Google are said to have more than 450 000 servers.

 The chocolate chip cookie was created by accident.

 There are penguins in Africa.

 Norway is the world's third largest oil exporter.

 Burma was the second richest country in Asia before WWII.

 Yellow is the color of mourning in Burma.

 A dog can hear sounds 250 yards away.

 About 50% of U.S. 21 year olds have produced web content.

 The first commercial text message was sent 1992.

 Singapore is the most expensive place on earth to own a car.

 Singapore is one of two cities in the world with a tropical rainforest.

 A day on Mars is about half an hour longer than a day on Earth.

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 Africa

 Ethiopia celebrated millennium in September 2007.  Uganda has the source of River Nile.  People from Niger are Nigerien. People from Nigeria are Nigerian.  About 20 million of flip flops are produced each year in Mombasa.  Merry Christmas in Ghana is "Afishapa".  Namib Desert is believed to be the oldest desert in the world.  In Eastern Africa you can buy beer brewed from bananas.  Togo held its first multiparty election for parliament in 1994.  African Grey Parrots are known to have vocabularies of over 200 words.  The African elephant is the Heaviest land mammal in the world.  A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.  About 28% of Africa is wilderness.  In South Africa the @ is called "aapstert" which means a "monkey's tail".  The only dog in the world that does not bark is an African dog, Basenji.  Cape Agulhas is the southernmost tip in Africa.  Some lions can mate over 50 times a day.  Giraffes give birth standing up. The baby falls from a height of six feet and usually without being hurt.  The most populated country in Africa is Nigeria.  In Kenya a child's middle name is given based on the time during the day the child is born.  Nigeria is home to about 400 languages.  The Star of Africa is the largest cut diamond in the world.  The reggae term Rastafarian refers to Haile Selassie.  The highest free standing mountain in the world is Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.  The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.  Nine out of ten women in Ethiopia give birth at home.

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 Ancient Egypt

 The Egyptians thought it was good luck to enter a house left foot first.  Only about 4% of Egypt can be used for agriculture.  A group of Egyptian tombs is called a Necropolis.  Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian, she was Greek.  The only one of the Seven Wonders that still survives is The Great Pyramid of Giza.  The first sailing boats were built in Egypt.  The Great Pyramid at Giza plateau is made up of about 2,500,000 stones. These stones weighing between 2-70 tons each.  The Great Pyramid at Giza holds a constant temperature of 68 degrees Fahrenheit.  The Average Egyptian man was about 5 feet tall.  Egypt was conquered many times before the Romans came.  The first man ever to be mummified was probably Osiris.  At the age of about 13 years old you were considered an adult.  Priests removed all hair from their bodies including eyelashes and eyebrows.  Mummies are wrapped with about ten layers of linen, sometimes more.  The real name of Egypt is actually Misr. It was the Greeks who named it Egypt after its fall.  Almost all of the Egyptians were clean shaven.  There are two kinds of constructions to pyramids, step pyramids and true Pyramids.  In Ancient Egypt there where just a few who knew how to read and write. About 99% did not.  The longest river in the world is the Nile (4000 miles).  The Egyptians where the inventors of the calendar. Every year the Nile flooded its banks for three months so the Egyptians set their calendars after it.  The color of the pyramids was originally white but over the years the color has changed.  Some doctors where 'skilled' and even performed brain surgery.  Lettuce was grown in ancient Egypt.

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 Australia

 Australia was once called New Holland.  In Australia light bulbs are called globes.  Ayers Rock means meeting place in the Aboriginal language.  Lonely Planet is based in Melbourne Australia.  Australians have about 380,000 sq m of land/per person. Yet 91% live in urban areas.  Australia has more than 1500 species of spiders.  Australia is the driest inhabited continent on earth.  95 percent of the world's opals are mined in Australia.  Australia has the biggest number of wild one humped camels in the world.  The biggest pure-gold nugget was found in Australia in 1869 and weighed 156 pounds.  Australia use to have stamps that actually look like gems.  The first time South Africa beat Australia in a cricket game was in Adelaide in 1910-1911.  The only continent occupied by only one nation is Australia.  There are 6000 species of flies in Australia.  The Great Barrier Reef in Australia is the largest organic construction on earth.  A billabong is a stagnant body of backwater attached to a river or a stream.  QANTAS stands for Queensland and Northern Territories Airline Service.  Australia is the world's driest continent.  In Australia a banana bender means that a person comes from Queensland.  It was an Australian meteorologist who first began to give tropical storms women's names at the end of the 19th century.  Melbourne in Australia has, after Athens, the largest Greek population in the world.

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 Brazil

 In Brazil about 40 percent of all vehicle fuel is ethanol.  More than a 25% of all rainforest is in Brazil.  Brazil has the biggest eucalyptus plantations in the world.  Brazil is named after a tree.  Brazil is home to the longest buses in the world. The buses are 26,5 metres long and made by Volvo.  The biggest exporter of Brazil nuts is Bolivia.  Brazilian bees could prevent tooth decay.  Brazil has the 2nd highest Christian population in the world.  Brazil has more species of monkeys than any other country.  Brazil covers about 50% of the South American continent.  Brazil once had an emperor, in 1822.  Brazil borders every country in South America except Chile and Ecuador.  Brazil's soccer team is the only team in the world to have won the World Cup 5 times.

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 Business & Money

 The first print ad for Johnnie Walker appeared in 1883.  The original game of monopole was circular.  The Chevrolet Cavalier, Honda Civic and Honda Accord where the top 3 selling cars in Canada in 1991.  681 cars were imported from the UK to Canada in 1939.  Gasoline in US cost about $.33 per gallon in 1967.  Turkey has about 60 companies that manufacturing chewing gum.  Krispy Kreme dont spend money on advertising.  Mesothelioma lawyers, consolidate loans and refinancing mortgage are three of Google's most expensive keywords.  The best production year for Corvette's was 1979.  A US Postage Stamp cost 10 cents in 1974.  IBM's motto is Think.  The Aztecs and Mayans used cacao beans as currency.  Mercedes cars are named after an Austrian girl.  Hilton was the first international hotel chain.  Mozambique was the world's largest producer of cashew nuts during the 1970s.  eBay is the Worlds Largest Online Auction.  An angry Newcastle United fan once put the star player Kieron Dyer for sale on eBay.  When other countries than the United States use the U.S. dollar as their currency is called dollarization.  The BBC own the Fawlty Towers trade mark.  Henry Ford was the first billionaire in the US.  Nokia is named after a place in Southern Finland.  There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.  Monopoly game is considered to be the most played board game in the world.  Liverpool had its own currency between 1793 - 1796.  Travel is the worlds largest industry.  The average items for sale on EBAY is about 18,000,000 at any time.  Sweden is one of few countries where Coca-Cola sales drop a lot during Christmas. The reason is that most Swedes drink something called Julmust instead.  The first penny had the motto Mind your own business.  The most expensive teabag in the world was sold at auction for 7,500 pounds. The bag was filled with 280 diamonds.  Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.  Dollar is the most common currency followed by franc, pound, dinar, peso, and rupee.  Each year over $2,000,000,000 worth of Halloween candy is sold.  American Airlines saved $40 000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.  On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag over the Parliament Building is an American flag.  Al Capone made about $60 million dollars per year during the prohibition.  18% of an Americans income is spent on transportation.  The harmonica is the world's best-selling music instrument.  96% of all candles being sold are purchased by women.  The life span of 1 dollar bill is calculated for only 18 months.  After the French Revolution of 1789 selling sour wine was considered against national interest and the punishment was execution.  The three most valuable brand names on earth are Marlboro, Coca Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.  The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.  66% of home based businesses in the U.S. are owned by women.  The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven is about $6 400.  Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.  Green color was chosen for the paper currency in the U.S. because green pigment was available at that time.  Married men tip better than unmarried men.  The time spent deleting SPAM costs United States businesses about $21.6 billion annually.  Yamaha is the Japan's largest maker of musical instruments.  7-Eleven is the largest retail chain in the world.  Each day the Bureau of Engraving and Printing makes about 37 million notes.  On average, about 40% of all hotel rooms in the U.S. remain empty every night.  The average person changes their career every 13 years.  There are about 2,000,000 millionaires in the United States.  The two-cent coin was the first to have the phrase "In God We Trust".  There is an ATM at McMurdo Station in Antarctica.  Every 30 seconds there is a lawsuit in the U.S.  America once issued a 5-cent bill.  In 1915 a telephone call from San Francisco to New York would cost $20.70 for three minutes.  More than 100 billion Tampax tampons have been sold since 1936.  Hong Kong has the most Rolls Royces per capita in the world.  Approximately 7.5% of all office documents get lost.  The worlds most successful logo is MICHELIN.  Paper currency is made of 75% cotton and 25% linen.  55% of men wash their hands after using the restroom.  55% of Americans claim they would continue working even if they received a $10,000,000 lottery prize.  The original name of Bank of America was Bank of Italy.  Travel and Tourism is a $1.3 trillion industry in the United States.  Approximately 2.6 million hotels rooms are rented each day in the United States.  The most expensive music video ever made was by Michael and Janet Jackson. In 1995 "Scream" was released and the cost was an amazing $7 million.  Iced tea was first served at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. A British businessman wanted to increase tea sales in America.  Travel and Tourism generates $100 billion in tax revenue for local, state, and federal governments. If you place 100 billion dollar bills end-to-end, they would circle the world 397 times.  Travel and Tourism industry is one of the US's largest employers with 7.3 million jobs.  The average one-dollar bill wears out in less than two years.  Affiliate marketing is one of the fastest growing marketing online today.  Warner Communications paid $28 million for the copyright to the song "Happy Birthday".  There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.  Shopping in US is the most popular domestic trip activity, and is included in 30% of all domestic trips.  Travel and tourism industry is one of America's largest service exports. $94 billion spent by international visitors, 88 billion spent outside the U.S. by domestic travelers. The surplus for U.S. is $6 billion.  Americans spend more than 40% of their food dollars each year eating out.  Americans spend approximately $30 billion a year trying to lose weight.  72% of people in Mali earn less than $1 per day.  The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.  Fill a matchbox with gold and it can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.  The Most Expensive Suit in the world is a space suit worn by Astronauts. It costs more than $3.5 Million.  About 2,4 billion CDs are sold annually. The number of recorded CDs and blank CDs sold has been about equal.

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 Caribbean

 Antigua was once called "Wadadad".  Trinidad and Tobago is the birthplace of calypso music.  In Negril Jamaica buildings are not allowed to be built higher than the palm trees.  Columbus called Tobago "Bellaforma".  The mongoose in Barbados are said to never cross a road unless someone is watching.  Mount Gay Distilleries Ltd in Barbados produced the worlds oldest rum under the label "Mount Gay".  Barbados has never been successfully invaded by a Foreign power.  Jamaica is the largest English-speaking island in the Caribbean.  In the Caribbean there are some oysters that can climb trees.  In Tobago goat racing is one of the most popular sport.  The Arawaks were the first Caribbean people encountered by Columbus.  Aruba has only 12 roundabouts.  Hotel Caribe was the first hotel in Aruba. It opened in 1934.  St. Elizabeth in Jamaica was the first town to have electricity.  Pico Duarte (10,417 feet) is the highest point in the Caribbean.  The Abaco Islands are known as the "sailing capital of the world".  Ernest Hemingway called the Bahama island "Bimini" home.  Jamaica has 120 rivers.  The first slaves in Barbados were white.  In 1751 George Washington stayed in Barbados for six weeks.

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 Cats & Dogs

 There are more owned pet cats in the US than owned dogs.  Domestic cats can run about 30 miles per hour.  The Dalmatian dog is from Croatia.  All lilies are poisonous to cats.  The oldest recorded age for a dog is 29 years.  A grown up cat has 30 teeth.  The only animal that purrs are cats.  Poodles were once used as hunting dogs in Europe.  All kittens are born with blue eyes.  Sugarless candies can be toxic to dogs.  Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about ten.  Cats and dogs can only see the colours blue and yellow.  Britain's oldest breeds is the Bearded Collie.  The Basenji is known as the barkless dog.  A cat's urine glows under a blacklight.  German Shepherds are known to bite humans more often than any other dogs.  Isaac Newton invented the cat-flap door.  The only four cats that can roar are leopards, tigers, lions and jaguars.  White cats with blue eyes are usually deaf.  The US are home to more cats than dogs.  Dogs are mentioned 14 times in the Bible.  Cats have a peripheral vision of about 285 degrees.  Small dogs usually live longer than larger breeds.  A cat has four rows of whiskers.  Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints.  In 1987, cats overtook dogs as the number one pet in America.  Domestic cats hate lemons or other citrus scents.  A dog's ability to smell can be about 10 million times better than human's.  In 1911 a dog was killed by a meteor at Nakhla, Egypt. This unlucky dog is the only creatre known to have been killed by a meteor.  A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.  A greyhound dog can reach speeds up to about 41-42 miles per hour.  The biggest dog on record was an Old English Mastiff who weighed 343 pounds. He was 8 feet and 3 inches from nose to tail.  A cat are able to jump up to seven times it's height.  Dalmatian dogs are born white without the spots.  Cats are able to walk directly on their claws.  Cats are not able to move there jaws sideways.  Dogs perspire in the pads of their paws, on their tongue and on their nose.  The oldest recorded age for a cat is 34 years.  The Bedlington Terrier and Rothburg Terrier are the same. The Bedlington Terrier was first known as the Rothburg Terrier.

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 China

 Hong Kong International Airport is said to be the world's largest enclosed structure.  There is a Chinatown in Shanghai.  The gold stars on the Chinese flag represent the 5 major ethnic groups living in China.  China manufactures about 70% of the world's toys.  Flights between Hong Kong and mainland China are classed as international flights.  There are 1.600 rivers in China.  China is the biggest consumer and producer of chopsticks.  China is called Zhongguo in Chinese.  In ancient China fresh pork had royal status.  There are over 150 different herbs from China used in the treatment of Infertility.  China is the second largest fast food market after the United States.  China is the world's largest consumer of concrete.  China produces over a million tons of wheat each year.  China has about 30 million Muslims.  China produces one third of the world's steel.  About 50% of the world's pork is now eaten in China.  34 children are born every minute in China.  The story of Cinderella may not originate with Disney, some say it originated in China around AD 860.  About 700 000 engineers graduate annually from schools in China.  In the China Sea and western Pacific hurricanes are known as typhoons.  China won their first Winter Olympic gold medals in Salt Lake City.  China has only about 200 different family names.  Tennis is one of China's fastest growing sports.  China invented the first kites and they where used in wars.  Trouble in China is symbolized by 2 women living together under 1 roof.  Bird's nest are served in Chinese restaurants throughout the world. The swallow birds nest are picked from caves of the Island of Koh Phi Phi in Thailand.  The Great Wall of China is about 4,000 miles long.  China adopted the new Gregorian calendar in 1949.  China is the fourth largest producer of gas and oil in the world.  Shanghai in China is the most populated city in the world.  Some people in China work as apologisers.  Chinese were the first to use paper.  All Disney characters was banned for 40 years in China.  The unemployment in China is very low, about 0.2%.  The wheelbarrow is inveted by a chinese.  China produces more pears, potatoes, cotton, Tobacco, and rice than any other country does.  In Chinese language China is called Zhong Guo. Zhong Guo means Land of the Middle.  China is said to be the birthplace of tea.  Finish everything on your plate is a bit rude.  The population in China is about 1,260,000,000.  In China they call black tea as red tea.  About 60 years is considered to be a life span in China.  Make much noise when eating soup is a good thing in China.  In China tree hugging is forbidden.  Some statistics says that 5,000,000 Chinese will visit a ski resorts this year. A few years ago there where only a few.  China has about 50 minority groups.  Chinese New Year is called The Spring Festival in China.  The Albanian language is one of most studied foreign languages.  Friday the 13th is suppose to be day of luck.  Brides "always" get married in red colors.  In China there are no difference between the word "Rice" and "food".  In China astronauts are called taikonauts.  There are about 40000 characters in Chinese language.  In China there are more people who speaks English than in the U.S..

