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1

Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.

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2

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

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3

There is coffee flavored PEZ.

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4

Five Jell-O flavors that flopped: celery, coffee, cola, apple, and chocolate.

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5

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

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6

Elephants can't jump. Every other mammal can.

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7

No NFL team, which plays its home games in a domed stadium, has ever won a Superbowl.

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8

When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per year.

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9

The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It to Beaver".

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10

It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.

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11

Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

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12

Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.

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13

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.

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14

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

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15

Average age of top GM executives in 1994: 49.8 years.

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16

When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.

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17

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

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18

According to one study, 24% of lawns have some sort of lawn ornament in their yard.

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19

On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

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20

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

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21

Internationally, Baywatch is the most popular TV show in history.

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22

There is an average of 178 sesame seeds on a McDonald's Big Mac bun.

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23

In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

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24

The Bible has been translated into Klingon.

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25

Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

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26

The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.

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27

The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." Uses every letter in the alphabet. (developed by Western Union to test telex/twx communications)

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28

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

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29

Did you know that Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. president to have been born in a hospital?

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30

The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

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31

The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League all-star Game.

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32

Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.

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33

The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)

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34

Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.

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35

If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19.You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

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36

In the 1940s, FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile Services(two-way radios in taxicabs, etc.) but did not Pre-number the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up.

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Or that Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food FROM freezing?

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