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- American
Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive
from each salad served in first-class.
- One
ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains
of pollen.
- World wide cosumtion of Pork exceeds that of any other type of meat
- The
term 'hay fever' originated in England, where some people
suffered allergic symptoms during hay pitching time when
the symptoms became serve, workers often felt feverish.
- A jumbo
uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
- Venus
is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
- The
first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's 'Born
in the USA'
- Children
spend more time learning about life through media than
any other manner. The average child spends approximately
28 hours a week watching television, which is twice as
much time as they spend in school.
- The
thumbnail grows the slowest; the middle nail grows the
fastest
- The
toes of mummies are wrapped individually.
- There
is cyanide in apple pips.
- Apples,
not caffeine, are more efficient at waking up in the
morning
- When
you sneeze, all your bodily functions stop even your
heart.
- Our
eyes never grow our nose and ears never stop growing.
- The 57
on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of
varieties of pickles the company once had.
- A
peanut is neither a pea nor a nut.
- If you
lock your knee while standing long enough, you will pass
out.
- The
plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
- Brain
damage occurs at an internal temperature of 105 degrees
Fahrenheit.
- Tom
Sawyer was the first novel written on a typewriter.
- Most
dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
- The
Volkswagen was originally called the "Strength
Through Joy Wagon".
- Just
twenty seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's
lunar module landed on the moon.
- If
Texas were a country it's GNP would be fifth largest of
any country on earth
- Sterling
silver contains 7.5% copper
- The
active ingredient in smelling salts is ammonia
- Minus
forty degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus forty
degrees Fahrenheit
- A human
has a bone just after the spine ends, which proves that
humans once had tails.
- Construction workers hard hats were first invented and used in the Building of the Hoover Dam in 1933.
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