| 21. |
Snakes continue to grow until the day they die. |
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| 22. |
A mosquito flaps its wings 600 times a second. |
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| 23. |
Tomatoes were originally thought to be poisonous.
But a Virginia doctor demonstrated that
wasn't the case in 1733.
Dr. Siccary ate the fruit and declared
it was not only edible, but very delicious. |
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| 24. |
On an island in northern Wales there's a village called
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllandysiliogogogoch.
(Just pronounce it as it's spelled.) |
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| 25. |
India, not the United States,
is the number one movie producer in the world.
Annually, India averages more than 800 films
compared to just over 500 in the U.S. |
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| 26. |
In one second 6,242,000,000,000,000,000
electrons pass any given point in an electrical current |
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| 27. |
Of the 3,000 islands of the Bahama chain in
the Caribbean, only 20 are inhabited. |
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| 28. |
In India and Iran, the part of the house reserved for
women is called a "zenana". |
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| 29. |
Alaska was bought from Russia for
about 2 cents an acre. |
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| 30. |
The nation of Mozambique has an AK-47
assault rifle on its flag. |
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| 31. |
Over 50 billion aspirin tablets
are taken worldwide each year. |
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| 32. |
In Pakistan, it is rude to show the soles of your feet or
point a foot when you are sitting on the floor. |
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| 33. |
In the country of Tibet, it's good manners
to stick out your tongue at your guests. |
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| 34. |
Birth-control campaigns in Egypt in the late 1970s
failed because village women ended up
wearing the pills in lockets, as talismans. |
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| 35. |
In Turkey, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries,
anyone caught drinking coffee was put to death. |
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| 36. |
If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33.
She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and
have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck. |
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| 37. |
On the stone temples of Madura in southern India,
there are more than 30
million carved images of gods and goddesses. |
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| 38. |
A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair. |
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| 39. |
Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth,
which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron;
in honor of his brother. |
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| 40. |
TYPEWRITER, is one of the longest words that
can be made using the letters only one row of the keyboard. |
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