Some of these facts come from Worlds Best Trivia By Oliver Roydhouse,
the Five Mile press, some from magazines and rest come from
the e-mails that get randomly sent around. The information found here may not be always entirly true,
and I dont agree everything, they are just here for enjoyment and entertainment.
But if you disagree with one of them, tell me and I will most likely change it.
If you have a good thing NOT mentioned here e-mail me (shello41@hotmail.com)
I dont mind if you copy these, but if you are going to post them up again,
please link to me.... or just ask first. I'm not that scary... I hope!
Please remember that I typed up all of these and also found them in the first place... Thank-you!
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If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have
produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
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Banging you head against a wall uses 150 calories per hour.
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The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.
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An ant can lift 50 times its own body weight; it can pull 30 times its
weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
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Butterflies taste with their feet.
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An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
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Starfish don't have brains.
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Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
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Apples are more efficient at waking you up in the morning than caffeine.
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The plastic things on the end of your shoelaces are called aglets.
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Most people have lost half their tastebuds by the time that they are 60.
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It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
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Someone has spent 17 years looking for the exact middle of the Bible.
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Due to huge inflation in the 1920's 4,000,000,000,000,000,000
German marks were worth US$1
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The smallest unit of time is a yoctosecond
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In Italy it is illegal to make coffins out of anything but nutshells or wood.
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The original Guinness Brewery in Dublin, Ireland has a 6,000-year lease.
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Antarctica is the only continent on earth with no native human
population. That makes it the only continent on earth to be discovered.
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About 15 million blood cells are destroyed every second in the
human body.
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Tornadoes move anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere and
clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
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There are more canals in Birmingham than there are in Venice.
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The Spanish national anthem has no words.
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In the late sixties in Seoul, South Korea, a movie theatre manager
decided that the musical The Sound Of Music was too long. He
shortened it by cutting out all the songs.
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Medical experts suggest that sleeping on your right side aids digestion.
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The most expensive dress made was priced at 2 million. It was
decorated with 516 diamonds and was delivered to a Paris fashion
show in an armoured car.
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The three most valuable brand names on earth are thought to be
Marlboro, Coca-Cola and Budweiser, respectively.
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Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
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One new McDonalds opens somewhere in the world every six hours.
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Millions of trees have been the result of forgetful squirrels that had buried the acorns then forgot where they were.
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Ancient Egyptians slept of pillows of stone.
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A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4ft child inside.
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The blesbok, a South African antelope is almost the colour of grape juice.
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Snakes only have one lung.
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Crows like humans, speak different languages in different countries.
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Mosquitoes like to bite people more if they have just eaten a banana.
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"M&M's" are named for Mars and Mars, the creators.
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The longest French fry in a bunch is called a loomster.
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Some people waste 30 minutes everyday simply looking for papers lost
on their desktops.
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Skiing is the only word in the english language with a double "i".
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The onion is actually a lily.
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The fork is the most common utensil used to eat macaroni and cheese.
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The Bible is the most commonly shoplifted book.
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According to National Geographic, scientists have settled the
argument over which came first, the egg or the chicken. They say that reptiles
were laying eggs for thousands of years before chickens appeared, and the first
chicken came from an egg that was laid by a bird that was not quite a chicken.
That seems to answer the question. The egg came first.
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Magnesium was used in the early flash photography because when
burnt it gives off a brilliant white light.
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Pedals were added to the bicycle in 1839
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Whales increase in weight 30,000 million times in their first two years of life.
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Stroking the sole of the foot produces the Babinski effect.
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A penny whistle has six finger holes.
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Mexico once had three presidents in a day.
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The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds. It was headless at the time.
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In 1647 the English parliament abolished Christmas.
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X-ray technology has shown that there are three different versions
underneath the visible Mona Lisa.
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On average, 13 people are killed by falling vending machines every year.
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The average person has about 140 colds in a lifetime.
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Owls are the only creatures able to see the colour blue.
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By the end of the civil war 1/2 of the American paper money in
circulation was counterfeit.
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Los Angeles has more cars than people.
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There are 20 times more sheep than there are people in New Zealand.
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NYC has 14,000 bus stops, 468 subway stations and 12000 taxis. It
also has 3 airports that fly 84 million people into or out of NYC each year.
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When a horned toad is angry it spurts blood from its eyes.
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The average person in their lifetime spends two years on the telephone.
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In their lifetime an average person will walk around the earth 3 times.
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A shrimp's heart is in its brain.
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A baby oyster is called a spat.
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On a clear nite more than 2000 stars are visile to the naked eye.
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If you have a fear of long words you have sesquipedalophobia.
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Timromania- compulsive love of postage stamps.
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The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896.
Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
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Two million hydrogen atoms might just cover the full stop at the end of this sentence.
