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Trivia and Amazing Facts There are more chickens than people in the world Nearly 60 percent of Americans describe their physical appearance as average. But 31 percent say they are above-average and five percent claim to be handsome or beautiful. Whites are only half as likely as blacks to say they are good-looking...evidence that black IS beautiful! The difference between a "millennium" and

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  Trivia and Amazing Facts When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying "yes" in Sri Lanka Americans spend more than 5.4 billion dollars on their pets each year The word "dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in the letters "mt." The first children's book that was published in the U.S. was called "Spiritual Mild for Boston Babes in wither England

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Trivia and Amazing Facts "Stewardesses" is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers Make your heart stand still! Trying to quell first-date jitters? Blow on your thumb. The vagus nerve, which governs heart rate, can be controlled through breathing, says Ben Abo, an emergency

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Trivia & Amazing Facts 43. Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV The biggest pig in recorded history was Big Boy of Black Mountain, North Carolina, who was weighed at 1,904 pounds in 1939. Cats respond most readily to names that end in an "ee" sound. The Canary Islands were not named for a bird called a canary. They were named after a breed of large dogs. The Latin name was

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Trivia and Amazing Facts Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered

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  Trivia & Amazing Facts The most common name in the world is Mohammed Lassie was played by several male dogs, despite the female name, because male collies were thought to look better on camera. The main "actor" was named Pal A typical hen lays 19 dozen eggs a year One of the greatest orators of all time, - Demosthenes (384? - 322 B.C.) was once a stutterer who stubbornly trained

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  Trivia and Amazing Facts The "pound" (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. Shakespeare was the first to use certain words that are now common, including "hurry," "bump," "eyeball," and "anchovy." The opposite of a "vacuum" is a "plenum." The metal part of a lamp that surrounds the bulb and supports the shade is called a harp.

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Trivia and Amazing Facts  Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush The last dictionary that Noah Webster wrote contained 70,000 words and their meanings. He wrote it with no help and by hand. After his death his family sold the right to publish to G&C Merriam and Co. Hoi polloi is a Greek

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Trivia and Amazing Facts To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly Maine is the only state (in USA) whose name is just one syllable. If you add together all the numbers on a roulette wheel (1 to 36), the total is the mystical number 666, often associated with the Devil. A three-letter, one-syllable word that becomes a

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Trivia & Amazing Facts By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person St. Patrick was a fifth-century English (or perhaps Scottish) missionary to Ireland. The feast day of St. Patrick has been observed in Ireland on March 17 for hundreds of years. The date

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Trivia and Amazing Facts Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casin0s. Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm. The original

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  Trivia and Amazing Facts Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time Ninety eight per cent of the weight of water is made up from oxygen There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar Maine is the only state in the United States whose name is just one syllable Anthropologists believe stones were one of man's first calculating devices, aiding in

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Trivia & Amazing Facts The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer Snakes are immune to their own poison Cats roll on their backs to show affection. They expose their bellies like this only when they feel totally secure The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid Carte blanche, which means unconditional authority or power, was coined during the

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Trivia and Amazing Facts Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it or not Slugs have 4 noses. Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue. A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years! The average person laughs 10 times a day!   

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Trivia & Amazing Facts The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds  Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned The largest chicken egg ever laid weighed a pound and had a double yolk and shell. The cruise liner, QE 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns. Betty Boop's last cartoons were made in 1939.  

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Trivia & Amazing Facts It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open  The aorta, which is largest artery located in the body, is about the diameter of a garden hose There are about 100 breeds of cats. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain The Chicago River is dyed green every year on St. Patrick's Day. This tradition began in 1962, when Chicago pollution- control workers used

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Trivia & Amazing Facts "Dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in "mt" The biggest member of the cat family is the male lion, which weighs 528 pounds (240 kilograms) Spot, Data's cat on Star Trek: The Next Generation, was played by six different cats From 1930 to 1939 Betty Boop made over 120 cartoons More turkeys are raised in California than in any other state in the

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Trivia & Amazing Dolphins sleep with one eye open!  Every square inch of the Human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it The biggest member of the cat family is the male lion, which weighs 528 pounds (240 kilograms) Before air conditioning was invented, white cotton slipcovers were put on furniture to keep the air cool The largest chicken egg ever laid weighed a pound and

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Trivia and Amazing Facts It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food. The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times! The six official languages of the United Nations are: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish. It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in

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Trivia and Amazing Facts Earth is the only planet not named after a god More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

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Trivia and Amazing Facts   Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as a medicine The word "four" has four letters. In the English language there is no other number whose number of letters is equal to its value English has replaced Russian as the most popular foreign language in schools in China Benjamin Franklin compiled a list of more than 200 synonyms for "drunk," including cherry-merry,

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Trivia and Amazing Facts There is a house in Rockport Massachusetts, built entirely of newspaper. The Paper House at Pigeon Cove, as it is called, is made of 215 thicknesses of newspaper The only 15-letter word in the English language that can be written without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable" During routine conversation some time back, a stagecoach, wagon, truck, or cart of the past

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Trivia & Amazing Facts On average a hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute Approximately 1 billion stamps are produced in Australia annually The country of Andorra has a zero percent unemployment rate A cat has 32 muscles in each ear Australian slang for "lavatory" is "Dunny  

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Trivia and Amazing Facts Women blink nearly twice as much as men Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th." Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it  

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Trivia and Amazing Facts  The term "hung jury," a jury that cannot agree on a verdict, was coined in the 1840s The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated."Hagiology" is the branch of literature dealing with the lives and legends of saints A cluster of fireworks that revolve is called a

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