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31) Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland or Disney World: 70.
32) Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
33) Portion of ice cream sold that is vanilla: 1/3.
34) Portion of potatoes sold that are French-fried: 1/3.
35) Percentage of Americans that eat at McDonalds each day: 7.
36) Number of US states that claim test scores in their elementary schools are above national average: 50.
37) Portion of Harvard students who graduate with honors: 4/5.
38) Only first lady to carry a loaded revolver: Eleanor Roosevelt.
39) Only president to win a Pulitzer: John F. Kennedy, for "Profiles in Courage".
40) Only president awarded a patent: Abe Lincoln, for a system of buoying vessels over shoals.
41) President who discovered a new proof for The Pythagorean Theorem: Jimmy Carter.
42) Only food that does not spoil: honey.
43) Only bird that can fly backwards: Hummingbird.
44) Only continent without reptiles or snakes: Antarctica.
45) Only animal besides human that can get sunburn: Pig.
46) An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.
47) In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.
48) Polar bears are left-handed.
49) Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
50) The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
51) The youngest pope was 11 years old.
52) Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school.
53) Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses.
54) Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving dinner.
55) Your nose and ears never stop growing.
56) Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
57) The parachute was invented by Leonardo da Vinci in 1515.
58) They have square watermelons in Japan--they stack better.
59) Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
60) I love flowers.
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