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Too Many Interesting Facts - Part 2 (The Larger Part)

   - No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times.
   - The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
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   Earth is the only planet not named after a pagan God.
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   A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first
   flight.
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   Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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   The Himalayan gogi berry contains, weight for weight, more iron than
   steak, more beta carotene than carrots, more vitamin C than oranges.
   - Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the
   morning
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   The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.
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   All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen
   wearing them in public.
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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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   Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
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   The inventor of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper.
   -

   The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.
   -

   The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
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   The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.
   -

   Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than
   left-handed people do.
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   Its impossible to smoke oneself to death with weed. You won\'t be able
   to retain enough motor control and consciousness to do so after such a large
   amount.
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   Every drop of seawater contains approximately 1 billion gold atoms.
   -

   The US national anthem actually has three verses, but everyone just
   knows the first one.
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   During World War II, IBM built the computers the Nazis used to manage
   their death/concentration camps.
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   The total combined weight of the worlds ant population is heavier than
   the weight of the human population.
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   The deadliest war in history excluding World War II was a civil war in
   China in the 1850s in which the rebels were led by a man who thought he was
   the brother of Jesus Christ.
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   Just about 3 people are born every second, and about 1.3333 people die
   every second. The result is about a 2 and 2/3 net increase of people every
   second. Almost 10 people more live on this Earth now, than before you
   finished reading this.
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   Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted.
   -

   The number of people alive on earth right now is higher than the
   number of all the people that have died. Ever.
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   The average American consumes 1.2 pounds of spider eggs a year and eat
   2.5 pounds of insect parts a year.
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   Men can breastfeed babies
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   There is a rare condition called Exploding Head Syndrome which you
   have probably never heard of.
   -

   Scientists have determined that fungi are more closely related to
   human beings and animals than to other plants.
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   In some (maybe all) Asian countries, the family name is written
   first and the individual name written second
   -

   Abe Lincoln bought 50 cents worth of cocaine in 1860
   -

   A German World War II submarine was sunk due to malfunction of the
   toilet.
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   Washington State has the longest single beach in the United
   States.Long Beach, WA
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   The largest living thing on the face of the Earth is a mushroom
   underground in Oregon, it measures three and a half miles in diameter.
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   The town of Los Angeles, California, was originally named "El Pueblo la
   Nuestra Senora de Reina de los Angeles de la Porciuncula"
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   9 out of 10 people believe Thomas Edison invented the light
bulb.Thisisn't true; Joseph Swan did.
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   Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs
   of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
   -

   The Population of the world can live within the state boundaries of
   Texas.
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   Plastic lawn flamingos outnumber real flamingos in the U.S.A.
   -

   Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of
   which containing the letter "e."
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   Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is
   not considered an insult! Despite the expensive food, tipping is welcome as
   in any other country.
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   Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than
   caffeine.
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   The largest pumpkin weighed 377 pounds.
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   The largest cabbage weighed 144 pounds.
   -

   Pinocchio was made of pine.
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   Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button for it was eliminated during
   surgery.
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   A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.
   -

   A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
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   Cranberry Jell-0 is the only kind that contains real fruit.
   -

   The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
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   Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.
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   New Jersey has a spoon museum with over 5,400 spoons from almost all
   the states.
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   There was once a town in West Virginia called "6."
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   The parking meter was invented in North Dakota.
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   Napoleon made his battle plans in a sandbox.
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   Roman Emperor Caligula made his horse a senator.
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   The green stuff on the occasional freak potato chip is chlorophyll.
   -

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

   There are 333 toilet paper squares on a toilet paper roll.
   -

   The Eiffel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets in it.
   -

   "Jaws" is the most common name for a goldfish.
   -

   On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.
   -

   Every minute in the U.S. six people turn 17.
   -

   2,500 lefties die each year using products designed for rightists.
   -

   Ten tons of space dust falls on the Earth every day.
   -

   On average, a 4-year-old child asks 437 questions a day.
   -

   Blue and white are the most common school colors.
   -

   Swimming pools in Phoenix, Arizona, pick up 20 pounds of dust a year.
   -

   In a normal lifetime an American will eat 200 pounds of peanuts and
   10,000 pounds of meat.
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   A new book is published every 13 minutes in America.
   -

