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Little Known Facts About The World
The average driving/car-bus riding person
spends about 3 months of their life at a red
light.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the
typing.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both
eyes.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in
New Jersey.
The longest one-syllable word in the English
language is "screeched."
On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying
over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp
Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
No word in the English language rhymes with
month, orange, silver or purple.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that
ends in the letters "mt."
All 50 states are listed across the top of the
Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room
during a dance.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one
syllable.
There are only four words in the English language
which end in "dous": tremendous,
horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de
Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de
Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63%
of its size: L.A.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
In most advertisements, including newspapers, the
time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used
furniture dealer.
The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy
Ross.
When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play
football at home, the stadium becomes the state's
third largest city.
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street
were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi
driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful
Life."
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
On an American one dollar bill, there is an owl
in the upper left-hand corner of the
"1" encased in the "shield"
and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand
corner.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the
world.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not
allowed to speak.
The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz"
was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum,
looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and
O-Z, hence "Oz."
The microwave was invented after a researcher
walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted
in his pocket.
Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma
Pickles.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word that
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