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- The average chocolate bar has eight insects' legs in it.

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- If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.

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I'm Deep Inside Your Children.
They Will Betray You In MY Name.

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40% of women have hurled footwear at a man

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An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

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A cockroach breaks wind every 15 minutes.

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» One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.

» In 1933, Mickey Mouse, an animated cartoon character, received 800,000 fan letters.

» There are only four words in the English language that end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

» If you attempted to count all the stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.

» Less than 3% of Nestle's sales are for chocolate.

» The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.

» There are 2 credit cards for every person in the United States.

» The average person will spend 2 weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.

» More than 2,500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products.

» Feb 1865 and Feb 1999 are the only months in recorded history not to have a full moon.

» The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

» More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

» The only 2 days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-Star Game.

» Only 1 person in 2 billion will live to be 116 or older.

» The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only 6 inches (15 cm) for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

» You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.

» It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk.

» The tip of a 1/3-inch long hour hand on a wristwatch travels at 0.00000275 miles per hour.

» One thing that humans do more than anything in their entire life is sleep. Most Americans sleep more than 6-8 hours a day, which is on average around 24 years of ones life!

» A man's beard contains between 7,000 and 15,000 hairs.

» A hair is 70% easier to cut when soaked in warm water for 2 minutes.

» Women's hair is about half the diameter of men's hair.

» It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot.

» During an average lifetime, a man will spend 3,350 hours removing 8.4 meters of stubble.

» 4 million children die each year from inhaling smoke from indoor cooking fires that burn wood and dung.

» Less than 1% of the 500 Chinese cities have clean air; respiratory disease is China's leading cause of death.

» The number of cars on the planet is increasing 3 times faster than the population growth.

» It took 1,175 animators working in Disney studios in Burbank, California, Orlando, Florida, and Paris, France to complete the animated Tarzan. Because of the time differences, production was able to occur around the clock for more than three years.

» From 1840, every president elected in a year ending in the numeral "0" has been assassinated, died in office, or been severely wounded in an attempt on his life. Each event has taken place in an odd numbered year and each on an even numbered day. In each case, the number of terms the president was elected to has alternated between single and multiple (i.e. Harrison 1, Lincoln 2, Garfield 1, Mckinley 2, etc). Ronald Reagan was the first president who did not die because of this "curse." If this pattern continues, the person elected in 2000 will die in 2001 or 2003, or will be wounded in an assassination attempt. Let's hope that the "curse" was broken by Ronald Reagan's survival in 1981.

» The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

» About 17% of humans are left-handed. The same is true of chimpanzees and gorillas.

» Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

» The entire length of all eyelashes shed by a human in their life is over 98 feet (30 m).

» No president of the United States was an only child.

» The average woman consumes 6 pounds of lipstick in her lifetime.

» The average human produces 25,000 quarts of spit in a lifetime, enough to fill two swimming pools.
» Your brain weighs around 3 pounds. All but ten ounces is water.

» A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds.

» If you gave each human on earth an equal portion of dry land, including the uninhabitable areas, everyone would get roughly 100 square feet (30.4 m).

» The average person makes about 1,140 telephone calls each year.

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» California has issued 6 drivers licenses to people named "Jesus Christ."

» The world's shortest river is the "D" river in Oregon. It's only 120 feet (37 m). It connects Devil's lake to the nearby Pacific Ocean.

» In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.

» Nevada is the driest state in the U.S.. Each year it averages 7.5 inches (19 cm) of rain.

» In December 1997, the state of Nevada became the first state to pass legislation categorizing Y2K data disasters as "acts of God" protecting the state from lawsuits that may potentially be brought against it by residents in the year 2000.

» In Utah, it is illegal to swear in front of a dead person.

» Salt Lake City, Utah has a law against carrying an unwrapped ukulele on the street.

» Arizona was the last of the 48 adjoining continental states to enter the Union.

» It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona.

» The meteorite that hit/made The Barringer crater in Arizona weighed more than 50,000 tons.

» The amount of concrete used in the building of the Hoover Dam is equal to that of paving a 4-foot (1.2 m) wide footpath around the equator.

» Wyoming was the first state to give women the right to vote in 1869.

» Denver, Colorado lays claim to the invention of the cheeseburger.

» Denver, Colorado consumes less prune juice per capita than any other city in the United States.

» The first license plate on a car in the United States was issued in Denver, Colorado in 1908.

» In Fruita, Colorado the town folk celebrate "Mike the Headless Chicken Day." Seems that a farmer named L.A. Olsen cut off Mike's head on September 10, 1945 in anticipation of a chicken dinner - and Mike lived for another 4 years without a head. Mike died from choking on a corn kernel.

