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# The average brick wall has a lifespan of 107.6 years

# Placing a coin on a train track will not de-rail the train

# Zed is an unimportant letter, it only matters in words like zoo and xylophone

# A dictionary in unalphabetical order would be stupid and annoying

# When you sneeze your heart stops beating

# 99% of a desk is really just empty space

# In Vermont it is illegal to whistle under water

# 90% of 19 year olds have never considered themselves in relation to death

# Hngovers are the wrath of grapes

# When you are 70 your heart would have rested for 40 years

# Frozen sea water contains little salt

# Raindrops are dome shaped

# The average brain weighs 1.4 kg

# If you dont go to other people funerals, they wont go to yours

# Proper treatment can cure a cold in seven days but left to itself it will hang on for a week

# The radio was invented before the radio station

# There are no strangers in this world just friends you have not meet yet

# You can never get rid of a bad temper by losing it

# Smiles and yarns are both contagous

# The small intestines are 6 meters long and the large are 1.5 meters long

# The english language has more words than any other

# "Bride" means to cook

# The worlds largest fruit - the double coconut, takes 10 years to ripen

# The amount of baked beans sold in Britian every year is equal to 20 000 african elephants

# 35 million trees could be saved every year if just 75% of waste paper and cardboared was recycled

# When hot weather is forecasted ice cream makers step up production

# If you put all the water in the air into average sized buckets it would reach from earth to the sun 57 million times

# In antartica winds can reach speeds of up to 320 km/h

# There is enough salt in the oceans to cover the surface of the earth with a layer 152m thickAcon

# Coral is made up of the skeletons of tiny creatures

# E is the most common letter in the english language

# Energy can neither be created nor destroyed only transfered from one form to another

# 7000 pieces of broken satelite orbit the planet Earth

# It takes pluto 168 earth years to orbit the sun

# 42.1 statictics are made up on the spot

# Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm

# The only substitute for bad manners is quick reflexes

# A conclusion is just the place where you got tired of thinking

# Experience is something you dont get until just after you need it

# Never do card trick for the people you play poker with

# No one is listening until you make a mistake

# The colder the x-ray tble the more of your body which is required on it

# The hardness of butter is directly proportional to the softness of the bread

# Only one person in every 2 billion will live to the age of 116 or older

# The only 15 letter word that can be spelt without repeating a letter in uncopyrightable

# Norvelle Rogers is the real name of Shaggy in Scooby Doo

# Everytime you lick a stamp you consure 1/100 of a calorie

# If you toss a coin 10 000 times it will not land on tails 5 000 times, more like 4950, the heads picture weighs more so it tends to land on the bottom

# Babbies are born without knee caps, they dont appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age

# In every episode of Seinfield there is a Superman somewhere

# No word in the english language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple

# The most common name isn the world is Mohammed

# The average person falls asleep in 7 minutes

# A "jiffy'" is an actual unit of time, for 1/100 of a second

# Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treasury

# The Hawaiian alphabet has twelve letters

# Men can read smaller print than woman; woman can hear better

# One in two Australians lives within 50 kilometers from where they grew up

# Qantas saved $40 000 in 1987 simply by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first calss

# The city with the most Rolls Royces per capita is Hong Kong

# The American state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work is Alaska

# Percentage of Norht America that is wilderness: 38 per cent

# Estimated percent of Australians adults who go on a diet each year: 44 per cent

# Barbies measurements if she were life size: 39, 23, 33

# Average number of days a West German goes without washing his underwear: seven

# Percentage of Americans who say that God has spoken to them: 36 per cent

# Percentage of Americans who regularly attend religious services: 43 per cent

# American city with the higest per capita viewership of television evangelists: Washington DC

# Percentage of men who say they would marry the same woman if they had to do it all over again: 80 per cent

# Percentage of woman who say they would marry the same man: 50 per cent

# Percentage of men who say they are happier after their divorce or separations: 58 per cent

# Percentage of woman who say they are happier after their divorce or separation: 85 per cent

# The parachute was invented by Leonardo de Vinci in 1515

# They raise square watermelons in Japan. They stack better

# Cream does not weigh as much as milk

# Iceland consumes more coca-cola per capita than any other nation

# coca-cola was originally green

# The first novel ever written on a typewriter was Tom Sawyer

# There are more collect calls on Fathres Day than any other day of the year

# Heinz tomato sauce leaving the bottle travels at a speed of 38 kilometers per year

# Men get hiccups more often than woman