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combinations possible on a Rubik's Cube. There are 44,523,312,694,361,020,971,556,671,544,734,879,370,359,807,003,367,569,358,848,000,000,000,000 ways to order a deck of cards. There are 45 miles of nerves in the skin of a human being. There are 48 Gutenberg Bibles still in existence. Two of them were in Germany during World War II and are missing, but many book collectors believe them to be in private collections. There are 49 different foods mentioned in the Bible. There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body. There are 63,360 inches in a mile. There are a million ants for every person on Earth. There are about 2 chickens for every human in the world. There are about 30 milligrams of caffeine in the average chocolate bar, while a cup of coffee contains around 100 to 150 milligrams. There are about 450 types of cheese in the world. 240 come from France. There are about 5,000,000,000 years of sunlight left There are about 7.7 million millionaires in the world (more than 1/1000th of the population). There are approximately 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building. There are approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day. There are approximately 13,000 identifiable varieties of roses throughout the world. There are approximately 2,700 different species of mosquitoes. There are approximately 250,000 sweat glands in your feet. There are approximately 45 billion fat cells in an average adult. There are approximately 7,000 feathers on an eagle. There are approximately 75,000,000 horses in the world. There are approximately 9,000 taste buds on the tongue. There are approximately fifty Bibles sold each minute across the world. There are around 2,600 different species of frogs. They live on every continent except Antarctica. There are at least two words in the English language that use all of the vowels, in the correct order, and end in the letter Y: abstemiously & facetiously. There are four main Blood types: A, B, AB and O and each Blood type is either Rh positive or negative. Blood types in the US Type O positive 38.4%, O negative 7.7%, A positive 32.3%, A negative 6.5%, B positive 9.4%, B negative 1.7%, AB positive 3.2%, AB negative 0.7% There are just over 7 million millionaires in the world (more than 1/1000th of the population). There are more coffee drug addicts in the US than drug addicts of any other kind. There are more collect calls on Father's Day than any other day of the year. There are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are human beings on the entire earth. There are more kinds of bacteria in your mouth then there are people in the world There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones. There are more plastic lawn flamingos in the United States than real ones. There are more stars than all of the grains of sand on earth. There are more statues of Sacajewa, Lewis & Clark's female Indian guide, in the United States than any other person. There are more than 100 distinct ethnic groups in the former Soviet states. There are more than 100 million dogs and cats in the United States. Americans spend more than 5.4 billion dollars on their pets each year. There are more than 2,000 muscles in a caterpillar. There are more than 40,000 characters in Chinese script. There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year. There are more than 500 varieties of banana in the world: The most common kinds are Dwarf Cavendish, Valery, and Williams Hybrid bananas. Other types of bananas include Apple and a small red banana called the Red Jamaica. A large type of banana called the plantain is hard and starchy and is almost eaten as a cooked vegetable. The Cavendish is the most common variety of bananas now imported to the United States. The Cavendish is a shorter, stubbier plant than earlier varieties. It was developed to resist plant diseases, insects and windstorms better than its predecessors. The Cavendish fruit is of medium size, has a creamier, smooth texture, and a thinner peel than earlier varieties. There are more than 700 species of plants that grow in the United States that have been identified as dangerous if eaten. Among them are some that are commonly favored by gardeners: buttercups, daffodils, lily of the valley, sweet peas, oleander, azalea, bleeding heart, delphinium, and rhododendron. There are more than 900,000 known species of insects in the world. There are nine rooms on a 'Clue' game board. A forfeited baseball game is recorded as a 9-0 score. There are no clocks or windows in any casino. There are no female characters in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island because he was following the instructions of his stepson, Lloyd Osbourne, for whom he wrote the book. Llyod wanted a story "about a map, a treasure, a mutiny and a derelict ship...No women in the story." There are no geeze in the southern hemisphere. There are no living descendents of William Shakespeare. There are no public toilets in Peru. There are no turkeys in Turkey. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple, or silver. There are one million ants for every person in the world. There are only 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet. There are only 4 words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. There are only 81 stable chemical elements. Rhenium was the last one to be found in 1925. Fifteen other elements have been discovered since then, but they are all radioactive. There are only four words in the English language that end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. There are only two sequences of four consecutive letters that can be found in the English language: "rstu" and "mnop." Examples of each are understudy and gymnophobia. There are orange peels and raisins in A-1 Steak Sauce. There are over 3,500 bras hanging behind the bar at Hogs and Heifers, a bar in Manhattan. So many, in fact, that they caused a beam to collapse in the ceiling. There are roughly 6,500 spoken languages in the world today. However, about 2,000 of those languages have fewer than 1,000 speakers. The most widely spoken language in the world is Mandarin Chinese. There are 885,000,000 people in China that speak that language. There are seven suicides in the Bible: Abimelech. Samson, Saul, Saul's armor-bearer, Ahithophel, Zimri, Judas. There are six U.S. Presidents with the first name James: Madison, Monroe, Garfield, Buchanon, Carter, Polk. There are songs in all of Shakespeare's plays except The Comedy of Errors. There are ten human body parts that are only three letters long: eye, hip, arm, leg, ear, toe, jaw, rib, lip, and gum. There are ten million bricks in the Empire State Building. There are thirteen languages spoken by more than 100 million people. They are: Mandarin Chinese, English, Hindi, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Bengali, Portuguese, Malay-Indonesian, French, Japanese, German, and Urdu. There are two credit cards for every person in the U.S. