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A collection of interesting facts from Pebblesbysea:

• There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
• Coconuts kill about 150 people each year. That’s more than sharks.
• Half of all bank robberies take place on a Friday.
• The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before it.
• The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
• The first bomb the Allies dropped on Berlin in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
• The average raindrop falls at 7 miles per hour.
• It took Leonardo Da Vinci 10 years to paint Mona Lisa. He never signed or dated the painting. Leonardo and Mona had identical bone structures according to the painting. X-ray images have shown that there are 3 other versions under the original.
• If you put a drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
• The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA”.
• IBM’s motto is “Think”. Apple later made their motto “Think different”.
• The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
• The phrase “rule of thumb” is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
• One in fourteen women in America is a natural blonde. Only one in sixteen men is.
• The Olympic was the sister ship of the Titanic, and she provided twenty-five years of service.
• The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, which Motorola got their name from.
• In Disney’s Fantasia, the Sorcerer to whom Mickey played an apprentice was named Yensid (Disney spelled backward).
• During his entire life, Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting, “Red Vineyard at Arles”.
• By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
• One in ten people live on an island.

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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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A collection of interesting facts from Pebblesbysea:

• An ostrich’s eye is bigger than it’s brain.
• Starfishes haven’t got brains.
• The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping the length of a footbal field.
• The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
• It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
• Polar bears are left handed.
• A cockroach will live nine days without it’s head, before it starves to death.
• The giraffe has a black tongue that is 14 inches long and about no vocal cords.
• The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animals having the most taste buds.
• The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.
• The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
• Butterflies taste with their feet.
• The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
• Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
• The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their lower eyelids.
• It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
• A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
• The pupil of the human eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.

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