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Hailed as a wonder drug in the late nineteenth century, cocaine was outlawed in the United States in 1914.

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

Drinking water after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61 percent.

A passionate kiss uses up 6.4 calories per minute.

During a kiss as many as 278 bacteria colonies are exchanged.

Captain Cook lost 41 of his 98 crew to scurvy (a lack of vitamin C) on his first voyage to the South Pacific in 1768. By 1795 the importance of eating citrus was realized, and lemon juice was issued on all British Navy ships.

Undertakers report that human bodies do not deteriorate as quickly as they used to. The reason, they believe, is that the modern diet contains so many preservatives that these chemicals tend to prevent the body from decomposition too rapidly after death.

Gold salts are sometimes injected into the muscles to relieve arthritis.

You can see a candle flame from 50 Kilometers on a clear, dark night. You can hear the tick of a watch from 6 meters in very quiet conditions. You can taste one gram of salt in 500 liters of water (.0001M). You can detect one drop of perfume diffused throughout a three-room apartment. You can detect the wing of a bee falling on your cheek from a height of one centimeter.

According to the Journal of American Medical Association, as of 1998, more than 100,000 Americans die annually from adverse reactions to prescription drugs.

If you combined all the muscles in an average human in to one muscle, the force it would be capable of producing is about 2,000 tonnes.

Dr. Maurice R. Hilleman is considered to be the godfather of the modern vaccine era. Having created nearly three dozen vaccines - more than any other scientist, Hilleman is also credited with saving more lives than any other scientist. Probably best known for his preventive vaccine for mumps, Hilleman has also developed vaccines for measles, rubella, chicken pox, bacterial meningitis, flu and hepatitis B.

A study by researcher Frank Hu and the Harvard School of Public Health found that women who snore are at an increased risk of high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease.

Dogs and humans are the only animals with prostates.

"Soldiers disease" is a term for morphine addiction. The Civil War produced over 400,000 morphine addicts.

Cephalacaudal recapitulation is the reason our extremities develop faster than the rest of us.

People who have never been married are seven and a half times more likely than married people to be admitted to a psychiatric facility.

Studies shown by the Psychology Department of DePaul University show that the principal reason to lie is to avoid punishment.

The short-term memory capacity for most people is between five and nine items or digits. This is one reason that phone numbers were kept to seven digits for so long.

Females have 500 more genes than males, and because of this are protected from things like color blindness and hemophilia.

There are 10 trillion living cells in the human body.

The brain requires 25 percent of all oxygen used by the body.

The right lung takes in more air than the left lung.

The substance that human blood resembles most closely in terms of chemical composition is sea water.

The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.

Your thumb is the same length as your nose.

You lose enough dead skin cells in your lifetime to fill eight five-pound flour bags.

The average Human bladder can hold 13 ounces of liquid.

During his or her lifetime, the average human will grow 590 miles of hair.

The first known heart medicine was discovered in an English garden. In 1799, physician John Ferriar noted the effect of dried leaves of the common plant, digitalis purpurea, on heart action. Still used in heart medications, digitalis slows the pulse and increases the force of heart contractions and the amount of blood pumped per heartbeat.

It takes an interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 18 million courses of antibiotics are prescribed for the common cold in the United States per year. Research shows that colds are caused by viruses. 50 million unnecessary antibiotics are prescribed for viral respiratory infections.

In 1977, a 13 year old child found a tooth growing out of his left foot.

The human brain stops growing at the age of 18.

The first Band-Aid Brand Adhesive Bandages were three inches wide and eighteen inches long. You made your own bandage by cutting off as much as you needed.

Men have more blood than women. Men have 1.5 gallons for men versus 0.875 gallons for women.

Sumerians (from 5000 BC) thought that the liver made blood and the heart was the center of thought.

Approximately 16 Canadians have their appendices removed, when not required, every day.

In 1815 French chemist Michael Eugene Chevreul realized the first link between diabetes and sugar metabolism when he discovered that the urine of a diabetic was identical to grape sugar.

Between 25% to 33% of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light.

People who have a tough time handling the stress of money woes are twice as likely to develop severe gum disease, a new study finds.

The adult human heart weighs about ten ounces.

