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Giant water beetles in South America can grow to be 6 inches in length
The main ingredient in the cream filling in oreos is shortening The world's biggest rubber band is 1,203,840 inches long. There are 127,720,000 more televisions in the United States than there are families. You will produce 93,075 pounds of garbage in your lifetime. The world's heaviest man weighed 442,260 grams. It would take 52,609,024 steps to walk around the world. The longest banana split was 288,288 inches long. There are 171,000,000,000 pennies in circulation right now. Americans use 5,506,540 gallons of water each day for showers. The total weight of all human beings on Earth is 971,813,840,000 pounds. You would need 1,435,738 gallons of paint to cover the island of Bermuda. 1 out of every 103,926 people live in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Camels chew in a figure 8 pattern The word most said in the 1998 James Cameron movie 'Titanic' was 'ROSE' Sperm whales sleep vertically with their heads pointed towards the bottom of the ocean The Nullarbor Plain of Australia covers 100,000 square miles without even one tree More people are killed each year by coconuts than sharks European explorers asked aborigines what these strange hopping animals were called, and they replied, 'Kangaroo,' which meant, 'I Don't understand.' Kangaroos are called wallabies by the natives of Australia. Kangaroos can live up to 20 years in captivity, but only 6 in the wild. Kangaroos are excellent swimmers. Kangaroos can hop as fast as 40 miles per hour. Male kangaroos do not have pouches. A male kangaroo is called a boomer, and a female kangaroo is called a flyer. Icelandic phone books contain peoples occupations in addition to the persons name due to the fact that so many icelanders have the same name. The first street lights in America were installed in Philadelphia around 1757 The game of monopoly has been sold in 19 differant lanquages. To qualify as cardboard,stiff paper must be more than 0.006 inch thick. No two cymbols sound alike Ronald Reagen appeared in more then 50 movies before becoming president. Elephants have a very poor digestive track so they need tiny organisms to help them digest food. When elephants are young they do not have the organism needed so they eat the mothers poop. Elvis's underpants are worth an estimated $1300 Lightning doesn't strike where it is raining In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright's son. There are 48 Mcdonalds on the Hawaiian island of Oahu Cellophane paper is made from shredded and aged plant fibers--- wood pulp. 'Bubba' is Yiddish for 'grandma'. O.J. Simpson's father left O. J.'s mother Eunice for another man. Jimmy Simpson died of AIDS in 1986. Asia represents three quarters of the world's human population. More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes. Stonewall Jackson liked to suck on lemons. World's Longest Moustache - Kalyan Ramji Sain 133 1/2 inches. The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; '7' was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. 'UP' indicated the direction of the bubbles. Multiply 37,037 by any single number (1-9), then multiply that number by 3. Every digit in the answer will be the same as that first single number. The Dull Men's Hall of Fame is located in Carroll, Wisconsin. 'Zorro' means 'fox' in Spanish. Israel acquired 4 of the 7 dead sea scrolls in 1955. Canada's new flag, with its maple leaf design, was unfurled in 1965 in Ottawa. JFK's murder wasn't considered a federal crime. In 1963, it fell under local jurisdiction. Official test results indicate a 95 percent probability that a shot was fired at JFK from the grassy knoll area. Adolf Hitler's birthname was SCHICKELGRUBER. After a bloody civil war in 1948, Costa Rica disbanded its army and passed a law forbidding the maintenance of a standing army. Its police officers don't carry guns. The only armed force in the country are the border guards, who carry rifles Inventor Samuel Colt patented his revolver in 1836. The South Pole is colder than the North Pole. The Beatles, with Pete Best on drums, made the group's TV debut performing Roy Orbison's 'Dream Baby' on the BBC show 'Teenager's Turn' in 1962. Bill Clinton signed into effect a law specifying Lake Champlain (between New York and Vermont) as the sixth Great Lake. Popsicle announced its plan to end the traditional twin-stick frozen treat for a flatter, one-stick model in 1986. It has been recommended by dentists that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet (two meters) away