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Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the “1″ encased in the “shield” and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (DON’T try this @ home!)

In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

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If you unfolded your brain, it would cover an ironing board.

If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!

Male monkeys lose the hair on their heads in the same way men do.

Milk is heavier than cream.

Mosquitoes prefer children to adults, blondes to brunettes.

No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 8 times.

One 75-watt bulb gives more light than three 25-watt bulbs.

One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet!

Penguins can convert salt water into fresh water.

President George W. Bush was once a cheerleader!

Rice paper does not have any rice in it!

Snails breathe through their feet.

Switzerland has the highest per-capita consumption of soft drinks in the world.

The average American eats at McDonalds more than 1,800 times in their life.

The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!

The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven!

There are more female than male millionaires in the United States.

Women who are romance novel readers are reported to make love 74% more often with their partners than women who do not read romance novels.

The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

You can start a fire with ice.

Your brain is 80% water.

Women buy four out of every 10 condoms sold.

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

Tomatoes were originally thought to be poisonous.

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe.

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True And Fun Facts

March 19, 2010

Mark Twain didn’t graduate from elementary school. Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses. Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving dinner. They have square watermelons in Japan – they stack better. Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation. Heinz Catsup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles per year. [...]

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Amazing Facts

March 12, 2010

Cleopatra married her two brothers. The buttermilk does not have butter at all.In french, crayola means “oily chalk” In 1515, Di Vinci invented the now-popular parachute. Our Right Lungs takes more air than our left lung. The Country Singapore has only one train station. French royalties used to wipe their bottoms with fine linen before [...]

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