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The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
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The average office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.
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The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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The best time for a person to buy shoes is in the afternoon. This is
because the foot tends to swell a bit around this time.
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The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.
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The first product that Sony came out with was the rice cooker.
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The first product that the toy company Mattel came out with was picture
frames.
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The first toilet being flushed in a motion picture was in the movie
Psycho.
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The household wrench was invented by boxing heavyweight champion Jack
Johnson in 1922.
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The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after
a nuclear war.
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The leading cause of poisoning for children under the age of six in the
home is liquid dish soap.
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The most dangerous job in the United States is that of an Alaskan Crab
Fisherman.
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The only king without a moustache in a deck of cards is the king of
hearts.
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The revenue that is generated from gambling is more than the revenue
that comes from movies, cruise ships, recorded music, theme parks, and
spectator sports combined.
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The search engine Google got its name from the word ‘googol’, which
refers to the number one with a hundred zeros after it.
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The U.S. army packs Tabasco pepper sauce in every ration kit that they
give to soldiers.
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The United States produces enough plastic film annually to cover the
entire state of Texas.
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The WD in WD-40 stands for Water Displacer.
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There are 365 steps on the front of the U.S. Capitol Building - one for
every day of the year.
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There is a giant mushroom in Oregon that is over 2,400 years old, covers
3.4 square miles of land, and is still growing!
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To sell your home faster, and for more money, paint it yellow.
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U-Haul is the
world's largest advertiser in the Yellow Pages.
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Warner Chappel Music owns the copyright to the song ''Happy Birthday''.
They make over $1 million in royalties every year from the commercial
use of the song.
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Warren Beatty once worked as a rat-catcher!
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Wheel of Fortune star Vanna White holds the record for putting her hands
together approximately 140,000 times to clap.
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When Scott Paper Company first started manufacturing toilet paper they
did not put their name on the product because of embarrassment.
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Women who read romance novels have sex twice as often as those who
don't.
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'"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"
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If
you buy a ticket on Monday you are a hundred times more likely to die
before the draw is held on Wednesday, than win the Jackpot!
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The
plastic tips on shoelaces are called "aglets"
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'''Bimbo'' is a brand of soft drink manufactured and marketed by
Coca-Cola, Inc.
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''Formicophilia'' is the fetish for having small insects crawl on your
genitals.
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'''Jedi'' is an official religion, with over 70,000 followers, in
Australia.
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'''Second Street'' is the most common street name in the U.S.; ''First
Street'' is the sixth! "
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'''Vodka'' is Russian for ''little water''.
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-40 degrees Celsius is equal to -40 degrees Fahrenheit.
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'1/3 of Taiwanese funeral processions include a stripper.
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10 of the tributaries flowing into the Amazon river are as big as the
Mississippi river.
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10 percent of the Russian
government's income comes from the sale of
vodka.
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15 million gallons of wine were destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco
earthquake.
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15 percent of Americans secretly bite their toes.
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160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the
world's widest road.
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2 out of 3 adults in the United States have hemorrhoids.
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2,500 newborn babies will be dropped in the next month.
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20% of tuxedo rentals take place in May.
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20252 is Smokey the
Bear's own zip code.
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23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on
them and photocopying their butts.
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25% of your bones are located in your feet.
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35% of the people using personal ads for dating are already married!
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35,000 people in the U.S. will die from the flu annually.
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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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40% of all indigestion remedies sold in the world are bought by
Americans.
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40% of women have hurled footwear at a man.
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41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.
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50% of U.S. pizzas are sold with pepperoni on them.
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68 percent of a Hostess Twinkie is air!
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7,000 new insect species are discovered every year.
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7-11 sells 10,000 pots of coffee an hour, every hour, every day.
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75% of Honda vehicles purchased in the U.S. are manufactured in North
America!
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76% of Americans celebrate New
Year's Eve in groups of less than 20.
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'80% of 10 year old girls in the U.S. go on a diet.
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80% of millionaires drive used cars.
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80% of Publishers'' Clearing House $10 million winners did not purchase
any magazine subscriptions!
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85% of all
Valentine's Day cards are purchased by women!
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85% of movie actors earn less than $5,000 a year from acting!
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9 out of 10 lightning strike victims survive!
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90 percent of women who walk into a department store immediately turn
to the right.
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90% of all restaurants fail during their first year of operation.
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97% of all paper money in the US contains traces of cocaine.
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99% of people cannot lick their elbow.
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A ''face-off'' in hockey was originally called a ''puck-off''.
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A ''jiffy'' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second
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A 100-pound person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.
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A B-25 bomber airplane crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State
Building on July 28, 1945.
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A baboon called Jackie became a private in the South African army in
World War I.
