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80% of Publishers' Clearing House $10 million winners did not purchase any magazine subscriptions. 1 in 10 oysters contain a pearl, but only 1 in 50 contain one of value. 1 in 8 babies born in the US is born to a teenage mother. 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan are the only two Disney animated features in which both the parents are present and don't die throughout the movie. 22% of adults don't have the literacy skills needed to read a menu. 250 million years ago the continent of Antarctica had dense, lush, jungles. This was when all the continents were joined as Pangaea. 60% of the world's geysers are in Yellowstone National Park. 70,000 people in the US are both blind and deaf. 84% of lightning strike victims are male. 85% of the plants and animals on Madagascar are found only there. A bowling pin need only tilt 7.5 degrees to fall over. A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it dies of starvation. A cubic foot of gold could be drawn into a wire that would stretch 29 times around the equator. A drop of water must contain six or more molecules of water. Five or less would bond together in a ring. A lion's roar can be heard eight kilometers (5 miles) away. About 1 in 30 people in the US are in jail, on probation, or on parole. About 400 different kinds of microbes live on and in the human body. Alaskan citizens do not pay any state taxes; instead every person over the age of 6 months receives an oil dividend check of about $1000 per year. All the known refined gold in the would make a cube 18.37 meters (57 feet) on each edge. Americans consume approximately 23 liters (6 US gallons) of ice cream per person per year. Americans eat about 18 acres of pizza per day. Americas use, on average, 10 times as much pesticide on their lawns as farmers on their fields. An oyster takes ten years to produce a pearl that is about the size of a pea. Antarctica holds about 70% of the world's freshwater in its ice. Ants can lift 50 times their body weight. Approximately 1 in 10,000 eggs has the Salmonella bacteria. Assuming Rudolph was in front, there are 40,320 ways to arrange the other reindeer. Automobile companies spend about $450 on advertising for each car sold - about $11 billion per year. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories per hour. Beelzebub is Hebrew for "Lord of the Flies." Before prohibition, Shlitz brewery owned more land in Chicago than anyone else, except the Catholic Church. By 1950 more than 5 million people had dies because of automobile collisions. Cab fare from New York to Los Angeles is $8,325 (not including tip). Californium, a man-made radioactive element, is sold by the US atomic energy commission for $1000 per microgram, about $530 billion per pound. Cast iron skillets are the leading source of iron the American diet. Christian Rock outsells both Jazz and Classical music in the American market. Ducks' quacks don't echo - no one knows why. During his lifetime, Herman Melville's Moby Dick sold only 50 copies. During the average human lifetime a person's heart will beat about 2 billion times. Each of the three main engines on the Space Shuttle is more than seven times as powerful as the water flowing through Hoover Dam. Each worker bee, in it's entire lifetime, produces only one twelfth (1/12) of one teaspoon (4.167 ml) of honey in it's lifetime Earth's geographic North Pole moves by as much a 6 meters in its 435 day cycle. Earth's magnetic North Pole moves by as much as 10 kilometers per year. Eighty percent of Americans will be the victim of violent crime at least once in their lifetime. England collectively consumes 145,000 tons of tea per year. Europa, Jupiter's forth largest satellite, is the smoothest large object in the Solar System - it has no elevation changes more than 1 km. Every five miles on the Eisenhower Highway System there is one miles of straight highway - it was designed to be able to used a landing strip during times of war or crisis. Every hour the US throws away 2,000,000 plastic bottles. Every month college students in the United States eat 60 million slices of pizza. Every second, according to Special Relativity, the Earth is struck by 4.5 lbs. of sunlight. Every year the citizens of the US throw away enough aluminum cans to make 6,000 DC-10 aircraft. Excess grease is the #1 cause of restaurant fires. Fire causes $15 billion in damage each year in the US. Frigates, large seabirds, can fly at 98 mph. Frogs sometimes eat enough fireflies that they themselves glow. Gilligan of "Gilligan's Island" has a first name, Willy, that was only used in the Pilot. Hawks have 8 times more light-receptors in their eyes than humans Horseshoe crabs have only 1000 light receptors in each eye, but they also have 1000 lenses. Howard Hughes' "Spruce Goose" was built from birch, not spruce. Humans have about 100,000 hairs on their head; sea otters have this many on one square cm. Humans have about 150 million light receptor cells in each eyes. Iceland consume the most Coca-Cola per person of any country. If all the ice on Antarctica melted, the reduced pressure on the continent would cause it to rise 1000 meters (3200 feet). If all the ice on Antarctica were to melt the sea-level around the world would rise 67 meters (230 feet). If Manhattan had the same population density as Alaska, there would be 15 people living there. If you stretch a standard slinky out flat it measures 26.52 meters (87 feet). If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months, and 6 days you would produce enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. In 1996 100,000 public schools in the US spent a total of $4,200,000,00 on computer (that's $42,000 per school). In 1996 Americans bought $2.6 billion worth of gum. In 1997 Americans spent 28 billion dollars on their lawns; 3 times as much as the American Cancer institute spent on research. In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on watches is 10:10. In order to unite the four forces of the universe as they were in the very beginning, scientists would need a particle accelerator 1000 lightyears in diameter. In the average lifetime a person will breath in about 20 (44 lb..) kilograms of dust. In the four major US professional sports (basketball, baseball, football, and hockey), only 7 teams' names do not end in "s." (The