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Yogurt intake among North Americans has quadrupled in the past 20 years.
A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats 9,192,631,770 times a second!.
The only man-made structure visible from space is the Great Wall of China.
If you divide the Great Pyramid's perimeter by two times it's height, you get pi to the ffifteenth digit!.
A piece of paper can be folded no more then 9 times.
The RAM required to run WordPerfect for Win95 is 8 times the amount needed aboard fthe space shuttle.
Whitby has more doghnut shops per capita than any other place in the world.
The billionth digit of pi is 9.
The first one-hundred digits of pie are: 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097
4944592307816406286208998628034825342117067
The average North-American will eat 35,000 cookies in during their life span
Canada imports approx. 822 Russian-made hockey sticks on an average day
97% of Canadians say they would not borrow a toothbrush if they forgot to pack their fown
The largest apple pie ever baked was 40 x 23 feet
If you look carefully at the picture of Mona Lisa, you will notice a bridge hidden in the background
10% of StarTrek fans replace the lenses on their glasses every 5 years whether they need fto or not.
5%-10% of StarTrek fans may be addicted to the show and suffer withdrawl symptoms if they miss an episode.
Between 25% and 33% of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light.
The sun is NOT the biggest star in the universe.
The surface area of an average-sized brick is 79cmý
The revolving door was invented in 1888
Abo elementary school, built in 1976 in Artesia New Mexico, was the first ever funderground school
The first recorded occurenece of a Tornado was June 10, 1682
The first umbrellas were used in Windsor Connecticut, 1740
The first audio CD's appeared in the USA in 1984
The first audio CD manufactured in the US was Bruce Springstean's 'Born in The USA'
Toronto, Ontario has approximately 7,000 eating establishments
40 pleople are sent to the hospitol for dog bites every minute.
There are 1,355,000 (+/- 1000) Monoliths on Jupiter in 2010: A Space Oddessy (NOT 2001!!)
The Monoliths reproduce at a rate of one every 2 minutes
The Monoliths all have propportional sizes of 1x4x9
Montpelier Vermont is the only state capital without a mcdonalds
13 blimps in the world, nine in US
Most car horns honk in the key of 'F'
Most common name om world is Mohammed
It takes a half agallon of water to make macaroni and a gallon of water to clean the pot.
The original Ford vehicles had Dodge engines
The most popular ice cream flavour is vanilla
The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines
The average person over fifty will have spent 1 year looking for lost items.
78% of cats never travel with their owners
44% of hotels allow pets into the rooms
September 16-21 is Farm Animal Awarness week
Uranus's orbital axis is tilted 90ø
The opening day of the Montreal summer Olypics was only 21ø celsius
The Earth orbits the sun at about 18.5 miles per second
The surface area of the Earth is 197,000,000 square miles
The 29,249th digit of pi is a seven
Mount. Olympis Mons on Mars is three times the size of Mount. Everest
A golf ball has 360 dimples
Most toilets flush in E flat
2,000 pounds of space dust and other space debris fall on the Earth every day
Each month, there is at least one report of UFOs from each province of Canada
40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year
Approx. 25,200 umbrellas are lost each year on the London transit system
Aprrox. 5,600 umbrellas are lost each year on the Toronto transit system
The Olympic flag pole at the Tokyo Olympics was 49 feet, 10 3/4 inches tall
5,200,000 pounds of pickles are consumed each day by Americans
1/3 of all Americans flush the toilet while still on it
There are 333 squares of toilet paper are on a roll
A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightend
You can be fined up to $1,000 for whistling on a Sunday in Salt Lake City, Utah
By the time you reach grade 12, you will have been in school for about 17,000 hours
4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day
It takes about 142.18 licks to reach the center of a tootsie pop
The serial number of the first MAC ever produced was 2001
The average web page contains 500 words
It it illegal to eat oranges while bathing in California
It takes an average of 48 to 100 tries to solve a rubix cube puzzle
If done perfectly, any rubix cube combination can be solved in 17 turns
The holes in fly swaters are used to lower air resistance
It is illegal to frown at cows in Bladworth, Saskatchewan
51% of turns are right turns
The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute
In Jasmine Saskatchewan, it is illegal for a cow to moo within 300km of a private home
The averge womens' handbag weighs between 3 and 5 pounds
Most people button thier shirt upwards
The averagae American butt is 14.9 in. long
There are only 4 flavours of plain M&Ms
More bullets were fired in 'Starship Troopers' than in any other movie ever made
60% of electrocutions occur while talking on the telephone during a thunderstorm.
The average person spends 30 years mad at a family member
The average person spends 40 years cleainging.
The record distance for cherry pit spitting is 95 feet, 7 inches.
The Queen Elizabeth ship burns a gallon of oil to move 1 foot
The name of the girl on the statue of liberty is Mother of Exiles
3.6 cans of Spam are consumed each second.
There's a systematic lull in conversation every 7 minutes.
The buzz generated by an electric razor in America is in the key of B flat.
In England it is in the key of G.
