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| #41. Most lipstick contains fish scales. #42. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave. #43. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying (well maybe its not utterly useless). #44. America once issued a five cent bill. #45. Lightening strikes about 6,000 times a minute on this planet. #46. Slugs have four noses. #47. Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch T.V for three hours. #48. Your thigh bone is srtonger than concrete. #49. The Earth weighs around 6.588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons. #50. Windmills always turn anti-clockwise, except in Ireland, where they turn clockwise. #51. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds. Why they recorded how long a chicken could fly for, I'll never know......actually, it was probably to see how long a chicken could fly for.. #52. A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. #53. Donald Duck was once banned from Finland because he doesn't wear trousers. #54. The first product to have a barcode was Wriggly's chewing gum. #55. The fear of being buried alive is called taphephobia. Well, thats it for now, but I'll update regularly, so come back. Until then, e-mail me with any more utterly useless facts! |