Contrary to popular belief, putting sugar in a car's gas tank will NOT ruin its engine.
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Phobatrivaphobia is fear of trivia about phobias.
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Colgate's first toothpaste came in a jar.
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All the platinum ever mined would fit into an average-sized living-room!
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In Singapore, it is illegal to sell or own chewing gum.
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A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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Clinophobia is the fear of beds!
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In Albania, nodding your head means 'no' and shaking your head means 'yes'.
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Teflon is the slipperiest substance in the world.
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The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts 3 naked men with their hands on each others shoulders.
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There are no rental cars in Bermuda.
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A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
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Among older men, vanilla is the most erotic smell.
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Minnows have teeth in their throat.
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Liquid TIDE laundry detergent glows under a blacklight.
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Car accidents rise 10% during the first week of daylight savings time.
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Each year, 30,000 people are seriously injured by exercise equipment.
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There is a town called Paradise and a town called Hell in Michigan!
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Heineken beer is designed to 'foam' for exactly five minutes.
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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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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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Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand.
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In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals!
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Pepsi-Cola was originally called 'Brad's drink'.
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A baby octopus is about the size of a flea at birth.
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Eskimos don't gamble.
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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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An olive tree can live up to 1,500 years!
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Burt Reynolds is a Cherokee Indian.
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Jimmy Hoffa's middle name is, appropriately, Riddle.
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The loop on a belt that holds the loose end is called a 'keeper'.
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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 shrimp's heart is in its head.
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Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.
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An iceberg contains more heat than a lit match.
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At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
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Connecticut and Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment (Prohibition).
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More than half the population of Kenya is under the age of 15.
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First-cousin marriages are legal in Utah, so long as both parties are 65 or older!
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Che Guevara suffered from asthma!
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Europe is the only continent without a desert.
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Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button.
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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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Children are more allergic to cockroaches than they are to cats!
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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 people have seen David Copperfield perform live than any other performer in the world.
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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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Approximately one-third of the population can't snap their fingers!
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Panophobia is the fear of everything.
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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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Actor Val Kilmer grew up on Roy Rogers' ranch.
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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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Brad Pitt has been smoking since the sixth grade!
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An American urologist once bought Napoleon's penis for $40,000.
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Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
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Atilla the hun was a dwarf!
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Medical research has found substances in mistletoe that can slow down tumor growth.
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The world?s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
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Wine will spoil if exposed to light; hence tinted bottles.
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Lenny Kravitz's mother played the part of 'Helen' on 'The Jeffersons'.
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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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A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven.
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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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No matter how cold it gets, gasoline will not freeze.
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Bacteria that cause tooth decay, acne, tuberculosis, and leprosy can be cured with cashews.
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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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Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
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Michael Keaton's original name is Michael Douglas.
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A survey reported that 12% of Americans think that Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.
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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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80% of 10 year old girls in the U.S. go on a diet.
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Identity crisis? About 10% of Jewish households have Christmas Trees.
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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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Pearls melt in vinegar.
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Ducks will only lay eggs early in the morning.
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Drew Carey once worked at a Denny's.
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Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth.
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Balsa wood is classified as a hard wood!
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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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Children are poisoned most frequently by eating harmful plants.
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Frogs cannot swallow without blinking.
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The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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Mel Gibson has a horseshoe kidney (two kidneys fused into one)!
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Stannous fluoride, which is the cavity fighter found in toothpaste is made from recycled tin.
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Iceland has no railway system or army!
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Windmills always turn anti-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
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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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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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In Pakistan, goats are often sacrificed to improve the performance of the stock market.
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No patent can ever be taken out on a gambling machine in the United States.
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More redheads are born in Scotland than in any other part of the world.
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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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