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Coca-Cola was originally green.
More Monopoly money is printed every day than the U.S. Treasury.
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
1/4 of Los Angeles is taken up by automobiles.
The state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska.
2 out of 5 people live in China or India.
The Average number of people airborne over the U.S. at any given hour: 61,000.
The city with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong.
The most commonly used password on computer systems is "password".
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
60 Minutes is the only TV show with no theme song.
Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.
Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were all invented by women.
Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.
Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny, was allergic to carrots.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel it burns.
You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.
The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.
The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured how to walk up straight staircases.
Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.
The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II, who fathered over 160 children.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
The charactesrs Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life".
Gilligan of Gilligan's Island has a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy. The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on their radio's newscast about the wreck.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in a battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall, and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
Everytime you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every 2 weeks or it will digest itself.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months, and 7 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough energy is produced to create an atomic bomb.
The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet out of the body.
On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
Most lipsticks contain fish scales.
Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing.
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State building.
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off--it dies from starvation.
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
It's against the law to burp or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska.
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
Thomas Edison, the lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.
During your lifetime, youll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, which is the weight of about 6 elephants.
The world's oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old.
A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 mph.
Lighting strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.
It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland.
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the morning.

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Golfers use an estimated $800,000,000 worth of golf balls annually.
The Major League record for home runs per season is 73, hit by Barry Bonds in 2001.
Jesse Owens broke three records in track and field and tied a fourth in 1935.
The New York Yankees have won the most World Series--23.
An office chair with wheels travels an average of eighty miles yearly.
74% of American women say the biggest dating turn-off is foul language.
The average person drinks about 16,000 gallons of water in a lifetime.
Offered a new pen with which to write, the first thing 97% of people will write is their own name.
The "http" in web addresses stands for "hypertext transfer protocol".
The images on a computer screen are made up of more than 5,000 pixels, or dots, per square inch.
ENIAC, the first electronic computer, was about 80 feet long, weighed 30 tons, and had 17,000 tubes.
People play on their home computers more in the east and work on them more in the south and west.
The most popular pizza topping in South Korea is tuna.
A Chicago man dined out 46,000 times in 60 countries over a period of 50 years.
The banana is the most popular and most consumed fruit in the world.
Lobser was so plentiful in previous centuries that it was used as farm fertilizer and was called a poor man's food.
Chocolate contains the same chemical, phenyl ethylamine, that your brain produces when you fall in love.
Even though they broke up over 25 years ago, the Beatles continue to sell more records each year than the Rolling Stones.
The song "Happy Birthday to You" was originally "Good Morning to You". It was changed in 1935.
Although it took less than a decade of space travel for man to get to the moon, 19th and 20th century engineers took 22 years to design the zipper.
Envelopes with gummed flaps weren't initially popular with Brits. They thought it was an insult to send your saliva to someone.
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, was originally an instructor for deaf children.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
Your thumb is usually the same length as your nose.
Your feet may be as much as 5-10% larger by the end of the day.
A hard-working adult sweats up to 4 gallons a day. Most of it evaporates before you know it's there.
The male red kangaroo is almost 6 feet tall when it stands.
The biggest flying mammal is the flying fox, which weighs about 4 pounds.
The Asiatic elephant can be pregnant for up to 760 days. That's more than 2 years.
If an octopus is hungry enough, it will eat its own tentacles.
One in every four Americans has appeared on television.
On New Year's Eve in Barcelona, Spain, people try to eat 12 grapes during the last 12 seconds of the year. The practice is said to bring good luck.
A popular gesture to greet and show respect to elders in India is to touch their feet.
In Medieval times, spoons were placed face-down to keep out the devil.
Viewed from earth, the biggest of the five planets normally visible to the naked eye is Venus.
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the Earth.
"URL" stands for Uniform Resource Locator.