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'The
storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terabytes
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The
streets of Victor, Colorado, once a gold rush town, are paved with
low-grade gold
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The sun
is 330,330 times larger than the earth
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The symbol on the ''pound'' key (#) is called an octothorpe
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The Taj Mahal
took 20 years and 20 thousand men to finish
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The
temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60
feet down
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The
three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the
combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations
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The
tongue is the strongest muscle in the human body
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The typical spec of dust that you see floating in
the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic
particle
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The U.S. Army accidentally ordered an 82 year
supply of freeze-dried tuna salad mix for troops in Europe
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The U.S. eastern seaboard consumes almost 50% of
all ice cream sandwiches
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The U.S. founding fathers'' name for the American
Revolution was ''The War with Britain''
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The U.S. Government spent $277,000 on pickle
research in 1993
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The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of
living persons to appear on stamps
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The U.S. has more bagpipe bands than Scotland
does
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The U.S. military’s dried food rations can be
re-hydrated with urine
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The U.S. motto, ''In God We Trust'', was not
adopted as the national slogan until 1956
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The United kingdom eats more cans of baked beans
than the rest of the world combined
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The United States has never lost a war when
donkeys were used
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The United States has the highest minimum
drinking age in the world
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The United States Postal Service handles over forty percent of the
world's mail volume
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The United States produces more tobacco than it
does wheat
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The universally popular Hershey bar was used
overseas during World War II as currency
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The University of Alaska stretches over 4 time
zones
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The venom of a small scorpion is much more toxic
than the venom of a large scorpion
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The venom of the king cobra is so deadly that just one gram of it can
kill 150 people
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The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the
volume of the Pacific Ocean
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The warmest temperature ever recorded on
Antarctica was 3 degrees F
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The weight of a carat (200 milligrams), standard
unit of measurement for gemstones, is based on the weight of the
carob seed
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The weight of air in a milk glass is about the
same as the weight of one aspirin tablet
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The Wild Turkey is the only bird with a beard
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The winter of 1932 in the US was so cold that
Niagara falls froze completely solid
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The word ''gymnasium'' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means
''to exercise naked
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The word ''Indiana'' is Native American for
''Land of the Indians'', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live
there
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The word ''News'' is actually an acronym standing
for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South
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The word ''set'' has more definitions than any
other word in the English language
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The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish
and Portuguese
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The word Tips is actually an acronym standing for
''To Insure Prompt Service''
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The World Trade Center towers used to have two
zip codes, 10047-10048, one for each building
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The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat
of Thailand, weighing less than a penny
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The world's termites outweigh the world's humans
10 to 1
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The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over
9000 years old
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The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and
lived in China in 1910
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The Yo-Yo originated as a weapon in the
Philippine Islands during the sixteenth century
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The Zip Code 12345 is assigned to General
Electric in Schenectady, New York
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The ‘Big Dipper’ is known as ‘The Casserole’ in France
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There are 10 towns named Hollywood in the United
States
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There are 206 bones in the human body
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There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar
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There are 53 Lego bricks manufactured for each
person in the world
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There are 635,013,559,599 possible hands in a game of bridge.
'There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea.
'There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000
astrologers.
'There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the
world.
'There are more fatal car accidents in July than any other month.
'There are more female than male millionaires in the United States.
'There are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are
human beings in the world.
'There are more nutrients in the cornflake package itself than there are
in the actual cornflakes.
'There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!
'There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.
'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 than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
'There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!