from a commode to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush! It takes more than 20 billion crayons to go around the world, and the Crayola company to date has made enough to go around four-and-a-half times How can an eagle see sideways without turning its head? They have two focal points in each eye. Moby Dick was white. Queen Elizabeth II made her last curtsey at her father's funeral. The bateleur eagle turns somersaults, caws, barks, and claps its wings together loudly in mid-air, and utters piercing screams as it dives towards the ground. Walter Huston and his son John become the first father-and-son team to win Oscars as director of and an actor in'Treasure of Sierra Madre' in 1949. The life boat was patented in 1845. While in Alcatraz, Al Capone was inmate #85. Edison's first lightbulb filament was made of cotton (1879). The hour and minute hands on a clock cross each other eleven times in a twelve hour period. Thomas Edison invented the talking doll in 1888. Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh cut off his left ear. His 'Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear'' shows the right one bandaged because he painted the mirror image. In 1997, Michigan became the 16th state to permit the blind to hunt. The bowling ball was invented in 1862. 'Wassail' comes from the Old Norse 'ves heill'--to be of good health. This evolved into the traditon of visiting neighbors on Christmas Eve and drinking to their health. Dutch children stuffed wooden shoes with straw for St. Nicholas' donkey. According to tradition, after feeding the straw to his donkey, Nicholas thanked the children by putting a treat in each shoe. There is a seven-letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters--'therein': the, there, the,in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein. John Calhoun was the first United States Vice President to resign in 1832, due to differences with President Jackson. The chartered jet Pope John Paul II used during his 1999 U.S. visit was dubbed 'Shepherd One'. The rubber heel was patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan on January 24, 1899. The world's first college course about radio personality Rush Limbaugh is taught at Bellevue University in Nebraska. You would have to drink 100 cups of coffee in four hours to get the lethal dose of caffeine--ten grams. The first English Parliament was called into session by the Earl of Leicester on January 20, 1265. The first recorded UFO sighting in America occurred on January 18, 1644--by pilgrims in Boston! President Clinton's first automobile was a 'Henry J.' 'Hurricane' was taken from the Caribbean HURAKAN, derived from hura (wind). It may also have come from the name of the Mayan god of winds, HUNRAKEN. The trains that pass through Chicago's underground freight tunnels daily would extend over ten miles total in length. The extra rear-window safety brake light on automobiles was first proposed by Elizabeth Dole. Conception occurs more often in December than any other month. The Alfred Hitchcock thriller 'Psycho' originally had a working title of 'Wimpy'. The shape of plant collenchyma cells and the shape of the bubbles in beer foam are the same - they are orthotetrachidecahedrons. 'Lip-Smacking Good: A San Francisco Chronicle feature alerted readers to the problem of people addicted to lip balm, especially Chapstick Brand. According to one addict who studied the problem, Chapstick ingredients fuse with the skin, requiring constant reuse. Another source cited a better nonaddictive lip balm: a person's own nose oil, which is reported to have been used by watchmakers for years to lubricate tiny gears.' The bagpipe was originally made from the whole skin of a dead sheep. About 54% of americans consider themselves fans of Star Trek. Not trekkies, just fans. Even though it is widely attributed to him Shakespeare never actually used the word 'gadzooks'. In the original story, Cinderella's slippers were made out of fur, they were changed to glass in the 1600's by a translator not only was the slipper made of fur but the evil stepsisters cut off their toes in order to try and fit their feet into the slipper. Jaques Edwin Bradenberger invented cellophane in 1908 'The Roosevelt Bears' is the only comic strip to ever run in the New York Times The Jordanian city of Amman was once named Philadelphia Shakespeare stole the line 'Love is blind' from Geoffrey Chaucer The Granny Smith apple originated in 1869 when Maria Ann Smith planted seeds rotting in a gin barrel in New South Wales, Australia
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