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- No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times.
- The first product to have a bar code scanned was Wrigley's gum.
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Earth is the only planet not named after a pagan God. -
A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight. -
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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Fingerprints of koala bears are similar (in pattern, shape and size) to the fingerprints of humans -
Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning. -
Pele has always hated his nickname, which he says sounds like "baby-talk in Portuguese". - As of 2006, 200 million blogs were left without updates
- Urban birds have developed a short, fast "rap style" of singing, different from their rural counterparts.
- The lion costume in the film Wizard of Oz was made from real lions.
- Fathers tend to determine the height of their child, mothers their weight.
- The Pope's been known to wear red Prada shoes.
- Donald Rumsfeld was both the youngest and the oldest defense secretary in US history.
- Coco Chanel started the trend for sun tans in 1923 when she got accidentally burnt on a cruise.
- Up to 25% of hospital keyboards carry the MRSA infection.
- Sex workers (Prostitutes) in Roman times charged the equivalent price of eight glasses of red wine.
- As of 2006, more than one in eight people in the United States show signs of addiction to the internet.
- More than 90% of plane crashes have survivors.
- The Mona Lisa used to hang on the wall of Napoleon’s bedroom.
- Barbie's full name is Barbie Millicent Roberts.
- Eating a packet of crisps a day is equivalent to drinking five liters of cooking oil a year.
- Plant seeds that have been stored for more than 200 years can be coaxed into new life.
- For every 10 successful attempts to climb Mount Everest there is one fatality. (As of 2006)
- Watching television can act as a natural painkiller for children
- Forty-one percent of English women have punched or kicked their partners, according to a study.
- The more panels a football has - and therefore the more seams - the easier it is to control in the air.
- Music can help reduce chronic pain by more than 20% and can alleviate depression by up to 25%.
- The egg came first.
- Modern teenagers are better behaved than their counterparts of 20 years ago, showing "less problematic behavior" involving sex, drugs and drink.
- Britain is still paying off debts that predate the Napoleonic wars because it's cheaper to do so than buy back the bonds on which they are based.
- In Bhutan government policy is based on Gross National Happiness; thus most street advertising is banned, as are tobacco and plastic bags.
- The best-value consumer purchase in terms of the price and usage is an electric kettle.
- Camel's milk, which is widely drunk in Arab countries, has 10 times more iron than cow's milk.
- Iceland has the highest concentration of broadband users in the world.
- The age limit for marriage in France was, until recently, 15 for girls, but 18 for boys. The age for girls was raised to 18 in 2006.
- The brain is soft and gelatinous - its consistency is something between jelly and cooked pasta.
- The Himalayas cover one-tenth of the Earth's surface.
- A "lost world" exists in the Indonesian jungle that is home to dozens of hitherto unknown animal and plant species.
- The two most famous actors who portrayed the “Marlboro Man” in the cigarette ads died of lung cancer.
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All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public. -
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off. -
Walt Disney was afraid of mice. -
The inventor of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper. -
The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites. -
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. -
The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it. -
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. (Makes you think about ambidextrous people) -
Its impossible to smoke oneself to death with weed. You won\'t be able to retain enough motor control and consciousness to do so after such a large amount. -
Every drop of seawater contains approximately 1 billion gold atoms. -
The US national anthem actually has three verses, but everyone just knows the first one. -
During World War II, IBM built the computers the Nazis used to manage their death/concentration camps.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 19 January 2007 )
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