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 Coffee

 52% of US adults drink coffee.  The most expensive coffee in the world is Kopi Luwak.  Coffee is the second largest import in the US.  The Blue Mountain district of Jamaica is often regarded to have the best coffee in the world.  Hawaii is the only US state that grows coffee.  From coffee seed to fruit takes about five years.  The Arabs are probably the first to brew coffee.  Instant coffee was invented by a chemist named Satori Kato in 1901.  In Europe coffee was once known as Arabian Wine.  A cup of coffee contains about 100 - 150 milligrams of caffeine.  An espresso has less caffeine than a regular cup of coffee.  A person who is skilled in preparing Turkish coffee is called a kahveci.  About 500 billion cups of coffee are consumed each year.  Cowboys often drank Lapsang Souchong instead of Coffee.  Hawaii is the only US state that grows coffee.  Coffee is the second largest import in the US.  Voltaire drank about 50 cups of coffee each day.  If You visit a Kissaten in Japan You visit a coffee shop.  Coffee has about five times as much caffeine than Coke.  The word "coffee" was once a term for wine.  Coffee grows in more than 50 countries.  Once coffee beans has been roasted they lose about 40% of their flavor.  Vietnam is one of the largest producer of coffee in the world.  There are coffee flavored PEZ.

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 Crime & Law

 Drunk drivers in Taiwan can choose their penalty.  You are not allowed to eat ice cream while standing on the sidewalk in Carmel.  In San Francisco it is illegal to wipe one's car with used underwear.  A person classified as "ugly" in San Francisco may not walk down any street.  In Blythe, California you are not allowed to wear cowboy boots unless you own at least two cows.  In France there was once a law against selling dolls without human faces.  In Denver Colorado, it is illegal to lend your vacuum cleaner to your neighbors.  It is illegal to pump your own gas in New Jersey.  Al Capone was inmate No.85 in Alcatraz.  The first Arabic country to have women police officers was Oman.  It is illegal to import alcohol into the Maldives.  It's illegal to skateboard without a license in Florida.  In Quebec, Canada, it's illegal to make yellow margarine. It has to be white.  In Alberta, Canada, it's illegal to publicly remove bandages.  Bubblegum is forbidden in Singapore.  Between 1979 and 1988 chess was banned in Iran.  Alcatraz is named after a Spanish word meaning pelican.  Pirates almost never had their prisoners walk the plank.  To kiss in public was a crime in Naples in 1562.  Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England, if they work in a tropical fish store.  The average criminal sentence length in Colombia is 137 years.  Until the 1960's men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland.  It is forbidden for aircraft to fly over the Taj Mahal, India.  In Utah, it is illegal to swear in front of a dead person.  You can be imprisoned for not voting in Fiji, Chile and Egypt, at least in theory.  Donald Duck comics were once banned from Finland because Donald doesn't wear pants.  It's against the law to sneeze or burp in a church in Nebraska, USA.  Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.  In West Virginia, only babies can ride in a baby carriage.  Saudi diplomats are said to have 367 outstanding parking fines in Britain.  About 65 percent of US prison inmates are tattooed.  In Switzerland, it's was once against the law to slam your car door.  A law in Fairbanks, Alaska does not allow moose to have sex on city streets.  In Scotland, children as young as 8 can be guilty of crimes.  It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona.  It is illegal to sleep within vehicles in the City of Aspen in USA.  On average, each day about 20 banks are robbed in the world.  Swimming during the day was illegal in New South Wales from 1833 until 1903.  Talking on a cellular phone while driving is against the law in Israel.  Did you know that the LAPD had the very first policewoman.  Members of the armed forces and the police are not allowed to vote in the Dominican Republic.  It was for some time illegal to sell ET dolls in France.  0.7% of Americans are currently in prison.  In September 2004, a Minnesota state trooper issued a speeding ticket to a motorcyclist who was clocked at 205 mph.  Every Swiss citizen is required by law to have their own bomb shelter or access to a bomb shelter.  In Maine it is illegal to catch a lobster with your bare hands.  Two-thirds of the world's kidnappings occur in Colombia.  You're 66 times more likely to be prosecuted in the USA as in France.  In Quitman, Georgia it is against the law for a chicken to cross the road.  It is illegal to get fish drunk in Oklahoma.  In Iceland, it was once against the law to have a pet dog.  America puts many more of its citizens in prison than any other nation.  More than 2,500 left-handed people are killed each year from using products that are made for right-handed people.  Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.  A Kentucky law specifies that if you come "face-to-face" with a cow on the road you must remove your hat.  Two-thirds of the world's executions occur in China.  It's against the law to slam your car door in Switzerland.  Swimming during the day was illegal in New South Wales from 1833 until 1903.  In Nevada sex without a condom is considered illegal.  In Alaska, it is legal to shoot bears. Waking a sleeping bear for the purpose of taking a photo is a crime.  A person's chances of being mugged in London are much higher than in New York City.  Around 1 in 3 persons in Australia is a victim of crime.  715 of every 100 000 people in America are imprisoned.  In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch a mice without a hunting license.  Federal law forbids recycling used eyeglasses in the United States.  In ancient Egypt, killing a cat was a crime punishable by death.  In Florida it's illegal to wear swimwear while singing in a public place.  A Los Angeles man who later said he was "tired of walking" stole a steamroller and led police on a 5 mph chase until an officer stepped aboard the vehicle and stopped him.  When two service station attendants in Ionia, Michigan, refused to hand over the cash to an intoxicated robber, the man threatened to call the police. They still refused, so the robber called the police and was arrested.  Former enemies, Americans and Russians, now have a great deal in common. They both lead the world in locking people up.  In Alabama it's against the law to play dominoes on Sunday.

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 Earthquakes

 There are about 800 earthquakes per year in British Columbia.  Tsunamis are caused by earthquakes under the ocean.  After a large earthquake the earth rings like a bell.  Japan has about 3 smaller earthquakes every day of the year.

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 One in every four Americans has appeared on Television.  The Matrix Reloaded is banned in Egypt because of its content.  James Bond code number 007 temporarily becomes 7777 in You Only Live Twice.  James Bond's creator, Ian Fleming, was a spy for the British Navy during World War II.  Lost is the most expensive television show ever filmed.  Lost was filmed in Hawaii.  Bruce Lee had to slow down his movements so the camera could catch the action.  Steve McQueen was considered to play the lead role for Dirty Harry.  The movie "American Werewolf in Paris" was filmed in Luxembourg.  Kirk Douglas and Samuel L. Jackson used to be cheerleaders in their childhood.  The first Oscar for Special Effects was awarded in 1940.  The film Mary Poppins was shot entirely indoors.  Sylvester Stallone earned $23,000 for the film Rocky in 1976.  The badge-number of Dirty Harry is 2211.  The Hollywood sign cost $21,000 to build.  Oprah Winfrey was the first African American woman to win the title Miss Fire Prevention in Nashville, 1971.  Nicole Kidman is scared of butterflies.  The actor George Clooney is very scared of earthquakes.  Bruce Lee was born in the U.S. but he was raised in Hong Kong.  The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.  John Wayne's neck was 18 inches long.  Jennifer Aniston lived in Greece for a year during childhood.  Tom Cruise given name at birth was Thomas Cruise Mapother IV.  Cary Grant never said, "Judy, Judy, Judy" in any movie.  Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a bellybutton.  Bill Clinton and Oprah Winfrey are left-handed.  Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.  Bruce Willis was born in Germany.  Walt Disney was afraid of mice.  Harrods has a dress code. Kate Winslet was once refused to enter Harrods department store.  Tom Hanks collects old typewriters.  David Letterman's suits are all custom made.  In 1991 Tom Beranger appeared in a Japanese commercial for Lark cigarettes.  Bruce Lee invented his own style of martial art, jeet kwun do.  Oprah Winfrey was the first billionaire among African-American woman.  Marilyn Monroe appeared on the first cover of Playboy in 1953.  Tom Beranger has worked as a flight steward for Eastern Airlines.  Audrey Hepburn loved to eat sour apples.  Tom Beranger is fluent in Spanish.  Charles Bronson is a very good painter.  Sean Connery has worked as a milkman.  Oprah Winfrey once lost 90 pounds in weight.  David Letterman was born 1947 in Indianapolis.  The Actress Jamie Lee Curtis invented a special diaper for babies. The diaper has a pocket.  John Wayne got his nickname "Duke" from a dog.  "60 Minutes," on CBS is the only television show that doesn't have a theme song.  John Travolta flies his own jetplane.  Charlie Chaplin once lost a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest. He won the third prize.  At the age of five Shirley Temple won an Oscar in 1934 and became the youngest person ever to win the prize.  Ben-Hur, Titanic and Lord of the Rings won 11 Oscars each.  The Hollywood sign was in 1976 changed into Hollyweed.  The original title of the movie Temple of Doom was Indiana Jones and the Temple of Death.  The Sound of Music won the Academy Awards for Best Picture in 1965.  Pippi Langstrump is from Sweden.  Lucille Ball in television show "I Love Lucy" was a natural brunette and not a redhead.  The movie Thunderball is the first James Bond film to be shot in widescreen.  Homer Simpson's full name is Homer Jay Simpson.  Sean Connery were considered as Captain von Trapp in the musical "The Sound of Music".  The Color Purple were nominated for 11 awards but did not get any prize.  The Hollywood sign was once changed to HOLYWOOD during a visit from the Pope.  Walt Disney named Micky Mouse after Mickey Rooney.  In 1955 the British Open is on TV for the first time.  Walt Disney had 64 Oscar nominations in total.  The movie Wayne's World was filmed in only two weeks.  A red car can be seen in the movie Ben Hur.  The voice of E.T was done by Deborah Winger.  Sean Connery and Charles Bronson won a Golden Globe in 1972.  Charles Bronson has starred in 93 movies.  The movie You're in the army now has the longest kiss in movie- history. The kiss is 185 seconds long.  The first kiss in Hollywood was done by Natalie Woods and Warren Beatty.  The movie 'The kiss' is about 30 seconds long and show a man and a woman kissing.  Hill Valley in the movie 'Back to the future' is the same as Kingston Falls in 'Gremlins'.  The letter 'L' in the Hollywood sign was once on fire in 1978.  Baywatch is one of the most successful television series of all time.  Richard Pryor was one of the writers of the movie Blazing Saddles.  Harry Potter has been translated into 55 languages.  James Bond is the longest running series of movies in history.  Tarzan has been featured in over 40 movies.  Jerry Seinfeld has his cornflakes in alfabetic order.  All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.  All the Friends episodes have names that starts with "The One Where...".)  Hollywood films were prohibited from even inferring the existance of homosexuality.  The name Hollywood comes after an English race horse.  In the film Forrest Gump, all the still photos show Forrest with his eyes closed.  Hollywood made Over a hundred films in Yiddish in the 30's and 40's.  Hollywood used to be called Hollywoodland.  In the early days of film making, people who worked on the sets were called movies. The films were called motion pictures.  The first toilet ever seen on TV was in "Leave It to Beaver".  Peter Falk, who played "Columbo" has a glass eye.  Indians go out to the cinema 3 billion times a year.  In 1971, cigarette ads were banned from television in the U.S..  In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.  Malaysia has the lowest rate of cinema attendance in the world.  Bollywood is the largest film industry in the world.  The kung fu legend Bruce lee was in the 60 series GREEN HORNET.  The longest running animated series on TV is The Simpsons.

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 It takes around 10 litres of milk to make 1kg of cheese.  About 1 billion people lack access to clean drinking.  About 400 quarter pounders can be produced by one cow.  There are 26 species of peppers.  If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib.  Dr Pepper is the oldest major soft drink in America.  Sugar can lower your immune system.  The wreck of the TITANIC holds the oldest wine cellar in the world.  Acne is caused by bacteria.  7-Up was invented in St. Louis.  You will not find burritoes in Mexico.  The most popular Easter candy in the US is chocolate eggs.  All hot chiles originates from the Western hemisphere.  Raw honey does not spoil.  The body of a 70 kg person contains about 2 mg of silver.  It takes about 8 - 10 seconds for food to travel down the esophagus.  The body of a 70 kg person contains about 7 mg of arsenic.  Peter Dowdeswell drunk 2 pints of milk in just 3.2 seconds.  Peter Dowdeswell ate 12 lb/5.44 kg of Ice cream in 45.5 seconds.  The body of a 70 kg person contains about 43 kg of oxygen.  The body of a 70 kg person contains about 0.2 mg of gold.  Tomato is the world's most popular fruit.  Tooth decay is still one of the most common human disease in the world.  The most popular ice cream flavors are Vanilla, Chocolate and Strawberry.  Antarctica is the only continent where pumpkins cant grow.  A Pumpkin is made of about 90 % of water.  Vermont is the only US state capital without a McDonalds restaurant.  Zoom teeth whitening can get Your teeth up to 10 Shades Whiter.  Grapes and egg will explode in the microwave.  The first ice cream parlour opened in New York City in 1776.  Coca-Cola was first bottled in Mississippi.  Coca-Cola was originally marketed for medical use.  Apples will melt in very hot weather.  Fanta was originally made from byproducts of cheese and jam.  A good cow produces about 200000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.  In the 1830s 7 - Up was sold as medicine.  Soy sauce is probably one of the oldest condiment in the world.  During Thanksgiving and Super Bowl the food consumption is larger than any other day in the US.  Some people in Malaysia wash their babies in beer to protect them from diseases.  The Mayans and Aztecs used to drink cocoa drinks.  Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.  Peanuts aren't really nuts but are actually a type of bean.  It takes about 5000 liters of water to produce 1 kilo of rice.  To make one liter of honey you will need the nectar from about 10 million flowers.  To make one pound of chocolate about 400 cocoa beans are required.  A bee produce only 1/12 of a teaspoon of honey during her entire lifetime.  There are over 225 different kinds of bread in Germany.  Hot Dog comes from Germany.  Caesar Salad is not named after Julius Caesar but after chef Caesar Cardini.  If you eat too many carrots your skin could turn orange.  No other species than humans drink milk from the mothers of other species.  If you kiss someone for one minute you will burn about 6 - 7 calories.  A kiss could result in an exchanged of over 270 colonies of bacteria.  The milk of reindeer has more fat than cow milk.  People in Sweden eat about 1 kg/person of ham each Christmas.  Sweden is one of the top consumers per capita of ketchup in the world.  The upperclass Romans used powdered mouse brains as toothpaste.  If you lick 10 stamps you will consume one calorie.  Popcorn was invented by the American Indians.  Turks drink more tea than any other people in the world.  An overweight person is about 5 times more likely to get a heart disease.  The glue on Israeli postage stamps is kosher.  Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.  It takes about 6 hours for your stomach to digest a high fat meal.  25% of the weight of your old pillow is from dust & dust mites.  In 1886, Coca-cola was first served at a pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia. It was a pharmacist named John Pemberton who creator of Coca-cola.  Banging your head against a wall uses about 150 calories an hour.  Americans consume about 42 tons of Aspirin each day.  It takes about four and five pounds of grapes to make one pound of raisins.  The first toilet stall in a public washroom is the least likely to be used. It is also the cleanest.  Rice is the staple food for 50% of the worldȔs population.  Potatoes, pineapples, and pumpkins originate from Peru.  More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food.  Iceland is the world largest Coca-Cola consumers per capita.  China produces more apples than the rest of the world put together.  The city of Denver in Colorado lays claim to the invention of the cheeseburger.  Pearls melt in vinegar.  A hard-boiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not.  Chewing gum while peeling onions will prevent you from crying.  There is no butter in buttermilk.  There are over 40 000 varieties of rice grown worldwide.  80% of the Vanilla Beans which are used in ice cream is grown in Madagascar.  Coca-Cola was originally green.  Rats destroy an estimated 1/3 of the worldȔs food supply each year.  The astronauts Neil Armstrong ate roasted turkey as his first meal on the moon.  All foods have some water in them.  The largest McDonald's is in Beijing, China. It has twenty nine cash registers and measuring 28,000 square feet.  You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.  There are over 7 000 varieties of apples.  Great Britain has the highest consumption of ice cream in Europe.  You use more calories eating celery than there are in the celery itself.  During your lifetime you will eat about the weight of 6 fullgrown elephants.  Rice contains no fiber at all.  Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left- handed people do.  The number 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the ingredients in the sauce.  Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.  Mexican women spend 15.3% of their life in ill health.  In the U.S. ice cream is sold most on a Sunday.  Americans eat 18% more vegetables today than they did in 1970.  One in three adults aged 15-49 are infected with HIV/AIDS in Botswana, Zimbabwe, and Swaziland.  In the 1800's people believed that gin could cure stomach problems.  Rice needs more water to grow than any other crop.  Patients stay in hospital for an average of almost 10 days in Switzerland, which has the most hospital beds per 1000 people.  On average, women in New Zealand do not give birth until they are 30 years old.  22% of American women aged 20 gave birth while in their teens. In Switzerland and Japan, only 2% did so.

