 8 out of 100 people will get appendicitis sometime during their lives.

Smokeless tobacco contains more nicotine than cigarettes.

Elvis Presley made his first appearance on national television in 1956. He sang "Blue Suede Shoes" and "Heartbreak Hotel" on "The Dorsey Brothers Show".

Phasmophobia is the fear of ghosts.

Venus can be so bright in the sky that it casts shadows.

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Coffee beans are similar to grapes that produce wine in that they are affected by the temperature, soil conditions, altitude, rainfall, drainage, and degree of ripeness when picked.

Native Americans do not have to pay tax on their land.

If the Earth was the size of a golf ball, the Sun would be the size of a washing machine.

Mercury travels in its orbit at 172,341 km/h or 172,341 mph.

If you live in Michigan, its illegal to place a skunk in your bosses desk.

Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.

Christmas became a national holiday in the U.S. in 1890.

A group of goats is called a trip.

Only one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts walked on the moon. He was Alan Sheppard.

A single drop of water contains one hundred billion billion atoms.

Lachanophobia is the fear of vegetables.

In 1892, Italy raised the minimum age for marriage for girls to 12.

The Three Wise Monkeys have names: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil).

In UK, it is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament.

Farts are highly flammable.

Approximately $25 million is spent each year on lap dances in Las Vegas.

Necrophobia is the fear of death or dead things.

A toothbrush within 6 feet of a toilet can get airborne bacteria from flushing.

Chiropractic medicine originated in the late 1800s in the U.S.

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All the world's main alphabets have developed from an alphabet invented 3,600 years ago in the Middle East. It was known as the North Semitic Alphabet.

400 quarter-pounders can be made out of 1 cow.

If you look carefully at the picture of Mona Lisa, you will notice a bridge hidden in the background.

According to the Higher Education Research Institute, about 8 in 10 college freshman in the US say they believe in God.

Eosophobia is the fear of dawn.

On its trip around the sun, the earth travels over a million and a half miles per day.

If all the Coca-Cola vending machines in the U.S. were stacked one on top of each other, the pile would be over 450 miles high.

Goat's milk is used more widely throughout the world than cow's milk.

During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.

Sunlight is a major cause of skin aging.

If someone were to capture and bottle a comet's 10,000-mile vapor trail, the amount of vapor actually present in the bottle would take up less than one cubic inch of space.

Neptune travels in its orbit at 19,720 km/h or 12,253 mph.

Hypochondriasis refers to an excessive preoccupation or worry about having a serious illness.

Approximate number of facial expressions dogs can make: 100.

In 2005, the country of Singapore had the lowest infant mortality rate in the World with slightly more than 2 deaths per 1,000 births.

11% of the world is left-handed.

Stress is a physical, mental, and emotional response to life's changes and demands.

Iophobia is the fear of poison.

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Alaska was bought from Russia for about 2 cents an acre.

On average, about 500 meteorites strike the surface of the Earth each year. The calculated risk of being struck by a meteorite in the United States is once every 9,300 years.

The escape velocity of Mars is 18,072 km/h or 11,229 mph.

As of July 2005, the smallest country in terms of population was Pitcairn Islands with 45 inhabitants.

First four countries to have television: England, the U.S., the U.S.S.R., and Brazil.

A typical lightning bolt is two to four inches wide and two miles long.

As of 2007, China had about 30 million cars and light trucks for 1.3 billion people. The U.S. had about 240 million cars for 300 million people.

American car horns beep in the tone of F.

Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country.

Aphenphosmphobia is the fear of being touched.

Technically speaking, crystal glass is actually a liquid that flows very slowly.

If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.

Pepsi originally contained pepsin, hence the name.

If you shake a can of mixed nuts, the larger ones go to the top.

Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.

Diabetophobia is the fear of diabetes.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child is 2-6 years of age.

Amaxophobia is the fear of riding in a car.

No matter how cold it gets, gasoline won't freeze. Below -180 degrees F, it just turns gummy.

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In Eastern Africa you can buy banana beer. This beer is brewed from bananas.

About 10% of U.S. households pay their bills in cash.

As skin ages, it becomes thinner and more easily damaged. Skin aging is caused by the fall in elasticity.

'Able was I ere I saw Elba' is a palindrome written by Napoleon.

In America in 1977, the punishment for smuggling marijuana was 15 years less than the punishment for smuggling coffee.

The dwarf planet Pluto was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh.

Male hospital patients fall out of bed twice as often as female hospital patients.

Most turkeys and giraffes are bisexual.

Elton John and The Beach Boys are tied for the record for the longest gap between number one hit singles in the United States. Both waited 21 years, 11 months.

Teratophobia is the fear of bearing a deformed child.

In Canada, if a debt is higher than 25 cents, it is illegal to pay it with pennies.

On July 31, 1994, Simon Sang Sung of Singapore turned a single piece of dough into 8,192 noodles in 59.29 seconds.

Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were both epileptic.

Native Americans never actually ate turkey; killing such a timid bird was thought to indicate laziness.

Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal, and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever.

Dementophobia is the fear of insanity.

Milk as an additive to coffee, became popular in the 1680's, when a French physician recommended that cafe au lait be used for medicinal purposes.

Bananas are actually herbs. Bananas die after fruiting, like all herbs do.

Rice is the chief food for half the people of the world.

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Mount Everest moves approximately 2.4 inches (10 cm) in a Northeasterly direction every year.

The planet Earth orbits the Sun at approximately 149,600,000km or 92,960,000 miles.

Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box.

There is no scientific proof that ejaculating regularly (2-3 times per week) will help prevent an enlarged prostate, but it is risk-free.

"Bock's Car" was the name of the B-29 Bomber that dropped the Atom Bomb on Nagasaki.

2 out of 3 adults in the United States have hemorrhoids.

Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States.

If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom more often.

In Bozeman, Montana, a law prohibits all sexual activity from the front yard of a home after sundown.

If all the people in China stood on a chair and jumped off at exactly the same time, they could knock the Earth out of orbit.

More boys than girls are born during the day; more girls are born at night.

It's illegal to own a red car in Shanghai, China.

Federal law forbids recycling used eyeglasses in the United States.

A teaspoon full of Neutron star material would weigh about 112 million tons.

Trypanophobia is the fear of injections.

Microsoft made $16,005 in revenue in its first year of operation.

Edmond Halley did not discover the comet that bears his name, he merely recognized that it was the same one that had been seen before.

The Stanley Cup originally was only seven and a half inches high.

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In Idaho, it is illegal to give someone a box of candy that weighs more than 50 pounds.

Cleisiophobia is the fear of being locked in an enclosed place.

55.2% of us will let someone else come in the bathroom while they're using the toilet.

Cryophobia is the fear of extreme cold.

Of the estimated 162 million land-based telephones in the U.S., 25 million have unlisted numbers.

44% of hotels allow pets into the room.

In 2006, the U.S. was the largest Internet market in the world with 182 million users. China was second with 134 million users.

Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill.

Obama won a Grammy in 2006 for the audio version of his memoir, Dreams From My Father.

On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

It takes 100 pounds of rain water to produce a single pound of food from the Earth.

Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down.

Cancer of the colon or rectum is called colorectal cancer. In the U.S., it is the 4th most common cancer in men and women.

A honey bee travels an estimated 43,000 miles to gather one pound of honey. A pound of honey consists of 29,184 drops.

Ants never sleep.

Eating breakfast will help you burn 5-20% more calories throughout the day.

Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.

Each of the Space Shuttle's solid rocket boosters burns 5 tons of propellant per second.

Teniophobia is the fear of tapeworms.

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A jogger's heel strikes the ground 1,500 times per mile.

In California, animals are banned from mating publicly within 1,500 feet of a tavern, school, or place of worship.

Metathesiophobia is the fear of changes.

The Bible is the bestselling book of all time with approximately six billion books sold. The second-best selling book is Quotations from the Works of Mao Tse-Tung with about 800 million sales.

A Baboon called Jackie became a private in the Sooth African army in World War I.

In Brandon, Mississippi it is illegal to attempt to stop someone from walking down the sidewalk by parking a motor home in their path.

About 80% of the city was burned in the Great Fire of London in 1666.

Canada imports approx. 822 Russian-made hockey sticks on an average day.

Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."

A pipe organ was the loudest sound that could be made in the year 1600.

One method of classifying lower back pain is by symptom duration: acute (less than 4 weeks), subacute (4-12 weeks), chronic (more than 12 weeks).

It snows more in the Grand Canyon than it does in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Aldebaran is the brightest star in the constellation Taurus and one of the brightest stars in the night.

Jane Barbie was the woman who did the voice recordings for the Bell System.

George Washington had to borrow money to go to his own inauguration.

The Sun orbits the center of the Milky Way galaxy at a distance of approximately 24,000 to 26,000 light years from the galactic center.

Levi Strauss didn't call them jeans. He called them "waist overalls".

December 17th is Wright Brother's day.

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Jackie Kennedy Onassis was secretly a chain smoker.

A peanut is not a nut. It is a legume.

Leonardo da Vinci invented the scissors, the helicopter, and many other present day items.

In 1975, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid in the US consumed 25% of all federal spending. Today, the three account to 43%.

Each month, there is at least one report of UFOs from each province of Canada.

The Hubble Space Telescope weighs 12 tons (10,896 kilograms), is 43 feet (13.1 meters) long, and cost $2.1 billion to originally build.

Botanophobia is the fear of plants.

If you were randomly inserted into the universe, the chances that you would be on or near a planet are less than one in a billion trillion trillion. (There is a lot of space in Space!).

Anagrams amused the ancient Greeks, Romans and Hebrews, and were popular during the Middle Ages.

Bamboo plants can grow up to 36 inches in a day.

If Betelgeuse (a red supergiant star in the constellation of Orion) were placed where our Sun is, its outer edge would extend to the orbit of Jupiter.

20% of tuxedo rentals take place in May.

If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

Books on religion outnumbered works of fiction by a 2 to 1 margin in 1870 England. Sixteen years later, novels surpassed religious works.

SPF stands for Sun Protection Factor.

More than half of American families with teenagers use filters to limit access to adult content online.

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If you are bitten by a poisonous snake, and fail to receive medical attention, you will probably still have about 50% chance of survival.

Forty percent of the American population has never visited a dentist.

Almonds and pistachios are the only nuts mentioned in the Bible.

David Sarnoff received the Titanic's distress signal and saved hundreds of passengers. He later became the head of the first radio network, the National Broadcasting Company(NBC).

"Do." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. "I am." is another short one.

Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.

All the gold ever mined could be molded into a cube 60 feet high and 60 feet wide.

By recycling just one glass bottle, the amount of energy that is being saved is enough to light a 100 watt bulb for four hours.

Agoraphobia is the fear of open space.

In the great fire of London, in 1666, half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.

The Hundred Year War actually lasted 116 years (1337 to 1453).

Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of "Lome Greene's Wild Kingdom".

Every ten minutes, another plant or animal life form becomes extinct.

Spiders have transparent blood.

Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal." The second was William Jefferson Clinton.

Car accidents rise as high as 10% during the first week of daylight savings time.

Anteaters prefer termites to ants.

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Sitting too close to the TV will not ruin your eyesight.

It takes a half a gallon of water to make macaroni and a gallon of water to clean the pot.

Mycophobia is the fear of mushrooms.

John Larroquette of "Night Court" and "The John Larroquette Show" was the narrator of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre".

Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head".

During the 1600's, boys and girls in England wore dresses until they were about seven years old.

No species of wild plant produces a flower or blossom that is absolutely black, and so far, none has been developed artificially.

At birth, a panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs about four ounces.

Emetophobia is the fear of vomiting.

Most popular soap opera in the world: Mexico's "The Rich Also Cry".

