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Look at your
zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for
Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's
largest zipper manufacturer. |
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40 percent of McDonald's
profits come from the sales of Happy Meals. |
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315 entries in Webster's 1996
Dictionary were misspelled. |
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On the average, 12 newborns
will be given to the wrong parents daily. |
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Chocolate kills dogs! True,
chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous
system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small
sized dog. |
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Ketchup was sold in the 1830's
as a medicine. |
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Leonardo DA Vinci could write
with one hand and draw with the other at the
same time. |
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Because metal was scarce, the
Oscars given out during World War II were made
of wood. |
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There are no clocks in Las
Vegas gambling casinos. |
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Leonardo DA Vinci invented
scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint
Mona Lisa's lips. |
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Bruce Lee was so fast that they
actually had to slow a film down so you could
see his moves. That's the opposite of the
norm. |
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The original name for the
butterfly was "flutterby"! |
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By raising your legs slowly and
lying on your back, you can't sink in
quicksand. |
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Mosquito repellents don't
repel... They hide you. The spray blocks the
mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're
there. |
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Dentists recommend that a
toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from
a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting
from the flush. |
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The first product to have a bar
code was Wrigley's gum. |
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Michael Jordan makes more money
from Nike annually than the entire Nike
factory workers in Malaysia combined. |
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Marilyn Monroe had six toes on
one foot. |
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Adolf Hitler's mother seriously
considered having an abortion but was talked
out of it by her doctor. |
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The three most valuable brand
names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and
Budweiser, in that order. |
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To escape the grip of a
crocodile's jaws, prick your fingers into its
eyeballs. It will let you go instantly. |
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The average person falls asleep
in seven minutes. |
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The "pound" (#) key on your
keyboard is called an octothorp. |
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The only domestic animal not
mentioned in the Bible is the cat. |
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Rubber bands last longer when
refrigerated. |
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The average person's left hand
does 56% of the typing. |
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Dreamt" is the only word in the
English language that ends in "MT". |
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It's impossible to sneeze with
your eyes open. |
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In Chinese, the KFC slogan
"finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your
fingers off". |
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A cockroach can live for 10
days without a head.. |
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We shed 40 pounds of skin a
lifetime. |
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Yo-Yos were once used as
weapons in the Philippines |
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Mexico City sinks about 10
inches a year. |
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Brains are more active sleeping
than watching TV. |
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Blue is the favorite color of
80 percent of Americans. |
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When a person shakes their head
from side to side, he is saying "yes" in Sri
Lanka |
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There are more chickens than
people in the world. |
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The thumbnail grows the
slowest, and the middle nail grows the
fastest. |
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There are more telephones than
people in Washington , D.C. . |
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The average four year-old child
asks over four hundred questions a day. |
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The average person presses the
snooze button on their alarm clock three Times
each morning. |
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The three wealthiest families
in the world have more assets than the
Combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest
nations. |
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The first owner of the Marlboro
cigarette Company died of lung cancer. |
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Intelligent people have more
zinc and copper in their hair. |
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The world's youngest parents
were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910. |
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Our eyes remain the same size
from birth onward, but our noses and ears
Never stop growing. |
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You burn more calories sleeping
than you do watching TV. |
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A person will die from total
lack of sleep sooner than from starvation.
Death will occur about 10 days without sleep,
while starvation takes a Few weeks. |
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Chewing gum while peeling
onions will keep you from crying. |
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The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. |
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When the moon is directly
overhead, you weigh slightly less. |
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Alexander Graham Bell, the
inventor of the telephone, never telephoned
His wife or mother because they were both
deaf. |
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A psychology student in New
York rented out her spare room to a Carpenter
in order to nag him constantly and study his
reactions. After Weeks of needling, he snapped
and beat her repeatedly with an axe Leaving
her mentally retarded |
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"I am." is the shortest
complete sentence in the English language |
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Colgate faced a big obstacle
marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking
Countries because Colgate translates into the
command "go hang Yourself." |
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Like fingerprints, everyone's
tongue print is different. |
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"Bookkeeper" is the only word
in English language with three consecutive
Double letters. |
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Right handed people live, on
average, nine years longer than left handed
People do. |
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The sentence "the quick brown
fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every Letter
in the English language. |
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If the population of China
walked past you in single line, the line Would
never end because of the rate of reproduction |
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China has more English speakers
than the United States |
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Every human spent about half an
hour as a single cell. |
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Each square inch of human skin
consists of twenty feet of blood vessels. |
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An average person uses the
bathroom 6 times per day. |
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Babies are born with 300 bones,
but by adulthood we have only 206 in our
Bodies. |
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Beards are the fastest growing
hairs on the human body. If the average Man
never trimmed his beard, it would grow to
nearly 30 feet long in his Lifetime. |
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According to Genesis 1:20-22,
the chicken came before the egg. |
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The
longest place name still in use is:
Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi-
Pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu |
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a
New Zealand hill. |
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If you leave Tokyo by plane at
7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at
Approximately 4:30pm the previous day. |
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Scientists in Australia 's
Parkes Observatory thought they had positive
Proof of alien life, when they began picking
up radio-waves from space. However, after
investigation, the radio emissions were traced
to a Microwave in the building. |
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Wearing headphones for an hour
increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times. |
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More than 40,000 parasites and
250 types of bacteria are exchanged during a
French kiss.. |
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Men can read smaller print than
women, but women can hear better. |
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Coca-Cola was originally green. |
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The most common name in the
world is Mohammed. |
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The name of all the continents
ends with the same letter that they start
with. |
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There are two credit cards for
every person in the United States |
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TYPEWRITER is the longest word
that can be made using the letters only on one
row of the keyboard. |
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Women blink nearly twice as
much as men!! |
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You can't kill yourself by
holding your breath. |
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It is impossible to lick your
elbow. |
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People say "Bless you" when you
sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart
stops for a millisecond. Also,it was believed
in olden times that the sneeze expelled an
evil spirit. |