 ------ Humans

 About 10% of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.  About 80% of your poo is water.  You swallow about a quart of snot everyday.  Enamel is the hardest substance in your body.  The skin is the largest organ in Your body.  About half of your body's heat is lost through your head.  In only 1 minute a human body will produce about 100000 kilometres of DNA.  About 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced each year.  Stape bone is the smallest bone in the human body.  The human body has about 2.5 million sweat glands.  Humans babies are born without Kneecaps.  Humans have about 30 000 genes.  Humans have only two times more genes than a fruit fly.  The human brain is 80% water.  The human head contains 22 bones.  The human body contains 4.5 litres of blood.  Humans has about five million hairs on the whole body.  Girls and boys cries just as much up to the year 12.  There are 205 bones in the human body.  Humans are radioactive.  Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.  Humans can grow up to 3 times as much during the month mars to juli than during winter.  Humans take about 23000 breaths every day.  Humans share about 50% of their DNA with bananas.  Humans might be the only animal that throw snowballs.  Humans nose can identify over 10000 different odors.  Humans are the only animals that chew gum.  Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second.  Only 10% of the nerves in your body are pain nerves.  ------

 Hurricanes

 Wind makes no sound until it blows against some object.  The Atlantic Hurricane Gilbert had a speed of 299 kilometres per hour.  The deadliest hurricane in Canadian history took the life of 4000 people in September 1775.  A tropical Cyclone called typhoon Tip was 1110 kilometres wide, Pacific Ocean 1979.  In Pakistan, Bangladesh and India hurricanes are known as cyclones.  The deadliest Atlantic hurricane in History killed 22000 in October 1780.  An average hurricane season creates about 10 tropical storms in the Atlantic ocean.  Hurricane winds in the southern hemisphere circulate clockwise while in the northern hemisphere the wind circulate counterclockwise.  About 300000 homes were destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.  After Hurricane Katrina Google Earth added about 8000 aerial photographs of flooded areas to help workers with data.  Every hurricane has an eye where the wind is calm.  The strongest winds and heaviest rain occur in the wall that surrounds the calm eye.  Accordingly to the Saffir-Sinpson hurricane scale a category five means wind speed of 155 mph and up.  The hurricane season in the US is from the first of June until the last of November.  Inside an hurricanes eye it can sometimes be clear sunny skies.  The reason for naming tropical storms and hurricanes is to make it easier for residents to prevent confusion and to remember.  Naming tropical storms and hurricanes began officially in 1953.  A tornado is also called a "twister".  Tornadoes is created when cool air overrides a layer of warm air.  Mayans used human sacrifices to prevent hurricanes.  When a hurricane hits land it tends to weaken in strength.  Tornadoes can spin up to about 300mph.  A hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons.  Hurricanes would be invisible if it didn't pick up dust.  Tornadoes can occur in any US state.  The Atlantic hurricane names are recycled every 6 years. The Atlantic Hurricane Names 2006 are Alberto, Beryl, Chris, Debby, Ernesto, Florence, Gordon, Helene, Isaac, Joyce, Kirk, Leslie, Michael, Nadine, Oscar, Patty, Rafael, Sandy, Tony, Valerie and William.

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 Indonesia

 The wife of a Sultan is called a Sultana.  WWF has recently discover a new species of mammal in central Borneo.  Indonesia consists of 300 different ethnic groups.  Indonesia is the world's most populated Muslim nation.  In Bali you could get change for money back in candy because money is worth so little.  Bali is located in the world's richest marine biogeographical region.  Bali has the worlds most variety of flora.  The people in Bali only have one of four names, Wayan, Made, Nyoman, and Ketut. If they got a fifth child it starts all over again with Wayan.  Indonesia has the longest coastline in the world. It stredges about 85,000 km.  Indonesia is home to more volcanoes than any other country.  The largest flower in the world is found in Sumatra. The name of the flower is the rafflesia arnoldi.  The Borobudur Temple in Central Java is the largest Buddhist temple in the World.  Indonesia is the world's biggest archipelago with over 17,000 islands.  The Senayan Stadium in Jakarta was the largest stadium in the world 1962 and host for the Asian Games.  In Indonesia they have over 300 different languages.  The flying foxes that live in Indonesia have a nearly six feet wide wingspans.  The world's largest lizard has its home in Indonesia.  Borneo is home to the world's greatest diversity of gliding animals.  The Balinese have no word in their languge for art or artist.

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 IT & Internet

 The Afghan capital Kabul has a cyber cafe.  Accordingly to Google Zeitgeist the top search in India June 2007 is the phrase reliance data card.  Google offers its employees free lunch.  BBC has 43 different translations of its website.  Google's employees get free haircuts.  Google receives more than 1000 resumes a day.  About 47 million laptops where shipped worldwide 2006.  Over 2.7 billion searches are made on Google search engine each month.  1 of every 8 married couples in the US last year met online.  If myspace was a country it would be the 11th largest.  Google can be queried in 36 languages (2007).  Google uses over 10,000 networked computers to crawl the web.  Google has 2007 surpassed Microsoft as the world's most-visited site.  Google have won 2007 most powerful brand by a British research company.  The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.  The number of text messages sent and received every day exceeds the worlds population.  Google staff are known as Googlers.  The founders of Google didn't know HTML and just wanted a quick interface, thats one of the main reason why the home page is so bare.  The name "Google" comes from a spelling mistake, the founders intendent to write "Googol".  Google launched their search site in 1998.  The Google function "I feel lucky" is nearly never used, well compared to the high number of users.  Google comes from the word googol, which is 1 followed by a hundred zeros.  Wikipedia has a page devoted to toilet roll holders. Read more  Atari sold 400000 VCS consoles in 1979.  The Atari 2600 only has 128 bytes of RAM.  In Sweden the @ is called "snabel-a" wich means a "trunk with an a".  The floppy disk was patents in 1946 by Alan Shugart.  If you type in failure in google, and select "I'm feeling lucky", you will be redirected to the White House web page.  Yahoo stands for Yet Another 'Hierarchical Organizational Oracle'.  PHP originally stood for Personal Home Page.  The oldest surviving computer in the world is called CSIRAC and is located in Melbourne.  The word maps is often in the top 10 search words submitted to search engines.  The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.  Bill Gates began programming computers at age 13.  Google receives about 200 million search queries each day. More than half of which come from outside the United States. During the heviest traffic more than 2,000 search queries are answered each second.  More than 80% of home pages on the Web are in English. German has only 4.5% and Japanese 3.1%.  The percentage of email messages in English is estimates to vary between 60% and 85%.  The words "electronic mail" was introduced 30 years ago. Queen Elizabeth of Britain sent her first email in 1976.  Sweden has the most affordable broadband internet access in Europe.  The highest amount of money paid for a domain name is for business.com, $7.5 million.  The save icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk with the shutters on backwards.  Internet was designed to survive thermonuclear assault".  Every single possible 3 character.com domain has been registered.  Internet advertising is the fastest growing advertising medium.  Bill Gates house was partially designed using a Macintosh computer.  All domain names in Slovakia are free.  88% of websites have no discernible traffic.  Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month.  28% of IBM employees are Indians.  Each day an average American depends on about 250 computers.  Microsoft is the biggest developer of Mac software outside Apple.  The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of 5 Megabytes.  Maps are often among the top words submitted to Internet search engines.  The most popular non-HTML format files return from Google is PDF-format.  Dr. Lieven P. Van Neste is the owner of over 200,000 domain names.  The top searchwords in Google where September 19, 2005 "hurricane rita".  Only 10% of all the pages on the Internet make it to the search engines.  In 1982 Time magazine named the computer its "Man of the Year".  Microsoft writes the code for autopilot systems in all major airplanes.  Internet is one of the fastest growing forms of advertising.  In computer language, wysiwyg is an acronym for "what you see is what you get".  About one-third of recorded CDs are pirated.  In the early days of computers, black and white monitors were thought sufficient to satisfy all future data processing needs.

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 Japan

 There is a desert in Japan, Tottori Sand Dunes.  There are about 200 volcanoes in Japan.  There is usally no insulation in Japanese homes' walls.  There are no 24 hour ATMs in Japan.  In Japan, the green traffic light is called "blue".  There are wild monkeys in Japan.  Normally, Japanese kitchens don't have ovens.  In Japan you eat your soup with chopsticks.  Japanese have the highest life expectancy in the world, about 81- 82 years.  In Japan the art of paper folding is called Origami.  Over 90% of the Japanese population buy a comic-magazine daily.  Manga account for about 80% Of Japan's Book Economy.  Japanese and Chinese people die on the fourth of the month more often than any other dates.  Some farmers grow square watermelons in Japan.  The most populated city in the world is Tokyo, with 30 million residents.  Japanese car brands were named after rice, Toyota and Honda.  The two most common last names in Japan is Sato and Suzuki.  Some years up to about 100 people die of poison from the highly toxic fish called fugu.  In Japanese language there is no single word for water. They say mizu for cold water and oyu for hot water.  Tsunami means harbor wave and is a Japanese word.  At McDonalds the hamburgers in Japan are the same size as in America, but the drinks are one size smaller.  The bathroom is not where the toilet is found in a Japanese home.  In Japan, the Number 4 is associated with death.  In Japan, streets donȔt have names.  In Japan, whale is a delicacy.  Japan has more than 40 active volcanoes.  Japan is one of the best recycling countries in the world.  Until quite recently, most Japanese children used to celebrate their birthdays on first of January, regardless of which day of the year they were born on.  Japan is made up of over 6000 islands.  A deadly martial art in Japan exists based solely on a Fan. And that is tessenjutsu.  In Japanese the word for "different" and "wrong" are the same.  The average cost of a Japanese wedding including a honey-moon is about $40,000.  The biggest exporter of frog's legs in the world is Japan.  In Japan, the most popular topping for pizza is Squid.  Many Japanese golfers have a hole-in one insurance. In Japan it is traditional to share your good luck by sending gifts to all your friends when you get an "Ace".  In Japan, 20% of all publications sold are comic books.  Japan you can buy marmelade produced by pressure treatment instead of heating.  The number of keys on a Japanese typewriter is 2400.  The Japanese consider it inappropriate to show affection in public.  Japan is a world leader in climate research.  Frogs are the symbols of Good Luckin Japan.  Watermelons in Japan can cost up to $100.  In Tokyo a bicycle is usually faster than a car for most trips up to 50 minutes.  Tokyo was once known as Edo.  About 1000 new soft drinks are launched in Japan every year.  The red dot on Japan's flag stands for the sun.  Green tea is the national drink of Japan.  In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs.  The number of days that a criminal suspect can be held without being charged is 23.  In Japan it is common to eat rice, soup or steamed vegetables in the morning.  In Japan, there are special slippers for the toilet.  In Japan they drink tea with almost every meal..  In Japan, the teachers move from class to class and the students stay in one room.

 ------ Kissing

 You burn over 25 calories in a one minute kiss.  The first screen kiss wasn't allowed in India until 1978.  Kissing is healthier than shaking hands.  A kiss contains about 9 milligram of water and about 0,7 grams of fat and protein.  Kama sutra includes 30 different kinds of kisses.  Romans could kiss each other on the eyes as a greeting.  About 90% of the worlds population kisses.  kissing helps prevent tooth decay.  Malaysians rub noses instead of kissing.  The scientific name for kissing is philematology.  The highest sign of recognition in Russia was a kiss from the Tsar.  You can't catch acne by kissing someone who has the symptoms.  Ancient Egyptians didn't kissed with their mouths. Instead they kissed with their noses.  In 2004 more than 5000 couples in Manila went out on the street and kissed.  About 50% of all people have their first kiss before they are 14.  Alfred Wolfram from New Brighton kissed 8001 people in just 8 hours.  Kissing prolongs life.  What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.