   America's best selling ice cream flavor is vanilla.
   -

   Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.
   -

   Because of Animal Crackers, many kids until they reach the age of ten,
   believe a bear is as tall as a giraffe.
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   The Gulf Stream could carry a message in a bottle at an average of 4
   miles per hour.
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   The bulls-eye on a dartboard must be 5 feet 8 inches off the ground.
   -

   The doorbell was invented in 1831.
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   The electric shaver was patented on November 6, 1928.
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   Japan is the largest exporter of frog's legs.
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   There are seven points on the Statue of Liberty's crown.
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   Napoleon was terrified of cats.
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   The first Lifesaver flavor was peppermint.
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   The typical American eats 263 eggs a year.
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   The parking meter was invented by C.C. Magee in 1935.
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   The oldest known vegetable is the pea.
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   Jack is the most common name in nursery rhymes.
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   The avocado has the most calories of any fruit.
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   The first zoo in the USA was in Philadelphia.
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   France has the highest per capita consumption of cheese.
   -

   The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and
   F is "feedback."
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   The state of California raises the most turkeys out of all of the
   states.
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   George Washington Carver invented peanut butter.
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   Iceland was the first country to legalize abortion in 1935.
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   The dumbest domesticated animal is the turkey.
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   Russia has the most movie theaters in the world.
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   The most fatal car accidents occur on Saturday.
   -

   The Eiffel Tower has 1792 steps.
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   The mongoose was barred live entry into the U.S. in 1902.
   -

   Goldfish swallowing started at Harvard in 1939.
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   Dry fish food can make goldfish constipated.
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   The stall closest to the door in a bathroom is the cleanest, because
   it is the least used.
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   Toilet paper was invented in 1857.
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   Alaska could hold the 21 smallest States.
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   Before Prohibition, Schlitz Brewery owned more property in Chicago
   than anyone else, except the Catholic church.
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   If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to
   the top and sinking to the bottom.
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   Kermit the Frog is left-handed.
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   Nondairy creamer is flammable.
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   The car in the foreground on the back of a $10 bill is a 1925
   Hupmobile.
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   If you can see a rainbow you must have your back to the sun.
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   The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore
   when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the
   ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
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   It's rumored that sucking on a copper penny will cause a breathalyzer
   to read 0.
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   The ship, the Queen Elizabeth 2, should always be written as QE2. QEII
   is the actual queen.
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   The correct response to the Irish greeting, "Top of the morning to
   you," is "and the rest of the day to yourself."
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   Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City,
   after the Catholic Church.
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   When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home to a
   sellout crowd, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
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   Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is
   Number 47. Until August 7, 1953, Congress forgot to vote on a resolution to
   admit Ohio to the Union.
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   When Saigon fell, the signal for all Americans to evacuate was Bing
   Crosby's "White Christmas" being played on the radio.
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   The pet ferret was domesticated more than 500 years before the house
   cat.
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   The dome on Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home, conceals a billiards
   room. In Jefferson's day, billiards were illegal in Virginia.
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   The most common speed limit sign in the United States is 25 m.p.h.
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   At any one time, there are 100 million phone conversations going on in
   the United States.
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   The world's record for continuous pogo stick jumping is 41 hours.
   -

   The Ottoman Empire once had seven emperors in seven months. They died
   of (in order): burning, choking, drowning, stabbing, heart failure,
   poisoning and being thrown from a horse.
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   You can make edible cheese from the milk of 24 different mammals.
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   Sir Isaac Newton, who invented Calculus, had trouble with names to the
   point where he would forget his brothers' names.
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   In medieval Thailand, they had moveable type printing presses. The
   type was made from baked oxen dung.
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   By law, employees do not have to wash hands after sneezing.
   -

