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1. Rice paper does not have any rice in it.

2. Baby robins eat about 14 feet of worns every day.

3. Most dust in your house is really dead skin.

4. The average person laughs 13 times a day. (People who visit this site don't count.)

5. Men are 6 times more likely to get struck by lightning than women.

6. A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.

7. Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the US.

8. Throughout the world, there are more than 50,000 earthquakes each year.

9. The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby."

10. Apples are better at keeping people awake than caffeine is.

11. Smelling bananas and/or green apples can help you lose weight.

12. A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons each day.

13. The average iceberg weighs 20,000,000 tons.

14. A lump of pure gold can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.

15. The average person looks at 8 houses before actually buying one.

16. Border collies are the most intelligent breed of dog.

17. The average child will eat about 20 pounds of cereal in a year.

18. The average adult male grows 1 pound of facial hair in 10 years.

19. The sale of vodka makes up 10% of the Russian government's income.

20. A red-headed man is more likely to go bald than anyone else.

21. Pigs can become alcoholics.

22. Elephants can't jump.

23. The Statue of Liberty's mouth is only 3 feet wide.

24. In Michigan, a man legally owns his wife's hair.

25. USA bought Alaska from Russia for 2 cents an acre.

26. There is a fourth pound of salt in every gallon of seawater.

27. 95% of food poisoning cases are never reported.

28. Vanilla is used to make chocolate.

29. Melting an ice cube in your mouth burns about 2.3 calories.

30. Kentucky produces more whiskey than all other states combined.

31. Coca Cola was originally green.

32. It would take 7 billion particles of fog to fill up a teaspoon.

33. The world's longest game of Monopoly lasted for more than 660 hours.

34. 50% of all bank robberies take place on Fridays.

35. In Los Angeles, there are more cars than people.

36. Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.

37. Cockroaches can live with their heads cut off for several weeks.

38. Some toothpastes contain antifreeze.

39. Cows give more milk when they are listening to music.

40. Amazingly, 55% of all Americans don't know that the sun is a star.
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