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