Pating back to the 1600s, thermometers were filled with Brandy instead of mercury.

May 31, 2001 Microsoft launches Office XP.

Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose active ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903.

During menstruation, the sensitivity of a woman's middle finger is reduced.

Cheetahs make a chirping sound that is much like a bird's chirp or a dog's yelp. The sound is so an intense, it can be heard a mile away.

Before 1933, the dime was legal as payment only in transactions of $10 or less.

Rice paper does not have any rice in it.

If you took a standard slinky and stretched it out it would measure 87 feet.

At birth, bear cubs weigh between 1/2 and 1 pound.

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Deborah Winger did the voice of E.T.

In Mel Brooks' "Silent Movie", mime Marcel Marceau is the only person who has a speaking role.

Richest country in the world: Switzerland. Poorest: Mozambique.

A premature baby, or preemie, is born before the 37th week of pregnancy.

Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.

Only 2 people signed the declaration of independence on July 4. The Last person signed 2 years later.

Prior to the 1930s, diamond rings were rarely given as engagement rings.

Obama has read every Harry Potter book.

Tap dancing originates from Irish clog dancing and what is called the Irish Reel and Jig.

The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means to exercise naked, which often was done in ancient Greece.

No patent can ever be taken out on a gambling machine in the United States.

In 24 hrs an average healthy human breathes 23,000 times.

Former U.S. President Franklin Pierce was arrested during his term as President for running over an old lady with his horse, but the charges were later dropped.

An average beaver can cut down two hundred trees a year.

Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

Pamela Lee-Anderson was the first to be born in Canada on the centennial anniversary of Canada's independence (7/1/1967).

Andrew Johnson was the only self-educated tailor. He is the only President to make his own clothes as well as his cabinets.

Pollen never deteriorates. It is one of the few natural substances that lasts indefinitely.

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In ancient Egypt, they paid their taxes in honey.

All of the proceeds from James Barries book Peter Pan were bequeathed to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children in London.

Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia.

The Prime Minister cannot speak in The House of Commons without a permission.

Diamonds mined in Brazil are harder than those found in Africa.

Scientists have performed brain surgery on cockroaches.

Despite a population of over a billion, China has only about 200 family names.

Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28.

June 27, 2008 Bill Gates transitions from his day-to-day role at Microsoft to spend more time on his work at The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

On February 6, 1971 the first golf ball was hit on the moon by Alan Sheppard.

Genophobia is the fear of sex.

Upon reaching the age of 15 months, infants are referred to as "toddlers".

The Pacific island of Nauru's economy is almost entirely based on bird droppings.

The U.S. ranks 29th in overall life expectancy, which is 78 years.

166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the U.S.

Abraham Lincoln had to go across the street to the War Department to get news from the battlefield - because there was no telegraph in the White House.

Giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels.

Degringolade means to fall and disintegrate.

A launch pad is the area and facilities where rockets or spacecrafts liftoff.

In India, people are legally allowed to marry a dog.

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In young men, the prostate is about the size of a walnut. It usually grows larger as you grow older.

Spinach consumption in the U.S. rose 33% after the Popeye comic strip became a hit in 1931.

One beaver can cut down as many as 216 trees per year.

Given the opportunity, deer will chew gum and marijuana. No word on which they like the most.

Nearly 17.6 million adults in the U.S. are alcoholics or have alcohol problems.

Polyphobia is the fear of many things.

On a bingo card of 90 numbers there are approximately 44 million possible ways to make bingo.

Augustus Caesar had Achluophobia - the fear of sitting in the dark.

Approximately 83% (as of 2003) of ammonia is used as fertilizers either as its salts or as solutions.

Constipation is the most common cause of fecal incontinence.

Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.

22%. of us skip lunch daily.

Because of the speed at which the sun moves, it is impossible for a solar eclipse to last more than 7 minutes and 58 seconds.

In Alabama it is illegal to stab yourself to gain someone's pity.

The 29,249th digit of pi is a seven.

Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses.

Brain damage occurs at an internal temperature of 105 degrees Fahrenheit.

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In Alaska, it is illegal to look at a moose from a flying vehicle.

If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.

Retrograde amnesia is a lack of memory for past events.

Each year, the average family uses about 18,000 gallons of water just to do its laundry.

Rats can't vomit, that's why rat poison works.

One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water.

In the average lifetime, a person will breath in about 44 pounds of dust.

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

In Michigan, a woman isn't allowed to cut her own hair without her husband's permission.

Every second, Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate.

The total number of episodes for the sitcom "I Love Lucy" was 180.

A fly always jumps backwards for a quick getaway when you try to hit it.

In 32 years there are about 1 billion seconds.

Terminal (or late) insomnia is early morning awakening. This type of insomnia is often a characteristic of clinical depression.

Ben and Jerry's sends the waste from making ice cream to local pig farmers to use as feed.

A human has 60,000 miles of blood vessels in their body.

In the kingdom of Bhutan, all citizens officially become one year older on New Year's Pay.

It snowed in the Sahara desert on February 18, 1979.

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The planet Earth is the only planet to have liquid water on its surface.

Australia is the only country that is also a continent.

More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.

In Salt Lake County, Utah, it's illegal to walk down the street carrying a violin in a paper bag.

Alan Thicke, the father in the TV show Growing Pains, wrote the theme songs for The Facts of Life and Different Strokes.

Kymophobia is the fear of waves.

The U.S. Army accidentally ordered an 82 year supply of freeze-dried tuna salad mix for troops in Europe.

On average, Americans spend about 6 months of their lives waiting at red traffic lights.

One out of 20 people have an extra rib.

Parrots have 500 pounds per square inch of pressure in their beaks.

Aichmophobia is the fear of needles.

In 1899, President McKinley was assured by the director of the US Patent Office that "everything that can be invented has already been invented".

Pupaphobia is the fear of puppets.

Ecstasy is a semisynthetic member of the amphetamine class of psychoactive drugs.

In 1832 Abraham Lincoln ran for the Illinois legislature, and lost.

In an average hour, there are over 61,000 Americans airborne over the United States.

Rupophobia is the fear of dirt.

Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth ... and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, "His name is Mudd".

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Caesium is most notably used in atomic clocks.

For the 66% of American's who admit to reading in the bathroom, the preferred reading material is Reader's Digest.

A human's mucus membrane, used to smell, is the size of a postage stamp.

The radiant of a meteor shower is the point in the sky, from which meteors appear to originate.

Zoophobia is the fear of animals.

Parker Brothers was founded by George Swinnerton Parker, 18, in 1885. The first game produced was 'Banking,' in which the player who amasses the most wealth is the winner.

In Idaho, you may not fish on a camel's back.

Skylab, the first American space station, fell to the earth in thousands of pieces in 1979. Thankfully most of it fell over the ocean.

In many cases, the amount of storage space on a recordable CD is measured in minutes. 74 minutes is about 650 megabytes, 63 minutes is 550 megabytes.

Every Alaskan citizen over the age of 6 months receives an oil dividend check of about $1000 per year.

Donald Duck's sister is called Dumbell.

China has 100 million Internet users, second to the US's 135 million users.

All apples contain a varying amount of the organic acids, malic acid and gallic acid, and an abundance of salts of both potash and soda, as well as salts of lime, magnesium and iron.

A group of finches is called a Char.

Originally, Jack-O-Lanterns were made from turnips.

Dental caries, also described as "tooth decay" or "dental cavities", is an infectious disease which damages the structures of teeth.

Steven Spielberg calls Gwyneth Paltrow "Swyiwie the Pooh".

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Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia is the fear of the number 666.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

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

Liberace Museum has a mirror-plated Rolls Royce; jewel-encrusted capes, and the largest rhinestone in the world, weighing 59 pounds and almost a foot in diameter.

Every US president has worn glasses (just not always in public).

28% of Africa is classified as wilderness. In North America, it's 38%.

Contrary to popular belief, the first ironclad warships were built by Korea in the 16th century.

Car wash attendants in San Francisco, California may not use old pairs of underwear to wash or dry vehicles.

Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.

Only about 20% of harvested coffee beans are considered to be a premium bean of the highest quality.

In the U.S., for every dollar you spend on gasoline -27 cents of it is in taxes.

An average human drinks about 16, 000 gallons of water in a lifetime.

The most expensive item ever sold on eBay was a 405-foot, steel mega-yacht (marketed as a Gigayacht) auctioned by the Fort. Lauderdale. The yacht was offered up for auction on eBay November 3rd, 2006 with a buy now price of $85 million.

A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.

John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.

Virginia law states that it is illegal to have sex with the lights on.

A hedgehog's heart beats 190 times a minute on average and drops to only 20 beats per minute during hibernation.

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Goulash, a beef soup, originated in Hungary in the 9th century AD.

Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.

Neptune's weather is characterized by extremely dynamic storm systems, with winds reaching speeds of almost 600 m/sonearly attaining supersonic flow.

Muhammad Ali won his heavyweight championships on three continents: North America, Asia, and Africa.

Beethoven used to pour cold water over his head to stimulate his brain before sitting down to compose.

Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.

Melanophobia is the fear of the color black.

In the latter part of the 18th century, Prussian surgeons treated stutterers by snipping off portions of their tongues.

A moth has no stomach.

Each year, about 250,000 children and adults are diagnosed with a form of leukemia; this is about 2.5% of all persons diagnosed with cancer.

It is illegal to eat oranges while bathing in California.

Mars is also referred to as the 'Red Planet' because of its reddish appearance, due to iron oxide prevalent on its surface.

4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.

In space, astronauts are unable to cry, because there is no gravity and the tears won't flow.

In a year, the average person walks four miles to make his or her bed.

In 1992, the best selling American-produced car in Japan was the Honda Accord. It was built in Ohio and exported to Japan.

Rhytiphobia is the fear of getting wrinkles.

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According to the United States department of Agriculture, the best time to spray household insects is 4:00 p.m. Insects are most vulnerable at this time.

Minnows have teeth in their throat.

Ralph Lauren's original name was Ralph Lifshitz.

Banana oil isn't made from bananas; it's made from petroleum.

Rhinoplasty, or "nose job", is a cosmetic surgical procedure performed to improve the appearance of a human nose.

A bathometer is an instrument for indicating the depth of the sea beneath a moving vessel.

Houseflies hum in the middle octave key of F.

Frank Baum named Oz after a file cabinet in his office. One cabinet was labeled A to N, and the second was labeled 0 to Z.

The Saguaro Cactus, found in Southwestern United States does NOT grow branches until it is 75 years old.

C3P0 is the first character to speak in Star Wars.

15 million gallons of wine were destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

John F. Kennedy's rocking chair was auctioned off for $442,000.

US President Bill Clinton watched John Glennis return to space from the Kennedy Space Center, making him the first (and only) US President to attend a Shuttle launch.

The Egyptian 'Ankh' is actually a symbol representing the male and female sex organs.

It's illegal to have sex without a condom in Nevada.

Approx. 25,200 umbrellas are lost each year on the London transit system.

The US has about 9 billion chickens. China has more than 13 billion.

Polar bears have black skin. Their fur is actually clear, but like snow it appears white.

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In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

It is unlawful for small boys to throw stones, at any time, at any place in the District of Columbia.

The 2 most common surgeries are biopsies and cesarean sections.

Ichthyophobia is the fear of fish.

Business.com one of the most expensive domain names (sold for $7.5 million).

A killer whale's heart beats 30 times a minute underwater, 60 times a minute on the surface.

The United States consumes more oil than any other country in the World. In 2001, the US consumed as much as the entire European Union and Japan.

Man is the only animal that cries.

Obama owns a set of red boxing gloves autographed by Muhammad Ali.

Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.

Otolaryngology is the branch of medicine that specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of ear, nose, and throat disorders.

In Texas, it's illegal to put graffiti on someone else's cow.

