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here some random facts -It is impossible for it to hail when ground temperature is below freezing.
-Alaxender Graham Bell would not have a phone in his study because the ringing drove him nuts.
-The diamond is the only gem composed of a single element.
-Winston Churchill smoked an estimated 300,000 cigars during his lifetime.
-Rod Stewart was once a grave digger.
-The game Simon Says was originally called Do This, Do That.
-Plants run fevers when they are sick.
-The bark of the giant sequioa can be up to 2 feet thick.
-There was never a portrant painted of Christopher Columbus.
-Vince Lombardi coined the term "game plan."
-The founder of Kodak, George Eastman, hated having his picture taken.
-Sweet N' Low was the one millionth trademark issued by the U.S. Patent office.
-More snow falls in February than in any other month on the United States.
-The Liberty Bell was made in England.
-Lemon Pledge has more lemons than Country Time Lemonade.
-More people die playing golf than any other sport, the leading cause of death is heart attacks and strokes.
-Each mile of a four lane freeway takes up more than 17 acres of land.
-Johnny Carson, Michael Douglas, and Clint Eastwood were all once gas station attendants.
-The kilt originated in France.
-El Paso, Texas is the largest city without a major sports team.
-In a 1936 ping pong tournament, the players volleyed for more than two hours on the opening serve.
-Alaska by itself has as much coastline as the rest of the U.S.
-If you work nights, you are almost twice as likely to have an accident than if you work days.
-A cubic foot of gold weighs more than half a ton.
-Monaco and Vatican City are both smaller than New York's Central Park.
-The geodesic dome is the only structure that becomes stronger as it increases in size.
-A plane uses less fuel the higher it flies.
-It was noted in King George III of England's diary on July 4, 1776 that "Nothing of importance happened today."
-Disney world is twice the size of Manhattan.
-A typical supermarket displays more than 25,000 items.
-A third of the Earth's land surface can be classified as desert.
-The seed cones of the cycad tree can weigh up to 90 pounds.
-Deion Sanders is the only man to play in the World Series and the Super Bowl.
-Floods cause more death and destruction in the U.S. than any other natural disaster.
-Las Vegas, Nevada is the brightest city when seen from space.Lightning bolts are only about two inches wide.
-The most popular reason for not voting in elections, according to the U.S. Census, was "Too busy."
If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
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.
President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.
In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.
Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.
The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
In the early days of the telephone, operators would pick up a call and use the phrase, "Well, are you there?". It wasn't until 1895 that someone suggested answering the phone with the phrase "number please?"
The surface area of an average-sized brick is 79 cm squared.
According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction.
Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.
Karoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese.
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
Rhode Island is the smallest state with the longest name. The official name, used on all state documents, is "Rhode Island and Providence Plantations."
When you die your hair still grows for a couple of months.
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
The newspaper serving Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, the home of Rocky and Bullwinkle, is the Picayune Intellegence.
It would take 11 Empire State Buildings, stacked one on top of the other, to measure the Gulf of Mexico at its deepest point.
The first person selected as the Time Magazine Man of the Year - Charles Lindbergh in 1927.
The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.
It took Leo Tolstoy six years to write "War & Peace".
The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.
On the new hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.
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.
The names of the two stone lions in front of the New York Public Library are Patience and Fortitude. They were named by then-mayor Fiorello LaGuardia.
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.
Lucy and Linus (who where brother and sister) had another little brother named Rerun. (He sometimes played left-field on Charlie Brown's baseball team, [when he could find it!]).
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