200 MOST POPULAR FACTS

10 percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
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23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.
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A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!
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A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!
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A Koala Bear sleeps 22 hours of every day.
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A lot of lovemaking can unblock a stuffy nose. Sex is a natural antihistamine. It can help combat asthma and hay fever.
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A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!
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A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
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A recent study at Harvard has shown that eating chocolate can actually help you live longer!
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A rodent's teeth never stop growing.
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A small airplane can fly backwards.
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A snail can sleep for three years.
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A species of earthworm in Australia grows up to 10 feet in length.
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A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!
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A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!
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A woman's sense of smell is most sensitive during ovulation.
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A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.
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About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.
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About half of all Americans are on a diet on any given day.
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According to scientific studies, a rat's performance in a maze can be improved by playing music written by Mozart.
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According to U.S. FDA standards, 1 cup of orange juice is allowed to contain 10 fruit fly eggs, but only 2 maggots.
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According to U.S. laws, a beer commercial can never show a person actually drinking beer.
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Acorns were used as a coffee substitute during the American Civil War.
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Actor Mark Wahlberg has a third nipple!
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Actor Val Kilmer grew up on Roy Rogers' ranch.
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Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
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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 Humans Are 99.9% Genetically Identical and 98.4% of human genes are the same as the genes of a chimpanzee.
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All major league baseball umpires must wear black underwear while on the job!
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All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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All polar bears are left handed
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All the platinum ever mined would fit into an average-sized living-room!
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Almost all varieties of breakfast cereals are made of grass.
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Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate every second.
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Americans eat nearly 100 acres of pizza every day - that's approximately 350 slices per second!.
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Americans spend more than 5.4 billion dollars on their pets each year!
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Americans will spend more on cat food this year than baby food.
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Among older men, vanilla is the most erotic smell.
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An 'aglet' is the plastic or metal tip of a shoelace.
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An American urologist once bought Napoleon's penis for $40,000.
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An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards!
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An egg will float if placed in water in which sugar has been added.
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An elephant trunk has no bone but 40,000 muscles.
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An olive tree can live up to 1,500 years!
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An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
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An ounce of platinum can be stretched 10,000 feet.
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Ancient Romans at one time used human urine as an ingredient in their toothpaste.
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Animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike!
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Annually, the amount of garbage that is dumped in the world's oceans is three times the weight of fish that is caught from the oceans.
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Any modern jet is capable of breaking the sound barrier.
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Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
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Apples are actually part of the rose family.
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Approximately 70,000 people in the U.S. are both blind and deaf!
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Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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At age 18, the Queen of England was a mechanic for the British Military.
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At birth, a panda bear is smaller than a mouse.
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At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
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At their closest point, the Russian and U.S. borders are less than two miles apart.
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Attics were invented in Attica.
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Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool! He changed it every 2 innings!
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Babies are born without knee caps.
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Babies that are breastfed are more likely to be slimmer as adults than those that are not breastfed.
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Baby beavers are called kittens.
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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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Bamboo plants can grow up to 36 inches in a day.
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Bananas are not fruit! They are a type of herb.
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Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
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Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.
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Baskin Robbins once made ketchup ice cream.
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Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!
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Beavers can swim half a mile underwater on one gulp of air.
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Beelzebub is Hebrew for 'Lord of the Flies'.
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Bill Gates' house was designed using a Macintosh computer.
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Billy goats urinate on their own heads to smell more attractive to females.
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Blue eyes are the most sensitive to light, dark brown the least sensitive.
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Bob Hope and Billy Joel were both once boxers.
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Burt Reynolds is a Cherokee Indian.
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By 3,000 B.C. there were at least six different types of beer in Egypt.
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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 the age of 60, most people have lost 50% of their taste buds.
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Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!
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Canola oil is actually rapeseed oil but the name was changed for marketing reasons!
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Car accidents rise 10% during the first week of daylight savings time.
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Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes.
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Cat urine glows under a black-light!
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Cats cannot taste sweet things.
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Cattle are the only mammals that pee backwards.
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Chained dogs are 3 times more likely to bite than unchained dogs.
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Che Guevara suffered from asthma!
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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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Cleopatras real name was Auletes!
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Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand.
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Coca-Cola was the first soft drink to be consumed in outer space.
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Coca-Cola's 'Super Pure' Dasani bottled water is just filtered tap water!
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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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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, dogs do not only sweat by salivating. They also sweat through the poors on their feet.
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Contrary to popular belief, hair does not grow back darker and thicker after it has been shaved.
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Contrary to popular belief, opossums, squirrels, chipmunks, and mice do not carry rabies.
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Contrary to popular belief, the first ironclad warships were built by Korea in the 16th century.
