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'The mile is Latin for 1,000. The number of paces it took the average
Roman!
'The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!
'The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance
Florence to shave them off!
'The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per
year.
'The most collect calls are made on Father''s Day.
'The most common time for a bank robbery is Friday, between 9 and 11
a.m. The least likely time is Wednesday, between 3 and 6 p.m.
'The most popular Campbell''s Soup in Hong Kong is watercress and duck
gizzard.
'The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
'The most popular sport as a topic for a film is boxing.
'The most powerful electric eel is found in the rivers of Brazil,
Columbia, Venezuela, and Peru, and produces a shock of 400-650 volts.
'The most productive day of the workweek is Tuesday.
'The most pushups ever performed in one day was 46,001.
'The most used letter in the English alphabet is ''E'', and ''Q'' is the
least used!
'The mother of the boy Michael Jackson is accused of abusing is named
''Janet Jackson''.
'The Muppet Show was banned from Saudi Arabian TV becuase one if its
stars was a pig.
'The name "Wendy" was made up for the book Peter Pan!
'The name Joshua is Hebrew for ''Jesus''.
'The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
'The Nestles haven''t run Nestle since 1875.
'The New York Stock Exchange started as a coffee shop!
'The Niagara Falls moves upstream at an average rate of about 295ft a
century!
'The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts 3 naked men with their hands on
each others shoulders.
'The normal static electricty shock that zaps your finger when you touch
a doorknob is usually between 10,000 and 30,000 volts!
'The number of births that occur in India each year is higher than the
entire population of Australia.
'The octopus'' testicles are located in its head.
'The odds of being killed by falling out of bed are one in two million.
'The odds of getting a hole-in-one in golf are estimated at about
18,000-to-1.
'The oil used by jewelers to lubricate clocks and watches costs about
$3,000 a gallon.
'The oldest patented company logo is the red triangle of Bass beers!
'The oldest pig in the world lived to the age of 68.
'The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter
is "uncopyrightable"!
'The only food that cockroaches wont eat are Cucumbers!
'The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven!
'The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.
'The original name for the butterfly was ''flutterby''!
'The original title of Jane Austen''s novel Pride and Prejudice was
First Impression!
'The original Toby jugs were modelled on Harry ''Toby'' Elwes a
Yorkshireman!
'The Pacific island of Nauru’s economy is almost entirely based on bird
droppings.
'The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia is decapitation.
'The penguin is the only bird that can swim, but cannot fly.
'The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly!
'The penis of a barnacle may reach up to 20 times its body size!
'The phrase ''rule of thumb'' is derived from and old English law which
stated that you couldn''t beat your wife with anything wider than your
thumb.
'The Pittsburgh Steelers were originally called the Pirates.
'The placement of a donkey''s eyes in its head enables it to see all
four feet at all times!
'The placement of a donkey''s eyes in its'' heads enables it to see all
four feet at all times.
'The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people!
'The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
'The powder on chewing gum is finely-ground marble.
'The practice of identifying baseball players by number was started by
the Yankees in 1929.
'The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head!
'The Queen Mary - the grandest vessel of her day - had many of her vital
components made by car manufacturer Skoda!
'The quills of a porcupine are soft when they are born.
'The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who
fathered over 160 children.
'The right lung takes in more air than the left.
'The Saguaro Cactus, found in South-western United States does NOT grow
branches until it is 75 years old.
'The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every
letter of the alphabet!
'The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow
undisturbed on its fur!
'The smallest human penis ever recorded was just 5/8 of an inch long!
'The song ''Strawberry Fields Forever'', sung by the Beatles, refers to
an orphanage located in Liverpool.
'The speed of a typical raindrop is 17 miles per hour.
'The Stanley Cup originally was only seven and a half inches high.
'The starfish is one of the few animals who can turn it''s stomach
inside-out!
'The state of Florida is bigger than England!
'The state of Florida is bigger than England.
'The state of Wyoming is named after a valley in Pennsylvania.
'The state sport of Maryland is Jousting.
'The state with the longest coastline in the Continental U.S. is
Michigan.
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