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'Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime
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'Thomas Edison,
light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark
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'Three
consecutive strikes in bowling is called a turkey
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Three
Mile Island is only 2 1/2 miles long
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'Tigers
have striped skin, not just striped fur
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Tipping
at a restaurant in Iceland is considered an insult
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To burn
off one plain M&M candy, you need to walk the full length of a
football field
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To escape the grip of a
crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs. It will let
you go instantly
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To find
out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then
it is ripe
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To have
your picture taken by the very first camera you would have had to
sit still for 8 hours
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To take an oath, ancient Romans put a hand on their testicles…that’s
where the word “testimony”
comes from
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Today's
top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle
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Tomatoes were originally thought to be poisonous
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Traces
of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London
in 2000
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Trueman Capote the man who wrote Breakfast at
Tiffany's had the middle
name of Stucklefuss
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Tsunamis
( tidal waves ) travel as fast as jet planes
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Tug of
War was an Olympic event between 1900 and 1920
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Turkey's
often look up at the sky during a rainstorm. Unfortunately some have
been known to drown as a result
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Turkeys
can reproduce without having sex
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Turtles
can live for more than 100 years
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'U.S. President Calvin Coolidge liked to eat breakfast while having his
head rubbed with Vaseline
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Under
extreme stress, some octopuses will eat their own arms
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Unlike
dogs, pigs, and some other mammals, humans cannot taste water. They
taste only the chemicals and impurities in the water
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Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin.
Today it's known as Tennessee
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Until
1857, any foreign coins made of precious metal were legal tender in
the United States
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Until
1990, the deadly poison mercury was used in about 30% of latex
paints
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Until
President Kennedy was killed, it wasn’t a federal crime to
assassinate the President
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Until
the 1960''s men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland
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Until
the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in
Siberia
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Up to
the age of six or seven months a child can breathe and swallow at
the same time. An adult cannot do this
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Vaccines contain formaldehyde, ethylene glycol (antifreeze), phenol
(disinfectant / pesticide), and aluminum
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Venus
is the only planet that rotates clockwise
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Virginia Woolf wrote all her books standing
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Vultures fly without flapping their wings
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WAL-MART generates $3,000,000.00 in revenues every 7 minutes
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Walt
Disney World generates about 120,000 pounds of garbage every day
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alt
Disney, the creator of Mickey Mouse, was afraid of mice
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Washington, D.C. has one lawyer for every 19 residents
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Watermelons can cost up to $100 in Japan
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We
blink 25 times a minute
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Wearing
yellow makes you look bigger on camera; green, smaller
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Whale
oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973
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What
you find when you shave the striped fur off of a tiger? Striped skin
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When a
giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally
without being hurt
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When a
person dies, hearing is usually the last sense to go
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When Britney Spears books into hotels she uses the name ''Allota
Warmheart'' so that nobody will recognize her
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When
glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To
photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second
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When he was only 13, Johnny Depp
lost his virginity to a girl slightly older than him
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When
pitched, the average Major League baseball rotates 15 times before
being hit
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When
you correct for weight differences, men are proportionately stronger
than horses
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When
you walk down a steep hill, the pressure on your knees is equal to
three times your body weight
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When
young and impoverished, Pablo Picasso kept warm by burning his own
paintings
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When
your face blushes, the lining of your stomach turns red, too
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While 7
men in 100 have some form of color blindness, only 1 woman in 1,000
suffers from it
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Whispering is more wearing on your voice than a normal speaking tone
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Whoopi
Goldberg’s real name is Caryn Elaine Johnson
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Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in
Ireland
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Wine
will spoil if exposed to light; hence tinted bottles
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With
two forks and a charge, a pickle will emit light
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Women
blink nearly twice as much as men
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Women buy four out of every 10 condoms sold
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Women
end up digesting most of the lipstick they apply
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Women
have a slightly higher average IQ than men
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Women
who are romance novel readers are reported to make love 74% more
often with their partners than women who do not read romance novels
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Women wishing to enter Canada to work as strippers must provide naked
photos of themselves to qualify for a visa
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Women's' hearts beat faster than
men's'
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Woodpecker scalps, porpoise teeth and giraffe
tails have all been used as money
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Worcestershire Sauce is basically an Anchovy
ketchup
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World’s heaviest primates: morbidly obese humans.
After that: gorillas at 485 lbs
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Worms reportedly taste like bacon
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Wyoming was the first state to allow women to
vote
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X-rays of the Mona Lisa show that there are three completely different
versions of the same subject, all painted by Leonardo Da Vinci, under
the final portrait
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Yahoo! was originally called ''Jerry's Guide to
the World Wide Web''
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You are about 1 centimeter taller in the morning
than in the evening
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You are more likely to be killed by a champagne
cork than a poisonous spider
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You are more likely to get attacked by a cow than
a shark
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You can start a fire with ice
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You can tape a small mirror onto a cone speaker,
play music and shine a laser on to the mirror and the reflection
will look like a laser light show on your wall
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You have no sense of smell when you're sleeping
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You inhale about 700,000 of your own skin flakes
each day
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You mostly breathe from only one nostril at a
time
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You share your birthday with at least 9 million
other people in the world
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you're born with 300 bones, but when you get to
be an adult, you only have 206
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Your body is creating and killing 15 million red
blood cells per second
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Your brain is 80% water
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Your hair grows faster in the morning than at any
other time of day
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Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day
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Your heart pumps about 2,000 gallons of blood
each day
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Your heart rate can rise as much as 30% during a
yawn
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Your home is ten times more likely to have a fire
than be burglarized
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Your ribs move about 5 million times a year,
every time you breathe
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Your skeleton keeps growing until you are about
35, then you start to shrink
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Your skin is actually an organ