Roger Bannister of Great Britain was the first man to run a mile in under four minutes. On May 6, 1954, be ran the mile in 3 minutes 59.4 seconds.

A Koala Bear sleeps for 22 hours every day.

Redheads require more anesthesia to 'go under' than other hair colors do.

Happy Birthday was the first song to be performed in outer space, sung by the Apollo IX astronauts on March 8, 1969.

On average, half of all false teeth have some form of radioactivity.

A new born blue whale measures 20-26 feet (6.0-7.9 meters) long and weighs up to 6,614 pounds (3003 kg).

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The five major moons of the planet Uranus are: Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania and Oberon.

A deltiologist is someone who collects postcards.

Bats are the only mammals that are able to fly.

A poll of 3,000 Americans found that for 41 percent, the thing they're most afraid of is speaking before a group of people. 32 percent stated they were afraid of heights.

Coprastasophobia is the fear of constipations.

The Japanese liquor. Mam, uses venomous snakes as one of its main ingredients.

If you weighed 100 lbs on Earth you would weigh 110 lbs on Neptune.

Many people think that the clock in the Houses of Parliament is called 'Big Ben.' Actually, the nickname 'Big Ben' originally applied to the huge bell in the clock, not to the clock itself.

In German, "eins" and "acht" are the only numbers with their letters in alphabetical order.

29% of people admit they've intentionally stolen something from a store.

Each cubic millimeter of the human cerebral cortex contains roughly 1 billion synapses.

Ombrophobia is the fear of rain or of being rained on.

Danishes are called Vienna cakes in Denmark, and Spanish rice is unknown in Spain.

Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living.

Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.

It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the Finnish word Saippuakivikauppias (a soapstone seller) is the longest known palindrome in any language.

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About half of all Americans are on a diet on any given day.

About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.

Stuttering is 4 to 6 times more common in boys than in girls.

Basketball was invented in 1891 by James Naismith. He set out to invent a game to occupy students between the football and baseball seasons.

Stygiophobia is the fear of hell.

Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

Composed primarily of silicate rock and iron, Jupiter's moon Io is closer in bulk composition to the terrestrial planets than to other satellites in the outer solar system.

More than 75% of the known elements have the characteristic properties of metals.

In ancient times, any Japanese who tried to leave his homeland was put to death.

A snail can sleep for three years.

In Breton, AL, there is a law against riding down the street in a motorboat.

A group of whales is called a pod.

Flea's can jump 130 times higher than their own height. In human terms this is equal to a 6ft. person jumping 780 ft. into the air.

Suicide is the 11th most common cause of death in the U.S.

Coffee is the most popular beverage worldwide with over 400 billion cups consumed each year.

In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, it is illegal to have sex with a truck driver inside a toll booth.

The "L.L." in L.L. Bean stands for Leon Leonwood.

On average, when asked for a color, 3 out of 5 people will say red.

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2/3 of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.

In an authentic Chinese meal, the last course is soup, because it allows the roast duck entree to swim toward digestion.

Beer has a bitter taste and slightly pungent aroma because of Lupulin, a substance found in hops.

Police dogs are trained to react to commands in a foreign language; commonly German but more recently Hungarian.

Children who are breast fed tend to have an IQ seven points higher than children who are not.

Sweden has more telephones per capita than any country on earth.

99% of people cannot lick their elbow.

The US Army has a 50 caliber sniper rifle that can shoot through the engine block of a car.

Lightning bolts can sometimes be hotter than the sun.

The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.

Babies crawl an average of 200m a day.

A large swarm of desert locusts (Schistocerca gregaria) can consume 20,000 tons of vegetation a day.

In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.

An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.

Head injury refers to trauma to the head. This may or may not include injury to the brain.

In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.

If you are Hedenophobic, you have a fear of pleasure.

Flushable toilets were in use in ancient Rome.

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One American of every 16 will have one of the Top 12 most common last names.

If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, the New Hampshire town hall, you are entitled to receive $10 from the town.

The planet Mercury orbits the Sun every 88 Earth days.

In the 1800s, the Chinese believed, that strangling a man was less severe a punishment than beheading, because the body would not be permanently disfigured.

Obama worked in a Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop as a teenager and now can't stand ice cream.

A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for approximately sixty-nine years.

It's illegal to have sex with a corpse anywhere in the United States.

The first flight of the Space Shuttle was on April 12th, 1981.

It takes 35 to 65 minks to produce the average mink coat. The numbers for other types of fur coats are: beaver 15; fox 15 to 25; ermine 150; chinchilla 60 to 100.

Xenophobia is the fear of strangers or foreigners.

Almonds are the oldest, most widely cultivated and extensively used nuts in the world.

Pound for Pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.

In Nebraska, it is illegal for bar owners to sell beer unless they are simultaneously brewing a kettle of soup.

Only continent without reptiles or snakes is Antarctica.

The 5 most fiber-rich plant foods are legumes (beans, lentils and peas), wheat bran, prunes, Asian pear, and quinoa.

McDonald's fries are made with beef flavoring.

Local calls, using a coin-operated phone in the U.S. cost only 5 cents everywhere until 1951.

In Cleveland, Ohio, it is illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.

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A microwaved baseball will fly farther than a frozen baseball.

The Boston University Bridge is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.

Female canaries cannot sing.

If you're over 100 years old, there's an 80% chance you're a woman.

Sumerians (from 5000 BC) thought that the liver made blood and the heart was the center of thought.

Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38.

The Beatles song "Dear Prudence" was written about Mia Farrow's sister. Prudence, when she wouldn't come out and play with Mia and the Beatles at a religious retreat in India.

Greyhounds have the best eyesight of any breed of dog.

Parker Brothers prints about 50 billion dollars worth of Monopoly money in one year.

Hydrargyophobia is the fear of mercurial medicines.

In 1789, Morocco became the first country to recognize the United States.

While on the campaign trail Obama refused to watch CNN and had sports channels on instead.

In the Philippine jungle, the yo-yo was first used as a weapon.

A Russian man who wore a beard during the time of Peter the Great had to pay a special tax.

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

All clams start out as males; some decide to become females at some point in their lives.

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

Carnophobia is the fear of meat.

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Hawaii officially became apart of the US on June 14, 1900.

A mole can dig a hole 300 feet deep in one night.

Depression can be treated in various ways. Counseling, psychotherapy, and/or antidepressant medicines are all used.

"Canada" is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".

Snakes are true carnivorous because they eat nothing but other animals. They do not eat any type of plant material.

In North Andover, Massachusetts, citizens are prohibited from carrying "space guns".

The Los Angeles Rams were the first U.S. football team to introduce emblems on their helmets.

More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby.

Nobody is quite sure how big Pluto is, what kind of atmosphere it has, or what it is made of.

Beavers can swim half a mile underwater on one gulp of air.

By law, in Bourbon, Miss., one small onion must be served with each glass of water in a restaurant.

John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son.

Pollen can travel up to 500 miles in a day.

Neptune has a planetary ring system, though one much less substantial than that of Saturn.

Hair on your head grows at 10 -13mm per month.

Males sweat 40% more than females.

In terms of area, Juneau, Alaska, is the largest city in the United States, yet it can only be reached by boat or a plane.

A honey bee must tap two million flowers to make one pound of honey.

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In 1845 Boston had an ordinance banning bathing unless you had a doctor's prescription.

A healthy (non-colorblind) human eye can distinguish between 500 shades of gray.

Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 lives that they save.

The US has used military force a number of times, but has only actually declared war 5 times (the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Spanish-American War, World War I and World War II)

Texas was one of the first states to adopt capital punishment by lethal injection (in 1977).

In India, Pajamas are accepted as standard daytime wearing apparel. donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

Just 20 seconds worth of fuel, remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon.

Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.

In literature, the average length of a sentence is around 35 words.

If your stomach didn't produce a new layer of mucous every two weeks, it would digest itself.

28.1% of people pee in the pool.

Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.

Europa is the 2nd innermost of the 4 Galilean moons of the planet Jupiter and has a diameter of 3,100 km or 1,900 miles.

Anginophobia is the fear of chest pain.

Reno, Nevada, is actually west of Los Angeles, California.

Postpartum depression can make you feel very sad, hopeless, and worthless. You may have trouble caring for and bonding with your baby.

Julius Caesar's autograph is worth about $2,000,000.

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Ceraunophobia is the fear of thunder and lightning.

Every day, the average person swallows about a quart of mucous.

A man once sued his doctor because he survived his cancer longer than the doctor predicted.

On average, women say 7,000 words per day. Men manage just over 2,000.

A marine catfish can taste with any part of its body.

Peanuts are salted in the shell by boiling them in a heavily salted solution, then allowing them to dry.

According to Bristol zoo, the Howler monkey's growl is so loud it can be heard 5km (3.3 miles) away.

One million $1 bills weighs 1 ton.

Only female mosquitoes bite. Females need the protein from blood to produce their eggs. Males only drink water and plant juice.

The planet Jupiter, orbits the Sun at approximately 778,300,000km or 483,600,000 miles.

If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total is 5050.

15 percent of Americans secretly bite their toes.

In its ancient form, the carrot was purple, not orange.

Prozac has been approved by the FDA for the treatment of major depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, bulimia nervosa and panic disorder.

Some people have more bones in their feet than others.

Approximately 40,000 tons of meteoric dust hits the Earth each year.

Amathophobia is the fear of dust.

In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch or clock is usually 10:10.

It takes a drop of ocean water more than 1,000 years to circulate around the world.

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Seaweed can grow up to 12 inches per day.

Napoleon Bonaparte is the historical figure most often portrayed in movies. He has been featured in 194 movies, Jesus Christ in 152, and Abraham Lincoln in 137.

A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.

Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.

It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.

It takes five minutes to execute someone in a gas chamber.

The largest of the satellites of Uranus, Titania, has a radius of only 788.9 km, or less than half, that of the Moon.

Heterophobia is the fear of opposite sex.

It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.

Half of all Americans over the age of 55 have no teeth.

The Baikonur Cosmodrome achieved the first launch of a human into space (Yuri Gagarin) in 1961.

In America you will see an average of 500 advertisements a day.

Coffee, along with beer and peanut butter, is on the national list of the ten most recognizable odors.

Panophobia is the fear of everything.

Butterflies cannot fly if their body temperature is less than 86 degrees.

The New General Catalogue (NGC) is a well-known catalogue of deep sky objects in astronomy. It contains 7,840 objects, known as the NGC objects.

Honey is used sometimes for antifreeze mixtures and in the center of golf balls.

Baskin Robbins once made ketchup ice cream.

Raindrops aren't actually tear-drop shaped. They are rounded at the top and pointed on the bottom.

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Catnip can affect lions and tigers as well as house cats. It excites them because it contains a chemical that resembles an excretion of the dominant female's urine.

Google's name is a play on the word googol, which refers to the number 1 followed by one hundred zeroes.

Ferrets sleep around 20 hours a day.

A perfect game in baseball is one in which the same player pitches the entire game without allowing any player of the opposing team to reach first base, by any means.

Jumbo jets use 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.

The 1st Academy Awards ceremony to be telecast was the 25th, in 1953.

Brazil is the only country to have played in every World Cup soccer tournament.

Rhabdophobia is the fear of being punished.

Jupiter, the fifth planet from the sun, is the largest planet in the solar system, twice as big as all the other planets combined.

Florida has more tornadoes per square mile than any other state.

The first NASA astronauts were selected in 1959.

Of Chief Executives, only Benjamin Harrison was the grandson of a President.

A toddler's first word most often occurs around 12 months of age.

An ounce of platinum can be stretched 10,000 feet.

In April 1964, The Beatles had the top five songs in the United States. This is the only time that the top five songs at any one time were by the same group.

Pogonophobia is the fear of beards.

