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-An average american eats 3,000 M and Ms in a lifetime.
-On average, a person blink 20 times per minute.
-If any given man were to refrain from ever shaving, their beard would grow to be about 37 feet.
-The average child learns to recognize the MacDonalds arches before they know their own name.
-To add texture to a smoothie, fast food places add gelatin and/or animal bone to the "harmless milkshake"
-At a sample table, the raisin bagles and cookies are the most germy- they are more likely to be picked up by people thinking they are chocolate chip, then put back down again
-An average work-desk is more germy than a tiolet seat- toilets are cleaned regularly, office desks aren't
-George W. Bush was a childhood cheerleader. I'm not kidding.
-93% of all greeting cards are purchased by women.
-A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
-The average person uses around fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day.
-A study conducted regarding toilet paper usage concluded that Americans use the most toilet paper: seven sheets of toilet paper per trip to the bathroom.
-Around 85% of the warning labels on household products are inaccurate.
-Diapers take 500 years to decompose.
-60% of the water used by households during the summer is used for watering flowers, and lawns.
-Arthur Giblin, not Thomas Crapper, was the inventor of the first "flushable" toilet.
-Ken (as in "Barbie and") was not sold in India until a couple years ago because it clashed with the traditional arranged marriage.
-Speaking of Barbie, Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
-Also speaking of Barbie, every second, 2 Barbies are sold.
-"Crayola" is actually a French word- it means "Oily chalk."
-In 1989, twenty-three people were hired in Jacksonville Florida just to flush toilets so the pipes would not freeze.
-In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes. I wonder where they ended up? Let's pray not with Tony.
-It costs about 3 cents to make a U.S. $1 bill.
-The life span of a U.S. dollar bill is 18 months.
-Leather skin does not have any smell. The leather-y smell that you sense is actually the residue of the materials used in the tanning process.
-Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.
-New Jersey has a spoon museum that has over 5,400 spoons from across the world.
-Oral-B were the first toothbrushes to go to the moon when they were aboard the Apollo 11 mission.
-Queen Elizabeth I always wore a necklace with a little perfume bottle attached everywhere she went. Why? You can try and guess.
-Research indicates that babies who suck on pacifiers are more prone to ear aches. Note to self: burn all pacifiers.
-As of 2002, over 230 million eggs of Silly Putty have been sold.
-Stannous fluoride, which is the cavity fighter found in toothpaste is made from recycled tin.
-Teflon is the slipperiest substance in the world. I added a box of it to my birthday wishlist. Look out world...
-The Food and Drug Administration says the most common injury from cosmetics comes from scratching the eye with a mascara wand.
-The best time for a person to buy shoes is in the afternoon. This is because the foot tends to swell a bit around this time.
-The first telephone call from the White House was from Rutherford Hayes to Alexander Graham Bell.
-The first toilet being flushed in a motion picture was in the movie "Psycho."
-The most expensive bra is the Red Hot Fantasy Bra that is made by Victoria's Secret. It is worth $15 million, and has more than 1,300 precious stones. The bra is delivered in a secured truck by security guards. Good to know. Who wants to buy a dozen?
-The most expensive perfume in the world is Parfum VI, which was made by Arthur Burnham. A 4 inch bottle which is covered with diamonds and 24-carat gold costs $71,380. Ah, but how good does the perfume smell?
-The only king without a moustache in a deck of cards is the king of hearts.
-The typical lead pencil can draw a line that is thirty five miles long, assuming you doesn't go phsyco and eat it at the 10-mile mark.
-When telephone companies first began hiring telephone operators, they chose teenage boys for the job. They switched to women because the teenage boys were wrestling instead of working and pulling pranks on callers.