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· Only 4% of babies are born on their actual due date
· Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined
· Construction on the Leaning Tower of Pisa began on August 9th, 1173
· McDonald’s is the world’s largest distributor of toys
· Macadamia nuts are not sold in their shells because it takes 300 pounds per square inch of pressure to break the shell
· The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish and Portuguese.
· A group of crows is called a murder
· In Bromide, Oklahoma it is illegal for children to use towels as capes and jump from houses pretending to be superman.
· Wild Flamingos are pink because they consume vast quantities of algae and brine shrimp
· The only state allowed to fly its flag at the same height as the U.S. flag is Texas.
· Finland is also known as the land of of the thousand lakes, because of the over 188,000 lakes found in this country
· President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.
· Southbridge, Massachusetts, makes it illegal to read books or newspapers after 8 p.m. in the streets.
· Coffee was first known in Europe as Arabian Wine.
· Infants spend more time dreaming than adults do
· The largest cockroach on record is one measured at 3.81 inches in length.
· In Tennessee it is illegal to use a lasso to catch fish.
· Humphrey O’Sullivan invented the rubber heel because he was tired of pounding the pavements of Boston looking for a job.
· A Michigan law states that a wife’s hair legally belongs to her husband.
· Turkeys drown in the rain.
· An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.
· When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home to a sellout crowd, the stadium becomes the state’s third largest city.
· In 1930, the heaviest a female flight attendant could be was 115 pounds. They also had to be unmarried nurses.
· The height of the Eiffel Tower in France varies, depending on the temperature, by as much as 6 inches.
· The Statue of Liberty’s mouth is 3 feet wide.
· In New Hampshire it is illegal to inhale bus fumes with the intent of inducing euphoria.
· Stamp collecting is the most popular hobby in the world.
· During the Gold Rush in 1849, some people paid as much as $100 for a glass of water.
· There are 2,320 Navy SEALs.
· The only President in office to weigh less than 100 pounds was James Madison.
· A citizen of Calcutta, India , grew the fingernails on his left hand to a length of 76 inches.
· In 1977, George Willig was fined $1.10 for climbing the World Trade Center building.
· You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath.
· In the U.S. there are approximately 65.8 million cats
· If Texas were a country it’s GNP would be fifth largest of any country on earth.
· Happy Birthday was the first song to be performed in outer space, sung by the Apollo IX astronauts on March 8, 1969.
· The steepest street in the world is Baldwin Street located in Dunedin, New Zealand. It has an incline of 38%
· In South Carolina you can be fined for not denouncing the evils of intemperance on the fourth Friday of every October.
· Baseball’s home plate is 17 inches wide.
· About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they’re still sitting on it.
· A grasshopper needs a minimum temperature of 62 degrees Fahrenheit in order to be able to hop.
· There is no solid proof of who built the Taj Mahal.
· This is why John Hertz, who is the founder of the Yellow Cab Company picked cabs to be yellow
· In a study that was done by the University of Chicago in 1907, it was concluded that the easiest color to spot is yellow.
· The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
· In Brandon, Mississipi it is illegal to attempt to stop someone from walking down the sidewalk by parking a motorhome in their path.
· In the Scottish Hebrides, an island is defined as being an island only if it is big enough to sustain 1 sheep.
· In Oregon anyone with a bad reputation is prohibited from distributing malt beverages.
· The odds against a royal flush in poker are exactly 649,739 to 1.
· In Arizona, you cannot Drive past the same place more then 3 times in one hour. Its a law.
· Before 1917, goalies in hockey were not allowed to fall to the ice to make saves or else they were penalized.
· Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
· In Pakistan, goats are often sacrificed to improve the performance of the stock market.
· Pixie, a Siberian Husky, gave birth to 7 puppies, one of which was bright green
· In 1985, a pregnant women was falsely accused of shoplifting a basketball
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If the earth were to become totally flat and the oceans distributed themselves evenly over the planet's surface, the water would be approximately two miles deep at every point.
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Horses are forbidden to eat fire hydrants in Marshalltown, Iowa.
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If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. (Now that's more like it!)
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