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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..oh joy |
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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 - 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. |
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