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> A typical American eats 28 pigs in his/her lifetime.
> 40% of McDonalds' profits come from Happy Meals.
> A can of Diet Coke will float in water, but a can of regular coke will not.
> Chewing gum while peeling an onion will prevent you from crying.
> On average, Americans eat 18 acres of pizza each day.
> During your lifetime, you will eat 60,000 pounds of food.
> It is estimated that Americans will eat 10 million tons of turkey on Thanksgiving Day.
> It takes about 142 licks to reach the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop.
> No two cornflakes look the same.
> Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more then new cars.
> The average amount of potato chips eaten each year equals six times the weight on the Titanic.
> The average person drinks 800 gallons of water in a lifetime.
> There is no such thing as blue food.
> The largest prime number is 13,395 digits long.
> Blue is the favorite color of 80% of Americans.
> Months that begin with Sunday will always a Friday the 13th.
> One year is exactly 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 54.5 seconds.
> September 16-21 is Farm Animal Awareness Week.
> The save icon in Microsoft Word shows a floppy disc with its shutters on backwards.
> TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be typed on only one row of the keyboard.
> Until 1990, sausages were legal tender in Germany.
> No word in the English dictionary rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
> Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
> Our moon has the same volume as the Pacific Ocean.
> House flies hum in the middle octave F.
> A cats jaw cannot move sideways.
> Dreamt is the only word in English that ends with "mt".
> A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.
> A golf ball has 366 dimples.
> Polar bears are left handed.
> Heinz Ketchup leaves the bottle at 25 mph.
> The waste produced by a chicken in its lifetime can power a 100 watt light bulb for 5 hours.
> The average human has 20 sq. feet of skin which weighs 6 pounds.
> The zip code 12345 is assigned to General Electric in Schenectady, New York.
> The letter 'J' does not appear on the Perodic Table of Elements.
> A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
> Dragonflies have a lifespan of 24 hours.
> "Bookkeeper" is the only work in the English Dictionary with three consecutive double letters.
> The dot over an 'i' is called a tittle.
> Every continent in the world has a city called Rome.
> Macau, China is the most densely populated area in the world with 79,000 people per square mile. Greenland has 10
square miles for every person.
> If you jog for one and one half hours every day for 48 years, you will live 3 years longer. You will also have jogged
for about 3 years.
> The Eiffel Tower is 5.9 inches taller in the summer than in winter.
> If you take all of the salt out of the salt water in the world, you could cover all of the continents with a layer
of salt 492 feet thick.
> The silkworm moth has 11 brains.
> About 250 million bubbles pop out of a bottle of champagne.
> More people have heart attacks and car breakdowns on Mondays.
> In Malaysia, more people die from falling coconuts than from poisionus snake bites.
> Cats have 32 muscles in each ear.
> When scared, starfish snap their arms off.
> 15% of the world's fresh water flows down the Amazon River. 0.4% of the world's population has access to it.
> It would take 7 billion drops of fog to create one teaspoon of water.
> If you but $10,000 in a slot machine, you will most likely get $7,360 back.
> The odds are 158,753,389,900 to 1 to be dealt 13 cards of the same suit.
> It would take 2,487,996 years to arrange 15 things in every possible combination.
> Snakes fall asleep with their eyes open.
> For a tossed coin to fall heads 50 times in a row, it would take one million people tossing ten coins per minute
for 40 hours per week for 9 centuries for it to happen once.
> President Jose Maria Reina Barrios was shot 8 times at 8:00pm on February 8, 1898, at No. 8 on 8th Street with a
.38 caliber revolver.
> Cows grazed on the front lawn of the White House until 1913.
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