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 Language

 The Russian word Stalin means "man of steel".  Chernobyl means worm wood.  The word trivia comes from the Latin trivium.  There are (about) 6703 different languages in the world.  The original name of Broadway was the Wiechquaekeck Trail.  A filipino man, Jose Rizal, could read and write at age 2.  South Korea has a special day to celebrate their Alphabet called Hangul on October 9th.  The name FIAT comes from Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino.  Benjamin Franklin was named after his uncle Benjamin.  The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.  The name PEZ is derived from the German word for peppermint using the first, middle and the last letters.  Tintin has been translated into over 58 languages.  Irish whiskey is spelt with an 'e' an Scotch whisky is spelt without an 'e'.  Many of the state names comes from native American languages. Exampel, the tribe Ute name themselves Utah.  Pacman was originally called Puckman.  Hurricane names are reused all the time. A new name is added only if a hurricane is very deadly or costly.  Mount Everest is named after an Englishman called George Everest.  Ikea means Ingvar Kamprad, Elmtaryd, Agunnaryd. Elmtaryd is a farm in the parish of Agunnaryd.  Mesopotamia means land between the rivers.  The word cool and hip comes from jazz.  Korea used to be spelled Corea. It was the Japanese who respelled Corea as Korea.  The word for sleep is the same as for dream in Spanish and Italian.  There are about 6700 languages in the world.  Blogs is now a subject in Jeapordy.  The correct spelling for the word Google is really Googol.  Eskimos have more than twenty words to describe snow.  A village in Mexico is named Honey.  The most widely spoken language in the world is Mandarin Chinese (837,000,000) followed by English (370,000,000).  China has more English speaking people than the United States.  The word sugar is the only English word starting with SU where the S is pronounced SH.  There is only one 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating any letter, uncopyrightable.  The first word spoken on the moon was the word "okay".  The number of people to speak English as a second language is about 375 million.  Pinocchio is a Italian word for "pine eye".  Before Jets, Jet lag was called "Boat lag".  No word in the English language rhymes with month.  Mafia is an old Arabic word that means sanctuary.  The 45 letter word PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS is the longest word in English. The word refers to a lung disease caused by breathing in certain particles  A coward was originally a boy who took care of cows.  The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.  Before the year 1000, the word "she" did not exist in the English language.  To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.  The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.  A group of kangaroos is called a mob.  Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that make them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.  The South Korean capital Seoul, just means "the capital" in the Korean language.  I am, is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.  Zorro means fox in Spanish.  The phrase "rule of thumb" comes from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.  Typewriter is the longest word that can be created by using only the top row of the keyboard.  The most difficult language to learn is Basque, spoken in northwestern Spain and southwestern France.  The three words that people misspelled most are achievement, acquire, and accumulate.  The word karate means empty hand.  The first word in the Declaration of Independence is "When".  The most common name for a goldfish is "Jaws".  The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.  The most common name in the world is Mohammed.  There are no words in the English language that rhyme with silver and orange.  There are only 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet.  The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat". It means that "the King is dead".  The most commonly used word in English conversation is "I".  The word "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".  The term "bonfire" is not a good name to use for a large fire. The origin of the word "bonfire" was from "bonefire," a fire in which bones were burnt.  Doberman dogs are named after the German tax collector Ludwig Doberman who bred them as his personnel guard dogs.  McDonalds calls frequent buyers of their food "heavy users".  The actual timeunoit for a jiffy is 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.  Cleveland spelled backwards is "DNA level C".  The dot on top of the letter "i" is called a tittle. Tittle is Latin and means that something is very small.  In Chinese script, there are more than 40 000 characters.  The longest word in the Old Testament is "Malhershalahashbaz".  Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".  Maine is the only state in the United States whose name is just one syllable.  In 1939 Erneset Vincent Wright published a novel called Gadsby. It's a story of Over 50 000 Words without Using the Letter "E".  The stars you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes.  Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim or handle of their ceramic cups. When they needed refill they used the whistle. "Wet your whistle" is the phrase inspired by this practice.  The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.  The ampersand & was once a letter of the English alphabet.  The "you are here" arrow that you can see in maps is called an "ideo locator".  "Aegilops" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.  Thailand means "land of the free".  The most common name in the world is Mohammed.  In the year of 1880's the word "pants" was considered a dirty word in England.

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 Hip-Hop Culture was created in 1971.  Elvis once said, I dont know anything about music. In my line you dont have to.  Elvis favorite after-shave was Brut.  Frank Sinatra gave Marilyn Monroe a white poodle named Mafia.  Madonna and Michael Jackson are the same age.  Elvis was an huge gun collector. His collection of 40 weapons included M-16s and a Thompson submachine gun.  John Lennon was killed on Jim Morrison's birthday.  Johnny Cash was called the man in black.  The airplane that Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." Don McLean made a song of the name.  50 Cent calls his son 25 Cent.  Madonna kissed Britney Spears in 2003.  Elvis Presley and Liberace were both twins. Their siblings died at birth.  Jack Nicholson and Whitney Houston where born in New Jersey.  Thelma Pickles was John Lennon's first girlfriend.  Elvis's home Graceland is the second most visited house in the US. The White House in Washington is number one.  Dolly Parton once lost a Dolly Parton look-alike contest.  A Mexican musician, Ramon Barrero, famous for playing the world's smallest harmonica, inhaled the harmonica and choked to death.  Elvis Presley enjoyed to collect statuettes of Joan of Arc and Venus de Milo.  At the age of five years old Jennifer Lopez started taking singing and dancing lessons.  Duran Duran took their name from a mad scientists in the Jane Fonda movie Barbarella.  Million Dollar Quartet is the name of a jam session made by Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins.  Led Zeppelin was originally going to be called The New Yardbirds.  Johnny Cash recorded about 1500 songs.  Celine Dion represented Switzerland in 1988 Eurovision Song Contest.  The only one in ZZ Top not to have a beard is Frank Beard.  ABBA got the name from the first letter of each group member's name, Agnetha, Benny, Bjorn, Anni-frid.  The first country ever not to receive any votes in Eurovision Song contest was Norway in 1978.  The worlds smallest violin is only 37 millimetres long and is small enough to fit in a box of matches.  That Gloucestershire airport in England used to blast Tina Turner songs on the runways to scare away the birds.  Stevie Wonder was the youngest artist to have a number one hit on the US album chart.  The first CD pressed in the U.S. was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA".  Elvis Presley had the most number one albums by a male soloist in the US charts.  The Beatles are the biggest selling group ever.  The biggest selling movie soundtrack is Saturday Night Fever.  Ireland has one the most Eurovision titles.  The Grateful Dead were once called The Warlocks.  Beethoven dipped his head in cold water before he composed.  Pop was once banned in India. The song "Tirchi Topiwale" became so popular that the police were instructed to fine 50 rupees to anyone caught singing it.  Madonna is the most successful female solo artist.  The Greek national anthem has 158 verses.  The Swedish pop group ABBA have turned down an offer of $2 billion to reunite.  Jimi Jamison (80s band Survivor), sings the vocals for the "Bud Light Real American Heroes commercials".  The song "Strawberry Fields Forever" sung by the Beatles refers to an orphanage in Liverpool.

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 Nature & Animals

 Sri Lanka has the highest number of snakebite deaths in the world.  A puma has about 75% killing efficiency.  Woodpeckers have the longest tongues among birds.  A bean has more DNA per cell than a human cell.  A spider has transparent blood.  A giraffe can walk longer than a camel without water.  There are about 2000 species of mosquitoes.  The penguin is the only bird that can swim but not fly.  About 10 out of a 100 parrots learn to talk.  Of all the water in the world, only 2% is fresh water.  The only native mammal in Puerto Rico is the bat.  The Grand Canyon is over a mile deep.  2 rats could multiply to over 1 million descendents in less than 2 years.  A grizzly eats about 35 pounds of food each day.  Elephants are the only mammals to have four knees.  Salmon die in the river they were born in.  There are no wild snakes in Hawaii.  There are about 50 species of fish that can fly or glide.  There are over 25000 different species of fish in the world.  The Atacama Desert in northern Chile is the driest place on earth.  The Philippine eagle is the second largest eagle in the world.  Some hamsters only blink one eye at a time.  Almonds are a member of the peach family.  Bulls can run faster uphill than they can downhill.  Flying fish do not actually fly, instead they glide over the water.  The snow leopard can leapt 30 feet from standstill.  The lowest temperature ever recorded in Canada was -63 degrees Celsius in 1947, Snag River Yukon.  The Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench is the deepest place in the world. The depth is 35838 feet deep or 10923 m deep.  The Great Salt Lake is after the Dead Sea the second saltiest water-body in the world.  The Amazon River is about 4300 miles long.  The fastest land animal in the world is the cheetah with a speed up to 60 mph.  A mother hen turns over her egg about 50 times each day.  The average housefly lives for about one month.  The blue rings of the blue-ringed octopus are visible only when it's about to attack.  Rattlesnakes do not always rattle before they strike.  Queen termites are the longest living insects. They can live for 50 years.  The only continent without reptiles or snakes is Antarctica.  The fastest swimmer of all fish is the swordtail.  The largest pearl ever found in an oyster was 620 carats.  The Amazon River is home to two types of river dolphins.  An egg contain all vitamin except for the vitamin c.  Every year the Amazon River flood an area the size of England.  An egg is a single cell.  Mt. Cotopaxi in Ecuador is home to the only glacier located on the equator.  Tapeworms can grow to about 80 feet long.  Cockroaches doesnt eat cucumbers.  Because there is no atmosphere on the moon the sky would look black to a person watching it.  Goliath frog is the largest frog in the world.  A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.  Duck eggs are the biggest eggs in the world.  Albatrosses can sleep while they are flighing.  An owl can't move its eyes from side to side.  A hen must eat about 4 pounds to produce 12 eggs.  Lightning strikes about 6000 times per minute on our planet.  There are about 15000 varieties of rice.  Rabbits like to eat licorice.  About 88% of milk is water.  Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake in the world.  At the north pole the sun is under the horizon for 186 days each year.  Waves can go around corners.  The first known dinosaur skeleton was found in New Jersey in 1858.  The tropical stick insect is the longest insect in the world.  The biggest living thing in the world is a fungus.  The Great Barrier Reef is home to about 400 species of different corals.  It takes 15 facial muscles to laugh.  An apple is covered with a thin layer of wax.  A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a coffee bean.  Pumpkins were once recommended for removing freckles.  The coyote can run up to a speed of 40 mph.  The panda's diet consists of about 95% bamboo.  There are almost 200 species of monkeys.  Some butterflies have ears on their wings.  All monkeys have tails.  Polar bear fur is not white, it only appears white to us.  A grizzly bear can run up to about forty miles per hour.  A grizzly bear give birth while in their winter sleep.  Acid rain start as regular rain. It becomes acid when it falls through clouds of pollution.  Dolphins can swim at a speed up to 37 miles per hour.  Cobras are able to kill immediately after they are born.  Flamingos are able to bend their knees backward.  Elephant seals can dive to a depth of about 5000ft.  A camel can drink over 25 gallons of water at a time.  A kangaroo can't walk backwards.  Dolphins eat about one-third of their body weight each day.  Dolphins sleep with one eye open.  Aspen Trees are the largest living organism in the world.  A lizard's tail will grow back if cut off.  The gecko's eyes are open all the time.  Like a fingerprint every person has a unique tongueprint.  Finland is home to one the cleanest water in the world.  Finland has about 190000 lakes.  Finland has the largest number of islands in the world.  It has been said that it's impossible for humans to lick their own elbow. This is not true, some people can do it and I have seen it myself.  Gold will never erode.  Scorpions glow under UV-light.  Lions sleeps about 19 - 20 hours a Day.  When water freezes it will expand by 9%.  A gray fox can climb trees.  The famous tulips of Holland originated in Turkey.  At an average speed of 15 feet a day the sloth is the slowest animal on earth.  At a speed of about 150 miles per hour the Peregrine Falcon is the fastest animal on earth.  An avalanche can make snow travel up to the speed of 100 miles per hour.  Reindeers can jump about 8 - 10 feet into the air.  Snow is a good insulator and can keep things warm.  There are no tigers in the world with the same stripes.  a Wild turkey can run about 25 miles an hour.  Mosquitos have 47 teeth.  The ant can lift 50 times its own weight.  Frogs drink and breathe through their skin.  A group of tigers is called a streak.  Seals sleep only about one and a half minutes each time.  Nobody knows what happens to the seahorse during winter. They are only seen during summertime.  Tsunami waves can travel up to 400 miles per hour, faster than a commercial jet.  Sometimes beavers die because of trees that falls.  If you can see a rainbow you must have your back to the sun.  The total weight of all the worlds ants is more than the total weight of all the people.  We loose about 75 hair from our head each day.  A mole will die if it doesn't get food within 12 hours.  Men and Women fart about 14 times each day.  When you sneeze your heart stops for a short while.  10 out of a 100 parrots learn to talk.  There are some giant land turtles that are able to bellow.  Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning.  A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.  We shrink about one centimeter every day.  About 50% of the world's tropical forests have gone lost.  On average, about 35-40 volcanoes erupt each year.  A tree in metropolitan area will survive about eight years.  Mosquito repellents don't repel at all instead it will hide you.  A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.  The largest bat has almost a 6 foot wing span.  The only animal, apart from a human, that can get a sunburn is a pig.  An olive tree can live up to 1500 years.  Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.  A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.  Dolphins sleep with one eye open.  Ants don't sleep at all.  A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years.  The ant, when intoxicated, will always fall over to its right side.  Butterflies taste with their feet.  If Antarctica's ice would melt the oceans would rise about 60 meters.  All polar bears are left-handed.  You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206.  The venom in a Daddy Long-Legs spider is more poisonous than the venom of a Black Widow but they cannot bite humans because their fangs are to short.  A barnacle has the largest penis of all animal in relation to its size.  Your foot and your forearm, (from your wrist to the inside of your elbow), are the same length.  Oak trees are struck by lightning more than any other tree.  Electric eels produce enough energy in one shock to light up every room in an average three bedroom house.  The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.  When opossums are playing possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.  Frogs cannot live in the sea or any salt water.  An elaphant's teeth can weigh as much as nine pounds.  Goats and octopus' eyes have rectangular pupils.  Eskimos use refrigerators to keep their food from freezing.  There are between 5,000 and 7,000 tigers kept as pets in the United States.  Flies taste with their feet.  Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.  There are 1,462 recorded species of edible insects.  The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2 200 people.  Frogs absorb water through their skin and don't need to drink water.  There are microbes whose optimal growth temperature is above 100 C.  A goldfish memory is three seconds.  The white part of your fingernail is called the lunula.  People who chase after rare birds are called twitchers.  Lightning strikes men about seven times more often than it strike women.  The heart of a blue whale is the size of a small car.  The tongue of a blue whale is as long as an elephant.  Frogs need both water and land to live.  A full moon always rises at sunset.  Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.  An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.  Our eyes are always the same size from birth to death.  About 10% of the earth's surface is permanently covered with ice.  A jellyfish is 95 percent water.  For 3000 years, until 1883, hemp was the world's largest agricultural crop, from which the majority of fabric, soap, medicines, paper, and oils were produced.  Tigers have striped skin as well as striped fur.  It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.  The thumbnail grows the slowest while the middle nail grows the fastest.  It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.  A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down.  About 38% of North America is wilderness.  Time slows down near a black hole and ceases to exist inside a black hole.  In 1958 the US sent 2 mice into space - Benjy and Laska.  Hair is made from the same substance as fingernails.  A lightning bolt reaches up to 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit.  To survive, every bird must eat at least half its own weight in food each day.  There are 27650 known species of fish.  From space, the brightest man-made place in the world is Las Vegas in Nevada.  Sound travels through water much faster, about 4 times, than through air. Through steel, it can travel roughly 15 times faster than air.  Male horses have more teeth than female horses. Males have 40 while females have 36.  Turnip seeds can increase their weight 15 times a minute and in rich soil they may increase their weight 15 000 times a day.  The world's largest carnivorous animal is the Alaskan brown bear.  The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.  The distance traveled by light in one year is approximately six million miles.  Your ears never stop growing no matter how old you are.  The first picture on the moon was taken with a Swedish camera.  The first spacecraft to reach the moon was in 1959.  The diamond is the hardest natural substance found on earth.  The Greyhounds can jump a distance of 27 feet.  Yuma in Arizona has most sunny days in USA. On average, each year there are 332 sunny days.  Platinum is so rare that two million pounds of ore may contain only one pound of metal.  111111111 x 111111111 = 12345678987654321.  Quartz is one of the most common minerals on Earth.  You can smell a skunk at 000 000 000 000 071 ounce of its spray.  Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child is two to six years of age.  Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.  Male and female rats may have sex twenty times a day.  A snake just like all reptiles are incapable of learning.  A snail can sleep for three years.  The little bumps on your tongue hold more than 9,000 taste buds.  Snakes are completely deaf.  The Albatross has a wing span of up to 14 feet and needs only to land once every couple of years to breed.  Snakes have no eyelids.  The only month in recorded history that didn't have a full moon was in February 1865.  Lightning travels from the ground upwards not from the sky downwards.  Pearls melt in vinegar.  Rougly 75% of a living tree is composed of water.  Most snakes have over 200 teeth.  In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.  Blood is about 78% water.  Turtles can breathe through their butts.  If you fart constantly for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.  Mexico City sinks about 10 inches each year.  A cow farts about 600 litres of metangas every day. That is enough to fyll up 40 party ballons.  Guinea has the wettest capital on Earth with 3.7 metres of rain a year.  The heart beats about 100 000 times each day.  Your system of blood vessels is over 60 000 miles long. That's long enough to go around the world more than twice.

