| 66% of home based businesses are owned by women. |
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| Insulating your attic reduces the amount of energy loss in most houses by up to 20%. |
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| President George W. Bush is related to all other U.S. Presidents! |
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| Rain contains vitamin B12. |
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| Real diamonds can be made from peanut butter! |
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| Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours! |
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| Rubber is one of the ingredients in bubble gum. |
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| Salmon can jump as high as 6 feet. |
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| Seaweed can grow up to 12 inches per day! |
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| Snails breathe through their feet. |
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| Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object. |
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| Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air. |
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| Surgeons who listen to music during operations perform better than those who don't . |
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| The American Film Institute has named composer John Williams score for Star Wars as the greatest film score of all time. |
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| The average American/Canadian drinks about 600 sodas a year! |
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| The average company saves over $7,000 for each employee suggestion that is enacted! |
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| The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day. |
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| The average housewife walks 10 miles a day around the house doing her chores. |
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| The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons! |
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| The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime |
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| The banana tree cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man. |
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| The Bible is the most-shoplifted book in the world. |
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| The chances of you dying on the way to get your lottery tickets is greater than your chances of winning. |
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| The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. |
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| The cruise liner, 'Queen Elizabeth 2', moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns. |
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| The energy of a discharge of an electric eel could start 50 cars. |
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| The filming of the movie 'Titanic' cost more than the Titanic itself! |
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| The IRS processes more than 2 billion pieces of paper each year. |
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| The largest diamond ever found was an astounding 3,106 carats! |
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| The launching mechanism of a carrier ship that helps planes to take off could throw a pickup truck over a mile. |
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| The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are radioactive...so much so that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear reactor. |
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| The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses! |
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| The longest word in the English language with no vowels is Rhythms! |
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| The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. |
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| The normal static electricty shock that zaps your finger when you touch a doorknob is usually between 10,000 and 30,000 volts! |
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| The oldest patented company logo is the red triangle of Bass beers! |
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| The venom of the king cobra is so deadly that just one gram of it can kill 150 people. |
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| The warmest temperature ever recorded on Antarctica was 3 degrees F. |
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| The word 'News' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South! |
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| There are 53 Lego bricks manufactured for each person in the world. |
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| There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea. |
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| There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month! Interesting tries from our readers: orange: door hinge, melange (French for mix) purple: hurtle, durple?, turtle month: once, bunth?, hunch |
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| There is more real lemon juice in Lemon Pledge furniture polish than in Country Time Lemonade. |
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| When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. |
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| When young and impoverished, Pablo Picasso kept warm by burning his own paintings. |
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| You can start a fire with ice. |
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| You can tape a small mirror onto a cone speaker, play music and shine a laser on to the mirror and the reflection will look like a laser light show on your wall. |
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| You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world. |
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