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1. The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 BC.
2.  When you hear a bullwhip snap, it’s because the tip is traveling faster than the speed of sound.
3.  Hair is made from the same substance as fingernails.
4.  The ZIP in “ZIP code” means Zoning Improvement Plan.
5.  ‘Obsession’ is the most popular boat name.
6.  The first toilet ever seen on television was on “Leave It to Beaver.”
7.  Hawaii is moving toward Japan 4 inches every year.
8. Your brain uses up about 20% of all your body’s oxygen and calories.
9. Every year 56,000,000 people attend major league baseball games.
10. A full 7% of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness beer.
11. During your lifetime, you’ll eat about 60,000 pounds of food. That’s the weight of about 6 elephants.
12.  The least used letter in the alphabet is Q.
13.  26 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill,
14. The word “lethologica” describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
15. A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.
16.  Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
17. The busiest shopping hour of the holiday season is between 3-4 p.m. on Christmas Eve.
18.  Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
19. Al Gore’s roommate in college (Harvard, class of 1969) was Tommy Lee Jones.
20. The average person laughs 10 times a day.
21. Americans travel 1,144,721,000 miles by air every day.
22. More people use blue toothbrushes than red ones.
23. A group of frogs is called an army.
24. The parachute was invented by Leonardo da Vinci in 1515.
25. 72% of Americans sign their pets’ names on greeting cards they send out.
26. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
27. All major league baseball umpires must wear black underwear while on the job in case their pants split.
28. Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
29. The average American butt is 14.9 inches long.
30. A perfect SAT score is 1600 combined.
31. Bill Gates scored 1590 on his SAT. Paul Allen, Bill’s partner at Microsoft, scored a perfect 1600.
32. Bill Cosby scored less than 500 combined.
33. Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the U.S. Treasury.
34. Blondes have more hair than dark-haired people do.
35. It is unlikely that a person could actually die in quicksand, since most quicksand is only a few inches deep
36.  There are 31,557,600 seconds in a year.
37. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
38. There is a company that will (for $14,000) take your ashes and compress them into a synthetic diamond to be set in jewelry for a loved one.
39.  Goldfish can see both infrared and ultraviolet light.
40.  A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
41. 60 Minutes on CBS is the only TV show to not have a theme song or music.
42. Costco is the largest wine retailer in the United States. Annual wine sales are about $700 million
43. California consumes more bottled water than any other product.
44.  The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Born in the USA’
45. When three-letter airport codes became standard, airports that had been using two letters simply added an X.
46. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
47. Nintendo was founded in 1889.
48. The average child recognizes over 200 company logos by the time he enters first grade.
49. 1 googol is the number 1 followed by 100 zeros.
50. A rainbow can be seen only in the morning or late afternoon. It can occur only when the sun is 40 degrees or less above the horizon.
51.  The number one tire manufacturer in the world? LEGO.
52. President Lincoln’s dog Fido was also assassinated.
53. The words ‘racecar’, ‘kayak’ and ‘level’ are palindromes. They read the same whether you read them left to right or right to left.
54. A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
55. The “pound” key on your keyboard (#) is called an octotrophe.
56. Cows don’t have upper front teeth.
57.  They have square watermelons in Japan – they stack better.
58. Frogs don’t drink (they absorb water through their skin).
59. Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of the blue whale.
60. The word “Checkmate” in chess comes from the Persian phrase “Shah Mat,” which means “the king is dead.”
61. Most American car horns honk in the key of F.
62. Seven percent of Americans claim they never bathe at all.
63. Most collect calls are made on Father’s Day.

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