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More Americans have died in car accidents than have died in all the wars ever fought by the United States.

 

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40% of women have hurled footwear at a man.

 

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One cubic mile of seawater contains about 50 pounds of gold.

 

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India has a Bill of Rights for cows.

 

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Human birth control pills work on gorillas.

 

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Bob Hope and Billy Joel were both once boxers.

 

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Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.

He wrote backwards because he was left handed and it was easier. ^^

Contrary to popular belief, lightning travels from the ground upwards not from the sky downwards.

Impossible. >=[ they how come you see pictures of lightning that branches out from a cloud like an upside-down tree? and what of cloud to cloud litning or the lightning that shoots straight UPwards? Does that originate out in space? >=[
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Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth.

Babies are sometimes born with hard calcium deposits on their gums that could be confused with having teeth.

In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.

probably because "pants" over there means "underwear".

 

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91% of us lie regularly.


(Like anyone could actually get that statistic. 😛)

 

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I find myself skeptical of most of these as well. XD


Cast iron skillets used to be the leading source of iron in the American diet!

 

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About 1 in 30 people in the U.S. are in jail, on probation, or on parole.

 

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A male baboon can kill a leopard.

 

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Istanbul, Turkey is the only city in the world located on two continents.

 

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Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

 

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The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.

 

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Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.

 

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Apotemnophilia is a desire to become an amputee.

 

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Bacteria that cause tooth decay, acne, tuberculosis, and leprosy can be cured with cashews.

 

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The streets of Victor, Colorado, once a gold rush town, are paved with low-grade gold.

 

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Rice is the chief food for half the people of the world.

 

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Moist air holds heat better than dry air.

 

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About half of all Americans are on a diet on any given day.

 

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Manhattan Island of New York City was purchased for $24 from the Algonquian Indians in 1624!


This is true. Crazy Dutch did it. 😛

 

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When gentlemen in medieval Japan wished to seal an agreement, they urinated together, crisscrossing their streams of urine.



Are the Ghostbusters aware of this one? XD

 

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The Canary Islands were not named after a bird called the canary. They were named after a breed of dogs!

 

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An 'aglet' is the plastic or metal tip of a shoelace.