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It is a well known trivial fact that Neil Armstrong was the first man to step onto the moon. However, many do not know that he stepped onto the moon with his left foot.

The very first enclosed shopping mall was and is Valley Faire in Appleton, Wisconsin. Not in Minnesota as most people believe. Appleton is also famous for being the birth place of Harry Houdini and the first city in America to use Hydro-electric power in homes.

U.S. Army doctor D.W. Bliss had the unique role of attending to two U.S. presidents after they were shot by assassins. In 1865 he was one of 16 doctors who tried to save Abraham Lincoln, and in 1881 he supervised the care of James Garfield.

A painting of the Madonna in Fiorano Castle, Italy, escaped without even being scorched when invading soldiers set the castle afire, yet all the rest of the building was destroyed.

In Britain, the law was changed in 1789 to make the method of execution hanging. Prior to that, burning was the modus operandi. The last female to be executed by burning in England was Christian Bowman. Her crime was making counterfeit coins.

In 1938, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law the first minimum wage in the United States. The new law, considered controversial at the time, established at.25 cents per hour minimum wage and a maximum 44 hour work week for minors.

Many hundreds of years ago when the well-known style of Irish dancing began in the country side of Ireland, most houses of the poor - and that means most houses - only had a dirt floor which was not a lot of use for dancing on if you were holding a ceildh (pronounced kay-lee and meaning party - more or less). So in order to make the dancing easier the owners of the house which was holding the party would take the doors off their hinges and lay them on the floor. There was just enough room on each door for two people to dance, providing they did not fling their arms about - hence the original name for Irish dancing - Door Dancing.

King Charles VII, who was assassinated in 1167, was the first Swedish king with the name of Charles. Charles I, II, III, IV, V, never existed. No one knows why. To add to the mystery, almost 300 years went by before there was a Charles VIII (1448-57).

Before all-porcelain false teeth were perfected in the mid-19th century, dentures were commonly made with teeth pulled from the mouths of dead soldiers following a battle. Teeth extracted from U.S. Civil War soldier cadavers were shipped to England by the barrel to dentists.

At the outbreak of World War I, the American air force consisted of only fifty men.

Akhbar the Great Mughal routed the Hindus under Hemu by turning their elephants against them at the battle of Panipat in the Hindu revolt.

In 1974 there were 90 tornadoes in the U.S. in one day.

In 1937 the emergency 999 telephone service was established in London. More than 13,000 genuine calls were made in the first month.

In ancient Greece, courtesans wore sandals with nails studded into the sole so that their footprints would leave the message "Follow me".

Before winning the election in 1860, Abraham Lincoln lost eight elections for various offices.

Unfortunately Gaius grew up and became emperor, incongruously retaining his boyhood diminutive. "Little boots" in Latin is "Caligula." As you may know, he was a bloodthirsty, sadistic fiend.

"John has a long mustache" was the coded-signal used by the French Resistance in WWII to mobilize their forces once the Allies had landed on the Normandy beaches.

Until the 19th century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.

Traffic engineering was not developed in London, New York or Paris, but rather in ancient Rome. The Romans, of course, were noted road builders. The Appian Way, for example, stretched 350 miles from the Eternal City to Brundisium. In Rome itself there were actually stop signs and even alternate-side-of-the-street parking.

The first time an enormous amount of clothing was needed all at once was during the Civil War, when the Union needed hundreds of thousands of uniforms for its troops. Out of this need came the ready-made clothing industry.

The first telephone book ever issued contained only fifty names. It was published in New Haven, Connecticut, by the New Haven District Telephone Company in February, 1878.

Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.

The right arm and torch of the Statue of Liberty crossed the Atlantic Ocean three times. It first crossed for display at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition and in New York, where money was raised for the foundation and pedestal. It was returned to Paris in 1882 to be reunited with the rest of the statue, which was then shipped back to the U.S.

Karl Marx was targeted for assassination when he met with two Prussian officers in his house in Cologne in 1848. Marx had friends among the German labor unions, and he was considered a threat to the autocrats. Dressed in his bathrobe, he forced the officers out at the point of a revolver, which, it turned out, was not loaded.

