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AMUSING IRRELEVANT FACTS
<<~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during WW I.
Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought
he might be retarded.
In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.
In one town in California, there is a $600 fine for detonating a nuclear
weapon inside city limits.
About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still
sitting on it.
You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day that in any
other weather.
An average person laughs about 15 times a day.
Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have
recently eaten bananas.
Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.
A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 600 m.p.h.
The condom - made originally of linen - was invented in the early
1500s.
The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in
2000 B.C.
The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear
pants.
The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.
In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones -
Bhutan.
Every person has a unique tongue print.
Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.
Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
Pollsters say that 40% of dog and cat owners carry pictures of the
pets in their wallets.
<~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Bubble gum contains rubber.
You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.
Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in
Jello.
Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for several weeks.
Most American car horns honk in the key of F.
The world population of chickens is about equal to the number of
people.
Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over
his head.
In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the
bills.
About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make more
money. [The rest of us are avoiding reality for four more years.]
It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.
Some toothpastes contain antifreeze.
Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much as Pres.
Bush in 1991. And, rightfully so.
Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the
western Pacific.