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 Presidents

 President Nixon was first US president to resign from office.  The White House in Washington, DC. has always been white.  The first U.S. President to be born in a hospital was Jimmy Carter.  The US Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson both grew hemp and Ben Franklin owned a mill that made hemp paper.  Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first U.S. president whose name contains all the letters in the word "criminal." William Jefferson Clinton was the second.  George Washington was the first President to be seen at a postage stamp.  John Kerry's hometown newspaper, the Lowell Sun, endorsed George W. Bush for president. Bush's hometown newspaper, the Lone Star Iconoclast, endorsed John Kerry for president.  Martin Van Buren, the eighth president in U.S., was the first president to be born in the United States of America.  Thomas Jefferson was the first President of the U.S. to live in the White House.  George Washington's salary a year was $25,000.  Abraham Lincoln had no middle name.  Millard Fillmore was the first President in U.S. to have a stove in the White House.  John F. Kennedy is the only president to have died before his parents.  Before you can run for President in the U.S. you must be a natural born citizen, a citizen for at least 14 years and be 35 years of age.  President Gerald Ford had a different name at birth. His name was Leslie King.  Jimmy Carter once reported a UFO in Georgia.  In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons.  James Madison was the smallest president in U.S. history. He stood 5 foot 4 inches long and weighed about 90 pounds.  At least three the U.S. presidents were left-handed. Harry S. Truman, James Garfield and Jerry Ford.  According to the film Fahrenheit 9/11 George Bush Sr. was sitting in a room with bin Laden's brother on the day that 9/11 happened.  The only president to be born on July 4th is Calvin Coolidge in 1872.  The first President to have a Christmas tree in the White House was Benjamin Harrison

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 Religion

 Hallelujah is Hebrew for "Praise the Lord".  The Bible has been translated into Klingon.  The youngest pope was 11 years old.  The word 'God' appears in the bible 3,358 times.  The word 'Lord' appears in the bible 7,736 times.  The Bible has been printed in 1,137 different languages.  In New Mexico, over eleven thousand people have visited a tortilla chip that appeared to have the face of Jesus Christ burned into it.  In 2001, around 168 000 bibles are distributed in the US each day.  Dionysis Exeguus - the 6th century monk whose task it was to pivot the calendar around the birth of Jesus Christ - miscalculated the founding of Rome by about 6 years. Thus the Third Millennium actually started on 31 December 1995.

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 Russia

 The Russian tundra is melting for the first time since the ice age.  Moscow has the worlds most used subway system.  Russian card decks only have 36 cards.  Russian revolution began as a protest march on International Women's Day.  The alphabet of Russian is Cyrillic.  Russia celebrate Christmas twice a year, December 25 and January 7th.  Microwave ovens were banned in Russia in 1976.  The best selling candy bar in Russia is Snickers.  Russia has more movie theaters than any other country.  It is a criminal offence to drive around in a dirty car in Russia.  During the reign of Peter the Great, any Russian nobleman who chose to wear a beard had to pay a special beard tax.  Russia grows more potatoes than any other country.  Russia covers 13% of the world.  Russian word for satellite is sputnik.  Russia is the largest maker of Asbestos.  Russia had a manned moon rocket at the same time as Apollo.

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 Sharks

 More people get killed by dogs than by sharks.  Jellyfish kill more people than the great White Shark.  South Carolina's coast host over 30 species of sharks.  A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.  More than 90% of shark attack victims survive.  More people die from falling coconuts then from shark attacks.  A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.  Sharks never get sick, they are immune to all known diseases.  The skin from a shark could be used as sandpaper.  Most sharks cant stop swimming.  In a lifetime a shark may have about 20000 teeth.  The Great White shark can have up to 6 rows of teeth.  There are 370 known species of sharks.  The Whale shark is the largest fish on earth.  32 species of sharks have ever attacked people.  Some sharks lay eggs.  The average amount of shark attacks each year in South Africa is about 3

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 Space

 Planet earth is not round.  Neutron stars are so dense that a teaspoonful would weigh more than all the people on Earth.  Space shuttles travel at approximately 17000 miles per hour.  Antarctica is one of the best place in the world to find meteorites. Dark meteorites show in the snow and dont get covered by vegetation.  When you see a full moon you will see the same side every time.  The longest possible eclipse of the Sun is 7.31 minutes.  Sweden has only one astronaut, Christer Fuglesang.  Marc Garneau was the first Canadian astronaut to fly in space.  Pluto is no longer considered as a planet.  Halley's comet nears the earth every 76 years. Halley's comet is next scheduled to return in 2062.  There is no sound in space.  Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.  A year on Mars is almost twice as long as on Earth.  Earth is not round, it is slightly pear-shaped.  Gravity is so much greater on the sun that a man weighing 150 pounds on the earth would weigh about 2 tons on the sun.  If the sun suddenly stopped shining it would take eight minutes for people on earth to be aware of it.  The distance between the earth and moon is increasing over 30 cm each year.  The first spacecraft to reach the Moon was in 1959.  Our earth is also a magnet.  Each day the sun causes about one trillion tons of water to evaporate.  More than 1 million Earths could fit inside the sun. The Sun is by far the largest object in our solar system.  Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.  Mars is home to the largest known volcano in the Solar System.  The coldest place in our solar system is Neptune's moon Triton.  Comets are a mixture of ice and dust that failed to come together as a planet. Some people called them "dirty snowballs".  All planets in our solar system orbit the sun in the same direction.  The tallest astronaut ever in space was Jim Wetherbee, standing 1.93 m tall.  Astronauts grow in space.  The Great Comet in 1843 had a tail that was over 300 kilometres long.  US space shuttles weight about 4.5 million pounds at lift off.  Mars looks red because it's covered by rust.  Astronauts cant burp in space. A burp would need gravity to separate the liquid from the gas in their stomach.  The only satellite ever to be destroyed by a satellite was the European Space Agency's Olympus in 1993.  The Sun has a mass of about 2 x 1030 kg.  About 1000 tons of material enters the atmosphere each year and land on the earths surface.  The earth has a mass of about 5.98 x 1024 kg.  Mercury is closest to the sun but the planet Venus is the hottest planet.  The only month in history not to have a full moon is February 1865.  One calendar year can contain a maximum of seven eclipses of the Sun and Moon.  The moon reflects only 6% of all light which falls upon it.  Some of the moons in our solar system are larger than some of the planets.  Of all planets, only Mercury and Venus do not have any moons.  The first geologist on the moon was Harrison Schmitt.

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 Sport

 That youngest person ever to have won a world boxing championship is Wilfred Benitez.  The Scottish government banned golf in 1647.  The cricket player Don Bradman got his nickname Goldie because of the colour of his hair.  The first All-Star baseball game was held in Chicago, 1905.  The tennis net is 36 inches high in the center.  Tennis was originally played with bare hands.  L. Sivaramakrishnan of India is the cricket player with the longest surname.  In 1980 Ken Morro from New York Islanders became the first ever to win both an Olympic gold medal and a Stanley Cup title the same year.  Between the year 1937 and 1958 there was no America's Cup.  In 1979 Wayne Gretzky scored his first point in the NHL against the Chicago Blackhawks.  A hockey puck is made of vulcanized rubber.  The goaltender in water polo was at begining standing on the pool deck.  Zola Budd, a South African long distance runner with a world record, trained and raced barefoot.  The shortest game ending in checkmate is only two moves.  A French climber, by the nickname Spiderman, has climbed the tallest building in the world.  Climbing ropes are able to hold over 6000 Pounds.  Vasaloppet in Sweden is the biggest Cross-Country Skirace in the world. The race is 90km long.  Scuba diving was invented by Jacques-Yves Cousteau in 1943.  The longest hole on a golf course is the sixth hole at the Koolan Island Course in Australia. The hole measures 860 yards.  China has their own Vasalopp and the first year only a few hundred participated in the race.  The best badminton shuttles are made from the feathers taken from the left wing of a goose.  Snowboarding was invented in the 1960s in Austria.  New Zealand and Australia are the only countries south of the equator to won medals at the Olympic Winter Games.  The Youngest winner of Tour de France was Henri Cornet at the age of 19.  Norway has won more Winter Games gold medals than any other country.  There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.  Snowboarding was invented in the 1960s in Austria.  New Zealand and Australia are the only countries south of the equator to won medals at the Olympic Winter Games.  The Youngest winner of Tour de France was Henri Cornet at the age of 19.  Norway has won more Winter Games gold medals than any other country.  The first Grand Prix race ever was won at an average speed of 46 mph.  NASCAR has by tradition only allowed American made cars to compete in the race.  The Indianapolis Motor Speedway is home to the first US long- distance auto race in 1911.  The Olympic silver medal is made of 92.5% silver.  The Olympic gold medal must contain at least six grams of gold.  All Olympic medals must be minimum 60 millimeters in diameter.  The Olympic motto is Citius, Altius, Fortius wich is Latin and means Faster, Higher, Braver.  The Olympic flag was designed in 1913 by Baron Pierre de Coubertin.  The Olympic Fire-tower in Turin is 57 metres high and that is the highest tower ever built for an Olympic Game.  Ice hockey became an Olympic sport at a Summer Olympics in Antwerp in 1920.  The total distance in Tour de France changes every year.  John Pius Boland was the first Irish-born to win an Olympic gold medal.  The first women's boxing match in the US took place in NYC, 1876.  Everton have never won the League Cup.  A linesman are estimate to run about 4 miles during a soccer game.  Mexico was the first country to host the World Cup (soccer) twice.  The biggest loss ever in a World Cup football match was between Zaire and Yugoslavia.  The Olympic gold medal is mostly made of Silver.  Snowboarding is the fastest growing sport in the world.  The five interlocking rings of the Olympic flag symbolize a meeting of the athletes from five original continents, Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and America.  Wrestling is the oldest sport in the world.  The origins of bowling is Germany.  The first time a woman from Iran competed in the Olympics was in 1996.  Manchester United were first known as Newton Heath. They changed their name in 1902.  Pakistan's national sport is hockey.  In Island boxing was not allowed before 2002.  The first sport ever to be filmed was boxing, 1894.  Only Greece and Australia have participated in every modern Olympics games since 1896.  The term forward pass was first created by the football team at Saint Louis University.  The only sport that has been played on the moon is golf. On the 6 of February 1971 Alan Shepard hit a golf ball.  The largest amount of participant in a sport is sport fishing.  Average life span of a major league baseball is 7 pitches.  Before the year 1859 umpires sat in a rocking chair behind the catcher.  Over 1800 medals are awarded at the Olympics.  A bowling pin will fall down at a tilt of 7.5 degrees.  The first puck ever to be used in a hockey game was a frozen piece of cow crap.  Sweden's National Sauna Champion is Ari Petrof. He stayed in a sauna for five hours and 10 minutes with a temperature of 212 degrees F(100 degrees C).  The penalty kick in fotball was introduced to the Game in 1891.  According to data published by FIFA 2001, over 240 million people worldwide play football.  The baseball team New York Yankees have won the most World Series Championships. Their first title was won in 1923 and they have titles in total.  The weight of a hockey puck is 0.38 lb.  The first basketball league game was held between the Toronto Huskies and the New York Knickerbockers at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto Canada on November 1, 1946. New York won the game by 68-66.  Triathlon is one of the fastest growing sports in the UK.  Speaking of NBA Basketball, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the all-time leader in field goals made with 15,837..  The first African-American quarterback in the NFL was Willie Thrower. He played for the Chicago Bears in 1953.  Hockey has been played for over three centuries.  The first time a Rugby team from Wales toured in South Africa was in 1964.  Golf was invented in Scotland. It was entitled Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden and that put the word GOLF into the vocabulary.  The only team to ever win the Superbowl that plays it's home games in a domed stadium was in 1999 in St. Louis Rams.  It takes about 3,000 cows to supply enough leather for a year's production of American footballs to be used by the NFL.  The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games in USA like the NFL,NBA, MLB, NHL or NFL are the day before and after the Major League all-stars Game.  American football originate from English rugby in the early part of 1800. The first football was round. American students played a similar game called ballown.  In tennis the work/rest ratiois is about 1:3.  A golf balls can reach speeds up to about 170 miles an hour.  A 16lb bowling ball hits the lane with a force of over 2000lb per square inch.  Babe Ruth hit 113 home runs in only two seasons.  The first bowling pins were so light that sometimes they flew out through the window of the bowling club.  During a tennis match your shorts will gain weight.

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 Statistics

 In average a woman smiles more often than a man.  Of all the foreigner who travel to the UK about 50% visit London.  You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.  Only 12 people have ever set foot on the Moon.  25% of all fires of unknown origin are rat-caused.  Only 10 people out of every 3 million in the world get the opportunity to see a volcanic eruption in their lifetime.  If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.  If you fart constantly for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.  The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.  40% of all people at a party snoop in your medicine cabinet.  Chickens out populate humans 1:4, for every human there are 4 chickens.  Ten years ago, only 500 people in China could ski. This year, an estimated 5,000,000 Chinese will visit ski resorts.  Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.  The average person spends about two years on the phone in a lifetime.  22% of American women aged 20 gave birth while in their teens. In Switzerland and Japan, only 2% did so.  On average, people move house every 7 years.  There are more TV sets in the US than there are people in the UK.  According to Gillette, around 70% of women who remove hair, do so by shaving.  Women blink nearly twice as much as men.  The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.  26% of all electric cable breaks and 18% of all phone cable disruptions are caused by rats.  There are more collect calls on Father's Day than any other day of the year.  More than 50% of the world's population lives in Asia.  A poll by an American Animal Hospital Association revealed that 33 percent of dog owners admitted to talking to their dogs on phone or leaving an answering machine message when away.  A cow farts about 600 litres of metangas every day. That is enough to fyll up 40 party ballons.  Conception occurs more often in December than any other month.  On average, a person laughs about 15 times each day.  A "hairbreadth away" is 1/48 of an inch.  The average person walks about 65,000 miles in a lifetime.  More than six billion hot dogs are consumed annually in the US.  The smallest book in the Library of Congress is Old King Cole measuring just 1/25 inch by 1/25 inch, or about the size of a period at the end of this sentence.  You breathe about ten million times a year.  A supertanker can carry as much as 747,000 tons of oil.  A 1997 survey showed that 75% of women made their bed every day, whilst only 45% of men admitted to performing this daily chore.  The average lead pencil can draw a line that is almost 35 miles long or you can write almost 50,000 words in English with just one pencil.  Sweden was the first country in the world to keep population statistics.  There are 31,536,000 seconds in a year.  The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.  The number of twin births have more than doubled since the early 1970s.  In excess of 20 percent of men and 10 percent of women have stated that at least once they've forgotten their wedding anniversary.  There are over 60 towns in USA where the word turkey appears in the name.  22 percent of twins are left-handed. In the non-twin population the number is just under 10 percent.  If you attempted to count to stars in our galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.  Rougly 75% of a living tree is composed of water.  Rats destroy an estimated 33% of the world's food supply each year.  Drivers kill more deer than hunters.  Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.  If the entire population of earth was reduced to exactly 100 people,50% of the world's currency would be held by 6 people.  Close to 80% of people who watch the Super Bowl on television, only do so to view the commercials.  The Mall in Washington, D.C. is 1.4 times larger than Vatican City.  The average criminal sentence length is 137 years in Colombia.  Male and female rats may have sex twenty times a day.  The top 8 most developed countries all speak Germanic.  The women of Iceland earn two-thirds of their nation's university degrees.  72% of people in Mali earn less than $1 per day.  Elderly Dutch and Swedish are the most likely to live in old-age homes. Elderly Japanese are the most likely to live with their children.  Women make up 49% of the world population.  Toxic house plants poison more children than household chemicals.  Nearly a quarter of people in Monaco are over 65.  The top six countries for percentage of houses with five rooms or more are all English-speaking.  Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.  The ten most generous countries are all in Europe.  China's labor force stands at 706 million people, almost three times that of Europe and twice that of North and South America combined.  Sri Lanka has lowest divorce rate in the world - and the highest rate of female suicide.

