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Totally True Useless Facts
1101 - 1200
  1. The human mind can only process 7 items of information at a time.
  2. The scent of rose (marak) encourages men buyers, while vanilla entices women to buy more.
  3. In American currency a dollar bill measures 6 1/8" x 2 5/8", and a penny measures 3/4" in diameter.
  4. If all the cans of Spam ever eaten were put end-to-end, they would circle the globe at least ten times.
  5. In the U.S. alone, 3.8 cans of Spam "are consumed every second" (assuming SPAM is eaten 24 hours a day, 365.25 days a year).
  6. Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia eats a sandwich of SPAM and mayonnaise on white bread three times a week.
  7. Residents of Hawaii eat an average of four cans of SPAM per person per year, more than in any other place on Earth.
  8. By 1959, a billion cans of SPAM had been sold. The two billion mark was hit in 1970, followed by three billion in 1980, four billion in 1986, and five billion in 1993. That's a lot of SPAM!
  9. In Korea, SPAM is sold in stylish presentation gift boxes of nine cans each. SPAM stolen from army PXs can be found on the Korean black market. And there are Korean imitations called Lo-Spam, Dak, Plumrose, and Tulip, to ensure that no one need go without.
  10. Nikita Krushchev once credited SPAM with the survival of the WWII Russian army. "Without SPAM, we wouldn't have been able to feed our army," he said.
  11. SPAM is sold in over 99% of U.S. grocery stores.
  12. The SPAM luncheon meat trademark is registered in 93 countries.
  13. Over 60 million people in the U.S. eat SPAM.
  14. SPAM is made in two U.S. locations - Austin, Minnesota, and Fremont, Nebraska - and seven other countries: England, Australia, Denmark, Philippines, Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea.
  15. In 1989, the U.S. armed forces bought 3.3 million pounds of SPAM.
  16. Over 141 million cans of SPAM are sold worldwide each year.
  17. Silly Putty (Dow Corning 3179 Dilatant Compound) ingredients by weight: 65% Dimethyl Siloxane, hydroxy-terminated polymers with boric acid, 17% Silica, quartz crystalline, 9% Thixotrol ST, 4% - Polydimethylsiloxane, 1% Decamethyl cyclopentasiloxane, 1% Glycerine, 1% Titanium Dioxide.
  18. The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
  19. The youngest pope was 11 years old.
  20. The top ten smartest animals from dumbest to smartest are dog, honeybee, pig, horse, snow monkey, crow, octopus, dolphin, chimpanzee, parrot.
  21. Charcoal briquettes are more effective than baking soda for removing odors in a refrigerator.
  22. One square mile of ragweed produces 16 tons of pollen a year.
  23. Chicken McNuggets come in only 4 shapes.
  24. Jack Daniels bottles are slanted to keep the bottle from sliding out from under the car seat when pulled over by the police.
  25. The original Christmas was celebrated on January 6th.
  26. The derivation of the word trivia comes from the Latin "tri-" + "via", which means three streets. This is because in ancient times, at an intersection of three streets in Rome, they would have a type of kiosk where ancillary information was listed. You might be interested in it, you might not, hence they were bits of "trivia."

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I do not claim that all of these are actually true, but I have weeded out some of the obvious ones.
If you have any more for me, or if you find a repeat, typo, or blatant fallacy in the above, please e-me about it.
Corrected TTUFs

Where I learn some of this crazy stuff:
The Learning Kingdom
MailBits.com
Win Ben Stein's Money
Accord Publishing's 1999 Nose It All Calendar
Hot Topic pay stubs
E-mails which worm their way into my inbox
Tyler Whitney's Completely Random Home Page
UselessKnowledge.com
The Danny Baker Show
PhiLL's Site Of Useless Information
Buy-ology - TLC
Spam page
Silly Putty page
Other interesting things too long for the TTUF's