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85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S! 56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball each year! Bats always turn left when exiting a cave! The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head! There are over 58 million dogs in the U.S! Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year! Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails! You blink over 10,000,000 times a year! Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day! Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin! The average person laughs 13 times a day! Dogs can hear sounds that you can’t! Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women! It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them! Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E! Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions! A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans! Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed! The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven! Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints! Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is -- be it red or neon yellow! Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight! The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons! The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people! A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court! Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10. A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. ( I have not tested this one ) Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider? Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10th of a calorie. A hummingbird weighs less than a penny. When you're born, you have 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult you only have 206. Over a thousand birds a year die from smashing into windows. The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump. Ants never sleep. It's impossible to kill yourself by holding your breath. 0.3% of all road accidents in Canada involve a Moose. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated! There are more chickens than people in the world. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak! The first product to have a UPC bar code on its packaging was Wrigleys gum! The name of all the continents end in the same letter they start with! four is the only didgit that has the same number of letters as its value! It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona! New Jersey has a spoon museum! ( I thought art was boring. ) Canada is the only country not to win a gold medal in the summer Olympic games while hosting the event. The Eiffel tower in France varies in height depending on the temperature, Sometimes by as much as six inches. Donald Duck Comics were once banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants Russians generally answer the phone by saying, "I'm listening". The U.S. bought Alaska for 2 cents an acre from Russia. In Japan, watermelons are squared. It's easier to stack them that way. Yo-yos were used as weapons by warriors in the Philippines in the 16th century. The average life of a taste bud is 10 days. Human blood travels 60,000 miles (96,540 km) per day on its journey through the body. Hitler was claustrophobic. The large elevator leading to his eagles nest in the Austrian Alps was mirrored so it would appear larger and more open.