   The average American consumes enough caffeine in one year to kill a
   horse.
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   More American workers (18%) call sick on Friday than any other day of
   the week. Tuesday has the lowest percent of absenteeism (11%).
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   Enough beer is poured every Saturday across America to fill the Orange
   Bowl.
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   A newborn expels its own body weight in waste every 60 hours.
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   Whales die if their echo system fails.
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   Florida's beaches lose 20 million cubic yards of sand annually.
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   Naturalists use marshmallows to lure alligators out of swamps.
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   It takes a ton of water to make a pound of refined sugar.
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   Weevils are more resistant to poisons in the morning than at night.
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   Cacao, the main ingredient of chocolate is the most pest-ridden tree
   in the jungle.
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   In deep space most lubricants will disappear.
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   America once issued a 5-cent bill.
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   The average person can live 11 days without water.
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   In 1221 Genghis Khan killed 1,748,000 people at Nishapur in one hour.
   -

   There are 35 million digestive glands in the stomach.
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   In 1800 on 50 cities on earth had a population of more than 100,000.
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   More steel in the US is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture
   automobile bodies.
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   It is possible for any American citizen to give whatever name he or
   she chooses to any unnamed mountain or hill in the United States.
   -

   King Henry III of France, Louis XVI of France and Napoleon all
   suffered from ailurophobia--fear of cats.
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   Before 1850 golf balls were made of leather and stuffed with feathers.
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   Clocks made before 1687 had only one hand, and hour hand.
   -

   The motto of the American people, "In God We Trust," was not adopted
   as the national slogan until 1956.
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   More Americans have died in automobile accidents than have died in all
   the wars ever fought by the United States.
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   The ampersand (&) was once a letter of the English alphabet.
   -

   The principality of Monaco consists of 370 acres.
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   There are more than 40,000 characters in Chinese script.
   -

   During the time of Peter the Great, any Russian man who had a beard
   was required to pay a special tax.
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   The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television
   was Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
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   Coca-Cola was originally green.
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   Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the U.S. treasury.
   -

   The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters (I was thankfully corrected by a
   friend: The Hawai'ian alphabet has 13 letters, A, E, I, O, U, H, K, L, M, N,
   P, W, ' (which is called an okina).
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   Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
   -

   The amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive
   from each salad served in first class: $40,000.
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   City with the most Rolls Royces per capita: Hong Kong.
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   State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska.
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   Percentage of Africa that is wilderness--28%. Percentage of North
   America that is wilderness--38%.
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   Average number of days a German goes without washing his underwear: 7.
   -

   Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if
   they had it to do all over again: 80%.
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   Percentage of American women who say they'd marry the same man: 50%.
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   Cost of raising a medium size dog to the age of 11: $6,400.
   -

   Average people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
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   Average lifespan of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
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   The only President to win a Pulitzer Prize: John Kennedy for "Profiles
   in Courage."
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   The youngest Pope was 11 years old.
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   Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
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   First novel ever written on a typewriter: "Tom Sawyer."
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   A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
   -

   The main library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year
   because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight
   of all the books that would occupy the building.
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   Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from
   history. Spades--King David, Clubs--Alexander the Great, Hearts--Charlemagne
   and Diamonds--Julius Caesar.
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   If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in
   the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one leg front leg in
   the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the
   horse has all 4 legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
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   Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th.
   The last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
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   The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five
   must be straight. These straight sections are useable as airstrips in times
   of war or other emergencies.
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   The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, QE2, moves only six inches for
   each gallon of diesel that it burns.
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   The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in
   Colorado.
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   The first airline, DELAG, was established on October 16, 1909, to
   carry passengers between German cities by Zeppelin airships. Up to November
   1913, more than 34,000 people had used the service.
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   Titanic was running at 22 knots when she hit the iceberg
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   The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; '7' was selected because the
   original containers were 7 ounces. 'UP' indicated the direction of the
   bubbles
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   Francis Scott Key was a young lawyer who wrote the poem, 'The Star
   Spangled Banner', after being inspired by watching the Americans fight off
   the British attack of Baltimore during the War of 1812. The poem became the
   words to the national anthem
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   Because radio waves travel at 186,000 miles per second and sound waves
   saunter at 700 miles per hour, a broadcast voice can be heard sooner 13,000
   miles away than it can be heard at the back of the room in which it
   originated
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   Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the
   mosquito's sensors so they don't know your there
   -

