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1. Americans eat 45 million turkeys each Thanksgiving.
2. McDonalds sells McSpaghetti in the Philippines.
3. Half of Americans sleep on their side.
4. One in 500 people have different coloured eyes.
5. The can opener was invented 48 years after the can.
6. 7000 new insect species are discovered each year.
7. Gasoline will never freeze solid.
8. Cleopatra was actually Greek.
9. Women could not vote in Switzerland until 1971.
10. Napoleon designed the Italian flag.
11. 3% of Americans shower with their pets.
12. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
13. Men are proportopnally stronger than horses.
14. More boys are born in the day, more girls are born at night.
15. The most popular sport in nudist colonies in volleyball.
16. Austrians have the most cats per capita.
17. A Rolls Royce takes 6 months to build, a Toyota takes 13 hours.
18. All polar bears are left handed.
19. The first man made object to break the sound barrier is the whip.
20. Mark Twain dropped out of elementary school.
21. Tsunamis travel as fast as jets.
22. The average shower lasts 11-13 minutes.
23. Armadillos can get leprosy.
24. 9% of Americans buy clothes for their pets.
25. There are 635 013 559 599 possible hands in bridge.
26. Elizabeth Taylor remarries every 4 years 5 months on average.
27. Three Mile Island is only 2 1/2 miles long.
28. It?s illegal to own a red car in Shanghai.
29. The most shoplifted book in America is the Bible.
30. Each year Americans eat six times the weight of the Titanic in potato chips.
31. Thomas Edison invented the talking doll in 1888.
32. Egyptian tombs were decorated with pictures of watermelons.
33. Pain travels at 350 feet per second.
34. House flies weigh 15 millionths of a pound.
35. A giraffe?s tongue is 17 inches long.
36. Levi?s 501 jeans have 501 copper rivets.
37. James Dean?s favourite food was rice pudding.
38. The Pacific Ocean is larger than all the continents combined.
39. It takes 4 hours to hard boil an ostrich egg.
40. All the continents are widest across the northern portion.
41. 21% of people drink black coffee, 37% use cream and sugar.
42. The average Japanese farm is only 3 acres.
43. A year?s production of Crayola crayons would circle the Earth 4 1/2 times.
44. The letter ?e? makes up 20% of the English language.
45. The average skywriting letter is 3.2 Km high.
46. A gallon of sea water contains half a pound of salt.
47. Pigs will not eat mint Oreo ice cream.
48. Office workers spend 50 minutes per day looking for lost items.
49. Watermelon is 92% water, apples are 84% water.
50. Citronella irritates mosquiotes? feet.
51. Americans eat 90 acres of pizza per day.
52. There are no wild turkeys in Turkey.
53. The longest word used by Shakespeare is honorificabilitudinitatibus. (Love?s Labour Lost)
54. One third of the world?s people are under age 15.
55. Elvis got a ?C? in eight grade music.
56. Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes died on the same day in 1616.
57. The average 10 gallon hat holds only 3 quarts.
58. Voltaire drank 70 cups of coffee per day.
59. The Sanskrit word for ?war? also translates as ?desire for more cows?.
60. Glue on Isreali stamps in kosher.
61. One in 2 billion people will live to age 116.
62. Americans break 4 million bones per year.
63. Half of Americans pray to God for financial advice.
64. The average girl owns seven pairs of jeans.
65. Ears of corn always have and even number of rows of kernels.
66. Brazil was named after the nut.
67. Female canaries can not sing.
68. Newborns cry 113 minutes per day.
69. A panda is smaller than a mouse at birth.
70. It is illegal to stare at the mayor of Paris.
71. 21% of men discuss sex while getting a haircut.
72. There are 5000 languages in the world.
73. Most fatal traffic accidents occur in July.
74. An ostrich?s eyes are bigger than its brain.
75. The Thighmaster was invented by a Bhuddist Monk.
76. Male hospital patients fall out of bed twice as often as female patients.
77. Coffe beans and almonds are both fruit pits.
78. Shoelace tips are called ?Aglet?.
79. The oldest pig in the world lived to 68 years.
80. The Alphabet Song, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and Ba Ba Black Sheep all have the same tune, as do London Bridges, Round the Table, and Head and Shoulders Knees and Toes.