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 A rollercoaster has no engine.  70% of all Land Rovers ever made are estimated to still be on the road.  Every year we produce more transistors than grains of rice.  The first hot-air balloon was launched from Versailles in 1783.  The unit 'foot' was originally the length of a human foot(12 inches).  A piece of paper can not be folded in half more than seven times  In Fahrenheit scale and the Celsius scale 40 degrees below zero is the same.  The first 3-Wheeler accident took place in 1769.  At the same thickness hair is strong as a wire of iron.  Every year a huge icehotel of about 4 000 m2 is built in the village Jukkasjaervi in Sweden.  The first popcorn machine was invented by Charlie Cretors in 1885.  The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.  The inch represents the width of a thumb.  The opposite sides of a die always add up to seven.  Broken clocks are right twice a day.  VHS stands for Video Home System.  The WD in WD-40 stands for Water Displacer.  A dentist, William Semple, invented chewing gum to exercise his jaws.  It was a Swede in 1892 who invented the adjustable spanner.  Cigarette lighter was invented before the matches where invented.  The temperature in a flame is lower close to the source and highest near the top.  Golden Gate Bridge took about four years to build.  The electric toothbrush was invented in 1939.  Most lubricants will disappear in space.  Cotton is heavier than water.  The maximum speed of Titanic was 23 knots.  BMW made the first jet engine.  Porsche also build tractors.  The Leaning Tower of Pisa has never been straight.  Hacky sack was invented in Turkey.  A DVD has a about 100 year life span.  A Boeing 767 airliner is made of 3,100,000 separate parts.  The screwdriver was invented before the screw.  The billionth digit of pi is 9.  The wingspan of a Boeing 747 jet is longer than the Wright Brothers' first flight.  The second most used metal in the world is copper.  It took over four years to build Golden Gate Bridge.  Music was sent down a telephone line for the first time in 1876, the year the phone was invented.  The Eiffel Tower shrinks 6 inches in winter.  Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.  The Eiffel Tower has 1792 steps.  The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year. The reason. When it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books.  There is a house in Rockport Massachusetts made of Boston newspapers. Mechanical Engineer Mr. Elis Stenman built the house as a hobby for 20 years.  The Library of Congress is the world's largest library with more than 120 million items.  Vernal Bank in Utah was built from bricks sent through mail.  No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times.  Bologna, just like Pisa, has a leaning tower and it is called the Garisenda tower.  Plastic is made out of 50% seaweed.  The 16th century Escorial palace of King Phillip II of Spain had 2673 doors.  The first subway system in America was built 1897 in Boston, Massachusetts.  Gene Cernan was the last man on the moon.  The Netherlands has built about 800 miles of massive dikes and sea walls to hold back the sea.  Titanic was running at 22 knots when she hit the iceberg.  The longest flight by a paper aircraft indoors is 20.9 seconds.  It is estimated that there are approximately ten million bricks in the Empire State Building.  The first U.S. coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.  Thomas Crapper was the inventor of the flushing toilet.  Taj Mahal, built between 1632 and 1654, in India is made entirely out of marble.  A depth of 2 fathoms (3,6 metres) is called a Mark Twain.  The electric chair was invented by a dentist.  The Space Shuttle can accelerate to a speed of 27,000 kilometres per hour in 8 minutes.  The World Trade Center towers had two different zip codes, 10047 and 10048. One for each building.  A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel.  The parking meter was invented in North Dakota.  Sir Isaac Newton invented the cat door.  The quartz crystal in your wristwatch vibrates 32,768 times a second.  Construction workers hard hats was invented in the building of the Hoover Dam in 1933.  TV antennas were invented in 1898 but TV's were not invented until the year 1935.  Hong Kong has the world's largest double-decker tram fleet in the world.  The largest manufacturing industry in the world is the Automobile building.  A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.  Men are four times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.  There are about 400 million cars and light trucks in the world today.  The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth about 150 times.  Central air conditioners use about 98% more energy than ceiling fans.  Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for about three hours.  The first bicycle that was made in 1817 by Baron von Drais didn't have any pedals. People walked it along.  1 cubic yard of air weighs 2 pounds at sea level.  In 1943, Thomas Watson (the chairman of IBM ), predicted that the future market for computers shold be only five computers.

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 Thailand

 Thai name for Bangkok is Krung thep.  In koh Samui the palm tree is a measure of how high a new construction can be built on the island.  Koh Samui produces about 3 million coconuts each month and is said to have the worlds most varieties of coconut palms.  There is a saying in Thailand that You don't have to worry about falling coconuts because coconuts have eyes.  The only country in South East Asia that did not get colonised is Thailand.  Bangkok has the worlds largest Chinatown.  Barbers are usually closed on Wednesday because Thais think it will bring bad luck to cut their hair that day of the week.  It is considered to be very rude to point at someone with Your feet.  Albino elephants have always been considered highly by the kings of Thailand.  The full name of Bangkok is the longest place name in the world and recorded in the Guinness book of records, 163 letters.  One of the rarest bird, Gurney Pitta, in the world can be found in Krabi.  Thailand was known as Siam until 1939.  Thailand coastline stredges 3219 km.  The number 9 in Thai means progression.  Similan Islands have been voted the third best dive site in the world.  The official year in Thailand starts from 543 BC. 2005 is official the year 2548.  There are 80 national parks in Thailand. 18 of them are marine parks.  Every man in Thailand are expected to be a monk for a shorter time in his life. Traditionally it was usaually 3 months but today the time is sometimes reduced to a week or two.  Thailand has about 26 000 temples.  Thailand is called the land of smile but the meaning of the word Thailand is land of the free.  There are about 200 000 monks in Thailand.  King Ramkhamhaeng created the first Thai alphabet in thirteenth century.  Thailand has the world's Biggest Gold Buddha Image.  About the weight of a penny the bumblebee bat of Thailand is the smallest mammal in the world.  Bangkok is called the City of Angels.

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 United Kingdom

 A town in North Wales are named LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILI OGOGOGOCH.  Liverpool Cathedral is the largest Anglican Cathedral in Britain.  Edinburgh is built on an extinct volcano.  Titanic was built in Belfast.  Christmas carols were banned in England between 1647 and 1660.  In 1879 Blackpool was the first place in the world to have electric street lighting.  Dublin has over 600 pubs in the city.  One of the first attractions of the West Pier in Brighton was a minature camera fired exactly at noon caused by reflection of a burning glass.  It rains about 300 out of 365 days a year in Ireland.  The first traffic lights was in use 1868 in London to control the horse buggies.  British cops didn't carry guns in 1969.  About 1200 hotels can be found in London.  London Underground is the oldest underground system in the world.  London has more than 6000 restaurants.  London is home to over 200 museums.  London Underground has several abandoned stations.  Buckingham Palace has over six hundred rooms.  The most popular drink in Britain is Tea.  Harrods in Britain installed the first escalator in 1878.  London has about 500000 surveillance cameras around the city.  In London the average tourist is being caught on surveillance cameras about 300 times a day.  Christmas cards was first produced in London around 1843.  One station in the London Underground has two different names of its platforms, Bank and Monument.  Harrods department store in London still delivering goods by horse carriage.  The most expensive shoes was sold at Harrods in London for $1.6 million.  Some of the Squares in London are not really squares.  London has about 1,700 parks.  Saint Valentine is buried in Dublin under the altar of Whitefriars Church in Dublin.

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 USA

 1 out of every 8 couples married in the U.S. last year met online.  New York City has 578 miles of waterfront.  In New York, at the top of a skyscraper it is possible for people to see snow falling while people on the ground see rain.  Passports issued by the US after January 1, 2007 have always-on radio frequency identification chips.  Shopping is the most popular domestic trip activity by American travelers.  There are almost two million women veterans in the US.  The average American woman weighs 140 pounds.  The average clothing size for women in America is size 14.  The longest street in San Francisco is Geary Boulevard.  There are 43 named hills in San Francisco.  The only living coral reefs in the US (hawaii not included) is in the Florida Keys.  The first African American ever to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor was William H. Carney in 1900.  The White House in Washington DC has 132 rooms.  The state of Maryland has no natural lakes.  There are 125 drinking fountains in Central Park, New York.  George W. Bush and John Kerry are related.  The Florida Keys is home to 882 islands.  In 1913 over one million cars where registered in the US.  The state motto of Alaska is "north to the future".  On January 3, 1959 Alaska became the 49th state.  The former vice-president Al Gore and Tommy Lee Jones were roommates at Harvard.  The first zoo in America was opened in Philadelphia in 1874.  In average over 60000 people fly over the US every hour.  Route 20 is the longest highway in the US.  The most superstitious president in the US history are belived to be Theodore Roosevelt.  The oldest city in the US is St. Augustine in Florida.  American green cards are not green. In 1964 they where green.  Henry Bronk gave name to The Bronx in New York.  The first submarine attack in history took place in New York Harbor in 1776.  Many of the American Quakers relocated to Costa Rica in 1951.  The first telephone book was published in New Haven, Connecticut in 1878. The book was only one page long and had fifty names in it.  San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.  The ZIP code 12345 is assigned to a company in Schenectady, New York - General Electric.  The highest city in the United States is Leadville, Colorado(10,200 feet).  90% of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.  Americans throw away 44 million newspapers every day.  A 1997 Gallup poll discovered that 24 percent of American workers would, if they could, fire their boss.  During a lifetime an American Man will spend about 3,500 hours shaving.  Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.  The smallest state capital in the US is Montpelier.  Atlantic City is home to longest boardwalk in the world.  The twin towers of World Trade Center in New York had 208 elevators.  The White House in Washington, DC was the biggest house in the United States until the Civil War.  The US Military Academy at West Point was the first engineering school in the US.  It's only called Air Force one when the US president is aboard the aircraft.  Alaska has rain forests.  Alaska has no borders to any other state.  The worlds longest cave system is the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky.  When it comes to making New Year's resolutions weight loss is one of the most common in the US.  Lake Tahoe is the highest alpine Lake in the US.  San Francisco has no cemeteries.  Dallas has More than 6000 restaurants.  A tornado once carried a motel sign 30 miles, from Oklahoma to Arkansas.  Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii is the most active volcano on Earth.  Hawaii has the largest number of introduced plants in the world.  The average number of tornadoes each year in the US is about 800.  Hawaii is one of the worlds most popular honeymoon destination.  Hawaii was once known as the Sandwich Islands.  Old segregation laws in Virginia required separate toilet for black and white people and thats why Pentagon has twice as many toilets as they actually need.  Reno in Nevada is located west of Los Angeles in California.  The first dollar coin in the US was the silver dollar in 1794.  Dollar bills are mostly made from cloths.  Since 1928 the picture of Benjamin Franklin has appeared on every $100 bill.  The Chinook salmon is the state fish of Oregon.  Nebraska is home to the largest porch swing in the world. 25 adults can sit in it.  New York City has 722 miles of subway track.  New York was once called Mahatta by local Indians.  New York was the first capital of the United States.  New York has the largest population of Jewish people outside of Israel.  People in some countires, like Sweden, open their Christmas presents 24 of Dec while in the US people open their presents on the 25 of Dec.  Delaware was the first State in the U.S.  Tennessee is the birthplace of miniature golf.  Wisconsin produce more cranberries that any other state.  The first jukebox in the world was located in San Francisco in 1899.  75% of all raisins eaten by people in the U.S. are eaten at breakfast.  Americans eat six times the amount of protein they actually need in a day.  Americans throw away about 5 million bicycles each year.  The Green Card is actually pink.  In 1991, the average bra size in the United States was 34B. Now it's 36C.  Americans alone consume more than nine pounds of pickles per person each year.  Tennessee is home to the steepest passenger incline railway in the U.S.  Americans change about 400 million oil filters a year.  93% of American children will go out trick or treating for Halloween.  Americans are making roughly three times more trips to casinos than trips to ballparks.  Americans file about 70000 lawsuits every single day.  Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.  The longest beach in the U.S. is in Washington State.  The first umbrella factory in the U.S. was built in Maryland.  A B-25 bomber airplane crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.  Americans eat about 35000 tons of pasta every year.  Some people living in Canada are automatically citizens of the U.S..  Americans eat so much cereal each year that a chain of empty boxes would stretch all the way to the moon and back to earth.  The state nickname of Iowa is The Hawkeye State.  Americans save less than one percent of their incomes.  Americans will eat about 150 million hot dogs every day.  Where ever you stand in Michigan, you are never more than 85 miles from a Great Lake.  Americans consume more ice cream than any other nation in the world.  Maryland is home to 10 different kinds of bats.  Americans consume an average of about 67 pounds of sugar each in a year.  During a lifetime an American Man will spend about 3 500 hours shaving.  Americans throw away 44 million newspapers everyday.  On March 29, 1848, Niagara Falls stopped flowing for 30 hours because of ice blocking the River.  Americans consume on an average 3 hamburgers a week.  Americans gamble more money each year than the money they spend on groceries.  Montana is home to the shortest river in the world. Roe River is about 200 feet long.  There are 556 officially recognized native American tribes.  Americans consume 17 billion quarts of popcorn annually.  Kansas City has more fountains than Rome.  Americans eat more than 16 pounds of French fries per person annually.  The average number of people airborne over the U.S. at any given hour is about 61,000.  Americans write more than 42 billion checks every year.  Americans spent about 54 - 55 billion dollars on gambling every year.  The word Arkansas comes from an old Indian word. The word means "land of the orange barrels".  Americans spend about 90% of their time indoors.  The poorest state i U.S. is Mississippi.  75% of all immigrants who come to US are settled i California, New Jersey, Florida, New York, Illinois and Texas.  Americans are the biggest polluters in the world.  Illinois has the highest number of personalized license plates than any other state.  Americans spend about $500 million a year on ketchup.  Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States.  Americans have not always driven on the right.  Americans tops the world in plastic surgery. Mexico comes in second place.  During the Civil War, more soldiers died of disease than they did from gunshots and fighting.  More Civil War battles were fought in Virginia than in any other state.  Americans use an average of about eight batteries a year per person.  A town in Texas is called "Ding Dong".  Over 20% of the population of California are born in other countries.  Americans trow away 4.4 pounds of trash each day per person.  Idaho is home to the deepest gorge in the U.S.  Americans throw away 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour.  Americans eat 18 acres of pizza each day.