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A watermelon is actually a berry.
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If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months you produce enough
gas to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
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In Cleveland, Ohio, it is/was illegal to catch mice without a hunting licence.
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According to an old English system of time, a moment is one and a half minutes.
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In 1980, the Yellow Pages accidently listed a funeral home under Frozen Foods
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There is a Tupperware party held somewhere in the world every two seconds.
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In 1996 more people died on the job working in advertising than in petroleum refining.
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The Greek national anthem has 158 verses. No one in Greece is known to have
memroised all verses.
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Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regualtaions in the US deems it
illegal for citizens to have any contact with extraterrestials or thier vehicles.
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William Shakespere's fathers first name was John.
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It was so cold in the winter or 1932 that Niagara Falls froze solid.
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You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
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Polar bears are left-handed.
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UNCOPYWRITABLE is the longest word that can be spelt without repeating a letter.
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111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
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"I AM" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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About 100 people choke to death on ball point pens each year.
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Animators drew nearly 6.5 million black spots for the film 101 Dalmations.
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More than 100 women make their living by impersonating Marilyn Monroe.
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A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
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There is a town in France that is called Y.
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Reindeer like to eat bananas.
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You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people.
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It snowed in the Saraha desert on 18 February 1979.
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There is no single word given to describe the back of the knee.
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The most commonly used letter in our alphabet is e and the
least is q. The most commonly used word is the.
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'Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoron-
ukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu' is the name of a hill found in New Zealand.
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Percentage of U.S. women born blonde: 16. Percentage of women who
are blonde today: 33. Percentage of TV newscasters who are blonde: 64.
Percentage of Miss Americas who are blonde: 65
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32% of American six- to seven-year-olds have a television in their own
room, as do 50% of eight- to twelve-year-olds and 64% of thirteen- to
seventeen-year-olds.
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In December 1997, the state of Nevada became the first state to pass
legislation categorizing Y2K data disasters as 'acts of God' - protecting the state
from lawsuits that may potentially be brought against it by residents in the year 2000.
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3-Day advance purchase tickets for the first Woodstock (1969), were
$18.00. The price at the gate, $24.
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Chess is a wonderful game even though there are
169,518,829,100,544,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the first ten moves.
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The first ever TV commercial in the United States was for Bulova
watches. It aired in 1941 on WNBT, New York, and cost Bulova nine dollars.
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The first 'secret ballot' system for parliament in the world was
introduced in the Legislative Council of Victoria, Australia, on 27-8-1856. The
rest of the world took another few decades.
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The first book of crosswords was introduced on April 10, 1924 for a
steep $1.35 per book and each one came with a freshly sharpened pencil. The
publishers, Simon and Schuster, were advised to use an alias for their first run
because their advisors were skeptical and thought it might fail, ruining them in
the publishing industry. They took the advice and named themselves Plaza
Printing Company. Within three months, book sales reached an astonishing
40,000! Needless to say, the editions of crossword puzzle books that followed
had their real name printed.
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The first U.S. coin to bear the words "United States of America," was a
penny piece made in 1727. It was also inscribed with the plain-spoken motto:
"Mind Your Own Business."
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7% of Americans don't know the first 9 words of the American anthem,
but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem!
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February 1865 is the only month in recorded history that didnt have a full moon.
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There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
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The highest IQ's ever recorded belong to women. (standard test. checked 2000)
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The word lethologica describes the state of not being able to
remember the word that you want to use.
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The longest town name in the world has 167 letters.
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In Kentucky, 50% of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.
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Kitsap County, Washington, was originally called Slaughter County, and
the first hotel there was called the Slaughter House.
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Customers who bought the first Kodak cameras had to mail them back
to Rochester, New York for reloading.
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Everyone knows that the Buggles 'Video Killed the Radio Star' was the
first video to premire on MTV on August 1, 1981. The millionth video to air
on
MTV was 'Video Killed the Radio Star', aired on MTV February 27, 2000. It's
also
the 3rd most aired video in MTV history. Peter Gabriel's 'Sledgehammer' is
#1.
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A seven-letter word that contains nine words without any rearranging
and of the letters is therein. These words are: the, there, he, her,
here,
ere, herein, rein, in.
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In the early twentieth centuary rattlesnake venom was used to treat epilepsy.
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The international dialling code for Antarctica is 672.
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On 30 March 1867, Alaska was officially purchased from Russia for
about two cents an acre. At the time it was believed the purchase of this
'wasteland to be a costly folly'.
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The dolphins that live in the Amazon River are pink.
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The smallest mammal in the world is the bumblebee bat of Thailand. It weighs less than a five cent piece.
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The dot over the i is called a tittle.
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The average person sees over 20,000 TV commercials per year.
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There is no such thing as naturally blue food. Even blueberries are purple.
