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                    FACT Around You

• Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.
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• 40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
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• 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
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• On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
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• Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
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• Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as a medicine.
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• Leonardo DA Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
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• Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
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• There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
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• Leonardo DA Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.
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• Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
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• The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby"!
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• By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.
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• Mosquito repellents don't repel... They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
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• Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
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• The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
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• Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
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• Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
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• Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
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• The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
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• To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.
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• The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
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• The "pound" (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.
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• The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
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• Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
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• The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
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• Dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in "MT".
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• It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
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• In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".
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• A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head..
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• We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.
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• Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines
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• Mexico City sinks about 10 inches a year.
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• Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.
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• Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.
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• When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying "yes" in Sri Lanka
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• There are more chickens than people in the world.
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• The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.
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• There are more telephones than people in Washington , D.C. .
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• The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.
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• The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three Times each morning.
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• The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the Combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.
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• The first owner of the Marlboro cigarette Company died of lung cancer.
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• Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
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• The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
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• Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears Never stop growing.
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• You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
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• A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a Few weeks.
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• Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
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• The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
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• When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.
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• Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned His wife or mother because they were both deaf.
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• A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a Carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After Weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe Leaving her mentally retarded
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• "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language
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• Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking Countries because Colgate translates into the command "go hang Yourself."
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• Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
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• "Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive Double letters.
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• Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed People do.
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• The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every Letter in the English language.
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• If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line Would never end because of the rate of reproduction
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• China has more English speakers than the United States
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• Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
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• Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
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• An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.
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• Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our Bodies.
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• Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average Man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his Lifetime.
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• According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.
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• The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi- Pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu a New Zealand hill.
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• If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at Approximately 4:30pm the previous day.
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• Scientists in Australia's Park es Observatory thought they had positive Proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a Microwave in the building.
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• Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times.
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• More than 40,000 parasites and 250 types of bacteria are exchanged during a French kiss..
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• Men can read smaller print than women, but women can hear better.
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• Coca-Cola was originally green.
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• The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.
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• There are two credit cards for every person in the United States
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• TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
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• Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!
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• You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
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• It is impossible to lick your elbow.
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• People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond. Also, it was believed in olden times that the sneeze expelled an evil spirit.

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