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• A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel!
   
• A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile!
   
• A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!
   
• A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!
   
• A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average!
   
• A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!
   
• A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
   
• A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
   
• A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!
   
• A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!
   
• A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!
   
• Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
   
• Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!
   
• Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!
   
• Cat urine glows under a black-light!
   
• Clinophobia is the fear of beds!
   
• Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!
   
• Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill!
   
• Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks!
   
• Hummingbirds can weigh less than a penny!!
   
• If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
   
• In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!
   
• It is estimated that 4 million "junk" telephone calls, phone solicitations by persons or programmed machine are made every day in the United States!
   
• It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!
   
• It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis!
   
• Most lipstick contains fish scales!
   
• No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
   
• One car out of every 230 made was stolen last year!
   
• One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
   
• Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
   
• Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
   
• Porcupines float in water!
   
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• Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969!
   
• Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution!
   
• Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing!
   
• Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating!
   
• Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive!
   
• The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches!
   
• The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
   
• The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
   
• The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!
   
• The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!
   
• The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!
   
• The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!
   
• The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!
   
• The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
   
• The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!
   
• The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders!
   
• The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
   
• The Philadelphia mint produces 26 million pennies per day!
   
• The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times!
   
• The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
   
• The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on its fur!
   
• The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
   
• The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!
   
• The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1!
   
• There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!
   
• There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
   
• There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!
   
• There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants!
   
• Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!
   
• Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee!
   
• Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia!
   
• When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!
   
• Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
   
• Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!
   

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