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Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet. Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning. "Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH". Pearls melt in vinegar. The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise. A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brothers first flight. The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache. Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television. No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times. The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma. Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush. Back in the mid to late 80s, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsofts Flight Simulator. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them. Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher. An old law in Bellingham, Wash., made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying! 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 than 100 years before either moon was discovered. Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola. There are four cars and eleven lightposts on the back of a $10 dollar bill. The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver! There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos. The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine. 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. During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance. ("You know about the three myths about the chariot race, don't you?" Heston asks. "The first myth says that a red car is visible; the second says that a man was killed, and the third is that I'm wearing a wristwatch." All false, according to the man who was there. "Even if I was wearing a wristwatch, you couldn't see it because of the leather arm bands I had on.") 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top. The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had. The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver". When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per year. Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing! Most lipstick contains fish scales! It is impossible to lick your elbow Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar. There are currently more $100 bills in Russia then there are in the United States. It's against the law in Chicago to eat in a place that is on fire. Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles per hour. 13 people each year are killed by Vending Machine's falling on them It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk. More than 2500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products. If you attempted to count to stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all. In 1933, Mickey Mouse, an animated cartoon character, received 800,000 fan letters. One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children. At - 40 degrees Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing. Odds of being killed in a tornado- 1 in 2 million. "Formicophilia" is the fetish for having small insects crawl on your genitals. It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis! 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. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants. | posted by merc, 3:28 AM