   The bagpipe was originally made from the whole skin of a dead sheep
   Inventor Samuel Colt patented his revolver in 1836.
   -

   It has been recommended by dentists that a toothbrush be kept at least
   6 feet (two meters) away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting
   from the flush!
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   In ancient Rome it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with
   a crooked nose
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   It is possible to drown and not die. Technically the term 'drowning'
   refers to the process of taking water into the lungs, not to death caused by
   that process.
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   The first known heart medicine was discovered in an English garden. In
   1799, physician John Ferriar noted the effect of dried leaves of the common
   foxglove plant, digitalis purpurea, on heart action. Still used in heart
   medications, digitalis slows the pulse and increases the force of heart
   contractions and the amount of b lood pumped per heartbeat.
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   Dry cereal for breakfast was invented by John Henry Kellogg at the
   turn of the century
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   During World War II, a German U-boat was sunk by a truck. The U-boat
   in question attacked a convoy in the Atlantic and then rose to see the
   effect. The merchant ship it sank had material strapped to its deck
   including a fleet of trucks, one of which was thrown in the air by the
   explosion, landing on the U-boat and breaking its back
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   Jeremy Bentham, a British philosopher who died in 1832,left his entire
   estate to the London Hospital provided that his body be allowed to preside
   over its board meetings. His skeleton was clothed and fitted with a wax mask
   of his face. It was present at the meeting for 92 years.
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   Diet Coke was only invented in 1982.
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   Methane gas can often be seen bubbling up from the bottom of ponds. It
   is produced by the decomposition of dead plants and animals in the mud.
   There are more than 1,700 references to gems and precious stones in
   the King James translation of the Bible.
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   The E. Coli bacterium propels itself with a 'motor' only one-millionth
   of an inch in diameter, a thousand times smaller than the tiniest motors
   built to date by man. The rotation of the bacterial motor comes from a
   current of protons. The efficiency of the motor approaches 100 per cent.
   -

   Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint
   available at the time was the fastest to dry.
   -

   At - 40 degrees Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour
   by breathing.
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   Pet superstores now sell about 40 percent of all pet food
   -

   One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each
   year. Most of them are children.
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   In 1933, Mickey Mouse, an animated cartoon character, received 800,000
   fan letters.
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   There are only four words in the English language which end in
   '-dous': tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
   -

   If you attempted to count to stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every
   second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.
   -

   Less than 3% of Nestlé's sales are for chocolate.
   -

   The average person will spend two weeks over their lifetime waiting
   for the traffic light to change
   -

   More than 2500 left handed people are killed every year from using
   right handed products
   -

   It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population
   are drunk
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   The tip of a 1/3 inch long hour-hand on a wristwatch travels at
   0.00000275 mph
   -

   Less than one per cent of the 500 Chinese cities have clean air,
   respiratory disease is China's leading cause of death.
   -

   The number of cars on the planet is increasing three times faster than
   the population growth
   -

   The X's that people sometimes put at the end of letters or notes to
   mean a kiss, actually started back in the 1000's when Lords would sign their
   names at the end of documents to other important people. It was originally a
   cross that they would kiss after signing to signify that they were faithful
   to God and their King. Over the years though, it slanted into the X
   -

   Nova Scotia is Latin for 'New Scotland.'
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   The term Cop comes from Constable on Patrol. It's from England.
   -

   The collecting of Beer mats is called Tegestology.
   -

   Even though it is widely attributed to him Shakespeare never actually
   used the word 'gadzooks'.
   -

   Only 2 blue moons (the saying 'only once in a blue moon ' refers to
   the occurrence of two full moons during one calendar month) are to occur
   between now and 2001. Those times are January 1999 and March 1999
   -

   There are only 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet
   -

   "Naked" means to be unprotected. "Nude" means unclothed
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   Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower', because in
   the time when al original print had to be set in individual letters, the
   'upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case stored
   smaller, 'lower case' letters
   In the 40's, the Bich pen was changed to Bic for fear that Americans
   would pronounce it 'Bitch.'


-- 
Regards,
Gurunath M.

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