Top 10's Amazing Facts V

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Each Jelly Belly jelly belly bean has 4 calories

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

Only 55 percent of all Americans know that the sun is a star

Kissing can aid in reducing tooth decay. This is because the extra saliva helps in keeping the mouth clean

There is a place called Hell, Michigan. It is about 50 miles from Detroit, Michigan

In 1929, the Coca-Cola slogan was "The Pause That Refreshes."

Bamboo plants can grow up to 36 inches in a day.

Since the United Nations was founded in 1945, there have been 140 wars

Goat meat contains up to 45 percent less saturated fat than chicken meat

Chef Boyardee is actually a real person. His real name is Hector Boiardi and he was born in northern Italy in 1898

Bill Bowerman, the co-founder of the shoe company Nike, got his first shoe idea after staring at a waffle iron. This gave him the idea of using squared spikes to make the shoes lighter

In 1989, the space shuttle Discovery carried 32 fertilized chicken eggs into orbit

The most recycled product in the world is the automobile.

Before the 17th century, carrots used to be the colour purple

William Taft who was the U.S. president between 1909-1913 once got stuck in the White House bathtub

If all the Oreo cookies ever sold were stacked on top of one another, they would be as high as 13.3 million Sears Towers

Ancient Egyptians kissed with their noses instead of with their lips

Krispy Kreme make five million doughnut a day

The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross

There were no red colored M&Ms from 1976 to 1987

In 1681, the last dodo bird died

There are over 600 different pasta shapes

Some people start to sneeze if they are exposed to sunlight or have a light shined into their eye

In 1989, twenty-three people were hired in Jacksonville Florida just to flush toilets so the pipes would not freeze

Lake Baikal is the oldest freshwater lake on Earth, having formed between 20 and 25 million years ago

From 1939 to 1942, there was a undersea post office in the Bahamas

An owl has three eyelids

Instead of a birthday cake, many children in Russia are given a birthday pie

Atlantic salmon can jump as high as 4.5 meters out of the water

Although the outsides of a bone are hard, they are generally light and soft inside. They are about 75% water

Each nostril of a human being register smell in a different way. Smells that are made from the right nostril are more pleasant than the left. However, smells can be detected more accurately when made by the left nostril

Children who are breast fed tend to have an IQ seven points higher than children who are not

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king fromhistory. Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great; Hearts -Charlemagne;and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

There are no ants in Iceland, Antarctica and Greenland

In the United States, approximately 135 million cars travel every day on the streets, roads, and interstates.

A salmon with two mouths, two sets of teeth and two tongues was caught by Bob Bateman of Canada

There is a "cemetery town" in California named Colma. Concerns about the public health, crime, and the need for space forced the city of San Francisco to outlaw burials in 1902. The city of Colma, which is five miles south of San Francisco, was established to bury the dead. The ratio of dead to living people is 750 to 1

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors

In Belgium, there is a museum that is just for strawberries

The most reproduced image in the world is Mickey Mouse, which can be found on over 7,500 different items

On average a person passes gas 14 times a day

Vasaloppet, which is located in Sweden is the oldest, longest, and the biggest cross-country ski race in the world. Every year, 14,000 people compete in the race

The clown fish has the ability to change its sex. If a breeding female dies, the male fish will change its sex and mate with another male

Bats sleep during the day and feed at night. The place that bats sleep in is called the "roost."

The puma and the leopard are the highest jumping mammals. They are able to reach a height of 16.5 feet

The chances of getting a cavity is higher if candy is eaten slowly throughout the day compared to eating it all at once and then brushing your teeth

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building

On average, a car driver will swear or blashpheme 32,025 times in their lifetime while driving

The average ear grows 0.01 inches in length every year

The first penny candy to be wrapped in America was the Tootsie Roll in 1896

Buckingham Palace has over six hundred rooms

Male owls weigh less and are smaller than female owls

Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego

The city of Las Vegas has the most hotel rooms in the world

Cows drink anywhere from 25-50 gallons of water each day

In the United Kingdom, three million people play bingo every year

Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms oftheir hands.

Every square inch of the human body has about 19,000,000 skin cells

In 1994, 7-Eleven coined the term "brain freeze." The word was developed to explain the feeling people get when drinking a Slurpee.

A swordfish can live as long as 25 years and weigh up to 1,200 pounds

Due to eating habits in the USA, one in three children born in the year 2000 have a chance of getting type II diabetes

The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.

Each honeycomb in Honeycomb cereal has seven holes

The Nile river is 6,690 kilometers long

By law, information collected in a U.S. census must remain confidential for seventy-two years

Eighty percent of 10 year old girls in the USA go on a diet

97% of all paper money in the US contains traces of cocaine

The name "Grey Poupon" used for mustard comes from two people: Maurice Grey and Auguste Poupon. Grey was the inventor of a machine that mass produced fine textured mustard, and Poupon was an already established maker of mustard. In 1886 the Grey-Poupon firm was formed

The Faberge, "Winter Egg" was sold in 1994 for $5.6 million. This is the most expensive decorative egg that has ever been sold

The name "Tonka" trucks was named after Lake Minnetonka located in Minnesota. Tonka means "great" in Sioux

18% of an Americans income is spent on transportation

Feb 1865 and Feb 1999 are the only months in recorded history not to have a full moon

Turkeys have a wingspan of approximately 4.5 feet

The first music video ever played on MTV Europe was by Dire Straits, "Money For Nothing."

Arnold Palmer was the first player to win $1 million on the PGA Tour

Three years after a person quits smoking, there chance of having a heart attack is the same as someone who has never smoked before

In a year, the average Americans eats approximately 18 pounds of Turkey

The household wrench was invented by boxing heavyweight champion Jack Johnson in 1922

Squids move through the ocean using a jet of water forced out of the body by a siphon

Back in 1796, dimes were called dismes

Pilgrims did not eat with forks. They only used spoons, knives and their fingers

The average human has about 20 square feet of skin weighing about 6 pounds

Mass murderer Charles Manson recorded an album titled "Lie."

On average, each American consumes approximately two hundred and sixty pounds of meat in a year

The term "The Big Apple" was coined by touring jazz musicians of the 1930s who used the slang expression "apple" for any town or city. Therefore, to play New York City is to play the big time - The Big Apple

An apple, potato, and onion all taste the same if you eat them with your nose plugged. They all taste sweet

The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.

Decaffeinated coffee is not 100% caffeine free. When coffee is being decaffeinated, 2% of the caffeine still remains in it

Sales of antacids increase by as much as 20% the day after the Superbowl

Automobile building is the largest manufacturing industry in the world.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes

Polar bears can eat as much as ten percent of their body weight in less than one hour

Marlboro was the first cigarette company to market a cigarette that had a red filter called "beauty tip." This was done to hide the lipstick marks left on the filter from women smokers

In Japan, the number four is considered to be unlucky because the Japanese word for four sounds very similar to the word death

The life expectancy of a $100 bill is nine years