Odds of being killed by a dog – 1 in 700,000.       Odds of dying while in the bath tub – 1 in 1 million.       Odds of being killed by space debris – 1 in 5 billion.       Odds of being killed by poisoning –
                  At -40 degrees Centigrade/Fahrenheit, a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.       If you attempted to count all the stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.       Less than
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                  Astronaut Neil Armstrong first stepped on the moon with his left foot.       Hitler was claustrophobic. The large elevator leading to his eagles nest in the Austrian Alps was mirrored so it would appear larger and more open.       Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh cut off
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                  Strange Laws in Switzerland       Clothes may not be hung to dry on Sunday.       You may not wash your car on a Sunday.       It is considered an offence to mow your lawn on a Sunday, because it causes too much noise.       It is
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                  In Tennessee, it is against the law to drive a car while sleeping.       In New York, it is against the law for a blind person to drive an automobile.       In West Virginia, only babies can ride in a baby carriage.       In Georgia, it
                  You can’t plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.       Every citizen of Kentucky is required by law to take a bath at least once a year.       In the state of Queensland, Australia, it is still constitutional law that all pubs (hotel/bar)
                   The first suburban shopping mall was opened in 1922 by National Department Stores in Saint Louis.       The first toy product ever advertised on television was Mr. Potato Head®. Introduced in 1952.       The first US consumer product sold in the Soviet Union was Pepsi-Cola.
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                  It takes the interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech.       The average life of a taste bud is 10 days.       The average cough comes out of your mouth at 60 miles (96.5 km) per hour.       Relative to size, the strongest muscle
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                  Carbonated soda water was invented in 1767 by Joseph Priestley, the discoverer of oxygen.       Chewing gum was patented in 1869 by William Semple.       IBM’s motto is ‘Think’       Most lipstick contains fish scales.       The 1st personal computer, the Apple II, went on sale
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                  The rose family of plants, in addition to flowers, gives us apples, pears, plums, cherries, almonds, peaches and apricots.       The world’s tallest grass, which has sometimes grown 130 feet or more, is bamboo.       When a coffee seed is planted, it takes five years to
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