- FIGLROD117
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Dragon boat racing is the 8th most popular sport in the world!
(What the funk is Dragon boat racing)
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998 million people play Volleyball
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If you yelled for 8 years ,7 months and 6 days you would have produced
enough energy to heat a cup of coffee.
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Banging your head off a wall uses 150 calories an hour!(ouch)
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The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps blood out to the body
it could squirt blood 30 feet!
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There are more plastic lawn flamingos in the US than real ones.
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Chickens can't swallow while they are upside down.
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There are more chickens in the world than people.
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A typist fingers travel over 12 and a half miles in an average day.
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2,500 left handers die each year using products designed for right handers.
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The Roman Catholic Church did not acknowledge that the earth revolves around the
sun until the mid 1990’s.
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The average life span of an umbrella is under two years.
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One googol written out is:
10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00 0,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0 00,000
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The world’s most common non-contagious disease is tooth-decay
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The only words in the English language to contain two "U’s" back to back are: vacuum,
residuum, and continuum.
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The only word in the English language to contain three back to back double
letter combinations is; Bookkeeper.
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The first non-human to win an Oscar was Mickey Mouse.
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Pi has been calculated to over 2,260,321,363 digits.
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A can of SPAMâ„¢ is opened every 4 seconds.
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The McDonald’s™ at Toronto’s ‘SkyDome’ is the only McDonald’s™ location
that sells hot dogs.
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An ostrich egg would take four hours to hard boil.
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The left leg of a chicken is more tender than the right one.
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A novel with 50,000 words, non of which contained the letter ‘E’ was
written by Ernest Wright.
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You consume one tenth (.1) calories when you lick a stamp.
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A donkey will sink in quick sand, while a mule will not.
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Every year more people are killed by donkeys, than in aircraft crashes.
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The average speed of Heinzâ„¢ ketchup leaving the bottle is 25 miles per year.
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In an average day, a four year old child will ask 437 questions.
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4,000 people are injured by tea pots every year.
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Little more than half of the people living in the U.S. would rather fold,
than wad their toilet paper.
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The short phrases of organ music played at a baseball game is called a tucket.
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Dungarees is another word for Denim
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If a word has two consecutive vowels, and both are pronounced, a diaeresis
[dy-AIR-ih-sis] is used. Diaeresis are two dots over a vowel. Example: ä or ö.
For instance; the word noel. Noel is actualy spelled Noël. This is used in
English, though it is not commonly written.
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Gibraltar is the only place in Europe were you can find wild monkeys.
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Every year, the moon moves 1/2 an inch further from the earth.
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In 1977, George Willig was fined $1.10 for climbing the World Trade Center building.
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There are only 18 countries richer than Bill Gates
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There have been fewer people below 2km in sea than have been on de moon
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In 50 million years, it is likely that Mars will have a ring around it.
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A deltiologist is someone who collects postcards
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One million $1 bills weighs 1 ton
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People descended from the Scottish clan of Kerr are more likely to be left
handed than any other ancestrial group.
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The sortest war ever recorded lasted only 38 minutes. (Britain vs. Zanzibar in 1896)
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Despite a population of over a billion, China has only about 200 family names
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If you told someone that they were one in a million, you'd be saying
there were 1,800 of them in China
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In 1892, Italy raised the minimum age for marriage for girls to 12
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In downtown Lima, Peru, there is a large brass statue dedicated to Winnie-the-Pooh.
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In space you cannot cry because there is no gravity to make the tears flow
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In the Scottish Hebrides, an island is defined as being an island
only if it is big enough to sustain 1 sheep
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New York City has 570 miles of shoreline
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Olympus Mons is the largest volcano in our solar system
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Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear
in the name of any of the United States.
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The Boston University Bridge is the only place in the world where a
boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane
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The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in
every five must be straight. These straight sections are useable
as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies
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The most remote island in the world is Tristan da Cunha,
which is above the subantartic zone
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The number of births in India each year is greater
than the entire population of Australia.
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The smallest 'country' in the world to have its own
top-level domain name is Norfolk Island, off the coast of Australia.
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The surface speed record on the moon is 10.56 miles per hour.
It was set in a lunar rover.
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There is a city called Rome in every continent.
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Two objects have struck the earth with enough force to destroy
a whole city. Each object, one in 1908 and again in 1947, struck
regions of Siberia. Not one human being was hurt either time.
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Up to three thousand species of trees have been cataloged
in square mile of the Amazon jungle.
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We are in the middle of an ice age. Ice ages include both
cold and warm periods; at the moment we are experiencing a
relatively warm span of time known as an interglacial period.
Geologists believe that the warmest part of this period occurred
from 1890 through 1945 and that since 1945 things have slowly
begun freezing up again.
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A jogger's heel strikes the ground 1,500 times per mile.
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A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years.
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A red-haired man is more likely to go bald than anyone else.