| "Sum Unknown Facts"
*Smoking is good for you! 100% of all non smokers die!* *More monopoly money is printed in a year in the USoA than real money!* *There are ten million bricks in the empire state building!* *The average human being will eat 8 spiders while sleeping in his/her lifetime!* *There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee. Of these, only 26 have been tested, and half-caused cancer in rats.* *Giraffes can not produce sound.* *The first item to have a barcode was Wrigley's gum.* *All Polar Bears Are Left-Handed.* *If you were to count 24 hours a day it would take you 31,688 years to reach one trillion* *"Go hang a salami I'm a lasagna hog." spelled backwards is "Go hang a salami I'm a lasagna hog."* *The scientific name for the common cold is acute nasopharyngitis.* *The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.* *111,111,111 X 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321* *Arachibutyrophobia is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.* *Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!* *More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.* *The first one-hundred digits of pi are: 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939 9375105820974944592307816406286208998628034825342117067* *The chances that a burglary will be solved in the U.S. is one in seven.* *No known species of rendeer can fly. But there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not completely rule out flying reindeer which only Santa has ever seen. *Bulgaria was the only soccer team in the 1994 World Cup in which all 11 players' last names ended with the letters "OV" *In 1740 a football match was held at Kettering in Northamptonshire with 500 men on each side.* *Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool! He changed it every 2 innings!* *The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!* *Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie!* *Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight!* *The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokai- whenuakitanatahu--a New Zealand hill.* *The only nation whose name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan.* *You can call it England, Britain, Great Britain, United Kingdom, or U.K. - however if you buy a stamp there, you won't find any name. England was the first country in the world to issue postage stamps, and they'are the only nation in the world today that doesn't use a national name on their stamps* *The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.* *Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds.* *Every single continent begins with the same letter that it ends with *
*Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.* *The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.* *More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.* *Women blink nearly twice as much as men.* *Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."* *According to tests made at the Institute for the Study of Animal Problems in Washington, D.C., dogs and cats, like people, are either right-handed or left-handed --- that is, they favor either their right or left paws.* *A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can.* *Blue whales weigh as much as 30 elephants and are as long as 3 Greyhound buses. *Crocodiles and alligators are surprisingly fast on land. Although they are rapid, they are not agile; so if you ever find yourself chased by one, run in a zigzag line. You'll lose him or her every time. *Birds do not sleep in their nests. They may occasionally nap in them, but they actually sleep in other places. *Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of the blue whale. *Butterflies taste with their hind feet. *Only female mosquitoes bite. *Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other color. *If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. *Every night, wasps bite into the stem of a plant, lock their mandibles (jaws) into position, stretch out at right angles to the stem, and, with legs dangling, fall asleep. *Ants stretch when they wake up. They also appear to yawn in a very human manner before taking up the tasks of the day. *Bees have 5 eyes. There are 3 small eyes on the top of a bee's head and 2 larger ones in front. *The outdoor temperature can be estimated to within several degrees by timing the chirps of a cricket. It is done this way: count the number of chirps in a 15-second period, and add 37 to the total. The result will be very close to the actual Fahrenheit temperature. This formula, however, only works in warm weather. (Try it!) The original game of "Monopoly" was circular. *It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World. *One-fourth of the world's population lives on less than $200 a year. Ninety million people survive on less than $75 a year. *The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language. *The word 'racecar' and 'kayak' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left. * "TYPEWRITER", is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard. * Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words. A snail can sleep for 3 years. | 
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