Marco Polo was born on the Croatian island of Korcula (pronounced Kor-Chu-La).

All of the officers in the Confederate army were given copies of Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo, to carry with them at all times. Robert E. Lee, among others, believed that the book symbolized their cause. Both revolts were defeated.

The dirt road that General Washington and his soldiers took to fight off General Clinton during the Battle of Monmouth was called the Burlington Path.

The ancient Etruscans painted women white and men red in the wall paintings they used to decorate tombs.

Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was the first American to have plumbing installed in his house, in 1840.

More than 5,600 men died while building the Panama Canal. Today, it takes more than 8,000 workers to run and maintain the canal. It takes a ship an average of 33 hours to travel the length of the canal.

The German Kaiser Wilhelm II had a withered arm and often hid the fact by posing with his hand resting on a sword, or by holding gloves.

Although most people think that Napoleon was short, he was actually five feet six inches tall (1.676 meters), an average height for a Frenchman in those days.

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The U.S. mint in Denver, Colorado is the only mint that marks its pennies.

Female aristocrats on the island of Portugese Timor in Malaya, indicate their status by notching their ears.

The smallest island with country status is Pitcairn in Polynesia, at just 1.75 sq. miles/4,53 sq. km.

There are more psycho-analysts per capita in Buenos Aires than any other place in the world.

Ireland currently has the fastest growing economy in Europe - the economy grew by 40% from 1993-1997. It is for this reason that the country is referred to as the Celtic Tiger.

Bore-hole seismometry indicates that the land in Oklahoma moves up and down 25cm throughout the day, corresponding with the tides. Earth tides are generally about one-third the size of ocean tides.

The Chang Jiang river is the fourth longest river in the world.

The Dominican Republic was called Santo Domingo when it first gain independence.

The state of Oregon has one city named Sisters and another called Brothers. Sisters got its name from a nearby trio of peaks in the Cascade Mountains known as the Three Sisters. Brothers was named as a counterpart to Sisters.

The surface area of the Earth is 197,000,000 square miles.

According to experts, large caves tend to "breathe"; they inhale and exhale great quantities of air when the barometric pressure on the surface changes, and air rushes in or out seeking equilibrium.

At 840,000 square miles, Greenland is the largest island in the world. It is 3 times the size of Texas. By comparison Iceland is only 39,800 square miles.

Zion, Illinois - located on the shores of Lake Michigan north of Chicago - was founded by the followers of John Alexander Dowie, whose Christian Catholic Church disapproved of pharmacies, doctors, theaters or dance halls. Smoking, drinking and the eating of pork also was prohibited in town.

Ninety percent of all volcanic activity occurs in the oceans. In 1993, scientists located the largest known concentration of active volcanoes on the sea floor in the South Pacific. This area, the size of New York state, hosts 1,133 volcanic cones and sea mounts. Two or three could erupt at any moment.

Given their sheer volume, ninety-nine percent of the living space on the planet is found in the oceans. The average depth of the oceans is 2.5 miles (4 km). The deepest point lies in the Mariana Trench, 6.8 miles (10.9 km) down. By way of comparison, Mount Everest is only 5.5 miles (8.8 km) high.

The exact geographic center of the United States is near Lebanon, Kansas.

What is the difference between a yam and a sweet potato? According to the Mayo Clinic dietician, a true yam is a large, starchy root that can get up to 100 pounds. It is native to Africa and Asia and is seldom available in the USA. The sweet potato is a native American plant. It was a staple for early settlers and was actually brought to Europe by Columbus. There are two varieties of sweet potatoes: One is moist and orange-fleshed, the other is drier and yellow. The orange-fleshed potato is commonly - and incorrectly - called a yam. This common practice has resulted in confusion when it comes to labels. Some stores incorrectly label the darker of the two sweet potatoes as being a yam, and they list the nutrient content for yams. True yams have no vitamin A. So consumers mistakenly think that the product has no vitamin A, even though it actually does. Consumers are most likely eating sweet potatoes - and sweet potatoes are rich in vitamin A, vitamin C and fiber.

The first U.S. consumer product sold in the old Soviet Union was Pepsi-Cola.

The most widely eaten fruit in America is the banana.

The dark meat on a roast turkey has more calories than the white meat.

