| -40 degrees Celsius is equal to -40 degrees Fahrenheit. |
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| 7,000 new insect species are discovered every year. |
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| 85% of movie actors earn less than $5,000 a year from acting! |
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| 9 out of 10 lightning strike victims survive! |
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| A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber. |
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| A bird 'chews' with its stomach. |
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| A car operates at maximum economy, gas-wise, at speeds between 25 and 35 miles per hour. |
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| A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second. |
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| A man once sued his doctor because he survived his cancer longer than the doctor predicted. |
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| A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood! |
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| Actor John Wayne made more than 200 movies. |
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| Actress Elizabeth Taylor wrote the children's book 'Nibbles & Me'. |
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| An airplane mechanic invented Slinky while he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use for the springs. |
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| An ounce of platinum can be stretched 10,000 feet. |
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| Any modern jet is capable of breaking the sound barrier. |
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| Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, was an ophthalmologist by profession! |
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| Austria was the first country to use postcards. |
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| Bill Gates designed a traffic control system for Seattle when he was only 15! |
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| Budweiser beer is named after a town in Czechoslovakia. |
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| Buttermilk does not contain any butter. |
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| By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand. |
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| By recycling just one glass bottle, the amount of energy that is being saved is enough to light a 100 watt bulb for four hours. |
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| C3PO is the first character to speak in Star Wars. |
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| Coconuts kill more people in the world than sharks do. Approximately 150 people are killed each year by coconuts. |
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| Contrary to popular belief, the first ironclad warships were built by Korea in the 16th century. |
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| Crayola is a French word that means 'Oily chalk.'" |
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| Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct. |
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| El Salvador is the only Central American country without a coastline on the Caribbean. |
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| English is the only language that capitalises the first person singular, 'I'. |
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| Even Antarctica has an area code. It is 672. |
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| Every Alaskan citizen over the age of 6 months receives an oil dividend check of about $1000 per year! |
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| Extremely high pressured water can easily cut through a steel beam. |
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| First four countries to have television: England, the U.S., the U.S.S.R., and Brazil. |
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| For every gallon of sea water, you get more than a quarter pound of salt. |
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| Half of all identity thieves are either relatives, friends, or neighbors of their victims. |
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| Identify a fake: The second hand on an authentic Rolex watch doesn't tick, it moves smoothly. |
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| In 1956, 80% of all U.S. households had a refrigerator, but only 8% of British households had one! |
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| In 32 years. there are about 1 billion seconds! |
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| In ten minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined! |
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| In the early 1960's, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors. |
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| Indoor pollution is 10 times more toxic than outdoor pollution. |
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| Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category. |
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| Israel is one quarter the size of the state of Maine. |
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| Israel's Dead Sea is 1,312 feet below sea level. |
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| Istanbul, Turkey is the only city in the world located on two continents. |
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| It is estimated that there is in excess of 3,000,000,000 bibles been sold throughout the world! |
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| It is possible to see a rainbow at night! |
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| It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times. |
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| Jericho is the oldest walled city in the world at 9,000 yrs old! |
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| Jumbo jets use 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off . |
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| La Scala is the worlds most famous Opera House. |
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| Less than 10% of criminals commit about 67% of all crime. |
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| Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning. |
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| Microsoft made $16,005 in revenue in its first year of operation. |
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| Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a 'Friday the 13th'. |
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| More boys than girls are born during the day; more girls are born at night. |
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| Most alcoholic beverages contain all 13 minerals necessary to sustain human life. |
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| Most of the world's people must walk at least 3 hours to fetch water! |
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| Motorists who talk on cell phones are more impaired than drunk drivers with blood-alcohol levels exceeding .08! |
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| Muhammad is the most common name in the world. |
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| Native Indians have been known to paint their doors blue, which they believe keeps the bad spirits out. |
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| Natural gas has no smell. The odor is artificially added so that people will be able to identify leaks and take measures to stop them. |
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| Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions! |
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| One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water. |
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| One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen! |
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| One third of the electricity produced on earth is used to power electric light bulbs! |
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| Only two in one thousand diamonds are considered truly colorless. |
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| Originally, Nintendo was a playing card manufacturer. |
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| People say Bless you when you sneeze because of the influenza epidemics that raged during the Middle Ages. |
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| People who are lying to you tend to look up and to the left (their left). |
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| Persia changed its name to Iran in 1935. |
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| Research has shown that ginger is more effective than Dramamine in combating motion sickness. |
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| The aromatic root of ginseng has been used for medicinal purposes in Asia for thousands if years. |
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| The electric chair was invented by a dentist! |
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| The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914. |
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| The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914. |
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| The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com. |
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| The first product that Sony came out with was the rice cooker. |
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| The first product that the toy company Mattel came out with was picture frames. |
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| The household wrench was invented by boxing heavyweight champion Jack Johnson in 1922. |
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| The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card! |
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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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| The search engine Google got its name from the word 'googol', which refers to the number one with a hundred zeros after it. |
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| The word Cotton originates from the Arabic word Qutn. |
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