81. 54% of Christmas trees are artificial.
82. About 405 000 US homes still have outdoor plumbing.
83. City dwellers have denser nose hairs than country folk.
84. Goldfish have a better memory in cold water.
85. Flamingoes can only eat with their heads upside down.
86. The Eiffel Tower is three times taller than the Statue of Liberty.
87. In Australia poisonous snakes outnumber nonpoisonous snakes.
88. 55% of the world drinks goat?s milk.
89. Remote controls are most often lost under furniture.
90. The inventor of Michelin super-safe tires died in a car accident.
91. The average human will shed 40 pounds of dead skin in a lifetime.
92. 21% of smokers don?t believe nicotine is addictive.
93. Central Park is twice as large as the country of Monaco.
94. Avalanches travel down hill at 22 mph.
95. King Louis XIV bathed three times during his life.
96. 25% of human bones are in the feet.
97. Children have more taste buds than adults.
98. Italians drinks the most wine per capita.
99. Americans flush 4.8 billion gallons of water down the toilet per day.
100. Ramses? condoms are named after pharoah Ramses II who had more than 160 children.
101. Stamps have 1/10 of a calorie.
102. The proper term for illegible handwriting is ?griffonage?.
103. A tight tie can lead to impaired vision.
104. Napoleon suffered from hemorroids.
105. It cost $2 985 052 to sequester the O.J. Simpson jury.
106. Music videos were originally called telerecords.
107. There are 20 million microscopic animals on one square inch of skin.
108. There were two windows on Noah?s Ark.
109. An ounce of gold can cover one acre.
110. Hummingbirds can fly at 60 mph.
111. Horse can?t sit.
112. 1/3 of the Earth?s surface never gets snow.
113. There are 10 million bricks in the Empire State building.
114. Colonol Sanders was born in Indiana.
115. Mr. Rogers and Arnold Palmer were friends in high school.
116. Fingernails grow 1/25 of an invh per week.
117. Heinz Ketchup travels out of the bottle at a pace of 26 miles per year.
118. Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.
119. There are more chickens than people in the world.
120. It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
121. Two thirds of the worlds eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
122. Pack a day smokers lose an average of 2 teeth every ten years.
123. Only 7% of of the population is left handed.
124. Forty people per minute are sent to the hospital with dog bite injuries.
125. A baby's kneescaps don't form until 2-6 years of age.
126. An average person over fifty has spent 5 years waiting in lines.
127. The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
128. A coathanger is 44 inches long when straightened.
129. Humphrey Bogart is the 7th cousin of Princess Diana.
130. A computer user usually blinks 7 times per minute.
131. The avaerage housefly lives one month.
132. 40 000 North Americans are injured each year by toilets.
133. 20% of adults have had a cockroach crawl into their inner ear while they were sleeping.
134. Parrots and rabbits are the only animals which can look behind themselves without turning their heads.
134. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
135. A snail can sleep for three years.
136. Butterflies taste with their feet.
137. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.
138. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
139. If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
140. In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
141. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
142. No word in the English language rhymes with month.
143. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
144. Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
145. "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand, "lollipop" with your right.
146. The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
147. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
148. The words 'racecar' and 'kayak' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
149. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
150. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
151. If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at a red light.
152. In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch face is 10:10.
153. The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
154. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.
155. There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables.
156. There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order:"abstemious" and "facetious."
157. There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs five times: "indivisibility."
158. The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there were three gifts.
159. Did you know that crocodiles never outgrow the pool in which they live? That means that if you put a baby croc in an aquarium, it would be little for the rest of its life.
160. A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle; a group of geese in the air is a skein
161. A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
162. Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye".
163. The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
164. The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopywrightable"
165.The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
166.A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
167.If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall.
168."Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
169. A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
170. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
171. On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
172. On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
173. Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
174. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
175. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
176. It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
177. The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
178. A snail can sleep for three years.
179. Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
180. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
181. In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

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