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1. The average American kid will eat approximately 1.500 peanut butter sandwiches by high school graduation
2. Richard F. has pointed out possible inaccuracies with the trivia for December 16th and January 1st. For this reason, I have decided to pull them.
3. Did you know ichthyophobia is the fear of fish?
4. In 1937 the emergency 999 telephone service was established in London. More than 13,000 genuine calls were made in the first month.
5. Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
6. Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th".
7. The giant crab of Japan can be as large as 12 feet across.
8. To take an oath, ancient Romans put a hand on their testicles?that?s where the word ?testimony? comes from.
9. The Dead Sea has been sinking for last several years
10. Other members of the arachnid family include scorpions, mites, ticks and harvestmen.
11. English sailors were referred to as "limeys" because sailors added lime juice to their diet to combat scurvy
12. The first field hockey club was created in 1849 at Blackheath in south-east London.
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13. The term 'bug', when referring to computers or software, dates back to when computers were huge, hulking machines that took up entire rooms. Moths and other flying insects would wander into the machinery and get caught in sensitive parts, causing errors.
14. Johnny Depp is afraid of clowns.
15. The Red Cross is called the Red Crescent in Arab countries.
16. The soldiers of World War I were the first people to use the modern flushing toilet. The inventor: Thomas Crapper.
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17. In the movie "The Matrix Reloaded" a 14 minute battle scene cost over $40 million to produce.
18. Did you know the odds of being stuck by lighting is 280,000 to 1?
19. The ruby-throated humming bird moves its wings at a rate of 200 wing beats per second.
20. The city of Seoul has been the capital city of Korea for more than 600 years
21. Nobody is buried in Grant's tomb. President & Mrs. Grant are entombed there. A body is buried only when it is placed in the ground and covered with dirt.
22. Wrigley's gum was the first product to have a bar code on the packaging.
23. If hot water is suddenly poured into a glass that glass is more apt to break if it is thick than if it is thin. This is why test tubes are made of thin glass.
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24. If hot water is suddenly poured into a glass that glass is more apt to break if it is thick than if it is thin. This is why test tubes are made of thin glass.
25. Chicago's Lincoln Park was created in 1864. The original 120 acre cemetery had most of its graves removed and was expanded to more than 1000 acres for recreational use.
26. Until 1893, lynching was legal in the United States. The first anti-lynching law was passed in Georgia, but it only made the violation punishable by four years in prison.
27. Mr. Boddy is the murder victim in the game "Clue."
28. During one four-year period, Thomas Edison obtained 300 patents, or one every five days.
29. There is a type of parrot in New Zealand that likes to eat the rubber strips that line car windows.
30. Did you know if you filled a matchbox with gold it could be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court?
31. The largest breed of rabbit is the Flemish Giant.
32. Tuna can swim at speeds of up to 70 kph (43 mph).
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33. The Marine Crops were originally a branch of the British army in the American colonies. The corps was organized in 1740 in New York and was incorporated into the United States military after the revolution.
34. In Disney's "Fantasia", the Sorcerer's name is "Yensid" (Disney backwards.)
35. According to the U.S. Bureau of the Census, the most common job in the United States in the 1890s was a farmer. Today, it’s a salesman.
36. An apple, potato, and onion all taste the same if you eat them with your nose plugged. They all taste sweet
37. Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
38. Did you know the spikes of a newborn hedgehog begin to appear within 24 hours?
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39. All snow crystals are hexagonal.
40. Toronto’s original name was York, but it had another name long before that. The area near the shores of Lake Ontario was called "the meeting place" by the Ojibway of Southern Ontario. Their word: Toronto.
41. Joseph Priestly is credited with discovering oxygen, ammonia, carbon monoxide, hydrogen chloride, sulphur dioxide, and nitrous oxide. He was also the first to isolate chlorine.
42. Longest officially recognized place name is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu.
43. Did you know there are over 900 species of bats?
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44. Humans help train various dog breeds to enter in competitions such as breed shows, agility and obedience contests, racing and sled pulling.
45. The phrase "Often a bridesmaid, but never a bride," actually originates from an advertisement for Listerine mouthwash from 1924.
46. In 1964, Sandy Koufax, Elstom Howard, Jimmy Brown, Oscar Robertson, and Cookie Gilchrist were all voted MVP from their respected (MLB, NFL, NBA) leagues. Each of them wore the number 32.
47. The king of hearts is the only king in a deck of cards without a mustache.
48. According to an Old English system of time units, a moment is considered to be one and a half minutes.
49. About 85% or product warning labels on household products are inadequate
50. There is no mention of Adam and Eve eating an apple in the Bible.
51. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
52. The Vatican's Swiss Guard still wears a uniform designed by Michelangelo in the early 16th century.
53. The name “pumpernickel” was coined by Napoleon's troops during the Napoleonic Wars. His men complained that although they were often poorly fed, there was always bread for Napoleon's favourite horse, Nicoll. Thus the word “pumpernickel” was coined—pain (bread) pour (for) Nicoll.