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 Wild west

 The first battle of the US Civil War took place at Fort Sumter in South Carolina April 7, 1863.  Lincoln had a dog named Fido.  Billy the kid didn't wore cowboy boots at the begining. He had a medium high-heeled Hessian boot.  Before the 1900 century boot makers were primarily from Britain or Germany.  It has been said that cowboys wore blue jeans to keep the rattlers away. The rattle snake dont like the indigo color.  Ben Franklin was also a weatherman.  Wild horses of the American West was not native. They came with the Spanish conquistadors in the mid-1500s.  In North America the buffalo is the largest animal(land animal).  Billy the Kid spend some time in Silver City.  The American indians played spinning tops, badminton and field hockey before the Europeans arrived in America.  Billy the Kid's real name was William Bonny or Henry McCarty, nobody knows for sure.  Before the Europeans and other settlers came to America there was about 60 million buffalos. Today there are about 150,000 buffalos left.  Cowboys has been working in the U.S. for over 200 years.  Unprepared gold diggers crossing the dry deserts of Nevada could spend up to about 100$ on a cup of fresh water.  Cowboys did sing to their cattle at nigh.  American Indians were the first to grow corn. They called it maize.  The outlaw Jesse James was killed by his old friend, Bob Ford.  The Sundance Kid got his name after stealing a horse in Sundance. His given name at birth was Harry A. Longabaugh.  Doc Holliday worked after graduation as a dentist.  Lincoln's children kept goats in the White House.  Wild Bill Hickok become a member of the Poker Hall of Fame in 1979.  The traffic on the trail between Oregon and California could be very bad. Sometimes all the grass on the trail was already eaten or destroyed by others wagons.