It takes a lobster approximately seven years to grow to be one pound.

Hypengyophobia is the fear of responsibilities.

More bullets were fired in "Starship Troopers' than in any other movie ever made.

In Yemen, prostitution is illegal. Women convicted are publicly beheaded.

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If the gross for "Gone With the Wind" were to be adjusted to allow for inflation in the period since its release, it would be regarded as the most successful film ever.

2009 was the International Year of Astronomy.

Apples float because 25 percent of their volume is air.

Dark roasted coffees actually have LESS caffeine than medium roasts. The longer a coffee is roasted, the more caffeine burns off during the process.

In the next seven days, 800 Americans will be injured by their jewelry.

"Sheep" is the longest one syllable word in the English language.

Michael Jackson described his own voice on early Jackson 5 records as “like Minnie Mouse”.

No words in the English language rhyme with orange, silver or purple.

In Nevada it is illegal to ride a camel on the highway.

5%-10% of Star Trek fans may be addicted to the show and suffer withdrawal symptoms if they miss an episode.

Lucy and Linus (who where brother and sister) had another little brother named Rerun. (He sometimes played left-field on Charlie Brown's baseball team, (when he could find it).

Barbara Bush's book about her English Springer Spaniel, Millie's book, was on the bestseller list for 29 weeks. Millie was the most popular First Dog in history.

Autodysomophobia is the fear of someone who has a bad odor.

A recent study at Harvard has shown that eating chocolate can actually help you live longer.

On the new hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.

Enochlophobia is the fear of crowds.

The Aztecs of Mexico roasted and ground up the cacao bean, mixed it with water, added peppers and other spices, stirred it up to a froth and drank the pungent mixture they called chocolate.

http://www.TheArtOfPamela.com (Please, support my creativity!) The Earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.

Immunization works by helping your immune system recognize and quickly attack diseases before they can cause problems.

It takes a person 15 to 20 minutes to walk once around the Pentagon.

The Wizard of Oz was a Broadway musical 37 years before the MGM movie version was made. It had 293 performances and then went on a tour that lasted for 9 years.

Scoleciphobia is the fear of worms.

Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable.

Saudi Arabia covers an area of 830,000 sq. miles, yet there is not a single river in the whole country.

A mosquito will become restless and start flying around if there is an increase of carbon dioxide in the surrounding air.

The FDA allows an average of 30 or more insect fragments and one or more rodent hairs per 100 grams of peanut butter.

Every hour one billion cells in the body must be replaced.

An extrasolar planet, or exoplanet, is a planet beyond our Solar System, orbiting a star other than our Sun.

Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.

In 2006, the rate of U.S. births by Caesarean section was 31.1%, the highest it has ever been.

The 'Big Dipper' is known as 'The Casserole' in France.

Radium is over one million times more radioactive than the same mass of uranium.

A diet - high in fat -is said to impede memory.

Heavy drinking is lower in the African American community than the Caucasian or Hispanic communities.

Life on Earth dates back 3.8 billion years.

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About 200,000.000 M&Ms are sold each day in the United States.

On average, everyone farts once per hour.

Doctors diagnose colic when a healthy baby cries harder than expected more than 3 hours a day, at least 3 days a week, for at least 3 weeks in a row.

Approximately one out of four injuries by athletes involves a wrist.

Linen can absorb up to 20 times its weight in moisture before it feels damp.

In Greek mythology, Capricorn represents the goat that suckled the infant Zeus after his mother Rhea saved him from being devoured by his father Cronos.

In 1789, the total U.S. federal government debt was $190,000.

Our galaxy has approximately 250 billion stars.

A pulmonary embolism is a sudden blockage in a lung artery.

American chocolate manufacturers use about 15 billion pounds of milk -only surpassed by the cheese and ice cream industries.

None of the Beatles knew how to read music. (Paul McCartney eventually taught himself).

Male monkeys lose the hair on their heads in the same way men do.

Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.

Armadillos can be house broken.

Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger bought the first Hummer manufactured for civilian use in 1992. The vehicle weighed in at 6,300 lbs and was 7 feet wide.

Bees and dogs can sense fear.

In Colombia, an individual can be fined up to $90,000 for gossiping.

Herschel is a huge crater on the Saturnian moon Mimas. It is named after the eighteenth century astronomer William Herschel, who discovered Mimas in 1789.

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The World Health Organization estimates that 1 in 3 newborn infant deaths are due to pneumonia.

Baseball is the only sport that looks backwards in a mirror.

Non-dairy creamer is flammable.

In Kentucky, you need a license to walk around nude on your property.

Brazil accounts for almost 1/3 of the world's coffee production, producing over US $3.4 Billion worth of coffee each year.

The half-life of methamphetamine is 9-15 hours.

If the earth were to become totally flat and the oceans distributed themselves evenly over the planet's surface, the water would be approximately two miles deep at every point.

The Volkswagen was originally called the Strength through Joy Wagon.

Merinthophobia is the fear of being tied up.

Voyager 1 is a 733 kilogram probe launched September 5, 1977. It is currently still operational, making it the longest-lasting mission of NASA.

Humans are the only animals that use a smile as an emotional response.

The University of Alaska stretches over 4 time zones.

Meniere's disease is a disorder of the inner ear that affects hearing and balance.

Children laugh about 400 times a day, while adults laugh on average only 15 times a day.

Antarctica has only one ATM machine.

Bibliomancy is the practice by some people of opening the Bible at random and being guided for the day by whatever verse they see first.

In Albany, New York, you cannot play golf in the streets.

Milk is heavier than cream.

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People with social anxiety disorder (or social phobia) are extremely anxious about what they will say or do in front of other people.

7-11 sells 10,000 pots of coffee an hour, every hour, every day.

Bart Simpson's voice on the Simpsons is actually done by a woman, Nancy Cartwright.

Taurophobia is the fear of bulls.

In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.

The diameter of the planet Mars is 6,794km or 4,222 miles.

What can I do to calm my aching tongue after eating a spiced food? Eat bread. The bread will absorb the oily spices. A second solution is to drink milk. Milk contains a substance called "casein" which will bind to the spices and carry them away. Alcohol also dissolves oily spices.

In many countries, urine was used as a detergent for washing. eBay averages more than 1 billion page views per day.

An egg will float if placed in water in which sugar has been added.

A Space Shuttle and its boosters ready for launch, are the same height as the Statue of Liberty but weigh/almost three times as much.

A bibliophile is a collector of rare books. A bibliopole is a seller of rare books.

5,200,000 pounds of pickles are consumed each day by Americans.

Lenin's real name was Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov.

Chinese Constellations are different from the Western constellations, due to the independent development of ancient Chinese astronomy, although there are also some similarities.

'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.

Louisa Adams, wife of John Quincy Adams, was the first and only foreign-born first lady.

Psychrophobia is the fear of cold.

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Obama favourite book is Moby-Dick by Herman Melville.

The most visible meteor shower in most years is the Perseids, which peak on August 12th of each year at over 1 meteor a minute.

Females learn to talk earlier, use sentences earlier, and learn to read more quickly than males.

Household bleach is the recommended chemical to decontaminate people exposed to the anthrax virus.

In Utah, birds have the right of way on all highways.

Hippopotamuses actually sweat blood. Their skin contains a great amount of an oily substance that exudes from the pores, and when the beast perspires a little blood gets mixed in.

Most digital alarm clocks ring in the key of B flat.

A pack-a-day smoker will lose approx.2 teeth every 10 years.

Vitiligo is a condition in which white patches develop on the skin. It is caused by a loss of pigment in the skin.

Most dust particles in your house come from dead skin.

Annually, approximately 46 million Cokes, five million pounds of French fries, and seven million hamburgers are consumed at Walt Disney World Resort.

Skylab was the only space station NASA launched alone.

A sperm whale produces 60 liters of sperm and has a 12ft penis.

The Roman Catholic Church did not acknowledge that the earth revolves around the sun until the mid 1990's.

According to the Population Council, people overwhelmingly tend to marry partners who live near them.

Nearly 91% of all senior citizens rely on prescription drugs on a regular basis.

St. Bernard dogs do not carry kegs of brandy, and never have.

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Gamophobia is the fear of marriage.

The macula, near the center of the retina, provides the sharp, detailed, central vision a person uses for focusing on what is directly in the line of sight.

How does a shark find fish? It can hear their hearts beating.

Iguanas have two penises.

Google translates billions of HTML web pages into a display format for WAP and i-mode phones and wireless handheld devices.

Hummingbirds can't walk.

Albert Einstein never wore any socks.

Australia's box jellyfish has toxins more potent than the venom in cobras, and is one of the most dangerous jellyfish in the world.

According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, two out of five women in America dye their hair.

A woodchuck only breathes 10 times during hibernation.

Franklin D. Roosevelt's 3 favorite foods: frog legs, pig knuckles, and scrambled eggs.

Theatrophobia is the fear of theatres.

A dog's average body temperature is 101 degrees Fahrenheit.

Harvard University's original name was Cambridge. It only changed when John Harvard donated 400 books to the school.

Daniel Boone hated coonskin caps.

Feb 1865 and Feb 1999 are the only months in recorded history not to have a full moon.

It took 20,000 men 22 years to build the Taj Mahal.

Obama and Michelle made $4.2 million last year, with much coming from sales of his books.

Mr. Snuffleupagus' first name was Aloysius.

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Ketchup actually began in Thailand. There it was labeled Kachiap.

Duddley DoRight's Horses name was "Horse".

Usually shoulder problems are treated with RICE. This stands for Rest, Ice, Compression and Elevation.

97% of all paper money in the US contains traces of cocaine.

In 1960, the ratio of the average Fortune 500 CEO's pay to the US president's salary was 2-to-l. Today, this ratio is around 30-to-l.

A duck has three eyelids.

Pearl Jam's first album, 10, was named in tribute of basketball player Mookie Blaylock who’s number is 10.

A pig always sleeps on its right side.

In America, approximately 25% of kids aged 6-14 have a magazine subscription.

Linen is actually stronger when wet.

It would take 11 Empire State Buildings, stacked one on top of the other, to measure the Gulf of Mexico at its deepest point.

In 1940, more than three-fourths of those age 25 and older in the US had not graduated from high school. In 2004, only 15% of those 25 and older did not have a high-school degree.

More than half the population of Kenya is under the age of 15.

Alektorophobia is the fear of chickens.

About 4.4 billion years ago, an object about the size of Mars crashed into the Earth, blowing off enough material to form a companion sphere -the Moon.

Julius Caesar and Napoleon Bonaparte both suffered from epilepsy.

In 1976 an LA secretary named Jannene Swift officially married a 50 pound rock in a ceremony witnessed by more than 20 people.

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The usual resting pulse for an adult is 60-100 beats per minute.

If you divide the Great Pyramid's perimeter by two times it's height, you get pi to the fifteenth digit.

In 1977, George Willig was fined $1.10 for climbing the World Trade Center building.

A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

On August 27, 2003, at 9:51:13 UT, Mars made its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years at 55,758,006km.

Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Elementary, my dear Watson".

The planet Neptune is smaller in diameter than the planet Uranus, but larger in mass.

Isaac Newton used to be a member of parliament.

Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.

Safe sex practices became more prominent in the late 1980s as a result of the AIDS epidemic.

Both alcohol and caffeine are dehydrating, which can leave your skin looking dull and worsen the appearance of fine lines.

Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water.

A dog's mucus membrane is the size of fifty postage stamps.

A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.

Abraham Lincoln was the only U.S. president to hold a patent. It was for an invention to buoy boats over shallow rivers.

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

Abraham Lincoln faces to the right on a penny while all the other presidents face to the left on US coins.

More people have a phobia of frogs than rats.

30% of people asked to participate in an opinion poll refuse.

