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01. $203,000,000 is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
02. $283,200 is the absolute highest amount of money you can win on Jeopardy.
03. 0.3% of all road accidents in Canada involve a Moose.
04. 1 in 5 of the world’s doctors is a Russian.
05. 1 in every 4 Americans has been on TV.
06. 1 kg of lemons contains more sugar than 1 kg of strawberries.
07. 1,200 college students streaked at the same time in Boulder, CO in 1974.
08. 1,800 cigarettes are smoked per person each year in China.
09. 100 years before either moon of Mars (Deimos and Phobos) was discovered, Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels accurately described them, citing their precise rotating speeds and sizes.
10. 11% of the world is left-handed.
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11. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321.
12. 13% of Americans actually believe that some parts of the moon are made of cheese.
13. 13,000 Coca-Cola beverages are consumed per second worldwide.
14. 130 million cups of coffee are consumed every day in the United States alone.
15. 14% of all facts and statistics are made up and 27% of people know that fact.
16. 14% of Americans have skinny-dipped with a member of the opposite sex at least once.
17. 15 million blood cells are produced and destroyed in the human body every second.
18. 17th president Andrew Johnson was the only president to sew his own clothes.
19. 200 million years ago Earth contained 1 land mass called Pangaea.
20. 25% of a human’s bones are in its feet.
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21. 26 (easily visible, there may be more) states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the old US $5 bill.
22. 28% of Africa is classified as wilderness. In North America, its 38%.
23. 3.9% of women don't wear underwear.
24. 300 people report to emergency rooms across the country every day due to rollerblading accidents.
25. 315 entries in Webster’s 1996 dictionary were misspelled.
26. 33 million Hershey Kisses are made each day.
27. 33 percent of the news stories that you read quote an unnamed source.
28. 35 out of 100 people who take out dating personal ads are either a husband or wife already.
29. 4% of what you spend on any given product goes to pay for the packaging.
30. 40% of all people who come to a party in your home snoop in your medicine cabinet.
31. 40% of dog and cat owners carry pictures of the pets in their wallets.
32. 40% of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
33. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
34. 47 elephants and dancing bears survived the sinking of the Titanic and got jobs in New York thereafter.
35. 55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses.
36. 59 tons of the Berlin wall have been shipped to the U.S. since November 1989 by a company from St. Louis.
37. 60% of all US potato products originate in Idaho.
38. 72 degrees is the temperature at which most humans are comfortable.
39. 75% of the chemical energy contained in petrol is wasted by a combustion engine.
40. 80% of 10 year old girls in the U.S. go on a diet.
41. 80% of burglaries are committed by people aged 13-21.
42. 82% of the workers on the Panama Canal suffered from malaria.
43. 85% of the guys who die while having sex are cheating on their wives.
44. 90% of the Vitamin C present in Brussels sprouts is lost in cooking.
45. 96% of a cucumber is water.
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46. 98% of all murders and rapes are by a close family member or friend of the victim.
47. 98% of Japanese are cremated.
48. 99% of all life forms to exist on Earth are now extinct.
49. 99% of the solar systems mass is concentrated in the sun.
50. A 2 by 4 is really 1 1/2 by 3 1/2.
51. A 6 pound sea-hare can lay 40,000 eggs in a single minute.
52. A B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.
53. A blue whales heart only beats nine times per minute.
54. A Boeing 707 uses four thousand gallons of petrol in its take-off climb.
55. A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brothers first flight.
56. A building in Belgium was taxed if there was a street light on it...unless a statue of the Virgin Mary was placed above it. Hence, there are no buildings in the city without a statue of the Virgin Mary.
57. A car travelling at 80 km/h uses half its fuel to overcome wind resistance.
58. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
59. A cat uses its whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through.
60. A cat’s jaw cannot move sideways.
61. A caterpillar has more muscles in its body than a human.
62. A census in 1920 revealed that fewer than one Eskimo in 46 has ever seen an igloo.
63. A chameleon’s tongue is twice the length of its body.
64. A cheetah can accelerate from 0 to 70 km/h in 2 seconds.
65. A clock that loses a half an hour per day will show the correct time again in 24 days.
66. A coat hanger is 3ft. 4 inches long when unraveled.
67. A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.
68. A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
69. A coffee tree yields about one pound of coffee in a year.
70. A colony of moles is known as a labor, in spite of the fact that they're practically blind.
71. A common bra choice for Max Klinger from television's M.A.S.H show was a 36B Miss Highrise.
72. A common housefly only lives for two weeks. They also prefer to breed in the center of a room.
73. A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.
74. A convenience store is robbed every fifteen minutes in the United States.
75. A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
76. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
77. A crocodile might be able to regrow its teeth, but it can't stick out its tongue.
78. A crocodiles tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth.
79. A cubic mile of ordinary fog contains less than a gallon of water.
80. A Czech flight attendant once fell 33,316 feet and survived.
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81. A Czech man, Jan Honza Zampa, holds the record for drinking one liter of beer in 4.11 seconds.
82. A day on Jupiter is about 9 hours, 50 minutes, 30 seconds at the equator.
83. A decoction of dandelion roots and leaves is an old remedy for dissolving urinary stones and gravel.
84. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. A quarter has 119.
85. A dog first went to space, while a sheep, a rooster and a duck caught their ride in a hot air balloon.
86. A dog has elbows.
87. A dog's sense of smell is one of the keenest in nature. If a pot of stew was cooking on a stove, a human would smell the stew, while the dog could smell the beef, carrots, peas, potatoes, spices, and all the other individual ingredients in the stew. In fact, if you unfolded and laid out the delicate membranes from inside a dog’s nose, the membranes would be larger than the dog itself.
88. A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
89. A drop of liquor spilled on a scorpion will send it into a frenzy of trying to sting itself. Gasoline on a snake will produce the same result, making it squiggle uncontrollably, even after death.
90. A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why.
91. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
92. A fetus or little person gets fingerprints at about 3 months old.
93. A fingerprint is also known as a dactylogram.
94. A firm in Britain sold fall-out shelters for pets.
95. A Flemish artist is responsible for one of the smallest paintings in history. It is a picture of a miller and his mill, and it was painted on to a grain of corn.
96. A flush toilet exists that dates back to 2000 BC.
97. A frog tossed into boiling water will leap right out. A frog placed into cold water that is heated gradually, however, will slowly boil the frog to death.
98. A fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
99. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
100. A giraffe's neck contains the same number of vertebrae as a human.
101. A group of frogs is called an army.
102. A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein.
103. A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
104. A guy by the name of Ernest Vincent Wright once wrote a 50,000-word book without using the letter e.
105. A hamburger at McDonalds cost 15 cents in 1963.
106. A hardboiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not.
107. A headless cockroach can survive 9 days before starving to death.
108. A healthy (non-colorblind) human eye can distinguish between 500 shades of gray.
109. A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average.
110. A hippopotamus can open its mouth large enough to accommodate a four foot tall child.
111. A honeybee can fly at fifteen miles per hour.
