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Snake venom is ninety percent protein   Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature   Pizza Hut is the world's largest pizza restaurant serving close to 1.7 million pizzas a day   Beer foam will go down by licking your finger then sticking it in the beer   Those stars and colors you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes   A full-moon is nine times brighter than a half-moon   If all of the blood vessels in your body were placed end to end, they would stretch 12,000 miles   If you were to roll a lung from a human body and out flat it would be the size of a tennis court   Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints   Two-thirds of the people in the world have not made a phone call   Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum doesn't stay in the gut. It will pass through the system and be excreted   The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket   The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts 3 naked men with their hands on each others shoulders   Earth is traveling through space at 660,000 miles per hour   In 1643, the British Parliament officially abolished the celebration of Christmas   Santa's Reindeers are Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner and Blitzen   In 1875 the director of the US patent office resigned. He said that there was nothing left to invent   The Channel between England and France grows about 300 millimeters each year   The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wide angle   Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name   On average, a person has two million sweat glands   Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.   Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.   Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.   The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples   97% of the earth's water is undrinkable   The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it   All babies are color blind when they are born   Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old   14 million people were killed in World War I, 20 million died in flu epidemic in the years that followed   There are more than 40,000 characters in the Chinese script   Vision requires more brain power than the other four senses   On average, men are 40% muscle and 15% fat; women are 23% muscle and 25% fat   There are no public toilets in Peru   Urine and tears have the same basic ingredients   The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it's already been digested by a bee.   Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.   Historically, a blue ribbon has been awarded for first prize   The motto of M-G-M movie studios is Art for Art's Sake   The lion that roars in the MGM logo is named "Volney"   It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it   The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.   The Mercedes-Benz motto is 'Das Beste oder Nichts' meaning 'the best or nothing'.   The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.   There are more Rolls Royce cars in Hong Kong than anywhere else in the world   X-ray technology has shown there are 3 different versions of the Mona Lisa under the visible one   The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.   It takes only about 8 minutes for the Space Shuttle to accelerate to a speed of more than 27,359 km/hour   Hydroponics is the technique by which plants are grown in water without soil   Time magazine named the computer its "Man of the Year" in 1982   Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from producing tears   Your left lung is smaller in size than your right lung, it is like that in order to make room for your heart.   Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same time   Male human brains are about 10 percent heavier than female brains   Before 1800 there were no separately designed shoes for right and left feet   The glossy look to lipstick comes from fish scales, which are iridescent   To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe   Honey is used as a center for golf balls and in antifreeze mixtures   The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'   Your body weight is lower at 9 A.M. than at any other time of the day   The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night   40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals   Without any greenhouse effect, Earth would be cold and lifeless with an average temp of 0.4ºF   The primary purpose of growing rice in flooded paddies is to drown the weeds surrounding the young seedlings. Rice can, in fact, be grown in drained areas   Not a single new livestock animal has been domesticated in the last 4,000 years   Bone China is so called because powdered animal bone  is mixed with the clay to give it translucency and whiteness   Mickey Mouse has four fingers on each hand   The bark of a redwood tree is fireproof. Fires that occur in a redwood forest take place inside the trees The original reason for tablecloths was as a towel to wipe one's fingers and hands on after eating   Mount Everest moves approximately 2.4 inches (10 cm) in a Northeasterly direction every year

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