| Iceland has no railway system or army! |
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| To sell your home faster, and for more money, paint it yellow. |
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| Avocados are poisonous to birds. |
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| Cats make over 100 different vocal
sounds; dogs can make about ten. |
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| A baby octopus is about the size of a flea at birth. |
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| Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe! |
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Astronauts get taller when they are in space. |
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| Indoor pollution is 10 times more toxic than outdoor pollution. |
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| In what country will you find the most Universities? India. |
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| Tablecloths were originally meant to serve as towels with which guests could wipe their hands and faces
after dinner. |
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| The venom of
a small scorpion is much more toxic than the venom of a large scorpion. |
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| People that suffer from gum disease are twice as likely to have a
stroke or heart attack. |
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| Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper. |
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| One percent of Greenland's population lives in a single apartment building! |
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| Warren Beatty once worked as a rat-catcher! |
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| Vultures
fly without flapping their wings. |
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| The state sport of Maryland is Jousting. |
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| The best time for a person to buy
shoes is in the afternoon. This is because the foot tends to swell a bit around this time. |
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| The Bible is the
most-shoplifted book in the world. |
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| The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually
indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene. |
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| Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes. |
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| Kite flying is a professional sport in Thailand. |
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| Perspiration is odorless; it is the bacteria on the skin that creates an odor. |
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| In Florida, It
is illegal to sing in a public place while attired in a swimsuit. |
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| A shrimp's heart is in its
head. |
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| A blue whale's heart is the size of a Volkswagen Beetle! |
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| Lake Nicaragua in Nicaragua is the only fresh water lake in the world that has sharks. |
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| There was no
punctuation until the 15th century. |
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| The Dallas/Ft. Worth airport is larger than New York City's Manhattan Island. |
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| In Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift described the two moons
of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did this more that a hundred years before
either moon was discovered! |
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| More people in China speak English than in the United States. |
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| Senegalese women spend an average of 17.5 hours a week just collecting water. |
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| Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second. |
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| The average coach airline meal costs the airline $4.00. The average
first class meal: $50. |
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| Americans are responsible for generating roughly 20%
percent of the garbage in the world. |
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| The average office desk has 400 times
more bacteria than a toilet. |
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| The city of Las Vegas has the
most hotel rooms in the world. |
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| Linen is actually stronger when wet. |
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| It is now possible to print human skin with an inkjet printer! |
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| While 7 men in 100 have some form of color blindness, only 1 woman in
1,000 suffers from it. |
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| 15 million gallons of
wine were destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. |
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| Up to the age of six or seven months a child can breathe and swallow at the same time. An adult cannot
do this. |
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| 35% of the people using personal
ads for dating are already married! |
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| Neanderthal man had a brain capcity 100cc larger than modern man's. |
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| Marlboro cigarettes sold in New York contain more tar and nicotine
than those sold in all other states! |
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| In Brazil, Christmas is celebrated with fireworks. |
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| Only two in one thousand diamonds are considered truly
colorless. |
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| On average women can hear better than men. |
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| If you shake a can of mixed nuts, the larger ones will rise
to the top. |
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| Fine-grained volcanic ash can be found as an
ingredient in some toothpastes. |
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