Some Interesting facts

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Some interesting facts....

• In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
  
  
• Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
  
  
• A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
  
  
• The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)
  
  
• Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great; Hearts - Charlemagne; and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
  
  
• 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
  
  
• The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
  
  
• The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
  
  
• The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
  
  
• If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
  
  
• No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl.
  
  
• The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver".
  
  
• The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
  
  
• In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.
  
  
• It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.
  
  
• Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
  
  
• Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.
  
  
• It's possible to lead a cow upstairs... but not downstairs.
  
  
• Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.
  
  
• Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
  
  
• The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
  
  
• On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
  
  
• In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
  
  
• Reno, Nevada is west of Los Angeles, California.
  
  
• Elephants can't jump. Every other mammal can.

 

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• The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
  
• The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
  
• The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
  
• A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
  
• More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
  
• The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
  
• TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters only one row of the keyboard.
  
• If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
  
• The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
  
• A snail can sleep for 3 years.
  
• American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
  
• The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
  
• The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
  
• Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.
  
• The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
  
• Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
  
• The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.