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Dustin Hoffman, as Tootsie, wore a size 36C bra.

The average American uses 54 pieces of toilet tissue a day.
(How the hell did they find that out?!)

A dime has 118 ridges along the outside rim.

A chance of a woman having twins is increased after the age of 35. About 1 in 27 women will give birth to twins after this age. After 50 the chances of having twins is 1 in 9.

American women, on average, spend 55 minutes per day getting showered, dressed, and groomed.
(Men... I'd say about 15-20 minutes... tops)

The record for the world’s worst drivers is a toss-up between two candidates: First, a 75-year-old man who received 10 traffic tickets, drove on the wrong side of the road four times, committed four hit-and-run offenses, and caused six accidents, all within 20 minutes on October 15, 1966. Second, a 62-year-old woman who failed her driving test 40 times before passing it in August, 1970 (by that time, she had spent over $700 in lessons, and could no longer afford to buy a car).
(And they say "TEENAGERS ARE BAD DRIVERS"!)

All the Krispy Kreme donut stores collectively could make a doughnut stack as high as the Empire State Building in only 2 minutes.
(That’s a whole lot of donuts.....)

The average North-American will eat 35,000 cookies in during their life span.
(I bet the people that make Oreo cookies are glad for that.)

97% of Canadians say they would not borrow a toothbrush if they forgot to pack their own.
( 24% of American women said that sharing a toothbrush with your significant other was.... romantic.)

400 quarter-pounders can be made out of 1 cow!
(Holy cow!)

A pack-a-day smoker will loose approx. 2 teeth every 10 years.
(Yet another reason to quit)

87% of the worlds population can fold their tongue into a tube shape.
(See, if you can't do, it makes you special)

The shortest war on record, between Britain and Zanzibar in 1896, lasted just 38 minutes.

Mt. Everest grows about 4 millimeters a year: the two tectonic plates of Asia and India, which collided millions of years ago to form the Himalayas, continue to press against each other, causing the Himalayan peaks to grow slightly each year.

An average human drinks about 16, 000 gallons of water in a lifetime.

A typical lightning bolt is two to four inches wide and two miles long.

Davao City, located at the Southern state of Philippines, is the largest city in the world in terms of area.

The world's most expensive bathroom cost $3.5 million (U.S.) to build

Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate every second. That is 30 tons of chocolate a minute!

Disneyland is nearly twice as large as New York cities Manhattan Island.

It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.

Ninety million people survive on less than $75 a year.

More money is printed for monopoly than is printed by the US treasury every year.

The world's largest McDonalds is located on I-44 at Vinita, Oklahoma. It goes from one side of the interstate to the other, passing over the interstate.

Dick Cheney served as president for the shortest term ever in American History! He was president for 2 hours and 15 minutes when George Bush Jr. was away for a colonoscopy. The 25th amendment of the constitution gives temporary power to the Vice President while the president is unable to do his duties. On a historical note, the only other time this amendment was exercised was during Reagan’s Presidency, when he Gave Power to Vice President George Bush Sr. whilst away for a colon surgery. So far, both uses of the 25th Amendment have involved a George Bush, and a colon.