| 80% of 10 year old girls in the U.S. go on a diet. |
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| A baby octopus is about the size of a flea at birth. |
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| A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop. |
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| A group of unicorns is called a blessing. |
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| A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy. |
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| A shrimp's heart is in its head. |
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| A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite. |
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| A survey reported that 12% of Americans think that Joan of Arc was Noah's wife. |
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| A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven. |
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| Actor Val Kilmer grew up on Roy Rogers' ranch. |
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| Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. |
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| All clams start out as males; some decide to become females at some point in their lives. |
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| All the platinum ever mined would fit into an average-sized living-room! |
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| Among older men, vanilla is the most erotic smell. |
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| An American urologist once bought Napoleon's penis for $40,000. |
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| An iceberg contains more heat than a lit match. |
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| An olive tree can live up to 1,500 years! |
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| Approximately one-third of the population can't snap their fingers! |
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| At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet. |
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| Atilla the hun was a dwarf! |
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| Bacteria that cause tooth decay, acne, tuberculosis, and leprosy can be cured with cashews. |
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| Balsa wood is classified as a hard wood! |
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| Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth. |
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| Brad Pitt has been smoking since the sixth grade! |
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| Burt Reynolds is a Cherokee Indian. |
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| By partially filling saucers with vinegar and distributing the saucers around a room, you can eliminate odors. |
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| Car accidents rise 10% during the first week of daylight savings time. |
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| Cellophane is not made of plastic. It is made from a plant fiber, cellulose, which has been shredded and aged. |
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| Che Guevara suffered from asthma! |
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| Children are more allergic to cockroaches than they are to cats! |
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| Children are poisoned most frequently by eating harmful plants. |
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| Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant called Diamond Star. |
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| Clinophobia is the fear of beds! |
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| Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand. |
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| Colgate's first toothpaste came in a jar. |
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| Connecticut and Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment (Prohibition). |
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| Contrary to popular belief, putting sugar in a car's gas tank will NOT ruin its engine. |
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| Drew Carey once worked at a Denny's. |
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| Ducks will only lay eggs early in the morning. |
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| Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century! |
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| Each year, 30,000 people are seriously injured by exercise equipment. |
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| Each year, the average family uses about 18,000 gallons of water just to do its laundry! |
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| English novelist Arnold Bennet drank a glass of water in a Paris Hotel to prove it was safe. He died two months later of Typhoid! |
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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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| Eskimos don't gamble. |
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| Europe is the only continent without a desert. |
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| First-cousin marriages are legal in Utah, so long as both parties are 65 or older! |
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| Frogs cannot swallow without blinking. |
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| Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave. |
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| Heineken beer is designed to 'foam' for exactly five minutes. |
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| Iceland has no railway system or army! |
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| Identity crisis? About 10% of Jewish households have Christmas Trees. |
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| In 1993, Crayola released a new color called Purple Mountains Majesty which was inspired by a phrase in America the Beautiful. |
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| In Albania, nodding your head means 'no' and shaking your head means 'yes'. |
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| In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals! |
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| In Pakistan, goats are often sacrificed to improve the performance of the stock market. |
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| In Singapore, it is illegal to sell or own chewing gum. |
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| Jimmy Hoffa's middle name is, appropriately, Riddle. |
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| Lenny Kravitz's mother played the part of 'Helen' on 'The Jeffersons'. |
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| Liquid TIDE laundry detergent glows under a blacklight. |
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| Medical research has found substances in mistletoe that can slow down tumor growth. |
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| Mel Gibson has a horseshoe kidney (two kidneys fused into one)! |
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| Michael Keaton's original name is Michael Douglas. |
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| Minnows have teeth in their throat. |
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| More people have seen David Copperfield perform live than any other performer in the world. |
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| More redheads are born in Scotland than in any other part of the world. |
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| More than 6,000 people with pillow-related injuries check into U.S. emergency rooms every year! |
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| More than half the population of Kenya is under the age of 15. |
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| No matter how cold it gets, gasoline will not freeze. |
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| No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 8 times. |
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| No patent can ever be taken out on a gambling machine in the United States. |
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| Nylon is made from coal and petroleum. |
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| Originally, BMW was an airplane engine manufacturer. |
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| Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey. |
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| Panophobia is the fear of everything. |
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| Pearls melt in vinegar. |
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| Pepsi-Cola was originally called 'Brad's drink'. |
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| Phobatrivaphobia is fear of trivia about phobias. |
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| Private automobiles were forbidden on the island if Bermuda until 1948. This is one reason there are still so many bicycles there. |
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| Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food. |
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| Stannous fluoride, which is the cavity fighter found in toothpaste is made from recycled tin. |
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| Teflon is the slipperiest substance in the world. |
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| The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof. |
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| The loop on a belt that holds the loose end is called a 'keeper'. |
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| The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts 3 naked men with their hands on each others shoulders. |
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| The phrase 'rule of thumb' is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb. |
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| The world?s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910. |
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| There are no rental cars in Bermuda. |
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| There is a species of clam that can grow up to four feet long and weigh up to 500 pounds. |
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| There is a town called Paradise and a town called Hell in Michigan! |
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| Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing. |
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| When Britney Spears books into hotels she uses the name 'Allota Warmheart' so that nobody will recognize her. |
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| Whoopi Goldberg?s real name is Caryn Elaine Johnson. |
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| Windmills always turn anti-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland! |
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| Wine will spoil if exposed to light; hence tinted bottles. |
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