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Each
of us generates about 3.5 pounds of rubbish a day, most of it paper.
It
has NEVER rained in Calama, a town in the Atacama Desert of Chile.
It costs more to
buy a new car today in the United States
than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and
from the New World.
Bees have 5 eyes.
There are 3 small eyes on the top of a bee’s head and 2 larger ones in front.
In
eighteenth-century English gambling dens, there was an employee whose only
job was to swallow the dice if there was a police raid.
There
are no clocks in Las Vegas
gambling casinos.
The
first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.
Annual
growth of WWW traffic is 314,000%
In
1778, fashionable women of Paris
never went out in blustery weather without a lightning rod attached to their
hats.
The
average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately
50,000 English words.
More
than 2 billion pencils are manufactured each year in the United States. If these were laid
end to end they would circle the world nine times.
It
has been estimated that humans use only 10% of their brain.
Most Egyptians
died by the time they were 30 about 300 years ago.
For some time
Frederic Chopin, the composer and pianist, wore a beard on only one side of
his face, explaining: “It does not matter, my audience sees only my
right side.”
1 in 8 Americans has worked at a McDonalds restaurant.
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