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The average kindergartner laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs 17 times a day. To the best of my knowledge no one has ever actually busted a rib from laughing. A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, In. Nearly 1/3 of U.S. women color their hair. "Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo. Approximately 40% of dog and cat owners carry pictures of their pets in their wallets. In Norfolk, Virginia, it is unlawful for chickens to lay eggs before 8AM and after 4PM. 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles. Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there. The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma. American car horns beep in the tone of F. No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times. Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes. 1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television. It is illegal to take a bath on any night other than Saturday in Barre, Vermont. The United States of America spent somewhere around $250 million to develop a pen so astronauts could write in space. A regular ball point pen would not work do to the lack of gravity. The Soviet Union faced with the same problem, used a pencil. "The Ten Commandments contain 297 words. The Bill of Rights is stated in 463 words. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address contains 266 words. A recent federal directive to regulate the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words." --Atlanta Journal The average square inch of skin holds 650 sweat glands, 20 blood vessels, 60,000 melanocytes, and during the summer months, six or seven mosquito bites. The name Coca-Cola in China was first rendered as Ke-kou-ke-la. Unfortunately, the Coke company did not discover until after thousands of signs had been printed that the phrase means 'bite the wax tadpole' or 'female horse stuffed with wax' debending on the dialect. Coke then researched 40,000 Chinese characters and found a close phonetic equivalent, 'ko-kou-ko-le' which can be loosely translated as 'happiness in the mouth'. Axtec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant 'plenty of excrement'. 50% of men say they are happier after their divorce or separation. The modern toilet was invented by John Crapper. A person standing under an oak tree is 16 more times liable to be hit by lightning than if he had taken refuge beneath a beech tree. The oak tree has vertical roots which provide a more direct route to ground water. Speaking of Oak trees, they do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum. The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA." The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets. The name of the dog on a box of Cracker Jacks is Bingo An ear of corn almost always has an even number of rows (twelve, fourteen, or sixteen). You have to count all the way to one thousand before the letter "a" is used in spelling a number. Richard Milhouse Nixon was the first US President whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal". William Jefferson Clinton is the 2nd. |
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