- The first toilet paper roll was invented in 1871
- Florence Nightingale carried an owl in her pocket
- Stores in Providence, RI, cannot sell a tothbrush on the sabbath
- $1 bills stacked a mile high are worth more than $14 million
- 90% of Americans consider themselves shy
- You have an equal chance of dying by falling out of bed as getting struck by lightening (1 in 2 million)
- The average person blinks 25 times a minute, which is 13,140,000 blinks a year
- The Pony Express only lasted 18 months
- New freckles stop appearing at age 19 or 20
- Leather has enough nutritional value to sustain life for a short amount of time
- A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge
- The king of hearts is the only king in a deck of cards without a mustache
- Glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher
- Lions will mate for days at a time to ensure pregnancy
- The citizens of Kentucky are required by law to take a bath at least once a year
- Ulysses S. Grant was once fined $20 for speeding on his horse
- Howdy Doody had 72 freckles
- The only survivor of Custer's Last Stand was his horse
- Bamboo can grow 4 feet in a full day
- A "jiffy" is 1/100th of a second
- 1 in 4 Americans has been on TV
- Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete
- Florida is bigger than England
- It's illegal to hunt camels in Arizona
- Mexico City sinks 10 inches every year
- In 1976, a Los Angeles secretary married her pet rock
- Polar bears are left handed
- Apples are better than coffee at keeping you awake
- Pigs are identified by nose prints
- The longest Oscar acceptance speech was made by Greer Garson in 1942 - it was an hour long (although Halle Barry probably made a close second...)
- The Mona Lisa doesn't have eyebrows
- Shirley Temple got 135,000 presents on her 8th birthday
- Confederate General Robert E. Lee didn't believe in slavery
- There are more lawn flamingoes in the US than real flamingoes
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