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- During the Gold Rush in 1849, some people paid as
much as $100 for a glass of water!
- Each year, the average family uses about 18,000
gallons of water just to do its laundry!
- Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards.
- Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the
United States!
- Every year, kids in North America spend close to half
a billion dollars on chewing gum!
- Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down.
- For beer commercials, they add liquid detergent to
the beer to make it foam more.
- Frogs cannot swallow without blinking.
- Goldfish remember better in cold water than warm
water.
- Honey is used sometimes for antifreeze mixtures and
in the center of golf balls.
- How does a shark find fish? It can
hear their hearts
beating.
- About 10% of Jewish households have Christmas Trees.
- If Wal-Mart was classified as a country, it would be
the 24th most productive country in the world.
- If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be
heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more,
so it ends up on the bottom.
- In 1895 Hampshire police handed out the first ever
speeding ticket, fining a man for doing 6mph!
- In 1982, a high school student from Los Angeles,
California unscrambled the Rubik's Cube in 22.95 seconds.
- In an average lifetime a person will walk the
equivalent of three times around the world.
- In Australia, Burger King is called Hungry Jack's.
- In Japan, condoms are commonly sold 'door to door'!
- In Nebraska, It is illegal for bar owners to sell
beer unless they are simultaneously brewing a kettle of soup.
- In the movie 'The Wizard Of Oz', Toto the dog's
salary was $125 a week, while Judy Garland was $500 a week.
- Is bottled water worth it? 'Evian' spelled backwards
is 'naive'.
- It is illegal to purchase or consume Jack Daniel's
Whiskey in the town in which it is produced!
- It takes a drop of ocean water more than 1,000 years
to circulate around the world.
- Jacksonville, Florida, has the largest total area of
any city in the United States.
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