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Did you know ... There are a lot of things in this world that we might know or not know but here is a list of known trivia facts that are helpful in our pursuit of living life and gaining knowledge.

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A baseball has exactly 108 stitches.
A bee has 5,000 nostrils. It can smell an apple tree that's 2 miles away.
A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation.
A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.
A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth.
A dime has 118 ridges on it's edges.
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.
A fresh egg will sink in water, but a stale one will not.
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein.
A half gallon milk jug holds about $50 in pennies.
A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average.
A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
A jellyfish is 95 percent water.
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years!
A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.
A newborn baby's heart beats twice as fast as an adults.
A pig's orgasm lasts about thirty minutes.
A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
A soccer ball is made up of 32 leather panels.
About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.
According to The Wall Street Journal, more blonde hair dye is sold in Dallas than in any other U.S. city.
Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
Alligators can't stick their tongue out.
All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
All polar bears are left handed.
All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.
American car horns beep in the tone of F.
America once issued a 5-cent bill.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.
Ants have five noses. Each one smells a diffrent odor.
Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
Average life span of a major league baseball: seven pitches.
Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool! He changed it every 2 innings.
Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.
Banging your head against the wall consumes about 150 calories per hour.
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
Betsy Ross is the only real person to ever have been the head on a Pezdispenser.
Books were printed before Gutenberg invented his printing press.
Bowling was originally made up of 9 pins.
Boxing rings are called "rings" because they used to be round.
Camels are called ships of the desert because of the way they move not because of their transport capabilities.
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
Cat's urine glows under a black-light.
Chance of meeting someone with barbie's human-scale measurements (36-18-33) : 1 in 100,000.
Charles Darwin's cousin invented the IQ test.
Charles Dickens traded the first story he ever wrote for a bag of marbles.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
Clinophobia is the fear of beds.
Cows don't have upper front teeth.
Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.Pearls melt in vinegar.
Denny's restaurants used to be known as "Danny's" restaurants.
Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year.
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.
Ears of corn always have an even number of rows of kernels.
Elephants are not really scared of mice.
Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, or creamy.
Espresso has less caffeine than a cup of coffee.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
Ex-presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on July 4th, 1826.
Female mannequins generally stand 5 foot 10 and wear a size 6 or 8, while male mannequins wear a size 38 or 40.
50% (that's half) of the world's population has never received or answered a telephone call in their entire life.
Fifty percent of all marshmellows consumed in the U.S. have been toasted.
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.
Galileo's best telescope was about as powerful as a good pair of binoculars are today.
Gibraltar is named after a former slave.
Half the world's population have seen at least one James Bond movie.
Here are some interesting numbers .... (1997)
166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the U.S.
1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire a strung across the U.S.
123,000,000 cars are being driven down the U.S's highways.
85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S.
56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball each year.
7% of Americans don't know the first 9 words of the American anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem!
5% of Canadians don't know the first 7 words of the Canadian anthem, but know the first 9 of the American anthem!
Hershey's kisses are called that, because the machine that makes them, looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
Hey Jude was first called Hey Jules, written for Julian Lennon.
Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes.
Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
If you add honey to peanut butter, it won’t stick to the roof of your mouth.
If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion.
If you hit a diamond with a hammer, it will break.
If you yell for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days it will only create enough energy to heat one cup of coffee?
In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals.
In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
In her films, Shirley Temple always had 56 curls in her hair.
In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
In one day, an average typist's hands travel 12.6 miles.
In one four-year period, inventor Thomas Edison obtained an average of 1 patent every 5 days.
In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow.
In the game of Monopoly, if no one ever buys anything, players could eventually break the bank.
In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!
In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs.
It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs, but not downstairs.
It takes about three minutes from a time a mosquito bites you for the bite to begin itching.
It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.
It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland.
It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland!
JFK was a distant relative of Lisa Gheradini, the woman who posed for the Mona Lisa?
John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.
Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"--and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: "L.A."
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
Mercedes cars are named after an Austrian girl.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
Miss Piggy's measurements are 27-20-36.
Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.
More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world.
More movies are produced in India than in Hollywood.
More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones.
More than 50% of all the lakes in the world are in Canada.
More than 70% of all U.S. currency in circulation is held in foreign countries.
Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
Music was first sent down a telephone line in 1876.
Napoleon died of arsenic poisoning.
Nobody knows who invented spectacles (eyeglasses).
No Chinese last names are more than one syllable.
No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times.
Nothing happened between 3 and 13 September 1752.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers.
On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
On average a person spends 1 hour and 6 minutes per day on traveling.
One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.
One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet.
One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen.
Only one of the Seven Wonders of the World still survives.
Only the planet Venus rotates clockwise and its day is longer than its year.
Over 5 billion crayons are produced each year.
Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people.
Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue.
Paul Revere never completed his journey.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
People laugh least in the first hour after waking up in the morning.
Peter the Great taxed men for growing beards.
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye".
Plant-eating dinosaurs did not eat grass.
Porcupines float in water.
Pound for pound. hamburgers cost more than new cars.
Pregnant goldfish are called a "Twit".
Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States.
Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!
Research reports that an average 4 year old child will ask 437 questions in just one day.
Richard Milhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal." The second? ... William Jefferson Clinton
Roadrunners only run at a top speed of 15mph.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Sleeping beauty slept for 100 years.
