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Jumbo
jets use 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off
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Jupiter's
moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury
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Just one in three consumers pays off his or her credit card bill every
month.
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Justin
Timberlake's half-eaten French toast sold for over $3,000 on
eBay
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Karate
actually originated in India, but was developed further in China
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Keanu
Reeves is afraid of the dark
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'Kermit
the frog delivered the commencement address at Southampton College
located in the state of New York in 1996
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Ketchup
was sold in the 1830''s as medicine
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Kilts are not native to Scotland. They originated in France.
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King George I could not speak English
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Kite
flying is a professional sport in Thailand
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Kittens
are born both blind and deaf
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Kleenex
tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks
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Koala
Bears are not bears
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Lake
Nicaragua in Nicaragua is the only fresh water lake in the world
that has sharks
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Large kangaroos can cover more than 30 feet with each jump!
'Last 2 European countries to let women vote: Switzerland (1971) and
Leichtenstein (1984).
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Lenny
Crivitz's mother played the part of ''Helen'' on ''The
Jefferson's''.
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Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors.
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Leonardo DiCaprio got his first ‘onscreen kiss’ from a man
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Less than 10% of criminals commit about 67% of all crime
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Less than 3% of the water produced at a large municipal water treatment
plant is used for drinking purposes
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Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet
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Like fingerprints,
everyone's tongue print is different!
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Lima
beans contain cyanide
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Linen
can absorb up to 20 times its weight in moisture before it feels
damp
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Linen is actually stronger when wet.
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Liquid TIDE laundry detergent glows under a
black light
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London's Pall Mall became the first street lit by gaslight in 1807
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Los
Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de
los Angeles de Porciuncula"
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Louisiana is the only state that grows in land area every year (Due to
alluvial deposits from the Mississippi River).
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Maggots will only eat flesh if it is dead. For this reason, they are
often used to remove the burnt skin from severe burn patients.
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Mailing an entire building has been illegal in the U.S. since 1916 when
a man mailed a 40,000-ton brick house across Utah to avoid high freight
rates.
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Malaysians protect their babies from disease by bathing them in beer
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Male hospital patients fall out of bed twice as often as female
hospital patients
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Male monkeys lose the hair on their heads in the same way men do.
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Males
sweat 40% more than females
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Manhattan Island of New York City was purchased for $24 from the
Algonquian Indians in 1624!
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Many people in parts of China eat insects. Some common insects are bean
worms, scorpions, and locusts.
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Mark Twain
didn't even make it through elementary school
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Marlboro cigarettes sold in New York contain more tar and nicotine than
those sold in all other states
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Martha
Stewart became a billionaire while in prison
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McDonald's is the world's largest distributor of toys
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McDonald's salads contain up to 60% more fat than their burgers
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Medical
studies show that intelligent people have more copper and zinc in
their hair
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'Mel
Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny, was allergic to carrots
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Mel
Gibson has a horseshoe kidney (two kidneys fused into one)
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Men are
6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women
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Men
laugh longer, louder, and more often than women
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Mexican
Jumping Beans jump because of moth larvae inside them
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Mexico City is built on top of an underground
reservoir
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Mexico
City is sinking at a rate of 18 inches per year
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Mexico has more American residents than any other country except the
United States
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Michael
Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team his sophomore
year
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Michael
Keaton's original name is Michael Douglas
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Midgets
and dwarfs almost always have normal sized children
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Milk is
heavier than cream
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Minnows
have teeth in their throat
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Moist
air holds heat better than dry air
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Months
that begin on a Sunday will always have a ''Friday the 13th''
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More
Americans have died in car accidents than have died in all the wars
ever fought by the United States
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More
boys than girls are born during the day; more girls are born at
night
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More
Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed
throughout the world
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More
people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane
crashes
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More
people have a phobia of frogs than rats
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More
people have seen David Copperfield perform live than any other
performer in the world
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More
people in China speak English than in the United States
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More
people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones
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More
redheads are born in Scotland than in any other part of the world
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More
steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to
manufacture automobile bodies
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More
than 10% of the world's salt is used to de-ice American roads
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More than 100 pizza box-related patents have been issued since 1976
