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- Americans on average eat eighteen acres of pizza every day.
- Cut an onion in half, rub it on the sole of your foot, and an hour later you will taste onion in your mouth.
- The average person sleeps for about 220,000 hours (or just over 25 years) in a lifetime.
- There are more than 1000 chemicals in a cup of coffee; of those, only 26 have been tested, and half of them cause cancer in rats.
- Nearly all polar bears are left-handed.
- There is one chance in 2.2 million of dying in an airplane crash.
- Fran Liebowitz once stated, “Sleep is death without the responsibility.”
- The first European country to have a McDonald’s was Munich,Germany in 1971.
- The only film to win an Oscar in every category for which it was nominated was The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in 2003.
- Sammy Davis Jr. and Jim Henson (the man behind the Muppets) both died on May 16, 1990.
- Glenn Campbell and Perry Como were both the seventh sons of seventh sons.
- Leo Tolstoy’s book War and Peace, was originally named All’s Well That Ends Well.
- William Howard Taft was the heaviest president (340 lbs.) and once had the misfortune of getting stuck in the White House bathtub.
- Charles Bronson was one of 15 siblings.
- Joe Pesci was once the lead vocalist with the band, Joey Dee & the Starlighters.
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It’s time for another giant pile of flaming and utterly useless information. As you already know I’ve always been a huge fan of trivia thats unusual, odd, or strange. I’ve collected this information from books, e-mails, notes from friends, and anywhere else I could find it. I hope you enjoy them and find them as interesting and fun as I did.
- New foreskins discarded after circumcision are sold to biomedical companies for use in artificial skin manufacture. They are also used as the secret ingredient in some popular anti-wrinkle gels.
- Lettuce contains 2 to 10 parts of morphine per billion.
- To see a rainbow you must have your back to the sun.
- You can tell the temperature by listening to the chirp of a cricket. For the temperature in degrees Fahrenheit, count the number of chirps in 15 seconds and then add 37.
- A calorie is the amount of energy it takes to raise the temperature of 1 g of water by 1°C. A gallon of gasoline contains 31,000 K calories, or the equivalent of 46.3 happy meals.
- Bubblegum is pink because it’s creator Walter Diemer, a Fleer employee, had only pink coloring left when he mixed up his first successful batch.
- The fly of your jeans is the flap of cloth over the zipper, not the zipper itself.
- The term cop most likely derives from the British police acronym for Constable On Patrol.
- There are more Subway sandwich shops in Manhattan than there are actual subway stations.
- Henry Ford, Robert Fulton, Eli Whitney, and Paul Revere were all clock makers at one point in their lives.
- When Thomas Edison died in 1941, Henry Ford captured his last breath in a bottle.
- The first item sold on eBay (then called the auction web) was a broken laser pointer that sold for $14 at the time, more than the cost of a new one.
- The term “the whole 9 yards” dates from World War II. When fighter pilots armed airplanes, the 50 caliber machine gun ammunition belts loaded into the fuselage measured exactly 27 feet. If a pilot fired all his ammo at one target, it got “the whole 9 yards”.
- On average, women utter 7000 words a day; men manage just over 2000.
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