The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.

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The Himalayan gogi berry contains, weight for weight, more iron than steak, more beta carotene than carrots, more vitamin C than oranges.

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As of 2006, 200 million blogs were left without updates.

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Kermit the Frog is left-handed.

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In 1800 on 50 cities on earth had a population of more than 100,000.

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It has been recommended by dentists that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet (two meters) away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush!

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Francis Scott Key was a young lawyer who wrote the poem, 'The Star Spangled Banner', after being inspired by watching the Americans fight off the British attack of Baltimore during the War of 1812. The poem became the words to the national anthem.

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Swimming pools in Phoenix, Arizona, pick up 20 pounds of dust a year.

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Active membership in the United Auto Workers union at the Big Three auto makers has declined from 800,000 members in 1970 to around 270,000 members in 2005.

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Every minute in the U.S. six people turn 17.

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The most dangerous animal in the world is the common housefly. Because of their habits of visiting animal waste, they transmit more diseases than any other animal.

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The deadliest war in history excluding World War II was a civil war in China in the 1850s in which the rebels were led by a man who thought he was the brother of Jesus Christ.

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Nearly 91% of all senior citizens rely on prescription drugs on a regular basis.

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The largest living thing on the face of the Earth is a mushroom underground in Oregon. It measures three and a half miles in diameter.

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Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

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Your odds of being killed by space debris are approximately 1 in 5 billion.

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The US has used military force a number of times, but has only actually declared war 5 times (the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Spanish-American War, World War I and World War II).

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The lion costume in the film Wizard of Oz was made from real lions.

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More than 90% of plane crashes have survivors.

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Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.

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Your odds of being killed by space debris are approximately 1 in 5 billion.

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The Himalayas cover one-tenth of the Earth's surface.

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Tamiflu's main natural ingredient is Chinese star anise.

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Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

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It is possible to drown and not die. Technically the term 'drowning' refers to the process of taking water into the lungs, not to death caused by that process.

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Abraham Lincoln faces to the right on a penny while all the other presidents face to the left on US coins.

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On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.

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Approximately 55% of movies released are Rated R.

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Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.

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The tentacles of the giant Arctic jellyfish can reach 120 feet (36.6 meters) in length.

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No piece of normal-size paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

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Because of Animal Crackers, many kids until they reach the age of ten, believe a bear is as tall as a giraffe.

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Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is Number 47. Until August 7, 1953, Congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the Union.

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The Hawaiian alphabet consists of only 13 letters.

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Shanghai, China boasts 4,000 skyscrapers - double the number in New York City.

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The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is "feedback."

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A new born blue whale measures 20-26 feet (6.0 - 7.9 meters) long and weighs up to 6,614 pounds (3003 kg).

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The total combined weight of the worlds ant population is heavier than the weight of the human population.

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Napoleon was terrified of cats.

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Between 1990 and 2005, only one CEO received more than $1 billion in total compensation -- Citigroup's Sanford I. Weill.

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As of 2006, 200 million blogs were left without updates.

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If you attempted to count to stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.

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The youngest Pope was 11 years old.

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The Eiffel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets in it.

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An inch (2.5 centimeters) of rain water is equivalent to 15 inches (38.1 centimeters) of dry, powdery snow.

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Jupiter, the fifth planet from the sun, is the largest planet in the solar system, twice as big as all the other planets combined.

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The Earth experiences 50,000 earthquakes each year.

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The largest meteorite crater in the world is in Winslow, Arizona. It is 4,150 feet across and 150 feet deep.

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Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the U.S. treasury.

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An inch (2.5 centimeters) of rain water is equivalent to 15 inches (38.1 centimeters) of dry, powdery snow.

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It is possible to drown and not die. Technically the term 'drowning' refers to the process of taking water into the lungs, not to death caused by that process.

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Every day is about 55 billionths of a second longer than the day before it.

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The flushing toilet was invented in 1596, not by Thomas Crapper as most people think, but by Sir John Harington.

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A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds.

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One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.

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Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.

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