| Surgeons who listen to music during operations perform better than those who don't . |
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| Greyhounds have the best eyesight of any breed of dog. |
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| A rat can go without water longer than a camel can. |
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| The chances of you dying on the way to get your lottery tickets is greater than your chances of winning. |
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| 40% of all indigestion remedies sold in the world are bought by Americans. |
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| The heart of a mouse beats 650 times per minute! |
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| There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year! |
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| In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter."! |
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| 90% of all restaurants fail during their first year of operation. |
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| Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints! |
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| The state sport of Maryland is Jousting. |
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| An airplane mechanic invented Slinky while he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use for the springs. |
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| The lense of the eye continues to grow throughout a person's life. |
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| An eagle can attack, kill, and carry away an animal as large as a small deer. |
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| Mr. Rogers was an ordained minister. |
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| Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. |
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| The Queen Mary - the grandest vessel of her day - had many of her vital components made by car manufacturer Skoda! |
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| The quills of a porcupine are soft when they are born. |
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| More than 90% of shark attack victims survive. |
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| Check your map! Virginia extends farther west than West Virginia. |
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| The banana tree cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man. |
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| Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution! |
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| Contrary to popular beliefs, chocolate does not cause acne. |
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| It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas! |
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| About half of all Americans are on a diet on any given day. |
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| Honey is the only food that will not spoil. |
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| Warner Chappel Music owns the copyright to the song 'Happy Birthday'. They make over $1 million in royalties every year from the commercial use of the song. |
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| One cubic foot of gold weighs more than 1,200 pounds! |
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| One out of 20 people have an extra rib. |
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| Giraffes are unable to cough. |
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| It takes five minutes to execute someone in a gas chamber. |
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| Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball. |
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| Just one in three consumers pays off his or her credit card bill every month. |
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| Stannous fluoride, which is the cavity fighter found in toothpaste is made from recycled tin. |
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| A group of frogs is called an army. |
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| In the average lifetime a person will breath in about 44 pounds of dust. |
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| A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation! |
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| Among older men, vanilla is the most erotic smell. |
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| The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children. |
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| When he was only 13, Johnny Depp lost his virginity to a girl slightly older than him. |
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| The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour. |
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| Buttermilk does not contain any butter. |
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| City dwellers have longer, thicker, denser nose hairs than country folks do. |
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| If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. |
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| A small airplane can fly backwards. |
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| A survey reported that 12% of Americans think that Joan of Arc was Noah's wife. |
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| According to studies, men change their minds two to three times more often than women. |
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| There are 206 bones in the human body! |
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| No one knows how many people died during the sinking of the Titanic. |
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| Women who read romance novels have sex twice as often as those who don't. |
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