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1. The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
2. There wasn’t a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses.
3. You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.
4. Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe.
5. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
6. The verb “cleave” is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
7. An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
8. Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.
9. Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln’s assassin John Wilkes Booth… and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, “His name is Mudd.”
10. Cleo and Caesar were the early stage names of Cher and Sonny Bono.

1. It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot.
2. Money isn’t made out of paper, it’s made out of cotton.
3. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
4. Polar Bears trying to blend in with the ice will sometimes cover up their black nose with their paws.
5. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
6. Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
7. The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice.
8. The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
9. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
10. The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.

1. 166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the U.S.
2. 7% of Americans don’t know the first 9 words of the American anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem.
3. A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.
4. A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!
5. All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
6. All porcupines float in water.
7. Almonds are a member of the peach family.
8. Cats can produce over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs can only produce about ten.
9. If you bring a raccoon’s head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town hall, you are entitled to receive $.10 from the town.
10. If your eyes are six feet above the surface of the ocean, the horizon will be about three statute miles away.

1. The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
2. The first toilet ever seen on television was on “Leave It To Beaver.”
3. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
4. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
5. Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
6. Over 1000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
7. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
8. Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much as President Bush in 1991.
9. It takes a lobster approximately seven years to grow to be one pound.
10. In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can’t flow.

1. Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn’t added until 5 years later.
2. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
3. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
4. Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
5. Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at the same height as the U.S. flag.
6. The average American drinks about 600 sodas a year.
7. “Stewardesses” is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
8. The band Duran Duran got their name from an astronaut in the 1968 Jane Fonda movie “Barbarella.
9. The elephant is the only mammal that can’t jump.
10. The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.

1. Lee Harvey Oswald’s cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.
2. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
3. Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
4. The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland’s baby daughter, Ruth.
5. The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
6. The saying “it’s so cold out there it could freeze the balls off a brass monkey” came from when they had old cannons like ones used in the Civil War. The cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid formation, called a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold outside they would crack and break off… thus the saying.
7. The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in Jello.
8. The word “samba” means “to rub navels together.”
9. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
10. 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.

1. A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 mph.
2. A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
3. A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
4. A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second
5. In Kentucky, 50 percent of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.
6. In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons.
7. Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different.
8. Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
9. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
10. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.

1. 160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world’s widest road.
2. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
3. 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don’t die throughout the movie.
4. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
5. A jellyfish is 95 percent water.
6. A fully loaded supertanker travelling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
7. America’s first nudist organization was founded in 1929, by 3 men.
8. Almost a quarter of the land area of Los Angeles is taken up by automobiles.
9. About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.
10. All of the clocks in the movie “Pulp Fiction” are stuck on 4:20.

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1. In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
2. In England, in the 1880’s, “Pants” were considered a dirty word.
3. In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals.
4. It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland.
5. It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach’s contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
6. It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland.
7. Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright’s son.
8. More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
9. More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones.
10. Mosquitoes have teeth.

1. It’s against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska.
2. Most Americans’ car horns beep in the key of F.
3. It’s against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.
4. It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (Don’t try this at home!)
5. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
6. The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.
7. The combination “ough” can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: “A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.”
8. The condom - made originally of linen - was invented in the early 1500s.
9. The company providing the liability insurance for the Republican National Convention in San Diego is the same firm that insured the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic.
10. 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”.