| It costs more to buy a new car today in the US, than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the new world. |
| The average American consumes enough caffeine in one year to kill a horse. |
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| The McDonalds at the Skydome in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is the only one in the world that sells hotdogs. |
| In the US, a pound of potato chips costs 200X more than a pound of potatoes. |
| Of any bird, New Zealand Kiwis lay the largest eggs with respect to their body size. |
| Elephants have been found swimming miles from shore in the Indian Ocean. |
| When two words combine to form a single word (eg. motor + hotel = motel, breakfast + lunch = brunch) the new word is called a "portmanteau". |
| Sting got his name because of a yellow-and-black striped shirt he wore until it literally fell apart. |
| Canada and New Zealand are the only countries that contains every type of climate in the world. |
| Cockroaches' favorite food is the glue on the envelopes and on the back of postage stamps. |
| In 1969, the last Corvair was painted gold. |
| The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds. |
| The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint -- no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers. |
| There is a type of parrot in New Zealand that likes to eat rubber strips that line car windows. |
| Betsy Ross's other contribution to the American Revolution, beside sewing the first American flag, was running a munitions factory in her basement. |
| Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth. |
| Nine of the thirteen blimps are in the US. |
| The existing biggest blimp is the Fuji Film blimp. |
| Maugahyde, plastic "leather" was created in Naugatuck, Connecticut. |
| The Swiss flag is square. |
| The three largest land-owners in England are the Queen, the Church of England and teh Trinity College, Cambridge. |
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| The only way to stop the pain of a sting from a Flathead Fish is by rubbing the same fish's slime on the wound it gave you. |
| Every photograph of an American atomic bomb detonation was taken by Harold Edgerton. |
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| The featehred topknot that Quails have is called a "hmuh". |
| David Prowse, was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie. |
| The US government keeps its supply of silver at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY. |
| Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. |
| The Statue of Liberty's tablet is two feet thick. |
| There are two credit cards for every perpson in the US. |
| DR.Samuael A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin John Wiled Booth...and whose shame credited the expression for ignominy: "His name is Mudd". |