The color of a chile is no indication of its spiciness, but size usually is - the smaller the pepper, the hotter it is.

A bushel of apples weighs about 42 pounds.

Over 15 billion prizes have been given away in Cracker Jacks boxes.

It takes more than 500 peanuts to make one 12-ounce jar of peanut butter.

Carrots were first grown as a medicine not a food. The Ancient Greeks called carrots "Karoto".

Goat milk is used to produce Roquefort cheese.

Though most people think of salt as a seasoning, only 5 out of every 100 pounds produced each year go to the dinner table.

Thin-skinned lemons are the juiciest.

There are two types of asparagus: green and white. One of the most popular varieties of green asparagus is named after Martha Washington, the wife of George Washington.

There are thousands of varieties of shrimp, but most are so tiny that they are more likely to be eaten by whales than people. Of the several hundred around the world that people do eat, only a dozen or so appear with any regularity in the United States.

There are professional tea tasters as well as wine tasters.

Soy milk, the liquid left after beans have been crushed in hot water and strained, is a favorite beverage in the East. In Hong Kong, soy milk is as popular as Coca-Cola is in the U.S.

There are more than 7,000 varieties of apples grown in the world. The apples from one tree can fill 20 boxes every year. Each box weighs an average 42 pounds.

According to the National Safety Council, coffee is not successful at sobering up a drunk person, and in many cases it may actually increase the adverse effects of alcohol.

A tenth of the 7 million tons of rice grown in the U.S. each year goes into the making of beer.

The "last meal" for Death Row inmates has became embedded in the American death-penalty ritual. Reporters have dutifully recorded the last meal menus: John Wayne Gacy had fried chicken and strawberries; Ted Bundy passed on steak and eggs; James Smith, executed in Texas in 1990, requested a "lump of dirt" (request was denied); Missouri inmate Lloyd Schlup asked for venison and hare (request was granted).

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Grover Cleveland, the 24th president of the US, worked briefly as an executioner before becoming president. He hung at least two convicted criminals.

Noah Webster was referred to as "the walking question mark" during his student days at Yale.

When 7-year-old Shirley Temple’s life was insured with Lloyd’s, the contract stipulated that no benefits would be paid if the child film star met with death or injury while intoxicated.

Mother Teresa, who devoted her life to the poor in India, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.

Herman Melville shipped aboard the whaler "Acushnet," at age 21. He later wrote a book from the experience.

At age 13, Carl Sandburg quit school to work as a day laborer.

Marvin Hamlisch became the youngest pupil ever at the Julliard School of Music - at age 7.

Charles Dickens worked in a shoe polish factory at age 12.

The first U.S. president to use a telephone was James Garfield.

Meg Ryan turned down plum lead parts in the films "Steel Magnolias," "Pretty Woman," and "Silence of the Lambs." A few years after her rejection of "Silence of the Lambs," which earned Jodie Foster a Best Actress Oscar, Ryan disclosed to Barbara Walters in a television interview that she had felt the role "was dangerous and a little ugly. I felt it was too dark - for me."

Sharon Stone was the first Star Search spokesmodel.

Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest.

Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

Bette was married four times, her last to actor Gary Merrill which lasted ten years, longer than any of the previous three.

On her tombstone is written "She did it the hard way."

Bette Davis appeared in more than 100 films between 1931 and 1989. She made her first film called Way Back Home in 1931.

She passed away from cancer October 6, 1989.

Bette Davis was born Ruth Elizabeth Davis in Lowell, Massachusetts, on April 5, 1908.

Gerald Ford was one of the members of the Warren Commission appointed to study the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Pepin the Short, King of the Franks from 751 to 768 AD was four feet six inches tall. His wife was known as Bertha of the Big Foot.

George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams were all avid collectors and players of marbles. In their day, marbles were called "small bowls" and were as popular with adults as with children.

According to one source, Americans buy about 5 million things that are shaped like Mickey Mouse, or have a picture of Mickey Mouse on them, in the course of one day.

Felix the Cat is the first cartoon character to ever have been made into a balloon for a parade.

William Howard Taft is the only man ever to be President AND Chief Justice. The US Supreme Court appointment came second and was a job Taft enjoyed much more than the presidency.