Slugs have 4 noses.
Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food.
'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive
Thanksgiving was held twice in 1815.
The Academy Award statue is named after a librarian's uncle. One day Margaret Herrick, librarian for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, made the remark that the statue liiked like her Uncle Oscar. and the name stuck.
The average height of people Over the last 150 years has increased about 4 inches.
The average American/Canadian drinks about 600 sodas a year.
The average American/Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year.
The average American kid will watch 30-40,000 TV commercial this year.
The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
The average person laughs 13 times a day.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
The average person will wait about 40 seconds for an elevator without fidgeting.
The Bank of America started as the Bank of Italy.
The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice.
The can opener was invented 48 years after can were introduced.
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life."
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 diameter of the wheel on TV's Wheel of Fortune is 8'6".
The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump.
The Emmy was first called Immy.
The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of Varieties of pickles the company once had.
The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
The first credit cards were issued in 1951.
The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
The first stone lighthouse was lit by 24 candles.
The first submarine was designed in 1578.
The first US Labor Day was celebrated on a Tuesday in 1882.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
The Grammy Awards were introduced to counter the threat of rock music In the late 1950s.
The highest bridge in the world is in the Himalyans.
The human head contains 22 bones.
The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs.
The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
The last United States train robbery took place in 1933.
The Leaning Tower of Pisa has never been straight.
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is 'screeched'.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
The most common name in nursery rhymes is Jack.
The most popular Easter egg color is blue.
The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".
The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly.
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head.
The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
The Sargasso Sea does not have a coastline.
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet.
Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands on a keyboard.
The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on it's fur.
The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing his or her hands in jelly
The starfish is one of the only animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out.
The state of Florida is bigger than England.
The Statue of Liberty's index finger is 8 feet long.
The study of ants is called myrmecology.
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
The world's first novel was written by a woman.
The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old.
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.
The Wright Brothers tested the first plane in a wind tunnel.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones.
There are more than a billion bicycles in the world.
There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building.
There are more than 2700 languages spoken on earth.
There are more than 20,000 brands of beer, brewed in 180 styles.
There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea.
There are 19 major earthquakes every year.
There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
There are over 58 million dogs in the U.S.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
There have been 1,500 "well-documented" sightings of Bigfoot since 1958.
There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses.
There were over 15,000 vacuum cleaner-related accidents last year.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.
365 different languages are spoken in Indonesia.
Tigers have stripped skin, not just stripped fur.
Tomatoes are the world's most popular fruit.
Turtles can breathe through their butts.
Twenty five percent of all businesses in the United States are franchises.
Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee.
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? Paul Reiser himself.
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
You blink over 10,000,000 times a year.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime. Wow!
you're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206.
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.
Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!
Your tongue has 5 thousand taste buds.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321.
And then there are the following quite interesting facts ...

If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on the right side of your mouth. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on the left side of your mouth.
To make half a kilo of honey, bees must collect nectar from over 2 million individual flowers
Heroin is the brand name of morphine once marketed by 'Bayer'.
Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!
People in nudist colonies play volleyball more than any other sport.
Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined. He died April 18, 1955
Astronauts can't belch - there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.
Ancient Roman, Chinese and German societies often used urine as mouthwash.
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. In the Renaissance era, it was fashion to shave them off!
Because of the speed at which Earth moves around the Sun, it is impossible for a solar eclipse to last more than 7 minutes and 58 seconds.
The night of January 20 is "Saint Agnes's Eve", which is regarded as a time when a young woman dreams of her future husband.
Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros
It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!
Gold is the only metal that doesn't rust, even if it's buried in the ground for thousands of years
Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end
If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. When a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.
Each year 2,000,000 smokers either quit smoking or die of tobacco-related diseases.
Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals
Kites were used in the American Civil War to deliver letters and newspapers.
The song, Auld Lang Syne, is sung at the stroke of midnight in almost every English-speaking country in the world to bring in the new year.
Drinking water after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61 percent
Peanut oil is used for cooking in submarines because it doesn't smoke unless it's heated above 450°F
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.
Nine out of every 10 living things live in the ocean
The banana cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man
Airports at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density
The University of Alaska spans four time zones
The tooth is the only part of the human body that cannot heal itself.
In ancient Greece, tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it meant she accepted.
Warner Communications paid $28 million for the copyright to the song Happy Birthday.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
A comet's tail always points away from the sun
The Swine Flu vaccine in 1976 caused more death and illness than the disease it was intended to prevent
Caffeine increases the power of aspirin and other painkillers, that is why it is found in some medicines.
The military salute is a motion that evolved from medieval times, when knights in armor raised their visors to reveal their identity.
If you get into the bottom of a well or a tall chimney and look up, you can see stars, even in the middle of the day.
When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go. The first sense lost is sight
In ancient times strangers shook hands to show that they were unarmed
Strawberries are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside
Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams
The moon moves about two inches away from the Earth each year
The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust
Due to earth's gravity it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 meters
Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy
Soldiers do not march in step when going across bridges because they could set up a vibration which could be sufficient to knock the bridge down
Everything weighs one percent less at the equator
For every extra kilogram carried on a space flight, 530 kg of excess fuel are needed at lift-off
The letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements.
In 2011, July has 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays, and 5 Sundays. This apparently happens once every 823 years!