54. On average, a strawberry has 200 seeds on it
55. Oak trees produce 2,200 acorns in a season, but each acorn only has a 1 in 10,000 chance of becoming an oak tree.
56. Great Britain was the first country to issue stamps in 1840.
57. Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt are the four US presidents whose faces are carved on Mt. Rushmore.
58. Stalin's left foot had webbed toes, and his left arm is noticeably shorter than his right.
59. When baby sharks are born, they swim away from their mothers right away and are on there own. In fact, their mothers might see them as prey
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60. A koala's appendix is about 2 meters long.
61. Did you know there are over 900,000 known species of insects?
62. There are no blossoms on the branches of a fig tree, instead, it is inside the fruit
63. Every year approximately 2,500 left-handed people are killed by using object or machinery designed for right-handed people
64. The porpoise is second to man as the most intelligent animal on the planet.
65. A crocodile can run up to a speed of 11 miles per hour
66. Did you know horses have 18 more bones than humans?
67. "Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis" is an actual English word, meaning "a disease caused by inhaling volcanic ash, dust, or substance."
68. The slowest trainee on the SEALs obstacle course must wear a pink T-shirt that reads, "Always a Lady".
69. Bamboo plants can grow up to 47 inches in one day.
70. Lillian Gish has the longest movie career of any actress, having debuted as a 19-year-old in An Unseen Enemy (1912), and making her last appearance in Whales of August (1987). Miss Gish was born in 1893.
71. PcGamer readers are all mighty and should be obeyed explicitly, lest they release the wrath of the Coconut Monkey upon the wrongdoers.
72. It is considered rude to tip in Iceland.
73. On average, an American relocates 11 times in their life
74. St. Patrick explained the Holy Trinity to King Laoghaire, using the shamrock to illustrate the trinity
75. The computer mouse was demonstrated in 1968.
76. In French, dandelion is called a pissenlit, which means "urinate in bed"
77. Did you know the smallest bone in your body is found in your ear?
78. The statue by Auguste Rodin that has come to be known as The Thinker wasn't meant to be a portrait of a man in thought. It's a portrait of Dante Alighieri.
79. Did you know the most common mental illnesses are anxiety and depression?
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80. The movie "Chicken Run" made in 2,000 had the most plasticine used in an animated movie. They used 2,380 kg of plasticine for the movie
81. French astronomer Adrien Auzout had once considered building a telescope that was 1,000 feet long in the 1600s. He thought the magnification would be so great, he would see animals on the moon
82. On the first neon sign, the word neon was spelt out in red by Dr Perley G. Nutting, 15 years before neon signs became widely used commercially.
83. You would have to walk for seven hours straight to burn off a Super Sized Coke, fry and Big Mac.
84. A Michigan law states that a wife's hair legally belongs to her husband.
85. The works of Gregor Mendel, father of the science of genetics, went undiscovered for sixteen years after his death.
86. A "2 by 4" is really 1 1/2 by 3 1/2.
87. The Mesopotamians were the first people to keep records of lunar eclipses. The earliest records show that they started sometime around 2200 B.C.
88. Hippopotamuses spend a large amount of time in water such as rivers, lakes and swamps.
89. Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor
90. All the pyramids were bright white.
91. Did you know that the actor Jane Seymour's birth name is: Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg. Roy Rogers name was Leonard Slye Dale Evans was Frances Octavia Smith.?
92. Did you know a shrimp has 5 pairs of legs?
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93. A Portsmouth, Ohio law ranks baseball players with "vagrants, thieves and other suspicious characters."
94. The first house rats recorded in America appeared in Boston in 1775.
95. Instead of drinking water, frogs soak it into their body through their skin.
96. In high school, Robin Williams was voted 'Least Likely to Succeed.'
97. Every continent begins and ends in the same letter. eg Africa, Europe
98. The grooves on monster truck tires are often hand-carved, in some cases, it may take two full days to prepare one.
99. Mary Queen of Scots was a skilful billiards player
100. The waffle iron was invented on August 24, 1869.
101. Probably the best known multiple meaning is the Hebrew word "SHALOM" which means, alternately, "hello", "good-bye", and "peace"
102. "You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy." Erica Jong
103. Did you know the flag for Libya is unlike any other being a solid green colour?
104. Dynamite contains peanuts.
105. The most popular treatment for Halloween trick-or-treaters are candy bars with Snickers being the most popular
106. In the late 19th century the Supreme Court of the United States legally declared the tomato a vegetable.
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