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A pig's penis is shaped like a corkscrew.

Louisiana is the only state that grows in land area every year (Due to alluvial deposits from the Mississippi River).

Although identified with Scotland, bagpipes are actually a very ancient instrument, introduced into the British Isles by the Romans.

It is normal to pass gas from 6 to 20 times a day.

Most honey bees die after stinging people as our skin is elastic, unsuitable for their stingers which are meant for harder inelastic skins. Their venom glands are also torn out in the process.

The United States spends more money on its military than the next 13 countries on the list combined.

A honeybee can fly at fifteen miles per hour.

Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State Anthem, South Carolina on My Mind.

Airbags are deployed at a rate of two-hundred miles per hour.

Space Shuttle Discovery was the first shuttle to fly after both the Challenger and Columbia disasters in 1988 and 2003, respectively.

A red-haired man is more likely to go bald than anyone else.

American and Russian space flights have always included chocolate.

Hippophobia is the fear of horses.

Newborn circumcision is not usually medically necessary, and the decision whether to have it done is based on the personal preference of the parents.

In 1860, 'Godey's lady's Book' advised US women to cook tomatoes for at least 3 hours.

The first cheerleaders in the U.S. were men.

In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter".

Aeronausiphobia is the fear of nausea due to airsickness.

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Before 1850, golf balls were made of leather and were stuffed with feathers.

Human jaw muscles can generate a force of 200 pounds (90.8 kilograms) on the molars.

In 1969, the last Chevrolet Corvair was painted gold.

A male baboon can kill a leopard.

Hematuria (blood in urine) can be a sign that there is a kidney stone or a tumor in the urinary tract, ranging from trivial to lethal.

Ducks will only lay eggs early in the morning.

In honor of Johan Vaaler, inventor of the paper clip, a proportional 221/2 paper clip was erected in Oslo, Norway.

Audrey Hepburn's real name was Edda van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston.

In Arkansas it is illegal to buy or sell blue light bulbs.

Milk is actually considered to be a food and not a beverage.

Philemaphobia is the fear of kissing.

The Moon is the only celestial body to which humans have traveled and upon which humans have performed a manned landing.

Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters "MT".

Duffel bags are named after a town of Duffel, Belgium, where they were first made.

A "Quidnunc" is a person who is eager to know the latest news and gossip.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

The Wild Turkey is the only bird with a beard.

When women reach menopause and the estrogen produced by ovaries declines, fat migrates from their buttocks, hips and thighs to their waists.

Callisto orbits the planet Jupiter every 16.69 Earth days.

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Barbers are forbidden by law from shaving a man's chest in Omaha, Nebraska.

Human birth control pills work on gorillas.

The famous Casanova (Giacomo Casanova) was a librarian for many years before he died.

Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as any other color.

Seven out of ten people kiss with their nose to the right.

4 tablespoons of ketchup have about the same amount of nutrition as a ripe tomato.

A bowling pin only needs to tilt 7.5 degrees to fall.

Fog and a cloud are the same thing, only at different altitudes. Fog is simply a cloud lying on the earth, while clouds are fog floating in the sky.

Spectrophobia is the fear of ghosts.

Senegalese women spend an average of 17.5 hours a week just collecting water.

China's Beijing Duck Restaurant can seat 9,000 people at one time.

Ancient Egyptians believed that “Bast” ( A.k.a. BASTET) was the mother of all cats on Earth. They also believed that cats were sacred animals.

The common name for Pantothenic Acid is Vitamin B5.

A rubber tire is actually one single giant molecule.

Liquid water cannot exist in the surface of Mars with its present low atmospheric pressure, “except” at the lowest elevations for short periods.

Xyrophobia is the fear of razors.

In the United States, bacteria in foods cause 6.5 million to 33 million cases of human illness and 9,000 deaths annually.

Honeybees have hair on their eyes.

Michael Jackson has waxworks in five Madame Tussauds museums across the world. Only Elvis Presley and Madonna have more.

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More people are afraid of open spaces (Kenophobia) than of tight spaces (Claustrophobia).

It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas.

Liquid nitrogen is cold enough to cause severe frostbite upon contact with living tissue.

The A&W of root beer fame stands for Allen and Wright.

Neil Young mentions Barack Obama in the lyric to his 2006 song “Lookin’ for a Leader.”

Apollo 8 was the first manned launch of a Saturn V rocket on 21st December 1968.

1/3 of Taiwanese funeral processions include a stripper.

In 1976, the first eight Jelly Belly regular flavors were launched: Orange, Green Apple, Root Beer, Very Cherry, Lemon, Cream Soda, Grape, and Licorice.

Food can only be tasted if it is mixed with saliva.

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, named in the Bible's Book of Revelation, are Conquest, Slaughter, Famine, and Death.

A queen bee uses her stinger only to sting another queen bee.

St. Stephen is the patron saint of bricklayers.

An eagle can attack, kill, and carry away an animal as large as a small deer.

43.7% of all statistics are made up right on the spot.

Although construction of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Strasbourg started in 1015, it was not until 1439 that the spire was completed.

In Albania nodding the head means no and shaking the head means yes.

A baby Eel is called an Elver, a baby oyster is called a Spat.

Addiction is a strong mental and physical dependence on, most commonly, a drug or other substance.

The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.

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Roosters can't crow if they can't fully extend their necks.

Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.

The Dutch acquired Surinam in exchange for Manhattan Island in 1667.

Pi has been calculated to over 2,260,321,363 digits.

Dumbest dog: Afghan Hound.

Priest inhabited place on earth: Aswan, Egypt, which receives .02 inches of rain per year.

Half of all crimes are committed by people under the age of 18. 80% of burglaries are committed by people aged 13-21.

Kelsey Grammar sings and plays the piano for the theme song of Fraiser.

One in three male motorists picks their nose while driving.

St. Paul, Minnesota, was originally called Pigs Eye after a man who ran a saloon there.

Drivers kill more deer than hunters.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

There are 1440 minutes in every day. Schedule 30 of them for physical activity.

Moses Malone was the first basketball player to go directly from high school to a professional American team.

Ligyrophobia is the fear of loud noises.

Scarecrows frighten birds because of the human odor emitted from the clothes they wear. Come rain and wind, this odor disappears.

According to U.S. laws, a beer commercial can never show a person actually drinking beer.

A snail can actually glide over the sharp edge of a knife or a razor without harming itself. This has something to do with the mucus it produces.

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Pearls melt in vinegar.

The Beatles were depicted in wax at Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in London, in 1964, the first pop album stars to be honored.

Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.

There are five years in a quinquennium.

A mother in Sydney, Australia, gave birth to twins 56 days apart, one was born in 17th December 1952 and the other on 10th February'1953.

North America was called Turtle Island by the Delaware Indians.

Every second over 7,000 Coca-Cola products are consumed.

Other than Pearl Harbor, Alaska was the only state to be bombed by the Japanese during World War II.

Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

Frogs cannot swallow without blinking.

Obama once said the three men he admired the most were Mahatma Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Causes for vertigo include nerve, blood flow, or inner ear problems.

The Beatles' 1st song to hit the UK charts was "From Me to You" in June, 1963.

1/3 of all Americans flush the toilet while still on it.

Even though they broke up 25 years ago, the Beatles continue to sell more records each year than the Rolling Stones.

Antarctica is the only continent without any reptiles or snakes.

Galileo became totally blind shortly before his death.

The average surface temperature on the planet Uranus is -211 degrees centigrade.

Persia changed its name to Iran in 1935.

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Every single hamster in the U.S. today comes from a single litter captured in Syria in 1930.

In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

In what country will you find the most Universities? India.

Every vehicle, produced by General Motors in the United States, includes about $1,500 in health -care costs -typically more than the value of the steel contained in the vehicle.

Tocophobia is the fear of pregnancy or childbirth.

Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.

Honey is the only food that will not spoil.

Michael Jackson was a big fan of The Three Stooges.

The Soviet Caucasus Mountain actually moved a mile in 1972. Heavy rains swelled an underground river and the whole mountain sailed away over the course of eight days.

Dragonflies can travel up to 60mph.

The Empire State Building in New York City weighs approximately 365,000 tons.

The California redwood coast redwood and giant sequoia are the tallest and largest living organisms in the world.

Penguins can convert salt water into fresh water.

An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.

Osteonecrosis occurs when your bones lose their blood supply. The bones die and eventually collapse, leading to pain and arthritis.

2 and 5 are the only prime numbers that end in 2 or 5.

In Arizona, you cannot drive past the same place more then 3 times in one hour. It's a law.

78% of cats never travel with their owner.

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Organized crime is estimated to account for 10% of the United States' national income.

97% of Canadians say they would not borrow a toothbrush if they forgot to pack their own.

Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain was born on and died on days when Halley's Comet can be seen. During his life he predicted that he would die when it could be seen.

Motorphobia is the fear of automobiles.

Adult Northwestern American Grizzly Bears can bite through steel as thick as one half inch.

Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.

Cats have 5 pads on their front feet, four on their back feet.

According to Gaming Law, Casinos have to stock enough cash to cover all the chips on the 'floor'.

Beavers can hold their breath for 45 minutes.

More than half of women in the United States will not leave their home without makeup on.

Bunny rabbits poop almost every time they hop around in a newly-explored area.

Cnidophobia is the fear of stings.

In Alderson, West Virginia, it is illegal to walk a lion, tiger or leopard in the city limits, even it is on a leash.

48% of astronauts experience motion sickness.

Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.

Sheep outnumber humans in New Zealand 15 to 1.

It took Leo Tolstoy six years to write "War & Peace".

Ben Franklin invented crop insurance.

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Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.

Bacillophobia is the fear of microbes.

Skin is composed of 3 primary layers: the epidermis, the dermis, and the hypodermis. eBay users worldwide trade more than $1,839 worth of goods on the site every second.

Snakephobia is the fear of snakes.

Harrison Ford is the only actor, whose ten highest grossing movies have each earned at least $200 million.

Basketball great Wilt Chamberlain never fouled out of a game.

Before 1941, fingerprints were not accepted as evidence in court.

A law in Helena, Montana, mandates that a woman can't dance on a table in a saloon or bar -unless - she has on at least three pounds, two ounces of clothing.

Only male fireflies can fly.

Due to their great distance from the Earth, all stars except the Sun appear to the human eye as shining points in the night sky.

Attics were invented in Attica.

The 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles was the first time the three-level winner's stand was used for the medal ceremony.

Most low back pain lasts less than 3 months.

Obama favourite films are Casablanca and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

In 1985, Pete Rose became the first professional athlete to appear on the front of a Wheaties box.

St. Teresa of Avila is the patron saint of chess-players.

Oak trees are struck by lightning more than any other tree.

More than 80% of breast cancer cases are discovered when the woman feels a lump.

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Every U.S. president with a beard has been a Republican.

As of 2009, the ISS is the largest artificial satellite in Earth orbit, larger than any previous space station.

76% of Americans celebrate New Year's Eve in groups of less than 20.

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

Malaysians protect their babies from disease by bathing them in beer.

The World Health Organization recommends that the rate of Caesarean sections should not exceed 15% in any country

A rainbow can only be seen in the morning or late afternoon.

Michael Jackson had two llamas called Louis and Lola.

Over 80% of professional boxers have suffered brain damage.

Sugar was first added to chewing gum in 1869. Ironically, a dentist named William Semple was behind the decision.

It takes up to four hours to hard boil an ostrich egg.

Q-Tip Cotton Swabs were originally called Baby Gays.

In Billings, Montana it is illegal for employees of the city's communications center to program their phones with speed dial.

An ant can survive for up to two days underwater.

Baseball's home plate is 17 inches wide.

Humming birds are the only birds that can fly backwards.

