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* It would take 7 billion particles of fog to fill a teaspoon.

* The world record for rocking non-stop in a rocking chair is 440 hours.

* The sound of ET walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.

* Of the 266 men who have been pope, 33 have died violently.

* Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

* There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

* The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

* All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.

* No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.

* "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."

* All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

* There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

* In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.

* The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.

* When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.

* The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's

* A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

* 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

* The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and

* The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

* "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

* Tom Sawyer was the first novel written on a typewriter.

* Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

* The smoke detector was invented in 1969.

* Just twenty seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon.

* The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the USA'

* The toes of mummies are wrapped individually.

* There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.

* More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money throughout the world.

* When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds up to 3,000 miles per hour.

* The average talker sprays about 300 microscopic saliva droplets per minute, about 2.5 droplets Per word.

* The words racecar and kayak are the same both ways.

* The words "assassination" and "bump" were invented by Shakespeare.

* The dot above the letter "i" is called a tittle.

* Speleology is the study of caves.

* At the height of its power (400 BC) the Greek city of Sparta had 500,000 slaves and only 25,000 citizens.

* 70% of all boats sold are used in fishing.

* It has been calculated that in the last 3,500 years, their have only been 230 years of peace throughout the civilized

* A broken clock is right at least twice a day.

* The most collect calls are made on father's day.

* Due to precipitation, for a few weeks K2 is bigger than Mount Everest."

* American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.

* The Mercedes-Benz motto is 'Das Beste order Nichts' meaning 'the best or nothing.'

* The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

* An average mattress contains 2 million house dust mites.

* Most gemstones contain several elements. Except the diamond, it's all carbon.

* The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.

* The (you are here arrow) on a map is called the IDEO locator.

* A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.

* Buckingham Palace has 602 rooms.

* 13 people a year are killed by vending machines falling on them.

* The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

* The WD in WD40 means water displacement.

* The word "samba" means to rub navels together.

* The word diastima is the word for having a gap between your teeth.

* Barbie's measurements if she were life-size: 39-29-33.

* A golf ball has 360 dimples.

* A car travelling at 80km/h uses half its fuel to overcome wind resistance.

* The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.