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| 1. Tne microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pants. 2. Horses and rabbits cannot vomit. 3. Dart boards are made out horse hair. 4. There are 336 dimples in a golf ball. 5. Napoleon made battle plans in his sandbox. 6. The pitches that Babe Ruth hit for his last home run ever and that Joe DiMaggio hit his first ever home run. 7. Jellyfish have no brains. 8. No piece of dry square paper can be folded in half more than 7 times. 9. Hummingbirds weigh less than a penny. 10. Until 1796, there was a state in the US called Franklin. Today, it's known as Tennessee. 11. The Earth weighs 5,940 billion billion metric tons. 12. Every time you lick a stamp, 1/10th of a calorie. 13. The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year. 14. One in every four Americans have appeared on television. 15. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete. 16. Over 10,000 birds die each year from smashing into windows. 17. The state of Florida is bigger than England. 18. Thomas Edison, inventor of the lightbulb, was afraid of dark. 19. Dolphins sleep with one eye open. 20. There are more plastic flamingos in the US than real ones. 21. Sneezes travel out of your mouth at over 100 m.p.h. 22. In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks, and spoons. 23. Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch TV for three hours. 24. The average American/Canadian drinks about 600 sodas a year. 25. There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses. 26. Jellyfish are 90% water. 27. More Monopoly money is printed than real money each year. 28. Q is the only letter that doesn't appear in the names of any of the United States. 29. One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet. 30. The average person eats near to 35,000 cookies in a lifetime. 31. Fortune cookies were actually invented in America. 32. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave. 33. In the US, dogs and cats consume over $11 billion dollars worth of pet food a year. 34. Fingernails grow 4 times faster than dogs. 35. Every second, one-hundred pounds of chocolate are eaten in America. 36. There are approximately fifty Bibles sold each minute across the world. 37. Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars. 38. All over the world, approximately fifty billion pieces of toilet paper are used each day. 39. More money is spent on gardening than any other hobby. 40. One-billion seconds is approximately 32 years. |
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