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Tokyo has had 24 recorded instances of people either killed or receiving serious skull fractures while bowing to each other with the traditional Japanese greeting.

The state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work is Alaska.

The city with the most Rolls Royces per capita is Hong Kong.

There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.

The typical American eats 263 eggs a year.

Eating a packet of crisps a day is equivalent to drinking five liters of cooking oil a year.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.

The amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class: $40,000.

Less than one per cent of the 500 Chinese cities have clean air, respiratory disease is China's leading cause of death.

The state of California raises more turkeys than any other state.

Goldfish swallowing started at Harvard in 1939.

America's best selling ice cream flavor is vanilla.

It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot.

If you started to move with a speed higher than the speed of light you would arrive at the destination before you started to move.

A South African monkey was once awarded a medal and promoted to the rank of corporal during World War I.

Ants can lift 20 times their own body weight.

The average American annually consumes 47.3 gallons of soda, 26.5 gallons of coffee, and 23.1 gallons of beer.

A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.

Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.

In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.

In India the number of motorized vehicles have increased from 0.2 million in 1947 to 36.3 million in 1997.

The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.

Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours.

One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 1930's lobbied against hemp farmers -- they saw it as competition. It is not as chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.

Because radio waves travel at 186,000 miles per second and sound waves saunter at 700 miles per hour, a broadcast voice can be heard sooner 13,000 miles away than it can be heard at the back of the room in which it originated.

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