Adcomsubordcomphibspac is the longest acronym. It is a Navy term standing for Administrative Command, Amphibious Forces, and Pacific Fleet Subordinate Command.

Coffee beam can be mixed into B type blood, changing it into 0 type blood.

The United States has the highest minimum drinking age in the world.

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All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

Galileo is often referred to as the Father of Modern Astronomy.

An ounce of gold can be beaten up into a sheet covering 9.3 sq. meters, or drawn into 50 miles of wire.

In Spit Bergen, Norway, at one time of the year the sun shines continuously for three and a half months.

Singapore has only one train station.

Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) uses a large magnet and radio waves to look at organs and structures inside your body.

The world's northernmost capital is Reykjavik, Iceland.

Groaking is the art of watching people eating food, hoping they'll offer you some.

Bees kill more people a year than sharks do.

Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin spent 1 hour, 48 minutes in space on April 12th, 1961.

Michael Jackson has sold more than 300 million records worldwide.

Every man in Brainerd, Minnesota is required by law to grow a beard.

Oneirophobia is the fear of dreams.

Duracell, the battery-maker, built parts of its new international headquarters using materials from its own waste.

Lizards can self-amputate their tails for protection. It grows back after a few months.

The library of Congress has approx. 327 miles of bookshelves.

The abbreviation 'ORD' for Chicago's O'Hare airport comes from the old name 'Orchard Field'.

Oak trees can live 200 or more years.

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Rutherford Hayes became U.S. President by one vote.

Infants are born with a sucking reflex, by which they instinctively know to suck for nourishment using their lips and jaw.

Maggots will only eat flesh if it is dead. For this reason, they are often used to remove the burnt skin from severe burn patients.

Adolphe Sax invented the saxophone in 1846.

State sport of Maryland: Jousting.

The planet Saturn orbits the Sun at approximately 1,429,000,000km or 888,200,000 miles.

From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.

California's Frank Epperson invented the Popsicle in 1905 when he was 11 -years-old.

Ancient Egyptian priests would pluck every hair from their bodies.

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

Arnold Schonberg suffered from triskaidekaphobia, the fear of the number 13. He died 13 minutes from midnight on Friday the 13th.

It was illegal to sell E.T. dolls in France because there is a law against selling dolls without human faces.

Paralipophobia is the fear of neglecting duty or responsibility.

At the end of the Beatles' song A Pay in the Life, an ultrasonic whistle, audible only to dogs, was recorded by Paul McCartney for his Shetland sheepdog.

Michael Jackson favourite superhero is Morph from X-Men.

Armadillos can have up to four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.

If you chew a cabbage/lettuce leaf properly, you'll lose more energy than you'll gain from actually eating it.

Hard to believe: Apples are actually part of the rose family.

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Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry.

Pedals were added to the bicycle in 1839.

If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

Leukophobia is the fear of the color white.

In 1863, Paul Hubert of Bordeaux, France, was sentenced to life in jail for murder. After 21 years, it was discovered that he was convicted of murdering himself.

The Looney Tunes song is actually called The Merry-Go-Round Broke down.

A donkey will sink in quicksand, but a mule won't.

Contrary to popular belief, there are almost no Buddhists in India, nor have there been for about a thousand years.

In 1977, a 13-year-old kid found a tooth growing out of his left foot.

About 19% of left-handed people have their language areas in the right hemisphere.

Entomophobia is the fear of insects.

McDonald's and Burger King sugar-coat their fries so they will turn golden-brown.

'Party Party Day' occurs when the day equals the month. Oct. is the 10th month so Oct. 10 would be Party Party Day.

According to Hammurabi's Code, the penalty for medical malpractice was to cut off the doctor's hands.

It takes about 142.18 licks to reach the center of a tootsie pop.

Micahel Jackson regularly wore a black armband to remind people of children suffering around the world.

A sneeze can travel as fast as 100 miles per hour.

If you cut a V shape into your toe nails, you can prevent 'in-grown' toe nails.

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It's against the law to burp or sneeze in a church in Omaha, Nebraska.

Every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it.

According to U.S. FDA standards, 1 cup of orange juice is allowed to contain 10 fruit fly eggs, but only 2 maggots.

Drew Carey once worked at Penny's.

Prior to 1900, prize fights lasted up to 100 rounds.

Marijuana goes by many street names, including pot, weed, and herb. Hash, a concentrated resinous form of the drug, is short for hashish.

In Nepal, cow dung is used for medicinal purposes.

It takes about a week to make a jelly bean.

A hiccup is the spasmodic contraction of the diaphragm that repeats several times per minute; it is an involuntary action involving a reflex arc.

The ancient Egyptians trained baboons to wait on tables.

The "Spanish Flu" of 1911, which killed at least 50 million people world-wide, originated in Kansas, not Spain.

Ben Franklin is the only figure on a U.S. bill never to hold a political office.

27% of female lottery winners hid their winning ticket in their bras.

Only six baseball teams remain from the original National League, which was founded in 1876.

Just one in three consumers pays off his or her credit card bill every month.

Sea water is approximately 3.5 percent salt.

Harriet Beecher Stowe's - Uncle Tom's Cabin - was published March 20,1852. It was the first American novel to sell one million copies.

Hippos kill more people in Africa when compared to crocodiles.

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Acupuncture was first used as a medical treatment in 2700 BC by the Chinese emperor Shen-Nung.

Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.

Galileo Galilei was the first to observe the rings of the planet Saturn in 1610 using his telescope, but he was unable to identify them as such.

Iron deficiency is a common cause of thinning of the hair, though total baldness is not usually seen.

Nurses and doctors wash their hands between patients less than one-third of the time.

Every year, Alaska has about 5,000 earthquakes.

Avocados have more protein than any other fruit.

The Michelin man is known as Mr. Bib. His name was Bibendum in the company's first ads in 1896.

More than ten people a year are killed by vending machines.

The Bible has been translated into Klingon.

Dissociative identity disorder (once called multiple personality disorder) is a rare condition in which a person has 2 or more separate personalities.

A group of larks is called exaltation or ascension.

Imperium, Italy, is the home of the Agnesi Historical Museum of Spaghetti.

Alaska has the highest percentage of people who walk to work.

Lance Armstrong, an American cyclist, developed testicular cancer in 1996. Following treatment, he won the Tour de France several years running.

In Baltimore, it is illegal to mistreat oysters.

The only acceptable sexual position in Washington D.C. is the missionary style position. Anything other than face-to-face is illegal.

All the chemicals in a human body combined are worth about 6.25 Euro (if sold separately).

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Bees have five eyes.

Great Britain was the first county to issue postage stamps. Hence, the postage stamps of Britain are the only stamps in the world not to bear the name of the country of origin.

The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean.

A queen bee lays about 1,500 eggs on an average day.

Jupiter's moon Europa receives about 540 rem of radiation per day (500 rem over 3-4 days would kill a human).

Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate every second.

Bathophobia is the fear of depth.

It is now widely accepted that the center of every or at least nearly every galaxy contains a super massive black hole.

In 1659, it was illegal to celebrate Christmas in Massachusetts.

A woman's 1st menstruation is termed menarche, and occurs typically around age 12.

A jellyfish is 95 percent water.

Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

Michael Jackson was a vegetarian.

In ancient Greece, the custom of allowing a condemned man to end his own life by poison was extended only to full citizens. Condemned slaves were instead beaten to death.

Around 22% of Americans are teenagers.

A butterfly can look at you through 12,000 eyes.

The Pap smear test was invented by and named after the prominent Greek doctor, Dr. Georgios Papanicolaou.

Houdini was the first man to fly a plane solo in Australia.

Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.

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China has about $1 trillion in personal savings and a savings rate of close to 50%. The US has about $158 billion in personal savings and an average savings rate of only about 2%.

An Athens legislator named Solon passed a law in the 6th century that let fathers sell their fornicating daughters into slavery.

Didaskaleinophobia is the fear of going to school.

The United States has more airports than any other nation (there are over 14,800).

Austria was the first country to use postcards.

It would take twenty new mid-size cars to generate the same amount of pollution that a mid-size 1960's car did.

Mexico City is sinking at a rate of 18 inches per year.

According to some experts, there was no punctuation until the 15th century.

Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.

A penny dropped from the top of a skyscraper could not kill someone (but could cause injury).

Stannous fluoride, which is the cavity fighter found in toothpaste is made from recycled tin.

North Dakota is the only state in the US that has never had an earthquake.

The Bible was written by about 40 men over a period of about 1600 years dating from 1500 BC to about 100 years after Christ.

In the Andes, time is sometimes measured by how long it takes to chew a quid of coca leaf.

Beethoven, who was a coffee lover, was so particular about his coffee that he always counted 60 beans each cup when he prepared his brew.

Ochophobia is the fear of vehicles.

Swallowed gum is not digested by the gastrointestinal system, it usually passes through within 24 hours.

http://www.TheArtOfPamela.com (Please, support my creativity!) Americans use over 16,000 tons of aspirin a year.

Avocados have the highest calories count out of all fruits (167 calories per hundred grams).

India has a "Bill of Rights" for cows.

The total lung capacity, the volume of air contained in the lung at the end of maximal inspiration, is about 6 L for an average person.

An ant's sense of smell is as good as a Dog's.

It is predicted that Phobos, a moon of Mars will break up and form into a planetary ring in about 50 million years due to its low orbit.

The escape Velocity of Pluto is 4,570 km/h or 2,840 mph.

In 1949 UNICEF produced the first charity Christmas card. The picture shown on the card was painted by a seven year old girl.

The escape velocity of Venus is 37,300 km/h or 23,200 mph.

A poem, written to celebrate a wedding, is called an epithalamium.

Greece and Australia are the only countries to participate in all of the modern Olympics.

Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries because Colgate translates as, "Go hang yourself".

Staurophobia is the fear of the crucifix.

The Europeans first added chocolate to their coffee in the 1600's.

Based on what we know and can reasonably imagine, there is no chance of any human travelling beyond the edge of our solar system, ever. It is just too far.

Nebulaphobia is the fear of fog.

One out of every 11 workers in North Carolina depends on tobacco for their livelihood.

The Milky Way's nearest neighbor is 4.3 million light years away - a hundred million times further then the Moon. It is a three-star cluster known as Alpha Centauri.

In a typical season, major league baseball will require 4,800 ash trees worth of Louisville sluggers.

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It was the Frisbie Pie Company of Bridgeport, CT, whose name and lightweight pie tins gave birth to the modern Frisbee.

Hydroxydeoxycorticosterones is the longest anagram in the English language.

Ophthalmophobia is the fear of being stared at.

'Bimbo' is a brand of soft drink manufactured and marketed by Coca-Cola, Inc.

Kilts are not native to Scotland. They originated in France.

Arnold Schwarzenegger's famous line in The Terminator "I'll be back" was originally scripted as "I'll come back".

Stilts were invented by French shepherds who needed a way to get around in wet marshes.

In Oblong, Illinois, it's punishable by law to make love while hunting or fishing on your wedding day.

In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase "goodnight, sleep tight".

In New York City, approximately 1,600 people are bitten by other humans every year.

McDonald's restaurant has over 1.5 million employees all over the world.

November 29 is National Sinky day; a day to eat over one's sink and worship it.

The Jupiter Trojans, commonly called Trojans or Trojan asteroids, are a large group of objects that share the orbit of the planet Jupiter around the Sun.

The WD in WD-40 stands for Water Displacer.

Adults produce between 200mls and 2 liters of fart per day.

Symptoms of swine flu in people are similar to the symptoms of regular human flu and include fever, cough, sore throat, body aches, and headache.

Impotence is grounds for divorce in 24 states in the United States.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

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Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew - Cuitlahac, whose name meant plenty of excrement.

During his lifetime, Herman Melville's Moby Dick sold only 70 copies.

