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Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.
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Barbie''s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
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Basketball great Wilt Chamberlain never fouled out of a game.
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Baskin Robbins once made ketchup ice cream.
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Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!
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Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
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Beavers can swim half a mile underwater on one gulp of air.
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Beavers have orange teeth!
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Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from
the sun.
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Beelzebub is Hebrew for ''Lord of the Flies''
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Betsy
Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth
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Bill Gates designed a traffic control system for Seattle when he was
only 15!
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Bill Gates'' house was designed using a Macintosh computer.
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Billy goats urinate on their own heads to smell more attractive to
females.
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Black bears are not always black. They can be brown, cinnamon, yellow,
and sometimes white.
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Black Whales are born white.
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Blue eyes are the most sensitive to light, dark brown the least
sensitive.
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Blue Peter pet, Petra the mongrel puppy, died two days after being
introduced. A replacement was found
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Bluebirds cannot see the color blue.
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Bob Hope and Billy Joel were both once boxers.
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Boys who have unusual first names are more likely to have mental
problems than boys with conventional names. Girls don''t seem to have
this problem.
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Brad Pitt has been smoking since the sixth grade!
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Budweiser beer is named after a town in Czechoslovakia.
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Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador''s
waving cape no matter what color it is -- be it red or neon yellow!
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Burt Reynolds is a Cherokee Indian.
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Butterflies taste with their feet.
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By 3,000 B.C. there were at least six different types of beer in Egypt.
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By feeding hens certain dyes they can be made to lay eggs with
multi-colored yolks.
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By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can''t sink in
quicksand.
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By recycling just one glass bottle, the amount of energy that is being
saved is enough to light a 100 watt bulb for four hours.
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By the age of 60, most people have lost 50% of their taste buds.
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C3PO is the first character to speak in Star Wars.
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California has issued at least 6 drivers licenses to people named Jesus
Christ.
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Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!
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Canada''s new flag, with its maple leaf design, was unfurled in 1965 in
Ottawa!
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Canola oil is actually rapeseed oil but the name was changed for
marketing reasons!
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Car accidents rise 10% during the first week of daylight savings time.
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Car
airbags kill 1 person for every 22 lives that they save
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Cashew nut shells contain oil that is extremely irritating to human
skin.
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Cast iron skillets used to be the leading source of iron in the
American diet!
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Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes.
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Cat urine glows under a black-light!
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Catgut comes from sheep not cats.
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Cats
cannot taste sweet things
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Cats
make over 100 different vocal sounds; dogs can make about ten
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Cats’
urine glows under a black light
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Cattle
are the only mammals that pee backwards
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Cellophane is not made of plastic. It is made from a plant fiber,
cellulose, which has been shredded and aged
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Chained
dogs are 3 times more likely to bite than unchained dogs
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Che Guevara suffered from asthma!
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Check
your map! The Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal is farther East
than the Atlantic entrance
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Check your map! Virginia extends farther west than West Virginia
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Cheetahs were raced at Romford greyhound stadium in 1937!
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Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
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Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from producing
tears.
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Children are poisoned most frequently by eating harmful plants.
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Children grow faster in the springtime than any other season during the
year.
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Children laugh about 400 times a day, while adults laugh on average
only 15 times a day.
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China has more English speakers than the United States
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Chop Suey was invented in New York!
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Chop-suey is not a native Chinese dish, it was created in California by
Chinese immigrants.
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Chrysler built B-29''s that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that
tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant
called Diamond Star.
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City dwellers have longer, thicker, denser nose hairs than country
folks do.
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Cleopatra wasn''t Egyptian; she was Greek.
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Cleopatras real name was Auletes!
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Clinophobia is the fear of beds!
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Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand.
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Club Direct, a travel insurance company in Britain, provides insurance
plans for protection from falling coconuts.
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Coca-Cola was the first soft drink to be consumed in outer space.
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Coca-Cola''s ''Super Pure'' Dasani bottled water is just filtered tap
water!
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Coconuts kill more people in the world than sharks do. Approximately
150 people are killed each year by coconuts.