Most digital alarm clocks ring in the key of B flat.
Americans eat 12 billion bananas each year.
There are 1,575 steps from the ground flooer to the top of the Empire State building.
The worlds record for keeping a Lifesaver in the mouth with the hole intact is 7 hours and 10 minutes.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
the world record for spitting a watermelon seed is 65 feet 4 inches.
in the Phillippine jungle, the yo-yo was first used as a weapon.
there are 170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the ten opening moves in a chess game.
one year contains 31,557,600 seconds.
The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.
The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of old when the engines fwere pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how fto walk up straight staircases.
Only person to win $64,000 Challenge and $64,000 Question: Dr. Joyce Brothers (subject is boxing)
Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.
Many people think that the clock in the tower of Londons House Of Parliment is called f'Big Ben.' Actually, the nickname 'Big Ben' originally applied to the huge bell in the clock, fnot to the clock itself.
Malaysians protect their babies from disease by bathing them in beer.
The only nation whose name begins with an 'A', but doesn't end in an 'A' is Afghanistan.
The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at the same height as the U.S. flag.
The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
There is a town in Newfoundland, Canada called Dildo.
The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the
only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving funder an airplane.
Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.
Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong
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 fthe building.
If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, the New Hampshire town hall, you are entitled to receive $.10 from the town.
If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
In space, astronauts are unable to cry, because there is no gravity and the tears won't flow.
Researchers in Denmark found that beer tastes best when drunk to the accompaniment of a certain musical tone. The optimal frequency is different for each beer, they reported. The correct harmonious tone for Carlsberg Lager, for example, is 510-520 cycles per second.
Evaluation and Parameterization of Stability and Safety Performance Characteristics of Two and Three Wheeled Vehicular Toys for Riding. Title of a $230,000 research project proposed by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, to study the various ways children fall off bicycles.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
Several varieties of lightning have been identified by meteorologists. In the so-called positive Giant type, the temperature of the lightning bolt reaches 30,000 degrees C. Over five times hotter than the surface of the sun.
There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S that there are real ones.
The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that it breaks the sound barrier. The crack of a whip is actually a tiny sonic boom.
The save icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.
Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets in our solar system combined.
Hot water is heavier than cold.
Lightning strikes somewhere about 6,000 times per second on Earth.
The first song played on Armed Forces Radio during operation Desert Shield was Rock the Casba by the Clash.
London Ontario, Canada, has more malls per capita than any other place in the world.
The common idea that only 10% of the brain is used it not true. It is impossible to determine the actual percentage because of the complexity of the brain.
Nine billion tons of freight is moved each year by trucks.
More people die annually from donkeys than plane crashes
26 people killed by blind pull cords in total
Lawn darts are illegal in Canada
There are more psycho-analysts per capita in Buenos Aires than any other place in the world
The best working light-bulb a LONG time ago was a thread of sheep's wool coated with carbon
The largest crossword puzzle ever contained 82,951 squares. It had 12,489 clues across, and 13,125 down. It was created by Robert Turcot, from Quebec.
Only 6 people in the whole world have died from moshing.
There are 108 stiches on a baseball.
250 million tires are disposed of each year in the U.S.
Horse racing is one of the most dangerours sports. Between 2 and 3 jockeys are killed each year. That's about how many baseball players have died in baseball's entire professional history.
5,840 people with pillow related injuries checked into U.S. emergency rooms in 1992.
8% of Americans twiddle their thumbs.
If you had enough water to fill one million goldfish bowls, you could fill an entire stadium.
the average woman consumes 6 lbs of lipstick in her lifetime.
you have a better chance of getting struck by lightning twice a year for the rest of your life than you do winning The Publisher's Clearinghouse Sweepstakes.
75% of people wash from top to bottom in the shower.
26 Billion dollars in ransom has been paid out in the U.S. in the past 20 years.
The average American looks at eight houses before buying one.
In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivelent of 5 times around the equator.
If everyone China lined up infront of you and you started walking past, you would never see the end due to their reproductive rate.
If you tore a piece of printer paper in half: half-way down the page if you were reading it, then put those two pieces on top of eachother and did it again, and again, and again until you'd done it 1000 times, the stack of paper would reach the sun.
The first contraceptive was crocodile dung used by the ancient Egyptians.
Since 1978, 37 people have died as a result of shaking vending machines, in an attepmt to get free merchandise. 113 have been injured
Lime Jell-o gives off the same brain waves as adult males (true!)
There used to be a 13th constellation in the Zodiac - Opheicus. But since 13 is unlucky, astrologers just ignored it.
203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
4,000 people are injured by tea pots every year.
56% of the video game market is adults.
The external tank on the space shuttle is not painted.
The quadrature of a circle is the square which has equivelent area to that circle.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
Stewardesses is the longest word typed using only the left hand.
A common incorrect useless fact - On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag. Wrong its a Union Jack.
In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10
When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
On an American one dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the 1 encased in the shield and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. (I'm not to sure about this one...)

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