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The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial. In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator. Odontophobia is the fear of teeth. According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction. The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million. Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class. Mario, of Super Mario Bros. fame, appeared in the 1981 arcade game, Donkey Kong. His original name was Jumpman, but was changed to Mario to honor the Nintendo of America's landlord, Mario Segali. The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley. The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet (9 m). American car horns beep in the tone of F. Charlie Brown's father was a barber. Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave. The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles. The largest number of children born to one woman is recorded at 69. From 1725-1765, a Russian peasant woman gave birth to 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets. The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear. Any cup-shaped object placed over the ear produces the same effect. On average, there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonalds BigMac bun. The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than
left-handed people do.There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver(i disagree with this one purple rhymes with nurple. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin Look-alike contest. The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.