The first Michelin Man costume (Bidenbum) was worn by none other than Col. Harlan Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame.

Theodore Roosevelt, a staunch conservationist, banned Christmas trees in his home, even when he lived in the White House. His children, however, smuggled them into their bedrooms.

Walt Disney named Mickey Mouse after Mickey Rooney, whose mother he dated for some time.

Prince Harry and Prince William are uncircumcised.

Against Army regulations, George Armstrong Custer often wore a blue velvet uniform.

Johnny Carson was born in Corning, Iowa and grew up in Norfolk, Nebraska.

James Garfield, 20th President of the United States, lived in the White House with his mother.

Robert E. Lee, of the Confederate Army, remains the only person, to date, to have graduated from the West Point military academy without a single demerit.

Mary Todd once dated both Abe Lincoln and Stephen Douglas. She chose Lincoln because he showed more promise, and she was right - he was good at everything but ducking.

I suppose someone should mention that Mae West never said "Come up and see me sometime." She said "Come on up sometime and see me." Cary Grant never said "Judy, Judy, Judy," and Cagney never said "You dirty rat..."

Actor Robert De Niro played the part of the Cowardly Lion in his elementary schools production of The Wizard of Oz. De Niro was 10 at the time.

Vincent Van Gogh painted his last painting, "Cornfield with Crows," and shot himself at age 37.

Mark Twain first learned to ride a bicycle at age 55.

O.J. Simpson had a severe case of rickets and wore leg braces when he was a child.

Galileo became totally blind just before his death. This is probably because of his constant gazing at the sun through his telescope.

Alexander the Great was tutored by Aristotle.

One year, Elvis Presley paid 91% of his annual income to the IRS.

Rap artist Sean "Puffy" Combs had his first job at age two when he modeled in an ad for Baskin-Robbins ice-cream shops.

First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt ate three chocolate-covered garlic balls every morning. Her doctor suggested this to improve her memory.

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The golden tree frog has a croak that sounds like a mallet chipping rock, but in summer it sounds like a tinkling bell.

Dachshunds are the smallest breed of dog used for hunting. They are low to the ground, which allows them to enter and maneuver through tunnels easily.

Chocolate effects a dogs heart and nervous system, a few ounces enough to kill a small sized dog.

A pelican consumes about 33 and 1/3 percent of its body weight in a single meal.

The Dalmatian dog is named for the Dalmatian Coast of Croatia, where it is believed to have been originally bred.

The cells which make up the antlers of a moose are the fastest growing animal cells in nature.

A typical day for a gorilla is to get up early and eat. It eats until it gets hot, then it will nap. When it gets up from its nap, they resume eating until the sun goes down.

When two zebras stand side by side, they usually face in opposite directions. They say this is so they can keep an eye out for predators.

A kind of tortoise in the Galapagos Islands has an upturned shell at its neck so it can reach its head up to eat cactus branches.

The Penguin is the only bird that can swim, but not fly. It is also the only bird that walks upright.

When a hippopotamus exerts itself, gets angry, or stays out of the water for too long, it exudes red sweatlike mucus through its skin.

The domestic cat is the only species able to hold its tail vertically while walking. Wild cats hold their tail horizontally, or tucked between their legs while walking.

The penculine titmouse of Africa builds its home in such a sturdy manner that Masai tribesman use their nests for purses and carrying cases.

The digestive juices of crocodiles contain so much hydrochloric acid that they have dissolved iron spearheads and six-inch steel hooks that the crocodiles have swallowed.

The Pastern is the part of a horse located on the foot between the fetlock and the hoof.

The oyster is usually ambisexual. It begins life as a male, then becomes a female, then changes back to being a male, then back to being female; it may go back and forth many times.

Weighing approximately 13 pounds at birth, a baby caribou will double its weight in just 10 days.

Snakes continue to grow until the day they die.

Rhinos are in the same family as horses, and are thought to have inspired the myth of the unicorn.

Flamingoes live remarkably long lives: up to 80 years.

Flamingoes feel safest when they are crowded together, hundreds in a group.

Of the 250-plus known species of shark in the world, only about 18 are known to be dangerous to man.

