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A collection of interesting facts from Pebblesbysea:

• Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) was born on and died on days when Halley’s Comet can be seen. During his life he predicted that he would die when it could be seen.
• The ‘57′ on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of pickle types the company once had.
• Americans are responsible for about 1/5 of the world’s garbage annually. On average, that’s 3 pounds a day per person.
• Giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels.
• Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks so that it doesn’t digest itself.
• 98% of all murders and rapes are by a close family member or friend of the victim.
• A B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.
• The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.
• The dot over the letter ‘i’ is called a tittle.
• A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
• Benjamin Franklin was the fifth in a series of the youngest son of the youngest son.
• Triskaidekaphobia means fear of the number 13. Paraskevidekatriaphobia means fear of Friday the 13th (which occurs one to three times a year). In Italy, 17 is considered an unlucky number. In Japan, 4 is considered an unlucky number.
• A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
• All the chemicals in a human body combined are worth about 6.25 euro (if sold separately).
• In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles.
• The ZIP in “ZIP code” means Zoning Improvement Plan.
• Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose active ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903.
• A ‘2 by 4′ is really 1 1/2 by 3 1/2.
• It’s estimated that at any one time around 0.7% of the world’s population is drunk.
• Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades is David, Clubs is Alexander the Great, Hearts is Charlemagne and Diamonds is Caesar.
• Every person, including identical twins, has a unique eye and tongue print along with their finger print.
• The ’spot’ on the 7-Up logo comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino.
• The ’save’ icon in Microsoft Office programs shows a floppy disk with the shutter on backwards.
• Camel’s have three eyelids.
• Chocolate can kill dogs. It directly affects their heart and nervous system.
• Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
• 55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses.
• Most lipstick contains fish scales.
• Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark’s stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
• Slugs have four noses.
• Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
• The Three Wise Monkeys have names: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil).
• India has a Bill of Rights for cows.
• If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out.
• Over a course of about eleven years, the sun’s magnetic poles switch places. This cycle is called ‘Solarmax’.
• There are 318,979,564,000 possible combinations of the first four moves in Chess.
• Upper and lower case letters are named ‘upper’ and ‘lower’ because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the upper case letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the lower case letters.

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