SOME INTERESTING FACTS
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Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969!
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In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!
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There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!
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Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution!
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Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!
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The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!
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There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!
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There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants!
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The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!
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Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!
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The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
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Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating!
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Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!
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One car out of every 230 made was stolen last year!
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The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!
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Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia!
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The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders!
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When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!
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A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel!
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A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile!
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The Philadelphia mint produces 26 million pennies per day!
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A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!
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It is estimated that 4 million "junk" telephone calls, phone solicitations by persons or programmed machine are made every day in the United States!
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It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!
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Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill!
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Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
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The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!
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Most lipstick contains fish scales!
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Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing!
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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis!
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The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!
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No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
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A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!
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Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
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There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
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If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
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Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive!
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A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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Clinophobia is the fear of beds!
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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Porcupines float in water!
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Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches!
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The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!
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The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
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The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds! During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!
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Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food!
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Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
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The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!
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In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
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There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!
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About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30!
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More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones!
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A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!
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Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe !
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In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!
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Slugs have 4 noses!
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Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!
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Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue!
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The average American/Canadian drinks about 600 sodas a year!
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It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland!
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There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses!
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Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes!
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There are over 58 million dogs in the U.S!
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Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year!
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Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
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Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year!
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In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter."!
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Every second, Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate!
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A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks!
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The fear of vegetables is called Lachanophobia!
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There are approximately fifty Bibles sold each minute across the world!
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Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum!An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards!
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A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day!
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Honolulu is the only place in the United States that has a royal palace!
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One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
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More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby!
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In 32 years. there are about 1 billion seconds!
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Rice paper does not have any rice in it!
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Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day!
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In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
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The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice!
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The average person laughs 13 times a day!
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Dogs can hear sounds that you cant!
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Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women!
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It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them!
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Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
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Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions!
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A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!
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Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States!
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!
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There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!
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The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'!
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Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed... or is that paws?!
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The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven!
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Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints!
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Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is -- be it red or neon yellow!
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Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings!
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Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight!
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A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there, though!
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The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
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The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people!
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A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court!
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After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again!
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