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According to the federal Trade Commission, there are 20,000 television commercials made each year that are aimed exclusively at children. Of these, 7,000 are for sugared breakfast cereals.
(The rest are for alcoholic drinks)

5,400 people are buried in Arlington National cemetery each year.
(Kinda morbid aint it?)

Parrots, most famous of all talking birds, rarely acquire a vocabulary of more than twenty words. However, Tymhoney Greys and African Greys have been known to carry vocabularies in excess of 100 words.
(I knew a parakeet that spoke about 300 words.... per minute anyhow....)

The average woman consumes 6lbs of lipstick throughout their lifetime.
(Does it taste that good?)

The total length of all eyelashes shed by the average human measures 30 meters.
(Wow..... a lot of eyelashes)

A 2x4 actually measures 1-1/2 x 3-1/2 inches.
(Liars!)

315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
(hmmm.......)

On average there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonalds Big Mac bun. (Thanks to hundreds of bored McDonalds workers for figuring it out.)

Odds of dying while in the bath tub- 1 in 1,000,000.
(Actually a lot lower than I would have thought)
(Odds of dying in the bathtub with your finger in the light socket, 1-1)

Yogurt intake among North Americans has quadrupled in the past 20 years.

The RAM required to run WordPerfect for Win95 is 8 times the amount needed aboard the space shuttle.
(Thats a bit scary)

5%-10% of Star Trek fans may be addicted to the show and suffer withdrawal symptoms if they miss an episode.

More bullets were fired in 'Starship Troopers' than in any other movie ever made.

It's been predicted that in 10,000 years red-headed and left-handed people will no longer exist in the world.

Catholic Popes who died during sex: Leo VII (936-9) died of a heart attack, John VII (955-64) was bludgeoned to death by the husband of the woman he was with at the time, John XIII (965-72) was also murdered by a jealous husband, Pope Paul II (1467-71) allegedly died while being sodomized by a page boy.
(Now that is trivia!)

In 1894 there were only 4 automobiles in the US.

10% of the salt mined in the world each year is used to de-ice the roads in America.

A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust mites.
(You are never truly alone)

Americans spend approximately $25 billion each year on beer.

The biggest pumpkin on record weighed 1,385 pounds. It was weighed in October 2003 at a pumpkin festival in Canby, Oregon.
(Canby Oregon, Home of the Whopper!)

In France, more than 30,000 werewolf cases were tried between 1520 and 1630.

A birdie (shuttle cock) in Badminton can fly off the racket at a speed of 200 mph!

The world record for Donut Eating is 29 donuts in 6 minutes.
(Give me a 3 dozen Krispy Kremes and I'll Kreme (pun intended) that record!)

There are more than 100 different viruses that cause the common cold.
(Face it, you'll never beet the common cold)