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1. The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used by the army for the
"General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
2. The most yolks ever found in one chicken egg was nine.
3. There are four towns in the United States with the word "chicken" in
their name. Chicken, Alaska, Chicken Bristle, in Illinois and Kentucky,
and
Chicken Town, Pennsylvania.
4. The Statue of Liberty has a 4 and a half foot nose.
5. More than 1 billion people in the world today live on less than a
dollar
a day.
6. A scatologist is a person who studies poop.
7. The longest word in the English language is a disease called
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, it's a lung disease
caused by
the inhalation of certain dust particals.
8. The first sport ever filmed was boxing in 1894.
9. Hydrochloric acid in your stomach is strong enough to eat a hole in
a
sidewalk.
10. More people are born on October 5 in the United States than any
other
day.
11. The average weight of a fully armed fighter taking off from an Air Craft Carrier is 55,000 lbs.
12. It is catapulted off the runway at the speed of 150 mph by a steam driven piston that weighs 1 million pounds each.
13. The landing of the fighter is done at 140 mph.
14. The landing has to be done right at center line because there is only a 5 foot clearance between the landing jet, and
the taking off jet.
15. There are 1 landings and 3 take offs simultaneously every 35 seconds during the day, and 1 minute at night.
16. The surface of the Air Craft Carrier is steel, with an adhesive surface.
17. This surface has to be replaced every 18 months.
18. It is done by hand and takes 1 week to apply.
19. Then another week to dry, before the final surface is applied.
20. On the commercial 747, each tire weighs 1 thousand pounds, cost 2 thousand dollars per tire, and is good for 260
take offs and landing's.
21. The tires on the space shuttle each weigh 2 thousand pounds, cost 4 thousand dollars per tire, and is good for 4 landings.
22. Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969!
23.In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!
24. There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!
25. Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution!
26. Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!
27. The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!
28. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!
29. Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!
30. The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
31. Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after
eating!
32. Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!
33. One car out of every 230 made was stolen last year!
34. The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!
35. Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia!
36. The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders!
37. When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a
millionth of a second!
39. A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel!
40. A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile!
41. A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
42. A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!
43. It is estimated that 4 million "junk" telephone calls, phone solicitations by persons or programmed machine
are made every day in the United States!
44. It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of
times!
45. The first winged aircraft to go supersonic was the V2 rocket the second was the X-1,and the third aircraft which could
takeoff and land was the F-86 Saber.
It is estimated that 4 million "junk" telephone calls, phone solicitations by persons or programmed machine are made every
day in the United States!
It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!
Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill!
Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!
Most lipstick contains fish scales!
Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing!
One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis!
Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
Porcupines float in water!
The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches!
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!
The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on its fur!
Cat urine glows under a black-light!
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1!
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
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