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Penguins
don't always live in cold climates. Though they can
be found in the South Pole and also on the equator.
Scorpions
can withstand 200 times more nuclear radiation than
humans.
Rabbits
and horses cannot vomit.
The very
first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during
World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin
Zoo.
Los Angeles's
full name is: "El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora
la Reina de los Angeles de Poriuncula" and can
be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "LA."
Bob Dole
is 10 years older than the Empire State Building.
George
Washington carried a portable sundial.
The cruise
liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for
each gallon of diesel that it burns.
Hydrogen
gas is the least dense substance in the world, at
0.08988g/cc. Hydrogen solid is the most dense substance
in the world, at 70.6g/cc.
Risk of
having a heart attack is 50% higher on Mondays
Approximately
75 acres of pizza are consumed in the United States
every day.
In comic
strips, the person on the left always speaks first.
If the
entire population of earth was reduced to exactly
100 people, 51% would be female, 49% male; 50% of
the world's currency would be held by 6 people, one
person would be nearly dead and one nearly born.
Mailmen
in Russia now carry revolvers after a recent decision
by the government.
G-rated
family films earn far more money than any other rating.
Yet only 3% of Hollywood's output is G-rated.
The world's
largest recorded gathering of people was at a Hindu
religious festival in India in 1989. It was attended
by 15 million people.
Comedian
Albert Brooks' real name is Albert Einstein.
Man is
the only animal who will eat with an enemy.
Approximately
three million women in the USA sport tattoos and that
number is growing every day.
Florida
law forbids a housewife there to break more than three
dishes a day.
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