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Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
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Dating back to the 1600's, thermometers were filled with Brandy instead of mercury.
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Despite the hump, a camel's spine is straight.
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Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year!
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Dolphins nap with one eye open.
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Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
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Donkeys are commonly used by the Iraqi Military to launch rockets!
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Dragonflies have six legs but cannot walk!
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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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Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.
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Dueling is legal in Paraguay, as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
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During his lifetime, artist Vincent Van Gogh only sold one of his paintings.
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During his or her lifetime, the average human will grow 590 miles of hair.
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During the 1600's, boys and girls in England wore dresses until they were about seven years old.
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During WWII, because a lot of players were called to duty, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles combined to become The Steagles.
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During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!
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Each 5 m.p.h. you drive over 60 m.p.h. is like paying an additional $.10 a gallon for gas!
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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 nostril of a human being register smell in a different way. Smells that are made from the right nostril are more pleasant than the left.
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Each year, 30,000 people are seriously injured by exercise equipment.
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Each year, more than 50,000 people are injured by jewelry in the U.S.
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Ears of corn always have an even number of rows of kernels.
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Elephants, lions, and camels roamed Alaska 12,000 years ago.
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Even a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to death.
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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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Every day, the average person swallows about a quart of mucous.
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Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie!
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Every year, Alaska has about 5,000 earthquakes.
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Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum!
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Farmers in England are required by law to provide their pigs with toys!
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Female canaries cannot sing.
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Fingernails grow fastest on the hand you favor.
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Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
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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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First-cousin marriages are legal in Utah, so long as both parties are 65 or older!
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Flamingos pee on their legs to cool themselves off.
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Florida has more tornados per square mile than any other state.
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Food can only be tasted if it is mixed with saliva.
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For every 'normal' webpage, there are five porn pages.
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For every gallon of sea water, you get more than a quarter pound of salt.
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Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill.
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Former U.S. President Franklin Pierce was arrested during his term as President for running over an old lady with his horse, but the charges were later dropped.
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Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung!
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Forty percent of Americans have never visited a dentist.
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Frogs cannot swallow without blinking.
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From a complete stop, a human is capable of outrunning a Formula One Race car for about 30 feet!
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Frozen lobsters can come back to life when thawed!
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George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew marijuana on their plantations!
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Giraffes are unable to cough.
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Girls have more tastebuds than boys.
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Given the opportunity, deer will chew gum and marijuana.
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Gloucestershire airport in England used to blast Tina Turner songs on the runways to scare birds away.
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Goldfish remember better in cold water than warm water.
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Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
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Half of all identity thieves are either relatives, friends, or neighbors of their victims.
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Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada has the most bars per capita than anywhere else in the world.
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Halle Berry?s stunt double, in the movie ?Catwoman?, is a man.
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Harrods have three private wells to supply their water!
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Henry Ford was Charles Lindbergh's first passenger in the Spirit of St. Louis.
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Henry Ford, father of the Automobile, is also father of the charcoal briquette.
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Honey is used sometimes for antifreeze mixtures and in the center of golf balls.
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Houdini was the first man to fly a plane solo in Australia.
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How does a shark find fish? It can hear their hearts beating.
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Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
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Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks!
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Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!
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Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
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Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year!
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Hyenas regularly eat the feces of other animals!
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Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.
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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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If China imported just 10% of it's rice needs- the price on the world market would increase by 80%.
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If Manhattan had the same population density as Alaska, there would only be 15 people living there.
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If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
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If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
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If you put a raisin in a fresh glass of champagne, it will rise and fall continuously.
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If you shake a can of mixed nuts, the larger ones will rise to the top.
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If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
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If you unfolded your brain, it would cover an ironing board.
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If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
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If you?re over 100 years old, there?s an 80% chance you?re a woman.
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If you?re typical, you can guess someone?s sex with 95% accuracy just by smelling their breath.
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In 1659, it was illegal to celebrate Christmas in Massachusetts.
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In 1895 Hampshire police handed out the first ever speeding ticket, fining a man for doing 6mph!
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In 1910 football teams were penalized 15 yards for an incompleted forward pass.
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In 1976 an LA secretary named Jannene Swift officially married a 50 pound rock in a ceremony witnessed by more than 20 people.
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In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die!
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In 1980, the city of Detroit presented Saddam Hussein with a key to the city.
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In 1987 American Airlines saved $40,000 by eliminating one olive from its First Class salads.
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In 1999, Pepsi, Inc. paid $0.00 in income tax!
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In a year approximately 900 million trees are cut down to make the raw materials needed for American pulp mills and paper.
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In a year, the average person walks four miles to make his or her bed.
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In an average hour, there are over 61,000 Americans airborne over the United States.
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In an average lifetime a person will walk the equivalent of three times around the world.
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