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Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Typewriter is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

'Tom Sawyer' was the first novel ever written on a typewriter.

Americans, on average, eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

One person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

For every person on earth, there are an estimated 200 million insects.

Strawberries have more vitamin C in them than oranges.

In England up until the 1950s attempted suicide was a capital offense.

In Eastern Africa you can buy beer brewed from bananas.

Colorado is one of only two states in the United States in which all the water the state has flows out of the state; none flows in! (the other is Hawaii).

Russia has the most movie theatres in the world.

Twinkies have a shelf life of 100 years.

The United States has five percent of the world's population, but twenty-five percent of the world's prison population.

Gerald Ford once worked as a cover model for Cosmopolitan magazine.

A woman was chewing what was left of her chocolate bar when she entered a Metro station in Washington DC. She was arrested and handcuffed; eating is prohibited in Metro stations.

The Nike swoosh was designed by a Portland State University student, and purchased by Nike for $35.

Physicists have already performed a simple type of teleportation, transferring the quantum characteristics of one atom onto another atom at a different location.

Each year, sixteen million gallons of oil run off pavement into streams, rivers and eventually oceans in the United States. This is more oil than was spilled by the Exxon Valdez.

The Gulf Stream could carry a message in a bottle at an average of 4 miles per hour

The average life expectancy of an ant is 45-60 days.

Ostriches live about 75 years and can reproduce for 50 years.

Drinking a bottle of beer a day helps to reduce the chance of kidney stones by 40%.

The average lead pencil can draw a line that is almost 35 miles long or you can write almost 50,000 words in English with just one pencil.

The average person will spend two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change

In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons.

We cannot see anything that moves faster than the speed of light.

The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV was Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

Many years ago in Scotland, a new game was invented. It was ruled; "Gentlemen Only...Ladies Forbidden"...and thus the word Golf entered into the English language.

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