Elurophobia is the fear of cats.

The airplane, Buddy Holly died in, was the American Pie, which is where Don Mclaren got the song title from.

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

Over one million stray dogs live in the New York City metropolitan area.

In Greek mythology, Sagittarius is identified as a Centaur, half human and half horse.

March 9th is Useless Facts and Trivia day.

The Space Shuttle Columbia was named after a small sailing vessel that operated out of Boston in 1792 and explored the mouth of the Columbia River.

Actor John Wayne made more than 200 movies.

'Second Street' is the most common street name in the U.S.; 'First Street' is the sixth.

A blue whales heart only beats nine times per minute.

Antioxidants are substances that may protect your cells against the effects of free radicals, which can damage cells and cause diseases.

Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.

In your lifetime, you'll shed over 40 pounds of skin.

A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink.

Advertisements for coffee in London in 1657 claimed that the beverage was a cure for scurvy, gout and other ills.

One million people each year are bitten by animals in the United States.

The Nestles haven't run Nestle since 1875.

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The star Betelgeuse in the constellation of Orion is one of only a dozen or so stars telescopes have imaged as a visible disk.

Bees can see ultraviolet light.

In the U.S., about 20 million people have asthma. Nearly 9 million of them are children.

Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.

Kangaroos can't walk backwards. la Paz, Bolivia is the highest capital city in the world.

Tongue cleaning removes millions of bacteria, decaying food debris, fungi, and dead cells from the surface of the rear of the tongue.

Frozen lobsters can come back to life when thawed.

Voyager 1 was first probe to provide detailed images of the moons of the planets Jupiter and Saturn.

Hedenophobic means fear of pleasure.

Kansas state law requires pedestrians crossing the highways at night to wear tail lights.

10 of the tributaries flowing into the Amazon river are as big as the Mississippi river.

Caligynephobia is the fear of beautiful women.

Mount Whitney, the highest mountain in the continental United States, and Zabriskie Point (in Death Valley), the lowest point in the United States, are less than eighty miles apart.

Bees visit over 2,000 flowers and fly over 55,000 miles to produce just 1 lb. of honey.

Budweiser beer is named after a town in Czechoslovakia.

Mozart wrote the nursery rhyme 'twinkle, twinkle, little star' at the age of five.

In Athens, Greece, a driver's license can be taken away by law if the driver is deemed either un bathed or poorly dressed.

Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.

http://www.TheArtOfPamela.com (Please, support my creativity!) Over a course of about eleven years, the sun's magnetic poles switch places. This cycle is called "Solarmax".

In 1886, Grover Cleveland became the only president to be married in the White House.

One out of every 43 prisoners escapes from jail. 94% are recaptured.

About 33% of the population cannot snap their fingers.

Exercise, particularly aerobic exercise, is an effective cheap treatment for erectile dysfunction.

Karate actually originated in India, but was developed further in China.

Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school.

The Baikonur Cosmodrome achieved the first launch of a human into space (Yuri Gagarin) in 1961.

Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.

In Albuquerque, New Mexico, it is illegal for cab drivers to reach out and pull potential customers into their cabs.

In Jasmine Saskatchewan, it is illegal for a cow to moo within 300km of a private home.

In Atlanta, GA, it is illegal to tie a giraffe to a telephone pole or street lamp.

All babies are color blind when they are born.

The US interstate highway system requires that one mile in every five -to be straight. These straight sections function as airstrips in times of war and other emergencies.

In the late 1650's the first known check was written in Europe.

In Rochester, Michigan, anyone bathing in public must have his or her bathing suit inspected by a police officer.

The bones in your toes are called phalanges.

Around the 16th century, the Yo-Yo was used by Philippines to stun prey from trees.

On average, a child begins walking between 9 and 14 months of age.

http://www.TheArtOfPamela.com (Please, support my creativity!) Some astronomers believe there may be a tenth planet (Planet X) in our solar system, perhaps as much as ten times the size of Jupiter, but so far away as to be invisible to us.

Local anesthesia is a method to deliver pain control medication to a specific area.

You can get anemia from not getting enough folic acid or vitamin B12.

Honda's trademark acronym VTEC stands tot Variable Valve Timing and Electronic Lift Control.

Isopterophobia is the fear of termites.

If you had enough water to fill one million goldfish bowls, you could fill an entire stadium.

Alice Cooper real name is Vincent Damon Furnier.

Some toothpastes and deodorants contain the same chemicals found in antifreeze.

An apple, onion, and potato all have the same taste. The differences in flavor are caused by their smell. To prove this you can pinch your nose and take a bite from each. They will all taste sweet.

One in fourteen women in America is a natural blonde. Only one in sixteen men is.

Snowiest city in the U.S.: flue canyon, California.

Approximately 5,600 umbrellas are lost each year on the Toronto transit system.

Sweating too little, anhidrosis, can be life-threatening because your body can overheat.

Bubble gum contains rubber.

Houston's Bob Watson scored Major League Baseball's 1,000,000th run on May 4, 1975.

If Manhattan had the same population density as Alaska, there would only be 15 people living there.

1 in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.

Enamel is the hardest substance of the body and is one of the 4 major tissues which make up the tooth, along with dentin, cementum, and dental pulp.

In West Virginia, only babies can ride in a baby carriage.

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Infant beavers are called kittens.

Rubbing cocoa butter on your abdomen during pregnancy will prevent stretch marks.

All porcupines float in water.

In 1886, sales of "Coca-Cola" averaged only 9 drinks per day.

A Coronal Mass Ejection, is an ejection of material from the sun into interplanetary space.

Indoor pollution is 10 times more toxic than outdoor pollution.

Iapetus is the third largest moon of Saturn, and eleventh in the solar system, discovered by Giovanni Domenico Cassini in 1671.

Chronomentrophobia is the fear of clocks.

The animal with the largest brain in proportion to its size is the ant.

Hummingbirds are the smallest birds. They are so tiny that one of their enemies is an insect, the praying mantis.

A group of frogs is called an army.

One in every 2000 babies is born with a tooth.

Hollywood fashion tip: wearing yellow makes you look bigger on camera; green, smaller.

It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.

In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden.... and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.

Exhibitionism is the recurrent urge or behavior to expose one's genitals to an unsuspecting person

The Brownie box camera, introduced by Eastman Kodak, sold for $1.00 in 1900. The camera's 6-exposure film sold for 15 cents.

A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.

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A broken clock is always right twice a day.

Neil Armstrong's full name is Neil Alden Armstrong.

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada has the most bars per capita than anywhere else in the world.

According to the U.S. Bureau of the Census, the most common job in the United States in the 1890s-was a farmer. Today - it' a salesman.

98% of all matter that exists was created by the Big Bang.

All the coal, oil, gas, and wood on Earth would only keep the Sun burning for a few days.

Every year, about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced.

Sayut 1, was launched by the USSR on April 19th 1971. It was the first space station to orbit Earth.

Stag beetles have stronger mandibles than humans.

Athazagoraphobia is the fear of being forgotten or ignored.

Uranus's mass is roughly 14.5 times that of the Earth, making it the least massive of the giant planets, while its density of 1.27g/cm3 makes it the second least dense planet, after Saturn.

The Methamphetamine drug can be smoked, injected, inhaled or taken by mouth.

A beaver's teeth never stop growing.

A skunk's smell can be detected by a human from a mile away.

Argentineans eat more meat than any other nation in the world - an average of 10 ounces per person per day.

Surveys say: nearly 10% of American households dress their pets in Halloween costumes.

10 percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.

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Odontophobia is the fear of teeth or dental surgery.

Only 68 of 200 Anglican priests polled could name all Ten Commandments, but half said they believed in space aliens.

New Zealand is the first country to allow women to vote.

Take your height and divide by eight. That's how "tall" your head is.

More than 68,000 people earn their primary or secondary income from trading on eBay.co.uk.

Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.

Armadillos, opossums, and sloth's spend about 90% of their lives sleeping.

In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam".

Medical research has found substances in mistletoe that can slow down tumor growth.

Only humans can sleep on their backs.

Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating.

New York's Central Park is nearly twice the size of the entire country of Monaco.

In July 1934, Babe Ruth paid the fan who caught his 700th career home run ball $20 to get it back.

Average number of squirts from a cow's udder needed to yield a gallon of milk is 345.

Jupiter demonstrates bright persistent aurorae around both poles.

A hard-boiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not.

Shanghai, China boasts 4,000 skyscrapers - double the number in New York City.

Raphael died on his birthday in 1520 at the age of 37. His artwork was so popular that he essentially worked himself to death.

Taurine, the main ingredient in Red Bull, is an extract of the stomach lining of cow.

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A penguin swims at a speed of approximately 15 miles per hour.

If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human’s neck.

Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.

It takes twelve ears of corn to make a tablespoon of corn oil.

Three dog night' (attributed to Australian Aborigines) came about because on especially cold nights these nomadic people needed three dogs to keep from freezing.

Surgeons, who listen to music during operations, perform better than those who don't.

If China imported just 10% of it's rice needs - the price on the world market would increase by 80%.

King Kong was Adolf Hitler's favorite movie.

The Olympic flag pole at the Tokyo Olympics was 49 feet, 10 3/4 inches tall.

Around 2,000 left-handed people die annually due to improper use of equipment designed only for right handed people.

During the American Civil War, 185,000 troops died in combat or of battle-related wounds, 373,000 died of disease.

315 entries in Webster's 1996 dictionary were misspelled.

Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.

Research shows that oatmeal lowers cholesterol levels, keeps you regular, and helps prevent certain cancers.

Mary Stuart became Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old.

Philophobia is the fear of falling in love.

According to a legend, there's a Superman in every episode of Seinfeld.

As of 2009, six space tourists have visited the ISS, each paying around USD 25 million.

Oenophobia is the Fear of wines.

http://www.TheArtOfPamela.com (Please, support my creativity!) A Galactocentric orbit is an orbit about the center of a galaxy. The Sun follows this type of orbit about the galactic center of the Milky Way.

Obama took Michelle to see the Spike Lee film Do The Right Thing on their first date.

The Earth orbits the sun at about 18.5 miles per second.

New York City has 570 miles of shoreline.

In Disney's Fantasia, the Sorcerer to whom Mickey played an apprentice was named Yensid (Disney spelled backward).

20% of men experience premature ejaculation.

The companion to 51 Pegasi was the first planet discovered orbiting a normal Sun-like star beyond our own solar system.

During the chariot scene in Ben-Hur, a small red car can be seen in the distance.

The amount your fart is increased by stress, onions, cabbage and beans.

As late as 1820, the universe was thought to be 6,000 years old. It is now thought to be between 15 and 20 billion years old.

Humans spend a third of their lives sleeping.

Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.

35,000 people in the U.S. will die from the flu annually.

The Earth experiences 50,000 earthquakes each year.

Some people may use acupuncture to treat alcohol use or addiction problems, fibromyalgia, back pain, and many other conditions.

During his or her lifetime, the average human will grow 590 miles of hair.

St. Augustine, Florida is the oldest city in the US.

Cow is a Japanese brand of shaving foam.

Whether it's a 65 mile bike ride or a quick walk around the building, exercise is a proven method of tension release.

Negative emotions such as anxiety and depression can weaken your immune system.

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On average, adults watch double the amount of TV as teenagers do.

The cost of the Shuttle program, is while far less than that of the Apollo program, still works out to an average of USD 1.1 billion per launch.

Boanthropy is a disease in which a man thinks he's a cow.

Rudyard Kipling refused to write with anything other than black ink.

New Jersey was originally called Albania.

Nails grow at 3mm per month.

Food is so scarce in the Arctic, that wolves don't waste any part of their meals. A wolf will eat every part of an arctic hare, including the skin, fur, and bones.