Miami Heat, Utah Jazz, Orlando Magic, Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox, Colorado Avalanche, and Tampa Bay Lightning). In the United States Pine Street is the most common street name - not Main. In the United States Radon is responsible for 20,000 cases of lung cancer each year. In the United States there are about 3 billion bridge crossings every day; about 12 per person. In the United States there are more second streets than firsts. In their lifetime, the average man grows 27 feet of whiskers. Iron corrosion costs the US $70 billion per year Isaac Asimov is the only author to have written a book in every Dewey-decimal category. June and September are the most popular months in America to buy a car. Kelp can grow up to 12 inches per day. Kermit the Frog is left-handed. Leaches, after a full blood meal, need not eat again for six months. Less than 10% of criminals commit about 67% of all crime Mars' fastest winds gust at 350 miles per hour. Mary Shelly's Frankenstein is the most widely taught novel in America. More than 85% of gold mined annually is used for jewelry. Most American car horns beep in the key of F, so does the telephone dial tone. Mother Theresa will be eligible for sainthood in the year 2002. Next to potatoes, peas are the most commonly eaten vegetable. Niagara Falls moves backwards 2.5 feet per year, due to erosion. Non-dairy creamer is flammable. Oil travels through the trans-alaska pipeline at 8.9 kph (5.5 mph). On average people fear spiders more than death. On average, right-handed people live nine years longer than lefties. One cubic mile (8.9 km3) of seawater contains about 50 pounds (22.7 kg) of gold. One third of the electricity produced on earth is used to power electric light bulbs Only 1% of bacteria cause disease; the others perform countless useful functions. Only 1% of rainforest plants have been tested for medicinal purposes, but are used in 25% of medicines. Only one person in 2 billion will live older than 116 years. Only the US Mint produces money faster than the gambling industry in Las Vegas. Only two in one thousand diamonds are considered truly colorless. Out of 10,000 tosses a penny will land heads-up about 4950 times - the image of Lincoln is slightly heavier than the other side. Over the course of a lifetime the average man spends $3300 to remove their whiskers. Pierre, South Dakota is the only example of a state and capital in the US that don't share any letters. Polar bears are left-handed. Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than news cars (on average). Robert E. Lee is the only person to have ever graduated from Westpoint with no demerits. Ten tons of meteorites hit the earth every day. The Alyeskan (Trans-Alaskan) pipeline was designed to withstand an earthquake of magnitude 8.5. The ashes of the average cremated person weigh nine pounds (4.1 kg). The average American concumes19.5 kg (43 lb..) of sugar each year. The average thickness of the Antarctic Ice Sheet is about 2,200 meters (7,200 feet) and gets as thick as 4785 meters (15,700 feet). The Bible is the most shoplifted book in the United States. The brightest continually-burning light source in the universe is a distant quasar four million billion times as bright as our sun. The bubbles in Guinness beer sink to the bottom - no one knows why The combined internal surface area of a pair of human lungs is equal to about the area of a tennis court. The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 450 trillion kg (5.5 quadrillion tons). The energy of a discharge of an electric eel could start 50 cars. The fastest winds on Earth, the Jet Stream, can reach 482 kph (300 mph). The fingerprints of Koala Bears are indistinguishable from those of humans. The flea can jump 350 times it's body length - equivalent to a human jumping about 91 meters (300 feet). The geographic south pole is marked by a red and white striped pole, which must be relocated each summer because the ice on which it sits moves more than 9 meters (30 feet) each year. The Giant South African Earthworm (Microhaetus rappi) can grow up to 7 meters (22 feet) long and 2.5 cm (1 inch) in diameter. The Great Grey Owl can detect the sound of mouse eating 100s of feet away, even underneath a thick blanket snow The human brain uses approximately as much energy as a 10 watt light bulb. The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 10 meters (30 feet). The immense pressure inside the core of Jupiter causes Hydrogen to become a metal. The labor and materials put into a US $20 bill are worth 5.21 cents. The lifespan of a tastebud is ten days. The Lion Maned Jellyfish is the longest creature on earth; it is more than 100 feet long. The only bone not broken yet in any ski accident is in the inner ear. The US Mint makes about 20 billion coins per year. The US Mint produces $150 billion in paper money per year. The venom of the Daddy Long-legs is more poisonous than that of the Black Widow or Brown Recluse, but they cannot bite humans because their jaws can't open far enough. The warmest temperature ever recorded on Antarctica was 3 degrees F. The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid. The world's largest fruit are giant pumpkins. The world record is 481.3 kg (1061 lb..) There are 10 towns named Hollywood in the United States. There are more bacteria in and on your body than cells in your body. There are more bacteria in your mouth than people on the earth. There are more stores that sell pornography in the United States than McDonalds. There are only 14 blimps in the world - 10 are in the US. There are twelve known crystalline forms of ice, ten of which have been observed. One of these forms is amorphous. There are twice as many Kangaroos in Australia as people. There have been over 7,200 acts of terrorism against the US over the last 15 years. There is more real lemon juice in Lemon Pledge furniture polish than in Country Time Lemonade. There is no Betty Rubble in Flintstones chewable vitamins. Tiny swimming crustaceans, called copepods are the only animals that have only one eye. Volkswagen has sold more than 21 million beetles, making it the most popular car in history. You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than a poisonous spider. Your heart circulates all the blood in your body 100,000 times per day.

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