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"Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whisky makes it go round twice as fast." - Compton Mackenzie

"Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?" - Mae West

- The U.S. Postal Service assures its customers that they will not get fat licking stamps. There is no more than 1/10 of a calorie's worth of glue in one stamp.

- In the U.S. in 1976: 1 lb. of potato chips cost 200 times more than a lb. of potatoes.

- What is called a French kiss in America and England, is known as an English kiss in France.

- False teeth are often radioactive.

- The amount of play money printed each year for use in the game Monopoly totals more than the amount of real currency issued annually by the U.S. government.

- It costs more to buy a new car today in the U,S. than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.

- The Library of Congress has 327 miles of bookshelves.

- Human eyes are so sensitive that on a clear night when there is no moon, a person sitting on a mountain peak can see a match being struck 50 miles away.

- It takes 17 muscles to smile, 43 to frown.

- A raisin dropped in a high glass of champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.

- The original name for butterfly was really flutterby.

- Almost half the pigs in the world are kept by farmers in China.

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