Fish travel in schools, whales travel in pods or gams.

Of all known forms of animals life ever to inhabit the earth, only about 10 percent still exist today.

The crocodile is surprisingly fast on land. If pursued by a crocodile, a person should run in a zigzag motion, for the crocodile has little or no ability to make sudden changes of direction.

February is the mating month for gray whales.

Octopi and squid have three hearts. Their main systemic heart pumps blood throughout the circulatory system, and two branchial hearts provide some additional push at each of the paired gills.

The crocodile is a cannibal; it will occasionally eat other crocodiles.

In Wales, there are more sheep than people. (In 1996 the population for Wales was 2,921,000 with approximately 5,000,000 sheep)

A jynx is a woodpecker, also know as the wryneck because of its peculiar habit of twisting its neck.

A winkle is an edible sea snail.

Lobsters can move up to 25 feet per second underwater.

A trout swims at about 4 miles per hour which is faster than you or me.

The only continent without reptiles or snakes is Antarctica.

Parthenogenesis is the term used to describe the process by which certain animals are able to reproduce themselves in successive female generations without intervention of a male of the species. At least one species of lizard is known to do so.

Frogs never drink. They absorb water from their surroundings by osmosis.

Mongooses were brought to Hawaii to kill rats. This plan failed because rats are nocturnal while the mongoose hunts during the day.

Elephants often communicate at sound levels as low as 5Hz. This means that if you flap your hands back and forth faster than five times a second, an elephant can actually hear the tone produced.

A baby eel is called an elver, a baby oyster is called a spat.

All elephants walk on tip-toe, because the back portion of their foot is made up of all fat and no bone.

A quarter of the horses in the U.S. died of a vast virus epidemic in 1872.

Belize is the only country in the world with a jaguar preserve.

Out of all the animals a circus animal trainer works with, none are deadlier than the elephant. More deaths are caused by the elephants than the large cats circus tamers train with.

Elephants have been found swimming miles from shore in the Indian Ocean.

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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.

To take an oath, ancient Romans put a hand on their testicles?that?s where the word ?testimony? comes from.

To have your picture taken by the very first camera you would have had to sit still for 8 hours!

To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe.

To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.

To burn off one plain M&M candy, you need to walk the full length of a football field.

Tipping at a restaurant in Iceland is considered an insult.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur!

Three Mile Island is only 2 1/2 miles long.

Three consective strikes in bowling is called a turkey.

Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!

Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!

There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses!

There was no punctuation until the 15th century.

There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants.

There is no tipping at restaurants in Japan.

There is more real lemon juice in Lemon Pledge furniture polish than in Country Time Lemonade.

There is a town called Paradise and a town called Hell in Michigan!

There is a species of clam that can grow up to four feet long and weigh up to 500 pounds.

There is a city called Rome on every continent.

There have been over 7,200 acts of terrorism against the US over the last 15 years.

There have been 47 Charlie Chan Movies, with six actors playing the part. None were Chinese!

There are three golf balls sitting on the moon.

There are some species of snails that are extremely venomous.

There are over 58 million dogs in the U.S!

There are only 14 blimps in the world.

There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month!

There are no rental cars in Bermuda.

There are no penguins in the North Pole.

There are no hog lips or snouts in SPAM.

There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

There are no ants in Iceland, Antarctica, and Greenland.

There are more than one million animal species on Earth!

There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!

There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!

There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee. Of these, only 26 have been tested, and half caused cancer in rats.

There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.

There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!

There are more nutrients in the cornflake package itself than there are in the actual cornflakes.

There are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are human beings in the world.

There are more female than male millionaires in the United States.

There are more fatal car accidents in July than any other month.

There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.

There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.

There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea.

There are 635,013,559,599 possible hands in a game of bridge.

There are 53 Lego bricks manufactured for each person in the world.

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

There are 206 bones in the human body!

There are 10 towns named Hollywood in the United States.

There are 10 towns named Hollywood in the United States!

The ?Big Dipper? is known as ?The Casserole? in France.

The Zip Code 12345 is assigned to General Electric in Schenectady, New York.

The Yo-Yo originated as a weapon in the Philippine Islands during the sixteenth century.

The world?s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!

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