- * 1- Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
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- * 2- Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
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- * 3- There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
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- * 4- The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
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- * 5- A shark is the only fish that can blink with both
eyes.
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- * 6- There are more chickens than people in the world.
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- * 7- The longest one-syllable word in the English language
is "screeched."
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- * 8- On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the flag flying over
the Parliament building is an American flag.
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- * 9- All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction"
are stuck on 4:20.
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- *10- No word in the English language rhymes with month,
orange, silver or purple.
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- *11- "Dreamt" is the only English word that
ends in the letters "mt".
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- *12- Almonds are a member of the peach family.
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- * 13- There are only 4 words in the English language
which end in dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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- * 14- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
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- * 15- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
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- * 16- Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
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- * 17- In most advertisements, the time displayed on a
watch is 10:10.
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- * 18- Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture
dealer.
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- * 19- The characters Bert & Ernie on Sesame Street
were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's
"It's a Wonderful Life."
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- * 20- A dragonfly has a life span of 1-6 months
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- * 21- A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.
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- * 22- It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
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- * 23- The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
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- * 24- In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed
to speak.
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- * 25- The microwave was invented after a researcher walked
by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
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- * 26- The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
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- * 27- There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
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- * 28- The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime
at night.
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- * 29- A cockroach can live nine days without its head
before it starves to death.
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- * 30- A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white,
but actually clear.
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- * 31- Elvis had a twin brother named Aaron, who died
at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron: in honor of
his brother. It is also misspelled on his tomb stone.
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- * 32- Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because
he doesn't wear pants.
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- * 33- More people are killed by donkeys annually than
are killed in plane crashes.
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- * 34- Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only
the left hand. * 35- Shakespeare invented the words "assassination"
and "bump."
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- * 36- Marilyn Monroe had 6 toes on one foot. (not true,
we're told!)
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- * 37- If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will
eventually turn white.
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- * 38- Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
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- * 39- Right-handed people live, on average, nine years
longer than left-handed people do.
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- * 40- The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over
the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
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- * 41- The names of the continents all end with the same
letter with which they start.
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- * 42- TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made
using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
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- * 43- The word racecar and kayak are the same whether
they are read left to right or right to left.
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- * 44- A snail can sleep for 3 years.
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- * 45- American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating
one olive from each salad served in first-class.
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- * 46- The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
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- * 47- Vatican City is the smallest country in the world
with a population of 1,000 and a size of 108.7 acres.
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- * 48- "I am." is the shortest complete sentence
in the English language.
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- * 49- No president of the United states was an only child.
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- And last and definitely most important:
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- * 50- The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in
it.
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