Of all known forms of animals life ever to inhabit the Earth, only about 10 percent still exist today.

A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.

About 10% of Jewish households have Christmas Trees.

Mario, of Super Mario Bros, fame, appeared in the 1981 arcade game, Donkey Kong. His original name was Jumpman, but was changed to Mario to honor the Nintendo of America's landlord, Mario Segali.

At their closest point, the Russian and U.S. borders are less than two miles apart.

The animal whose brain accounts for the largest share of its body weight is the squirrel monkey. It's brain makes up about 5% of its total weight.

Thantophobia is the fear of death or dying.

A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day.

In October 1986, Pepsi paid close to $840 million to Nabisco for the Kentucky Fried Chicken empire.

Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.

The Hoover Dam was built to last 2,000 years. The concrete in it will not even be fully cured for another 500 years.

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Smokers eat more sugar than non-smokers do.

Pain travels through your body at 350 ft. per second.

A woman's risk of breast cancer is higher if her mother, sister, or daughter had breast cancer.

A group of officers is called a mess.

Neither the saxophone, the tuba, the coronet, or the valve trumpet existed before 1800.

Roughly a quarter of the world's people live in China.

During his entire life, Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting, "Red Vineyard at Aries".

Average number of eggs, laid by the female American Oyster per year: 500 million. Usually only one oyster out of the bunch reaches maturity.

On average, every American consumes 109 pounds of beef a year.

10% of Star Trek fans replace the lenses on their glasses every 5 years whether they need to or not.

Bette Midler, Barry Manilow and many other famous vocalists got their start in a New York City club called The Continental Baths.

Encephalitis is an acute inflammation of the brain.

Ovaltine was originally called Ovamaltine. A clerical error forced the name to be changed when the manufacturer registered the name.

Chocolate can kill dogs; it directly affects their heart and nervous system.

Belonephobia is the fear of pins and needles.

The Gregorian calendar was introduced by Pope Gregory in 1582 AD, and was adopted by Great Britain and the English colonies in 1752.

Harry S. Truman was the last U.S. President with no college degree.

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Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.

About 45% of the homeless have serious substance abuse problems, 23% have a mental illness, and 8% are infected with HIV or AIDS.

On average, 150 couples get married in Las Vegas each day.

On average, 900 people start the Navy SEALs training program. On average 650 people drop out.

The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.

Can you think of an English word that rhymes with "month"? You can't because there is none.

Originally, BMW was an airplane engine manufacturer.

A bean has more DNA per cell than a human cell.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs have only about ten.

The apricot can be traced back to China at least four thousand years ago, and it first appeared in Creek mythology as the golden apple.

The Atlantic Giant Squid's eye can be as large as 15.75 inches (40 centimeters) wide.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

Agoraphobia is the fear of places or events where escape is impossible or when help is unavailable.

Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.

Hungarian brothers George and Laszlo Biro invented the ball point pen in 1938.

Scelerophibia is the fear of burglars.

Republicans are more likely to dress up more sexily to liven up their sex lives than Democrats.

The average normal human body temperature is about 98.6 °F (37°C).

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Skylab weighed 100 tons and was in Earth's orbit from 1973 to 1979. It was visited by crews three times in 1973 and 1974.

The Mills Brothers have recorded the most songs of any artist: about 2,250.

The Old English word for "sneeze" is "Fneosan".

Bats use ultrasound to pick up vibrations from their prey.

The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts 3 naked men with their hands on each others shoulders.

Antibiotics often cure anthrax if it is diagnosed early.

The United States produces more tobacco than it does wheat.

The atmosphere of the planet Uranus consists of Hydrogen, 85% Helium and 2% Methane.

The United kingdom eats more cans of baked beans than the rest of the world combined.

Only female bees work.

The anaconda, one of the world's largest snakes, gives birth to its young instead of laying eggs.

Gardening is said to be one of the best exercises for maintaining healthy bones.

A spider's silk is stronger than steel.

Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor of the four Presidents on Mount Rushmore, died a few months before the project was completed. It took him 14 years.

The average American butt is 14.9 in. long.

The ancient Egyptians bought jewelry for their pet crocodiles.

Lactose intolerance means the body cannot easily digest lactose, a type of natural sugar found in milk and dairy products.

The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monument.

http://www.TheArtOfPamela.com (Please, support my creativity!) The Amazon rain forest produces more than 20% the world's oxygen supply.

The armhole in clothing is called an armsay.

A necropsy is an autopsy on an animal.

An etiquette writer of the l840's advised. Ladies may wipe their lips on the tablecloth, but not blow their noses on it.

IBM's motto is "Think". Apple later made their motto "Think different".

A real estate agent's rule of thumb: To estimate what a house will sell for, ask the owner what its worth and subtract 10%.

Glossophobia is the fear of speaking in public.

A manned mission to Mars (called for by the first President Bush) was quietly dropped when someone worked out it would cost $450 billion and would probably kill all the crew.

A bee could travel 4 million miles (6.5 million km) at 7 mph (11 km/h) on the energy it would obtain from 1 gallon (3.785 liters) of nectar.

2,500 lefthanders die each year using products designed for right handers.

Goodyear Rubber Company, researched and concluded, that shoes wear out faster on the right foot than the left.

Bluebirds cannot see the color blue.

A group of hares is called a Hus.

Protein is important for maintaining healthy muscles, tendon, bones, skin, hair, blood and internal organs.

About 500 movies are made in the US and 800 in India annually.

A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.

High-density lipoprotein (HDL) is "good cholesterol". It carries cholesterol from the body back to the liver for disposal.

Half of all bank robberies take place on a Friday.

http://www.TheArtOfPamela.com (Please, support my creativity!) A woman who had breast cancer in one breast has an increased risk of getting cancer in her other breast.

Animals that lay eggs don't have belly buttons.

An average head has between 100,000 to 150,000 hairs.

Even a small amount of alcohol, placed on a scorpion, will make it go crazy and sting itself to death.

Each day, more than $40 trillion dollars changes hands worldwide.

Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII and mother of Queen Elizabeth I, had an extra finger on her left hand.

An inch (2.5 centimeters) of rain water is equivalent to 15 inches (38.1 centimeters) of dry, powdery snow.

A survey in 1997 declared Michael Jackson the Most Famous Person in the World.

More than 95% of newborns urinate within the first 24 hours.

Americans have spent over $360 million in 1982 to avoid having bad breath.

3 most popular dogs in the US: Labrador Retrievers, Rottweilers, and Cocker Spaniels.

At 120 miles per hour, a Formula One car generates so much down force that it can drive upside down on the roof of a tunnel.

99.9% of the mass in our solar system went to make up the Sun.

A car operates at maximum economy, gas-wise, at speeds between 25 and 35 miles per hour.

50% of U.S. pizzas are sold with pepperoni on them.

Using illegal drugs may cause underweight babies, birth defects or withdrawal symptoms after birth.

Coca-Cola was originally green.

During lunch breaks in Carlsbad, New Mexico, no couple should engage in a sexual act while parked in their vehicle, unless their car has curtains.

A group of ravens is called a murder.

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53% of women will not leave the house without makeup on.

Beatrix Potter created the first of her legendary "Peter Rabbit" children's stories in 1902.

Cellophane is not made of plastic. It is made from a plant fiber, cellulose, which has been shredded and aged.

Annually, the amount of garbage that is dumped in the world's oceans is three times the weight of fish that is caught from the oceans.

Every year, $1.5 billion is spent on pet food. This is four times the amount spent on baby food.

EEG stands Electroencephalogram.

Deipnophobia is the fear of dining or dinner conversations.

52% of Americans drink coffee.

Aspirin was the first drug offered as a water-soluble tablet in 1900.

Foods high in cholesterol raise the amount of cholesterol in the blood. These foods include liver, other organ meats, egg yolks, and dairy fats.

Among older men, vanilla is the most erotic smell.

Almonds are members of the peach family.

By 3,000 B.C. there were at least six different types of beer in Egypt.

Eating disorders are serious behavior problems. They include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating, which is out-of-control eating.

Acousticophobia is the fear of noise.

Theoretical models of the Sun's development suggest that 3.8 to 2.5 billion years ago, during the Archean period, the Sun was only about 75% as bright as it is today.

Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand.

Cattle are the only mammals that are retromingent (they pee backwards).

A female mackerel lays 500,000 eggs at a time.

http://www.TheArtOfPamela.com (Please, support my creativity!) The WHO in 2004 projected 58.8 million deaths to occur globally, from which 5.4 million are tobacco-attributed, and 4.9 million as of 2007.

An ostrich egg would take four hours to hard boil.

Cats' urine glows under a black light.

55.1 % of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses.

Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper was so relaxed on the morning of his launch into space in May 1963, that he fell asleep in his space capsule while waiting for blastoff.

Catgut comes from sheep not cats.

Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes.

Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.

2,500 newborn babies will be dropped in the next month.

Blue eyes are the most sensitive to light, dark brown the least sensitive.

Many depressed people never get help, because they don't know that their physical symptoms might be caused by depression.

In Australia, Children may not purchase cigarettes, but can smoke them.

The biggest cause of matrimonial fighting is money.

The average number of peanuts in a box of Cracker Jacks is 27.

The average marathon runner's heart beats about 175 times per minute during a race. A typical adult's heart beats 68 times a minute at rest.

The average coach airline meal costs the airline $4.00. The average first class meal: $50.

Zarf is the holder of a handleless coffee cup.

The average life expectancy of a toilet is 50 years.

Canker sores (aphthous stomatitis) are painful white ulcers in the mouth. Unlike cold sores, canker sores are not contagious.

http://www.TheArtOfPamela.com (Please, support my creativity!) The bones of a pigeon weigh less than its feathers.

A volcano found on Mars, is the largest volcano found in solar system. It is 370 miles (595km) across and rises 15 miles (24km).

The average human body contains enough fat to make seven bars of soap.

Yasir Arafat is addicted to watching television cartoons.

Body mass index is a simple and widely used method for estimating body fat mass.

Xylophobia is the fear of wooden objects.

Bereavement is the period of grief and mourning after a death. You may experience grief as a mental, physical, social or emotional reaction.

You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.

Your odds of being killed in a tornado are 1 in 2 million.

Wyoming was the first state to allow women to vote.

The book "The Doors of Perception", by Aldous Huxley, was the inspiration behind Jim Morrison naming his band The Doors. The book Extols the use of hallucinogenic drugs.

Toronto, Ontario has approximately 7,000 eating establishments.

The penis of a dragonfly is shaped like a shovel, and has the ability to scoop out a male rival's semen.

Don't feed your child seafood, peanuts or tree nuts before age 2 or 3.

The average housefly weighs 10 to 15 millionths of a pound.

The average housewife walks 10 miles a day around the house doing her chores.

Migraine is 3 times more common in women than in men.

What five digit number, when multiplied by the number 4, is the same number with the digits in reverse order? 21978; 21978x4 = 87912.

The average chicken lays about 260 eggs a year.

http://www.TheArtOfPamela.com (Please, support my creativity!) The world's first adhesive postage stamp went on sale in England in 1840. It was the Penny Black, portraying Queen Victoria.

The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.

Until 1896, drivers in Great Britain had to warn of their presence by having a person precede their car on foot, waving a red flag.

There is a butterfly found in Brazil that has the smell and color of a chocolate.

There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee. Of these, only 26 have been tested, and half caused cancer in rats.

There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

Al Capone made about $60 million dollars per year during the prohibition.

Marlboro was the first company to market a cigarette that had a red filter called "beauty tip” This was done to hide the lipstick marks left on the filter from women smokers.

One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.

It takes the Hubble telescope about 97 minutes to complete an orbit of the Earth. On average, the Hubble uses the equivalent amount of energy as 30 household light bulbs to complete an orbit.

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