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.....Almost 100,000 kids in the United States bring guns to school DAILY...

... Footprints of astronauts who landed on the moon are expected to last at least 10 million years

...Everyday, 15 billion cigarettes are smoked worldwide.

....More than 40,000 parasites and 250 types of bacteria are exchanged during a typical French kiss

....The bedroom is the most common place for love making, and the car is second


....The energy of a discharge of an electric eel could start 50 cars.


.....Earthworms have five hearts

.....The Yo-Yo originated as a weapon in the Philippine Islands during the sixteenth century....

....In 1956, 80% of all U.S. households had a refrigerator, but only 8% of British households had one.


....Toyota's President and C.E.O. is Akio Toyoda

.......Diet Pepsi was introduced as Patio Diet Cola in 1963. After positive reviews, it was re-introduced as Diet Pepsi in 1964

.......More than 90% of plane crashes have survivors.

....Honeybees never sleep.

.....Eagles mate in mid air.

....San Jose was the original capital of California.

....All swans in England are the property of the queen or king.

....In Germany, an official approval is needed before a new born is named

.... One California law states that sunshine is guaranteed to all people

....2,520 can be divided by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 without having a fractional leftover.

....Orgies were originally religious events. They were originally offerings to the gods.

In ancient Egypt, priests plucked every hair from their bodies

...People who chase after rare birds are called twitchers.

....There are more pyramids in Peru than in Egypt.

....In Korea and other East Asian countries, the age of the person is counted from conception and not physical birth

....Coffee beans aren't beans; they are fruit pits.

....The world record for time without sleep is 264 hours (11 days) by Randy Gardner in 1965

....Sharks lay the biggest eggs in the world.

....During the Gold Rush in 1849, some people paid as much as $100 for a glass of water.

....Red wine will spoil if exposed to light; hence tinted bottles.

...The French tickler was invented by a Tibetan monk.

.... A snail can slide over a razor blade without being hurt by producing slime that helps it slide harmlessly

....Any free moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere, because of its surface tension

....If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white

....Before toilet paper was invented, French royalty wiped their bottoms with fine linen.

....India has never invaded a country.

...There are no cemeteries in San Francisco, CA.

....It is now possible to print human skin with an inkjet printer

.....All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south, nobody knows why

........A 100-pound person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars

.........Youtube hosts 40% of all videos on the internet

.........Malaysians protect their babies from disease by bathing them in beer

....Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year.

....In Haiti, only 1 out of every 200 people own a car.

......1 millenium = 3,153,600,000 seconds.

.......Babies cry but they don't produce tears until one to three months after birth.

.....A person swallows approximately 300 times while eating dinner

......The word 'News' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South

Wearing yellow makes you look bigger on camera; green, smaller.

........There are no rental cars in Bermuda.

....There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.

......SONY was originally called Totsuken.

....In 2003, the U.S. Government spent about $2,000,000.00 on potato research.

......25% of your bones are located in your feet.

.....Donkeys are commonly used by the Iraqi Military to launch rockets

.........Vultures can fly for 6 hours without flapping their wings.

..........In Ancient Rome only important people wore purple clothes.

..........The longest recorded swim was 2938 km down the Mississippi River in 1930. The swimmer spent 742 hours in the water.

..........The world's largest recorded gathering of people was at a Hindu religious festival in India in 1989. 15 million people.

......The world's largest palace has 1788 rooms. It was built for the Sultan of Brunei.

...The first bomb the Allies dropped on Berlin in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

.......J.K. Rowling is wealthier then the Queen of England

......Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their first cousins

.......Bamboo can grow at a rate of 3 feet per day


...........A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!