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The oldest word in the English language is town.
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At the nearest point, Russia and America are less than four kilometers apart.
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In the 60's animal behavior researchers studied the effects of
various substances on spiders. Spiders that were fed flies injected with caffeine
spun very "nervous" webs, Spiders that ate flies injected with LSD, they spun
very wild, abstract patterns. Spiders that were given sedatives fell asleep
before
completing the web.
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In May 1948, Mt Ruapechy and Mt Ngauruhoe, both in New Zealand, erupted simultaneously.
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If you travel across the Soviet Union, you can cross seven time zones.
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Alaska's flag was designed by a 13-year old boy.
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Assuming Ruldolph was in front, there are 40,320 ways to arrange the
eight other reindeer.
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Mexico once had three presidents in one day.
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Months that start on a Sunday will always have a Friday the 13th.
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If there was an ocean big enough to hold Saturn, it would float.
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The Spanish word esposa means both wife and handcuff.
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The common goldfish is the only animal that can see both infra-red and ultra-violet light.
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The name of the asteroid that scientists believe killed the dinosaurs was named Chixalub.
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Stress in Hungarian words always falls on the first sylable.
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Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have competed in every Games, ignoring boycotts.
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If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne it will float to the top and then sink to the bottom repeditivly.
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There are 1,929,770,126,028,800 different colour combinations possible on a Rubik's Cube.
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The bread slots in a toaster are called bread wells.
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There are more 2nd streets in America than there are 1st streets.
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In the game of Monopoly, the most money you can lose in one travel around
the board
(normal rules, going to jail once) is $26,040. The most you can lose in one
turn is $5,070.
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It's rumoured that if you suck on a copper coin, it can cause a breathalyser to read 0.
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When Mars is nearest Earth, the number of UFO reports increase.
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There is a town in the USA called Looneyville.
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Kilo for kilo, lemons contain more sugar than strawberries.
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The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in an American court.
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Last centuary two objects have hit the Earth's surface with enough force
to destroy a city.
Both landed in sparsely populated Siberia.
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The name of a hill in New Zealand that boasts the longest place name still
in use, means,
"The hill where Tamatea, the great warrier, climbed over after returning from
a
long journey abroard and played the flute to his beloved upon arrival" or
something like that. (the maouri name is up the page...)
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When europeans first saw a giraffe, they called it a camelopard. Camel cross leopard.
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There is a type of parrot in New Zealand that likes to eat the rubber strips
that line
car windows.
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In English hospitals of the seventeenth cantuary, children were entitled to two gallons of beer a week.
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The largest object found in the Los Angeles sewer system was a motorbike.
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Mexico once had three presidents in one day.
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There are more plastic flamingoes in America than there are real ones.
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Humans have fewer muscles than a caterpiller.
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Entries in Islandic phonebooks are listed not by surname, but by given name.
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Ninety per cent of the Vitamin C in brussel sprouts is lost when they are cooked.
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Crocodiles swallow stones to help ten dive deeper.
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Goldfish can suffer from motion sickness.
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The crystalline quartz amethyst was once believed to prevent drunkenness
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In 1985, the most prescribed drug in the UK was Valium.
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It is illegal to play tennis in the streets of Cambridge
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Opium was used as a painkiller during the American Civil War. As a
result, over 100,000 soldiers became drug addicts by the end of the war.
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Sheep theft is still legally a hanging offence in Scotland.
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The metre was originally defined as one ten-millionth of the distance between
the equator to the Pole.
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It is illegal to be a prostitute in Siena, Italy, if your name is Mary.
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No two cornflakes are the same.
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You would have to drink 100 cups of coffee in less than four hours to
get the lethal dose of caffeine, which is 10 grams.
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The human aura cannot be photographed through polyester.
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THe longest non-medical word is not antidisestablishmentarian but
is
floccinaucinihilipilification, the act of estimating as worthless.
The longest
medical word is pneumonoultramiscroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, which
is an
inflammatory lung disease, caused by the inhalation of fine silica dust.
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Dublin is the home of the Fairy Investigation Society.
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The early personal computer, the Sinclair ZX80 had one kilabyte of internal memory.
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In Minnesota it is illegal to cross state lines with a duck on your head.
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In 1982, in the United States, the painkiller Tylenol was spiked with cyanide.
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On average, 150 couples get married in Las Vegas each day.
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In the 1700's in England, you could purchase insurance against going to hell.
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In the 60's, NASA's moon ships had 33 k of memory. Mission control
were lucky, they had one whole MB. (For computer illiterate people,most
computer games take up more than 30 MB.)
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Ichthyomania - an obsession with fishes.
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Arithomania - a condition where someone compulsively counts things.
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The highest wave ever recorded was 34 meters high during a 124km/p/h
hurricane out to sea.