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• Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning
• The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.
• All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.
• The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off.
• Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
• The inventor of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper.
• The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.
• The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
• The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.
• Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
• Its impossible to smoke oneself to death with weed. You won\'t be able to retain enough motor control and consciousness to do so after such a large amount.
• Every drop of seawater contains approximately 1 billion gold atoms.
• The US national anthem actually has three verses, but everyone just knows the first one.
• The elephant is the largest animal on land. But it is much smaller than the blue whale.
• The total combined weight of the worlds ant population is heavier than the weight of the human population.
• The deadliest war in history excluding World War II was a civil war in China in the 1850s in which the rebels were led by a man who thought he was the brother of Jesus Christ.
• Just about 3 people are born every second, and about 1.3333 people die every second. The result is about a 2 and 2/3 net increase of people every second. Almost 10 people more live on this Earth now, than before you finished reading this.
• Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted.
• The number of people alive on earth right now is higher than the number of all the people that have died. Ever.
• The average American consumes 1.2 pounds of spider eggs a year and eat 2.5 pounds of insect parts a year.
• Men can breast feed babies
• There is a rare condition called Exploding Head Syndrome which you have probably never heard of.
• Scientists have determined that fungi are more closely related to human beings and animals than to other plants.
• In some (maybe all) Asian countries, the family name is written first and the individual name written second
• Abe Lincoln bought 50 cents worth of cocaine in 1860
• Isaac Newton discovered the laws of motion more than 300 years ago?
• Washington State has the longest single beach in the United States.Long Beach, WA
• The largest living thing on the face of the Earth is a mushroom underground in Oregon, it measures three and a half miles in diameter.
• 9 out of 10 people believe Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.This isn't true; Joseph Swan did.
• Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
• The Population of the world can live within the state boundaries of Texas.
• Plastic lawn flamingos outnumber real flamingos in the U.S.A.
• Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "e."
• Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is not considered an insult! Despite the expensive food, tipping is welcome as in any other country.
• Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine.
• The largest pumpkin weighed 377 pounds.

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