» The state of Maryland has no natural Lakes.

» Illinois has the highest number of personalized license plates than any other state.

» Austin, Texas has the highest percentage of college graduates, 31 percent. Newark, New Jersey has the lowest, 6 percent.

» Residents of Houston, Texas lead the U.S. in eating out - approximately 4.6 times per week.

» The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one-mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.

» Laredo, Texas is the U.S.'s farthest inland port.

» There is a town in Texas called "Ding Dong."

» Rugby, North Dakota is the geographical center of North America.

» Butte County, South Dakota is the geographical center of the U.S.

» "Home on the Range" is the state song for Kansas.

» It is illegal to get fish drunk in Oklahoma.

» The world's largest McDonalds is located on I-44 at Vinita, Oklahoma. It goes from one side of the interstate to the other, passing over the interstate.

» Louisiana's capital building is the tallest one of any U.S. state.

» Louisiana is the only state not to have counties. They are called Parishes.

» Mississippi is the poorest state.

» Hawaii is the only coffee producing state.

» New Jersey has a spoon museum.

» One in seven workers in Boston, Massachusetts walks to work.

» The Boston University Bridge on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, is one of the few places in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.

» The "Dull Men's Hall of Fame" is located in Carroll, Wisconsin.

» Gary, Indiana is the murder capital of the U.S. - probably the world.

» Alabama was the first state to recognize Christmas as an official holiday.

» The largest NFL stadium is the Pontiac Silverdome in Detroit, Michigan.

» Michigan was the first state to have roadside picnic tables.

» No matter where you stand in Michigan, you are never more than 85 miles from a Great Lake.

» Marshall almost became the state capital of Michigan but lost by one vote in 1848.

» In 1997, Michigan became the 16th state to allow the blind to hunt.

» The official beverage of Ohio is tomato juice.

» "Hang on Sloopy" is the official rock song of Ohio.

» Georgia's state motto is "Wisdom, Justice and Moderation."

» The U.S. city with the highest rate of lightning strikes per capita is Clearwater, Florida.

» Florida was separated into two sections at one time, East Florida and West Florida. Pensacola was the capital of West Florida and St. Augustine was the capital of East Florida.

» George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe, all Virginians, were founding fathers of the United States and were among the first five U.S. Presidents. Virginia was also the birthplace of U.S. Presidents William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, Zachary Taylor, and Woodrow Wilson.

» The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as needed because when it was built the state of Virginia still had segregation laws.

» It's illegal to spit on the sidewalk in Norfolk, Virginia.

» There was a town in West Virginia called "6."

» The first streetlights in America were installed in Philadelphia around 1757.

» In Frackville, Pennsylvania a woman filed for divorce because her husband insisted on "shooting tin cans off of her head with a slingshot."

» The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.

» If you were to take a taxicab from New York City to Los Angeles, it would cost you $8,325.

» New York cities administrative code still requires that hitching posts be located in front of City Hall so that reporters can tie their horses.

» The NY phone book had 22 Hitlers before WWII. The NY phone book had 0 Hitlers after WWII.

» In New York State, it is illegal to but any alcohol on Sundays before noon.

» Queen Anne had a transvestite cousin, Lord Cornbury, whom she assigned to be governor of New York and New Jersey. The colonists were not amused.

» There were 240 pedestrian fatalities in New York City in 1994.

» Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.

» The Citibank building in New York City had a structural flaw and had the potential to fall down. When the flaw was caught in 1978, a year after completion, it was found that there was a 50% chance of collapse during winds over 78 miles (126 km) per hour, typical in a hurricane. At the same time there was a hurricane heading straight for NYC. The building owner secretly had the flaw corrected in the middle of the night. There were rumors about the "glowing Citibank building" because the welding could be seen across the skyline. It was estimated that 156 blocks would have been demolished due to the domino effect the building would start had it fallen over.

» The largest stained-glass window in the world is at Kennedy International Airport in New York City. It can be seen on the American Airlines terminal building and measures 300 feet (91 m) long by 23 feet (7 m) high.

» On the 25th anniversary of the New York City marathon, the world's longest urinal, 290 feet, (88 m) was installed at the beginning of the race.

» Customers who bought the first Kodak cameras had to mail them back to Rochester, New York for reloading.

» All the dirt from the foundation to build the World Trade Center in New York City was dumped into the Hudson River to form the community now known as Battery City Park.

» On a clear day, you can see five states from the top of the Empire State Building - New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.

» Montpelier, Vermont is the only state capital without a McDonalds.

» Maine is the only state that has borders with only one other state.

» Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

» Rhode Island is the smallest state with the longest name. The official name, used on all state documents, is Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

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- It is illegal to eat oranges while bathing in California.

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