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Coffee beans
aren't beans - they're fruit pits
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Coffee
drinkers have sex more frequently than non-coffee drinkers
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Cold
water weighs more than hot water
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Colgate's
first toothpaste came in a jar
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Connecticut and Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment
(Prohibition)
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Contrary to popular belief, dogs do not only sweat by salivating. They
also sweat through the pores on their feet
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Contrary to popular belief, hair does not grow back darker and
thicker after it has been shaved
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Contrary to popular belief, lightning travels from the ground
upwards not from the sky downwards
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Contrary to popular belief, London Broil is not a cut of beef but
rather a method of cooking
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Contrary to popular belief, opossums, squirrels, chipmunks, and mice do
not carry rabies
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Contrary to popular belief, putting sugar in a car''s gas tank will NOT
ruin its engine.
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Contrary to popular belief, the first ironclad warships were built by
Korea in the 16th century.
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Contrary to popular belief, there are almost no Buddhists in India, nor
have there been for about a thousand years.
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Contrary to popular beliefs, chocolate does not cause acne.
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Cow is a Japanese brand of shaving foam.
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Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened
cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
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Crocodile babies
don't have sex chromosomes; the temperature at which
the egg develops determines gender.
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Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper.
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Crushed cockroaches can be applied to a stinging wound to help relieve
the pain.
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Dandelion root can be roasted and ground as a coffee substitute.
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Dating back to the 1600''s, thermometers were filled with Brandy
instead of mercury.
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Deep Breathing gives you health benefits similar to aerobics.
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Despite the hump, a
camel's spine is straight.
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Diamonds mined in Brazil are harder than those found in Africa.
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Diet Pepsi was originally called Patio Diet Cola.
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Dirty snow melts faster than clean.
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Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year!
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Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed
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Dogs can hear sounds that you cant
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Dolphins nap with one eye open
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Domestic cats hate lemons or other citrus scents
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Donkeys
are commonly used by the Iraqi Military to launch rockets
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Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes
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Dragonflies can travel up to 60 mph.
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Dragonflies have six legs but cannot walk
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Drew Carey once worked at a
Denny's
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Drivers
kill more deer than hunters
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Ducks
will only lay eggs early in the morning
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Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is
directly overhead
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Dueling is legal in Paraguay, as long as both parties are registered
blood donors.
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During
a typical human life span, the human heart will beat approximately
2.5 billion times
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During his lifetime, artist Vincent Van Gogh only sold one of his
paintings.
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During his lifetime, Herman
Melville's Moby Dick sold only 50 copies.
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During his or her lifetime, the average human will grow 590 miles of
hair.
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During menstruation, the sensitivity of a
woman's middle finger is
reduced.
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During
the 1600''s, boys and girls in England wore dresses until they were
about seven years old
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During
the Gold Rush in 1849, some people paid as much as $100 for a glass
of water
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During WWII, because a lot of players were called to duty, the
Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles combined to become The Steagles
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During your lifetime,
you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6
elephants
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Each 5
m.p.h. you drive over 60 m.p.h. is like paying an additional $.10 a
gallon for gas
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Each
day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13
seconds each century
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Each
day, more than $40 Trillion Dollars changes hands worldwide
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Each
day, up to 150 species of life become extinct
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Each
nostril of a human being register smell in a different way. Smells
that are made from the right nostril are more pleasant than the left
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Each
year 96 billion pounds of food is wasted in the U.S.
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Each year, 30,000 people are seriously injured by exercise equipment
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Each year, approximately 250,000 American husbands are physically
attacked and beaten by their wives
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Each
year, more than 50,000 people are injured by jewelry in the U.S.
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Each
year, the average family uses about 18,000 gallons of water just to
do its laundry
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Eagles
mate while airborne
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Ears of
corn always have an even number of rows of kernels
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Eddie
Cochran's last recording before he died was Three Steps to Heaven
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Eighty percent of Americans will be the victim of violent crime at
least once in their lifetime
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Elephants are the only animals that
can't jump
