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A Boeing 747 airliner holds
57,285 gallons of fuel.
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In the 10th century, the Grand Vizier of Persia
took his 117,000-volume library with him everywhere.
Camels trained to walk in alphabetical order carried it.
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"Around the World in 14 Days!"
A balloon released into the jet stream
would take 2 weeks to travel
completely around the globe.
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Civilian employees of the Vatican
pay no income taxes.
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The Pony Express lasted only
18 months, from 1860 to 1861.
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There are approximately
100,000 glaciers in Alaska.
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A quarter has 119 grooves on its
circumference. One more than a dime.
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In 1955, a book was returned to the Cambridge
University library that was 288 years overdue.
(I wonder how much that fine was!)
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A cold front travels at a speed
of about 30 miles per hour.
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There are 3 completely different versions
of the Mona Lisa under the final portrait,
all painted by da Vinci, as revealed by X-rays.
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There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos.
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In most advertisements, the time
displayed on a watch is 10:10.
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All of the clocks in the movie
'Pulp Fiction' are struck on 4:20.
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A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
[How did they ever test for this one?!]
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A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
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"DREMT" is the only English word
that ends in the letters "MT".
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Almonds are a member of the peach family.
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Two-thirds of the World's Eggplant
is grown in New Jersey.
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Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf
under his cap to keep him cool!
He changed it every two innings.
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Celery has negative calories!
It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery
than the celery has in it to begin with.
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Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to
'slow' the film down so you could see his moves.
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Among the many inventions of Leonardo Da Vinci was the
scissors, also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.
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Einstein couldn't speak fluently at the age of nine.
His parents thought he might be retarded.
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The first US Marines wore high leather
collars to protect their necks from sabers,
hence the name 'leathernecks'.
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If you were to spell out numbers starting with 'one',
you would have to go all the way to 'one thousand',
before using the letter 'A'.
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The average number of people airborne
over the USA any given HOUR is 61,000.
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Intelligent People have more
zinc and copper in their hair.
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Bats are the only mammals that fly!
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Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence
on July 4th, most of the rest signed on August 2nd.
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The only food that doesn't spoil is Honey.
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Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't
appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
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February 1865 is the only month in
recorded history NOT to have a full moon.
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The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over
the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain,
was the first novel ever to be written on a typewriter.
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The winter of 1932 was so cold that
Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
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The BLUE WHALES' heart is the size of a Volkswagen Beetle.
It's tongue is big enough for a full-grown elephant to stand on it.
A newborn baby blue whale weighs more than 2,000 lbs.
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The King of Hearts is the only king
in a deck of cards without a moustache.
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The glue on Israeli postage
stamps is certified kosher.
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On TV's What's My Line?,
panelist Steve Allen coined the phrase
"Is it bigger than a bread box?"
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A hippo can open its mouth wide enough
to fit a 4-foot-tall child inside.
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Mel Blanc (who did the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
Walt Disney (the creator of Mickey Mouse) had a fear of mice.
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Each king in a deck of playing cards
represents a great king from history:
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If a statue in the park has a person on a horse that has
both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If
the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as
a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all
four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
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In the city of Washington, DC, no building
may be higher than the Washington Monument.
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Ulysses S. Grant was once fined
$20 for speeding on his horse.
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A 10-gallon hat only holds
three-fourths of a gallon, or 3 quarts.
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Andrew Jackson was the first US President
to ride in a railroad train.
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A quart-size pail holds
8 million grains of sand.
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Americans send an estimated 900 million
Valentine's Day cards each year.
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The celebration of Valentine's Day February 14,
started in the time of the Roman Empire.
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Hershey's Kisses are called 'that' because the machine
that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
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The state with the highest percentage
of people who walk to work is Alaska.
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Coca-cola was originally green.
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Every day more money is printed for
the game 'Monopoly' than at the US Treasury.
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The first couple to be shown in bed
together on prime time TV were
Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
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The annual Christmas classic
'It's a Wonderful Life'
was considered a failure by both
Frank Capra and the movie studio.
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There are 44 million ways to make
bingo on a single bingo card.
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Everyone knows that two thirds of the earth is covered
by water, but did you know that approximately 50
percent of the earth is covered by the Pacific Ocean.
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What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield
wipers, and laser printers all have in common?
They were all invented by women.
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The Guinness Book of Records 'holds the record' for
being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
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Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine.
I put ketchup on my ketchup!
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George Washington
grew marijuana in his garden.
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The RED 'spot' on 7UP comes from its
inventor who had red eyes. He was albino.
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LOS ANGELES' full name is
'El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina
de los Angeles de Porciuncula'.
L A for short!
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It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
[DON'T try this at home!]
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An armadillo crosses a river by holding
its breath and walking across the bottom.
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Of the 50 States in the US, Maine is the
only state whose name is just one syllable.
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Tigers have striped skin,
not just striped fur.
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On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying
over the Parliament building is an American flag.
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In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was
entitled 'Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden'.
We now call that game, 'GOLF'.
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The word 'Taxi' is spelled the same in English,
German, French, Swedish, and Portuguese.
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Herbert Hoover was the first President
to have an asteroid named after him.
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The Mona Lisa by Leonardo
da Vinci has no eyebrows.
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111,111,111 x 111,111,111
= 12,345,678,987,654,321
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A pencil is made in two parts, each with a
long groove. The graphite goes into the groove,
and the two pieces are glued together.
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The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents
the number of ingredients in the sauce.
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The Statue of Liberty's index finger
is 8 feet long, and has a fingernail
measuring 13 x 10 inches.
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Fortune cookies were actually invented
in America in 1918 by Charles Jung.
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'STEWARDESSES' is the longest word
that is typed with only the left hand;
"lollipop" with your right.
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There are 293 ways to
make change for a dollar.
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All 50 states are listed across the top of the
Lincoln Memorial on the back of a $5 bill.
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Peanuts are one of the
ingredients of dynamite.
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The land area of the state of
Florida is larger than England.
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time.
It represents 1/100th of a second.
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Elvis Presley's dog-tag number was 53310761
and his driver's license number was 2571459.
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~BARBIE'S~ full name is
Barbara Millicent Roberts.
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No piece of paper can be
folded more than 7 times.
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Bamboo can grow 4 feet in 24 hours.
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The White House had a telephone
before it had an indoor bathroom.
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The initials M.G. on the famous British-made
automobile stand for 'Morris Garage'.
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When a piece of glass cracks, the crack
travels faster than 3,000 miles per hour.
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'TYPEWRITER' is the longest word that can be made
using letters from only one row of the keybaord.
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The first product to have a
bar code was Wrigley's Gum!
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Elephants are the only animals with 4 knees,
and the only animals that can't jump!
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The electric chair was
invented by a dentist.
'Why am I not surprised!'
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Frank and Jesse James committed the first
daytime bank robbery on Feb.14, 1866.
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The first roll of toilet paper
was introduced in 1871.
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The first color TV show was
The Cisco Kid.
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Australia is the world's smallest continent,
and also the largest island in the world.
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The Capitol Building in Washington, DC has
365 steps representing every day of the year.
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