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 About 80% of women wear the wrong size bra.  Sri Lanka has the world's highest number of public holidays.  The Pima tribe in Arizona has the highest rate of diabetes in the world.  The first paintball guns were used to mark trees.  4 sunken nuclear submarines sit at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.  Thanksgiving is always the fourth Thursday in November.  Over 50% of all attacks occur from the rear.  You can surf the Amazon river with up to 4 meters high waves.  The first soft body armor was made of silk.  The first mental institution in the US was in Philadelphia.  Crete is the most southern point of Europe.  There are radar detectors specifically for motorcycles.  The Siberian Tiger is the largest cat in the world.  The blue whale can produce sounds up to about 188 decibels.  Cigarette smoke contains about 4000 chemical agents.  The Arabic word for mosque is Jami.  The killer whale can reach speeds over 50km/h.  South Africa generates about two-thirds of Africa's electricity.  Hawaii got snow at top of Mauna Loa mountains during winter.  The Red Sea is the warmest sea in the world.  Spinach has more iron per calorie than meat.  The smallest reptile in the world is the Caribbean islands 16- millimeter lizard.  The United States has over 170000 gas stations.  The age of a fish can be determined by reading rings on bones in the fish's head.  Cats spend about 70% of a day sleeping.  Tennis was once called "sphairistike".  There are 10 times more iron in Camel's milk than cow's milk.  Swiss people eat more chocolate than any other person in the world.  Rabbits cannot throw up.  The word "dollar" comes from the Roman Empire.  Some jellyfish don't have brains.  Rats cannot burp.  Goats dont eat Marmite.  Compared to its body length, the Nectar bats has the longest tongue of all mammals.  Bronx is named after Jonas Bronck, a Swedish settler.  All known mammals have tongues.  Perth is Australia's windiest city.  No trees grow on Easter Island.  The mouth produces a quart of saliva every day.  American Indians were cultivating strawberries in 1643.  If the genome was a book it would be the equivalent of about 800 dictionaries.  Thumbs up gesture is in some culture used to signify God.  Fire Ants can kill a sensitive person.  The idea of bungee jumping probably originated with Melanesian populations.  Flies jump backwards when they take off.  John Cleese family's surname was previously "Cheese".  The average American use about eight batteries a year.  Flies fly at an average of about 4 miles per hour.  A blue whales heart beats nine times per minute.  There are 6736 lakes in Texas.  The Dalmatian is the only dog that gets gout.  There are 160 words for camel in Arabic.  Money is the number one thing that couples argue about.  The first submarine was designed in 1578.  Amsterdam is built on poles.  Rotterdam is the largest port in the world.  An African snake, Puff Adder, can give birth to as many as 155 babies at a time.  Macadamia nuts are toxic to dogs.  Redwood trees can have bark that's up to 30cm thick.  The Goliath Beetle can lift up to 875 times it's own weight.  Electric Christmas lights were first used in 1895.  Cranberries have long been considered an effective method of fighting tooth decay.  Cranberries contain one of the highest concentrations of antioxidants.  Tomato juice takes away the smell of skunk.  Fungi are great recyclers of our world.  Tomato and lime are very good bleaching agents.  The green sea turtle does not have a green shell.  The Empire State Building was once struck by lightning a dozen time in a single storm.  Lightning can travel sideways.  Lightning can reach up to 50000 degrees Fahrenheit.  Spiders are not insects.  Armani designed the Italian airforces uniform.  The first roller skates, 1760s, were single-row/inline skates.  The Internet was originally called Arpanet.  The parachute was invented before the aeroplane.  The first parachute jump ever from an aeroplane took place in 1912 in St. Louis, Missouri.  Most container ships do not have elevators.  Sound travels five times faster under water than in air.  A possum has opposable thumbs on its paws.  Broadway runs the entire length of Manhattan.  The first picture of a kangaroo was seen in England in 1773.  Over half of the state names in the USA comes from Native American languages.  Dar es Salaam means "Haven of Peace".  Railways were invented in Europe.  Fossils of sea creatures have been found at Mount Everest.  Luxembourgian consume most alcohol.  Baby mice and rats are called pinkies.  The fish called climbing perch can live out of water for about two days.  The Oscar Awards were held twice in 1930.  Oregon grows about 99% of America's hazelnuts.  Philippines hosted the famous boxing match between MUHAMMAD ALI and Joe Frazier. It is known as "thrilla in Manila".  Clinophobia is the fear of beds.  Frogs use their eyeballs to help them swallow food.  More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby.  Hair is about 70% easier to cut when soaked in warm water for a couple of minutes.  A bath uses more water than an ordinary shower.  Water polo was originally known as water rugby.  The movie "the sound of music" started with a book.  Toilets use about 30% of indoor water use.  Superman originally couldn't fly.  Google logos that appear on the homepage during holidays are called Google doodles.  Lions were kept in the Tower of London.  Google Maps & Google Earth, but did you know that there is also a Google Moon.  Deserts can be either cold or hot.  SupermanȔs second name Clark Kent was named after the Hollywood stars Clark Gable and Kent Taylor.  There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea.  Jewelry such as diamonds, emeralds and rubies are crystals.  The fortune cookie was invented in San Francisco.  Khao San Road(Bangkok) means shining rice road.  You can buy jewellery for shoes.  Asia consumes over 19 million barrels of oil daily.  Steel melts at 2800 degrees Fahrenheit.  The average outdoor cat has a lifespan of about three years.  An air conditioner uses about 5 pounds of copper.  John Wayne made more than 200 movies.  Bulls are colorblind. It is not the color of the cape which angers them it is the motion.  Thailand has the world's largest Crocodile Farm.  Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.  Children grow faster in the springtime.  A correct air pressure in the tire of your car can decrease the fuel consumption as much as 10%.  About 7000 engineers graduate annually from schools in Sweden.  The highest price ever to be paid for a hog was $105 000. It was sold March 5 1998 at the Houston Livestock Show.  The fingerprints of koala bears and humans are so similar that they could be confused at a crime scene.  The Koala's closest living relative is the wombat.  Koalas sleep about 18 hours a day.  Diesel engine was designed to run on peanut oil.  The turnaround time for a recycled aluminum can is about 60 days.  Thermos is no longer a trademark.  The Black Widow female sometimes eats the male after mating.  The 5-acre vineyard in Hallingstad in Norway hosts the most northerly vineyard in the world.  The first air ambulance service was established 1928 in the Australian outback.  During a free fall you reach speeds of about 200 km/h.  The international airport in Iraq now has the Iraq's first Burger King.  North Korea has an official homepage.  North Korea has built a 330 meter tall pyramid in white concrete called the Ryugyong Hotel.  The first Burger King restaurant was called Insta Burger King, opened 1954 in Miami.  A honey bee dies after it stings.  The South Pole has no sun for 182 days each year.  Vancouver Island is the largest island off the North American west coast.  The lowest temperature ever recorded is -89.2 °C, Vostok Antarctica on 21 July 1983.  The greatest snowfall in North America in one day was 76 inches in Silver Lake, Colorado,14 April 1921.  There are 6374.6 miles of streets in New York City.  When a dog blinks it shows friendliness.  Napoleon died of arsenic poisoning.  The Giant Amazon Water Lily has the largest leaves in the world.  The Iolani Palace of Oahu is the only royal palace in the United states.  There is no word for "weather" in the Hawaiian language, probably because the weather is so good most of the time.  Bratislava and Vienna are the two closest capital cities in the world, only 40 miles apart.  The highest temperature recorded at the South Pole was minus 13 degrees centigrade.  A TV screen shows 24 pictures each second. A fly sees 200 images a second. Therefore a fly will see TV as still pictures with darkness in between.  All insects have six legs in the adult stage.  A shrimp's heart is in its head.  Hens dont have teeth.  Wine contains no cholesterol and no fat at all.  Peanuts grow underground.  All porcupines float in water.  Parrotfish makes their own sleeping bag to sleep in.  England's national sport is cricket and not football.  Mexico is the only country using silver in it's circulating coinage.  An F1 car is made up of about 80000 components.  Mexico City sinks several inches every year.  Maine produces about 98-99% of all wild blueberries in the US.  VOLVO means "I roll" in latin.  An aircraft with more than 19 seats is required to have a flight attendant.  For a few days after 9/11 the average temperature range in the United States rose one degree Centigrade(global dimming).  Slugs have 4 noses.  Animals that lay eggs don't have belly buttons.  The Phrase "running amok" comes from a disorder found in New Guinea men.  You can get a wedding Insurance. If your wedding rings are lost or some other catastrophe happens some companies will cover it for you.  The North America blackout in 2003 affected about 40 million Americans.  Women surfers dates back to the early 1800s.  There is an island in Thailand named after James Bond.  Until the early 40's there were no roads on Koh Samui.  Paris Hilton has been bitten by a kinkajou.  The first foreigners where allowed into Lhasa in 1979.  The world's largest bat can be found in Singapore.  Comets are mostly made up of ice while asteroids are mostly made up of rocks.  In May 2002 Singapore took a record with 11967 people line dancing at the same time.  Singapore is home to the world's first night zoo.  MySpace.com with over 100 million members is the most popular website in the United States.  The brain has over 100 billion nerve cells.  Texas is one of the top pickup trucks sellers in the US.  There are sweeteners that are about 200000 times sweeter than sugar.  You can walk on custard because it will get thick when pressure is applied to it.  To become airborne when full of blood a mosquitoes will drop some ballast to became lighter.  The average mosquito has 47 teeth.  Garlic can be effective as a mosquito repellent.  A mosquito weighs about 2.5 milligrams.  Potatoes originally came from the Incas in Peru.  There are about 8.500 Indian restaurants in the UK.  Frankencycle is the worlds largest bicycle, its wheels are 3.05m tall.  Syracuse (Upstate New York) has the only upside-down traffic light in the US.  Walking sideways burns much more calories than walking forward.  Lobster used to be poor people's food.  Glaciers cover about 10% of the Earth's surface.  The longest recorded game of chess is 192 moves.  Almost 90% of an iceberg is below water.  Over 40% of the population in Alaska is fish.  Spanish is the first language in more than 20 countries.  Sand fleas stay below the surface until they smell blood.  There are five species of Pacific salmon.  Ships captains used to keep pigs on board.  There are 318,979,564,000 possible ways of playing the first four moves in Chess.  Arabic is read from right to left.  In 1825 some people believed that people traveling by trains moving at a speed of more than 12 miles per hour could get mental problems.  Thailand has about 26 million registered vehicles.  Annapurna is the world's deadliest 8000 meter peak.  There are about 1.3 million vehicles in Metro Manila.  In the 1500s most people got married in June after their yearly bath in May.  In 1541 Texas was called Tejas.  The first Filipino-Spanish dictionary was printed in 1613.  Billy the Kid was born in New York City, 1859.  The Pentagon has 17.5 miles of corridors.  All distances like towns and landmarks in the Philippines is measured from the Rizal Park in Manila.  Rain travels approximately 8 mph.  The largest wild animal in the Philippines is the tamaraw. It can only be found in Mindoro.  Philippines is one of the top SMS user in the world.  Hispanics are the fastest growing population in the United States.  About 400000 Canadians of Filipino origin live in Canada.  John Mills from New Zealand became the first left hander to score a century on his test debut in 1930.  There are two different kinds of pandas, the long-tailed Himalayan carnivore and the giant panda bear.  It took 10 years to build the Panama Canal.  Over 500 rivers run through Panama.  There are eight species of bear in the world.  There are more than 500 active volcanoes in the world.  More people are collecting stamps than any other things.  In some parts of Argentina they speak Welsh.  Patagonia, the company, was the first to produce fleece made out of recycled plastic bottles.  The first stamp in Canada was called the Three-Penny Beaver.  The geographical heart of Europe is Lithuania.  The Austrians invented the croissant.  The coast redwood is the tallest living thing on our planet and stand up to 250 feet tall.  MS Word has Wal-Mart in its dictionary.  The word "dinosaur" comes from a Greek word meaning terrible lizard.  The fly's foot is a suction cup.  The face of the Sphinx is believed to represent pharaoh Khafre.  Some insects are able to walk on water.  The average lightning Stroke is about 6 miles long.  In 1950 a kitten climbed all the way to the top of Matterhorn in the Alps(14691 ft).  About 70% of the world's fresh water is stored as glacial ice.  Lightning strikes the earth about 6000 times each minute.  A Martian year is 687 days long.  Rocks called pumice are created during a volcanic eruption and these rocks can float.  Fires usually move faster uphill than downhill.  The Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.  Oak trees do not have acorns until they are at least 50 years old.  To create elements heavier than iron requires the energy from a supernova.  All owls lay pure white eggs.  The word abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order.  A giraffe's tongue is 18 to 20 inches long and black.  The word Taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Dutch and Portuguese languages .  At any given time about 0.7% of the world's population are estimated to be drunk.  The average person will spend about 2 weeks during their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.  The average person will spend about 25 years sleeping.  The average adult has a brain that weighs around 3 pounds.  A man's beard contains normally between 7000 and 15000 hairs.  The average person will spend about 4000 days of work during their lifetime.  There is about 1/4 pound of salt in every gallon of seawater.  The average person will spend about 6 months on the toilet.  About 75% of the world's tornadoes hit the US.  The Ethiopian calendar has 13 months.  Airbags explode at the speed of 200 miles (322 km) per hour.  Bologna also has a leaning tower, called the Garisenda tower.  The biggest hippo-tooth ever found was one meters long.  The longest Atlantic storm ever to be recorded was Ginger in 1971 wich lasted for 28 days.  The time system in Ethiopia is different than the rest of the world. 6 am is the start of the day.  Hippos have killed more people in Africa than any other wild animal.  The Fujita Tornado Intensity Scale is used to measure the intensity of a tornado.  The dial tone of a normal telephone is in the key of "F".  Only about 10% of the lightning bolts strike the oceans.  The word hippo comes from Hippopotamus amphibious which means "river horse".  Sanskrit is the mother of all the european languages.  Originally cheerleaders were all men.  The United States National Christmas Tree Association has given a Christmas tree to the President each year since 1966.  The western redcedar tree was used by Native Americans to make canoes and totem poles.  Christmas tree lights were first mass produced for the US market in 1890.  The first cheerleader perfomance took place at Minnesota University during a football game in 1898.  Christmas trees takes about 7-10 years to mature.  A 1200 pound horse will eat about 7 times it's own weight each year.  eBay owns PayPal.  eBay is in the top five most visited site on the Internet.  The first commercial air passenger flew from Chicago to San Francisco on July 2, 1927.  About 5 billion aluminum cans are used each year.  A ton of paper that is recycled saves about 17 trees.  Elephant's ear is unique and can be used as identification just like fingerprints.  There are only 5 different horse colors. These are black, brown, bay, chestnut, grey and white.  Elephants reach puberty at thirteen or fourteen years of age.  There are about 35 species of seahorse.  Starfish have no brain.  Elephant ears are used to regulate body temperature.  A starfish can regrow an arm if it is torn off.  Elephants are able to cry.  Merapi is the most active volcano in Indonesia with 68 eruptions since 1548.  The Cuexcomate volcano in Mexico, 13 meters/43 feet tall, is considered to be the world's smallest volcano.  The red traffic light contains some orange color and the green traffic light contains some blue color making it easier for people with red-green color blindness.  MySQL is named after Monty Widenius' daughter.  In 1974 a tree in Malaysia grow 35 feet and 3 inches in 13 months.  By law all gondolas in Venice, Italy must be painted black unless they belong to a high official.  Paul McCartney's Birth Certificate was auctioned in March 1997. It was sold for US $84146.  Richard and Carol Roble re-married each other 56 times.  Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.  The largest mass wedding in history was held in The Olympic Stadium in Seoul, South Korea where 35000 people were married.  The national celebration in Mexico "Cinco de Mayo" means the fifth of May.  "American Idol" is currently (2006-05-05) one of the most popular searches on the Internet.  Giovanni Vigliotto was married to 104 women in 14 different countries.  In Lee County Alabama it's illegal to sell peanuts after sundown on a Wednesday.  In 1917 Nova Scotians owned 901 Fords.  Stephen Colbert (The Daily Show) is the youngest of eleven children.  26 US Presidents were lawyers before becoming president.  Vexillology is the study of flags.  The Arctic Ocean is the smallest ocean in the world.  The word Connecticut derives from the Native American word "Quinnetucket" wich means "long tidal river".  Christopher Columbus brought cacao beans back to Spain in 1502.  Chocolate manufacturers use about 20% of the world's peanuts production.  There are about 600 different shapes of pasta worldwide.  Woodpeckers have longer tongues than any other birds.  The only city in the world located on two continents is Istanbul.  About 10 % of the water from Nile reaches the Mediterranean sea.  Depression and anxiety disorders are the two most common mental illnesses.  The "U" in the word U-boats is short for undersea boat.  The Krakatoa volcano eruption could be heard 4800 km away.  The technical term for left-handed is the Latin word Sinistral.  The word laser stands for "light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation".  The ferry service between Manhattan and Staten Island was started in 1713.  In 1955 the first McDonald's restaurant was opened in Des Plaines, Illinois.  Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr was John Denver's real name.  The word soap is beleived to derive from Mount Sapo near Turkey.  Crocodiles never outgrow the pool in which they live.  When glass breaks the cracks will reach speeds up to 3000 miles/4827 km per hour.  Bob Dylan received $50 for playing the harmonica on a Harry Belafonte album in 1960.  Tipping in Iceland is considered an insult.  If you are offered a gift in Mauritius you should use the right hand to receive it.  In Portugal the bull doesn't die during the bullfight.  The world's biggest church made of wood is Kerimski Church located in Finland.  Reindeer hair is hollow like a tube.  You can find about 560 carved doors in Zanzibar.  Little Diomede in Alaska is less than three miles from the Russian border.  The planned Freedom Tower in New York City is planned to be 1776 feet/541 m high.  About 7000 cherries are growing on an average cherry tree.  An office chair with wheels will travel about 7-8 miles each year.  A Goldfish kept in a dark room will eventually turn white.  Elvis middle name is Aron.  George Bush letters can be rearrange to "he bugs gore".  Ted Bundy's first dog, a collie, was named Lassie.  Some ants sleep in a web.  Hawaii has its own time zone called the Hawaiian Standard Time.  All silver poodles are born black.  Santa Barbara golf club in Ilo-Ilo province was the first one in the Philippines.  Cows don't have upper front teeth.  The last British Governor of Hong Kong was Chris Patten.  The first golf club established outside Great Britain was the Calcutta Golf Club in 1829.  There are more than 20000 brands of beer in the world.  At funerals Chinese people sometimes burn paper-money so that the dead person will be rich in the after-life.  Instead of singing the bird Antpitta avis cais Ridgley barks.  Kowloon in Hong Kong means Nine Dragons.  The first women's marathon was held at the Olympics games in Los Angeles in 1984.  About 10% of the worlds population lives on an island.  Harold Washington Library Center in Chicago is the world's largest public library.  Of all cities in the world Hong Kong has the highest percent of millionaires per square mile.  In Hong Kong stamps was used already in 1862.  Bruce Lee was originally considered for the role of Kwai Chang Caine in the TV show Kung Fu.  The word "nozzle" comes from Eskimo and means foreplay.  John Adams was the first President to live in the White House.  Canola oil comes from the words "Canada" and "oil".  The American system for naming large numbers is not equal to the British system.  The word banana comes from the Arabic word "banan" wich means finger.  The decomposition time for a glass bottle is Approximately 1 million years.  The first PET bottle was recycled in 1977.  The word Checkmate is a Persian phrase, Shah Mat, and means "the King is dead".  The standard set of chess pieces is called Staunton.  The first Great Seal of America was designed by Ulster-Scot.  Every minute about 50000000 of your cells die.  Every day is a holiday somewhere in the world.  Groundhog Day comes from Germany.  The tradition of throwing coins into the Fontana di Trevi started via an old movie "Three Coins in the Fountain".  The coins thrown into the Fontana di Trevi are collected for charity.  Chinese used to flew manned kites.  About 34 million US residents claims to have Irish ancestors.  There was once a town named "6" in West Virginia.  The best working time for search dogs is cloudy days, mornings and evenings.  About 13% of people are left-handed.  The national flower of Mexico is the humble dahlia.  The oldest operating hotel in New York is Algonquin hotel.  Tequila dates from the 16th century.  The diameter of one main cable on Golden Gate Bridge is 0.92 m.  Othello is one of the best-selling strategy games in the world.  In New York, the penalty for jumping off a building is death.  There are 36 different wild cat species in the world.  Michelangelo designed the uniforms worn by the Swiss guard at the Vatican.  It's considered bad luck to take the Christmas decorations down before January 6 in Ireland.  The Romans used olive oil to smooth their skin.  Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh are said to be the longest beach in the world (120km).  There are 80 entrances to the Colosseum in Rome.  Turkeys can have heart attacks.  Rice paper isn't made from rice, it is made from a small tree which grows in Taiwan.  The saxophone was invented by Adolphe Sax.  Charles Darwin was often seasick during his boat-travel.  The year 2006 is the year 95 in Taiwan.  Turkey eggs normally hatch in 28 days.  Of the 600 plant species on the Galapagos Islands about 33% of these can only be found on the Galapagos.  If You run during rain You will get about 10% less wet.  French Fries are not French they are originally from Belgium.  When an elephant dies of old age the cause of death is usually hunger.  Cars almost never blow up in accidents.  The highest hotel in the world is Everest View Hotel, located in Nepal at an altitude of 3800m.  Many of the buildings along Broadway in New York have no thirteenth floor.  The first brewed beer in Greece was Fix in 1864.  The biggest bell in Asia is located in Panay Church in the Philippines.  In Tibet the word Yeti (Snowman) means "magical creature".  The Oriental Hotels in Bangkok are said to be the best hotel in the world.  The bamboo hats in Vietnam are called non la.  The biggest city in Tibet is Lhasa.  Euphrates and Tigris both have their origins in Turkey.  Nepal has an airline company called Buddha Air.  The second largest bird in the world is the Philippine eagle.  In Guatemala City the first Mayan societies dating took place, in 2000 BC.  All distances in Guatemala are measured from the Guatemala City Central Park.  There are about 4,000 known minerals in the world.  About 700 litres of paint is used when Easyjet paint one of their planes.  Armadillos can walk under water.  Honey bees were by Indians called "white man's flies" because European colonists brought the bees to North America.  The kalaw bird in the Philippines makes a load noise every day at noon. It is also known as the clock of the mountains.  About 488 of the worlds 500 known coral species can be found in the Philippines.  Toronto's Yonge Street is the longest street in the world. It runs 1,900 kilometers.  A famous Filipino man called Jose Rizal could speak 22 different languages.  The name Singapore is derived from a Sanskrit word 'Singapura' which means Lion City.  The Philippines is home to the most expensive shells in the world called glory of the sea (Connus gloriamaris).  The oldest city in the Philippines is Cebu City.  According to Guinness, the longest recorded bout of hiccups lasted for 65 years.  An average wedding feast in Yemen will lasts 21 days.  Asian hair grows faster than African or European hair.  The Vikings never wore horned helmets.  News stands for North, East, West, South.  The largest castle area in the world is Prague Castle.  The first Miss Hawaii was crowned in 1948.  Giant Springs is the largest fresh water spring in the US.  The faces of the presidents on Mount Rushmore are George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt.  There are 31557600 seconds in a year.  People can't sneeze while sleeping.  The address of Benjamin Franklin's home was 141 Market Street, Philadelphia.  The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA.  Charlie Brown's father worked as a barber.  The Kiss member Gene Simmons speaks four languages.  There are 192 independent countries in the world.  There is a town in Canada called Dildo.  Naalehu in Hawaii is the southern most city in the United States.  There are 22 stars in the Paramount movie studio logo.  The only Canadian Province that borders the Great Lakes is Ontario.  Cyprus has a map on it's flag.  Panama hats dont come from Panama but from Ecuador.  Over 90% of visitors to Greece comes from Europe.  Zambia, Mexico, Dominica, Fiji, Kiribati and Egypt have birds on their flags.  The name Dublin is a derivation of Dubh Linn meaning Black Pool.  The first Peanuts comic strip appeared in seven US daily newspapers in 1950.  The first day of the first year of the first millennium was a Saturday.  The first Superman comic was created in 1933.  Phasmophobia means fear of ghosts.  At latitude 60 degrees south You can sail around the world.  Casanova worked as a librarian when he was older.  General Armstrong Custer finished last in his class at West Point 1861.  When Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon he sat down his left foot first.  Einstein designed a Refrigerator.  Hannibal had only one eye after getting a disease while attacking Rome.  Einstein has said that mankind only uses 10% of their brains.  Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, was not only skilled in chemistry, but also spoke fluent French, Russian, English and German.  Vincent van Gogh cut off his left ear. His 'Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear' shows the right one bandaged because he painted the mirror image.  Einstein wouldn't drink alcohol.  Buzz Aldrin's, who was the second man on the moon, had a mother with the name Marion Moon.  Einstein was a dyslexic.  Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Diamonds = Julius Caesar, Spades = King David, Hearts = Charlemagne, Clubs = Alexander the Great.  Mount Pleasant is the most common community name in Canada.  Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.  Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.  Vatican City is the smallest country in the world.  Monaco is the second smallest country in the world.  Malaria is one of the most deadly diseases in the world.  In Juan Fernandez archipelago in Chile there is an Island named Robinson Crusoe.  Bolivia has two capitals, Sucre and La Paz.  Einstein slept about 10 hours per night.  Germany borders with 9 different countries.  La Giaconda is the real name for Mona Lisa.  Saudi Arabia is the only country named after its ruling family.  The more concentrated you get the less you blink.  The highest waterfall in the world is Angel Falls in Venezuela.  Venezuela has won the most Miss Universe titles.  Mount Ararat is a volcano.  About 4 gallons of water is used while brushing your teeth.  No two modern democracies have gone to war with each other.  The longest underground river in the world is St. Paul's underground river in Palawan, Philippines.  Albert Einstein did not speak until he was four years old.  Alfred Nobel invented dynamite.  Erik Weihenmayer was the first blind person to reach the summit of Mt. Everest.  Jackie Robinson went to the college of UCLA.  The oldest national park of Estonia is Lahemaa National Park.  The Bermuda Triangle is an imaginary triangle between Bermuda, Florida and Puerto Rico.  Gottlieb's Haunted House was the first pinball game to have a triple level playfield.  The oldest amusement park in the world is located in Copenhagen.  Belize is one of the least populated countries in the world.  Denmark has more than 600 castles and manor houses.  Peru has more pyramids than Egypt.  Madrid has the highest altitude of all European capital.  Raffles Hotel in Singapore used to be a bungalow.  Originally Superman couldn't fly.  Islanders have their own myths about Santa Clauses parents.  Finland once banned the Donald Duck. Some people belive that it was because Donald Duck didn't wear pants.  The most dangerous airports to land an aircraft was the Hong Kong airport before 1997.  Edgar Allan Poe was kicked out of West Point.  In 1963 Martin Luther King hold his famous speech in Washington D.C.  Christmas tree originated in Germany.  The home country of sauna and moomins is Finland.  Sweden is one of the top Harley-Davidson driving people in the world.  Paris in France has a vineyard.  There is a place in Norway called Hell. On their postcards for turist one can read "Welcome to Hell". The norwegians also calls the road that leads to Hell for "highway to hell".  A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.  There are more people alive today than the number of all the people that have died, ever.  The original game of Monopoly was circular.  A picture of an Indian chief was on the first bottles of Coppertone with the slogan "Don't be a Paleface".  Nutmeg is very poisonous if injected intravenously.  A piano covers the full spectrum of all orchestra instruments, from below the lowest note of the double bassoon to above the top note of the piccolo.  Tap dancing originates from Irish clog dancing and what is called the Irish reel and jig.  There are no letters assigned to the numbers 1 and 0 on a phone keypad. These numbers remain unassigned because they are so- called "flag" numbers, kept for special purposes such as emergency or operator services.  Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.  If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, it means that the person died in battle. If the horse has one leg in the air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.  Maps have been around for about 4500 years.  The first novel ever written on a typewriter is Tom Sawyer.  Afghanistan has been known by different names including Ariana, Bactria and Khorasan.  Pinocchio was made of pine tree.  A book that has 1 Million pages in it would be 70 m thick.  In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.  In Bahrain, a male gynecologist can only examine a woman's private parts through a mirror.  There is no lead in a lead pencil. It is just a stick of graphite mixed with clay and water.  The first ever "World Summit on Toilets" was held in Singapore in November 2001.  There is a city called Rome on every continent.  Grande Ronde, Oregon -67 yer old Arthur Mooney died of a heart attack in the Spirit Mountain Casino. His body lay right there on the floor for an hour while other customers continued to play the slot machines.  Men can read smaller print than women can. Women can hear better.  Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.  Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during World War II.  Most lipstick contains fish scales.

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