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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".
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7. The giant crab of Japan can be as large as 12 feet across.
8. The Dead Sea has been sinking for the last several years
9. To take an oath, ancient Romans put a hand on their testicles? that?s where the word? testimony? comes from.
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. In the movie "The Matrix Reloaded" a 14-minute battle scene cost over $40 million to produce.
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13. Did you know the odds of being struck by lightning is 280,000 to 1?
14. The ruby-throated hummingbird moves its wings at a rate of 200 wing beats per second.
15. The city of Seoul has been the capital city of Korea for more than 600 years
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16. 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.
17. Wrigley's gum was the first product to have a bar code on the packaging.
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18. 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.
19. 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.
20. 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.
21. During one four-year period, Thomas Edison obtained 300 patents, or one every five days.
22. There is a type of parrot in New Zealand that likes to eat the rubber strips that line car windows.
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23. Did you know if you filled a matchbox with gold it could be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court?
24. The first field hockey club was created in 1849 at Blackheath in south-east London.
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25. On average, a strawberry has 200 seeds on it
26. 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.
27. Great Britain was the first country to issue stamps in 1840.
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28. Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt are the four US presidents whose faces are carved on Mt. Rushmore.
29. Stalin's left foot had webbed toes, and his left arm is noticeably shorter than his right.
30. 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
31. A koala's appendix is about 2 meters long.
32. Did you know there are over 900,000 known species of insects?
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33. There are no blossoms on the branches of a fig tree, instead it is inside the fruit
34. Every year approximately 2,500 left-handed people are killed by using object or machinery designed for right-handed people
35. The porpoise is second to man as the most intelligent animal on the planet.
36. 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.
37. A crocodile can run up to a speed of 11 miles per hour
Unbelievable Facts
38. The Red Cross is called the Red Crescent in Arab countries.
39. The soldiers of World War I was the first people to use the modern flushing toilet. The inventor: Thomas Crapper.
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