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States. There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious." There are, on average, 259 raisins in a box of Raisin Bran and 388 in a box of Premium Raisin Bran. There has never been a time in Super Bowl history where a punt return resulted in a touchdown. There have been about 30 films made at or about Alcatraz, the now-closed federal prison island in San Francisco Bay, including The Rock (1996), Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), and Escape from Alcatraz (1979). There have been no recorded instances of anybody being killed by a meteorite. There have been over 600 lawsuits against Alexander Grahm Bell over rights to the patent of the telephone, the most valuable patent in U.S. history. There is a 1 in 4 chance that New York will have a white Christmas. There is a 6-foot tall stone monument dedicated to the cartoon character Popeye in Crystal City, TX. . There is a butterfly found in Brazil that has the smell and color of a chocolate. There is a flower called the Scarlet Pimpernel that can forecast the weather. If the flower is closed up, rain is coming and if it is opened up, the day will be sunny.It is a.k.a 'the poor man's weatherglass' There is a Massachusetts law requiring all dogs to have their hind legs tied during the month of April. There is a member of the spider family called the demodex folliculorum that lives at the root of people's eye lashes. It's harmless and normal.(so they claim) To look for them, grab a handful of your eyelashes and dunk them in warm water. They'll start swimming out. It is prevalent in nearly 100% of old people in the U.S. There is a sea squirt (found in the seas near Japan) that digests its own brain. When the sea squirt is mature it permanently attaches itself to a rock. At this point it does not need to move anymore and has no need for a brain. There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein. There is a street in Canada that runs for a distance of nearly 1900 kms. There is a way of writing 1 by using all ten single-digit numbers at once: 148/296 + 35/70 = 1. There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs five times: "indivisibility." There is about 1/4 pound of salt in every gallon of seawater. There is about 200 times more gold in the oceans than has been mined throughout history. There is actually no danger in swimming right after you eat, though it may feel uncomfortable. There is air in space, but very little of it. In fact, it is equivalent to a marble in a box 5 miles wide. Most of the gas is captured by the gravitational pull of other celestial bodies.Thanx M.Lerner There is an average of 61,000 people airborne over the US at any given moment. There is an extra leg in the Iwo Jima memorial statue and extra hand. While the legend is that these extremedies belong to God, who is helping the Marines win, they are actually there for added support to the statue, and designed not to look like a metal rod going throught the middle of the group of Marines. There is coffee flavored Pez. There is cyanide in apple pits. There is more bacteria in your mouth than the human population of U.S and Canada combined. Thanx Julie for this and a couple more There is no alcohol left in food that's cooked with wine. The alcohol evaporates at 172 degrees Fahrenheit. There is no difference in flavor or nutritional value between brown and white eggs. Aside form color, they are identical. Most white eggs come from White Longhorns and browns come from a commercial cross of Rhode Island Reds and Barred Plymouth Rocks. There is no ice covering Iceland. There is no single cat called the panther. The name is commonly applied to the leopard, but it is also used to refer to the puma and the jaguar. A black panther is really a black leopard. There is no solid proof of who built the Taj Mahal. There is no such thing as a banana tree. Bananas grow on plants. There is only ONE word in the English language with THREE CONSECUTIVE SETS OF DOUBLE LETTERS.... Bookkeeper There is over 70,000,000 rats in New York, That is an average of about 9 rats per person There is zero gravity at the center of the earth. There really was a Cyrano de Bergerac. He lived from about 1620 to 1655, had a big nose and dueled. He was also a science fiction writer who was the first person in history to suggest that a rocket could carry someone into space. There was no soap in the ancient Mediterranean world. Olive oil was used to wash the body in addition to cooking. There was once a law in Salem Virginia that made it illegal to leave home without knowing where you were going. There were 840 soldiers in the regular army when the U.S. War Department was established in 1789. Their job was to supervise public lands and guard the Indian frontier. There's a town in New Mexico called Pie Town that consists of two restaurants and a post office. It was originally a stoppong place along a long stretch of road. It's famous for having good pies! There's an average of of 178 sesame seeds on a Big Mac bun. There's Arsnick(a dangerous poison) in dirt There's enough water preassure in one onion cell to cause a steam engine to explode. Thirteen muscles are used to make a person smile. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married. This is what the red, white, and blue on the US flag represent: The Continental Congress left no record to show why it chose the colors. However, in 1782, the Congress of the Confederation chose these same colors for the Great Seal of the United States and listed their meaning as follows: white to mean purity and innocence, red for valor and hardiness, and blue for vigilance, perseverance, and justice. According to legend, George Washington interpreted the elements of the flag this way: the stars were taken from the sky, the red from the British colors, and the white stripes signified the secession from the home country. However, there is no official designation or meaning for the colors of the flag. This may have been true on an older $5 bill, but I just scanned in one of the new ones and took a real close look and found nothing. If anyone finds it on an old one, please send in a pic or let me know. This one is deep...think about the cultural impact this could have: NO WAR HAS BEEN FOUGHT WHERE BOTH COUNTRIES HAD A McDonalds This sounds feasible, but isn't true! Crapper actually invented the automatic shut-off mechanism used in the modern toilet. Thomas Edison got patents for a method of making concrete furniture and a cigar which was supposed to burn forever. Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark. Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark Thomas Jefferson invented the dumbwaiter. Thomasville, North Carolina, prohibits airplanes from flying over the town on Sundays during the hours between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Those British are sophisticated people, in almost everything except their choice of coffee. They still drink instant ten-to-one over fresh brewed. Those hard, plastic points on the ends of shoelaces are called aglets. Though it goes to 10, 9 is estimated to be the point of total tectonic destruction from an earthquake (2 is the smallest that can be felt unaided.) Thousands of people watched the Battle of Bunker Hill take place. People in the Boston area sat on rooftops, in trees, on church steeples, and in the rigging of ships in the harbor to watch the American revolutionaries battle the British. Three chemicals are used to execute criminals by lethal injection. First, Sodium Thiopental is injected, causing the inmate to fall into a deep sleep. The second chemical agent, Pancuronium Bromide, a muscle relaxer, follows. This causes the inmate to stop breathing due to paralyses of the diaphragm and lungs. Finally, Potassium Chloride is injected, stopping the heart. Three million people in the United States have an impairment of the back or limbs that is a direct result of an accidental fall. Three-hundred-million cells die in the human body every minute. Throughout his career, DeWolf Hopper recited Casey at the Bat" over 10,000 times. Tiger Woods is the only person to hold all four major championships at one time, although it did not happen in the calendar year. He also currently holds the scoring record for all four majors. Tiger Woods' real first name is Eldrick. His father gave him the nickname "Tiger" in honor of a South Vietnamese soldier his father had fought alongside with during the Vietnam War. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. Tigers' paw prints are called pug marks. Time magazine's "Man of the Year" for 1938 was Adolf Hitler. Timmie Jean Lindsey of Houston, TX became the first person to get silicone breast implants in 1962. Tina Turner's real name is Annie Mae Bullock. Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969, makes it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles. To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles. To an observer standing on Pluto, the sun would appear no brighter than Venus appears in our evening sky. To avoid long encounters with the press, President Ronald Reagan often took reporters' questions with his helicopter roaring in the background. To determine the percentage of alcohol in a bottle of liquor divide the proof by two. To find out almost the exact temperature... Listen to a cricket chirping and count the number of chirps in a minute. Add fifty, divide by four then add 40. To go one lunar day, adjust your watch to lose two minutes and five seconds every hour. To keep your feet warm, put on a hat: 80% of all body heat escapes through the head. To make things easier while mixing the American Graffiti sound track, George Lucas and sound designer Walter Murch labeled all of the film reels R and all of the dialogue tracks D, and then numbered each of them sequentially, starting with 1. When Murch later asked Lucas for Reel 2 Dialogue 2 or more precisely, R2 D2 Lucas liked the way it sounded so much that he made a note of the name for another project he was writing. To prevent some numbers from occurring more frequently than others, dice used in crap games in Las Vegas are manufactured to a tolerance of 0.0002 inches, less than 1/17 the thickness of a human hair. Tobacco smoke contains over 4,000 chemicals, including at least 50 that cause, initiate or promote cancer such as tar, ammonia, carbon monoxide, oxides of nitrogen and benzopyrene. Today's commercial bananas are scientifically classified into the genus Musa of the Musaceae family. Toilets in Australia flush counter clockwise. Tokyo is the largest city by population (35million), followed by New York (21 million), then by Seoul (21 million), then Mexico City (20 million). Tom Cruise, John Travolta and Anne Archer are members of the Church of Scientology Tommy McDonald, a receiver for the Philadelphia Eagles, was the last NFL player to wear a helmet without a face mask. Tony Hawk has made more money from video games and tv commercials than from skateboarding. Toothbrushes should be kept 6 feet away from the toilet to avoid being contaminated by airborne stuff stirred up after flushing Top corporate executives take separate planes in case one crashes. Tortoises drink water through their noses. Tossing coins into fountains, dates back more than 2,000 years ago. Townsend Speakman of Philadelphia mixed fruit flavor with soda water in 1807, creating the first flavored soda pop, he called it Nephite Julep. Traces of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000. Triskaidekaphobia means fear of the number 13. Paraskevidekatriaphobia means fear of Friday the 13th (which occurs one to three times a year). In Italy, 17 is considered an unlucky number. In Japan, 4 is considered an unlucky number. Truck driving is the most dangerous occupation by accidental deaths (799 in 2001). Truffles, or mushrooms that grow below the ground, are one of the world's most expensive foods. One variety, Tuber melanosporum, can cost between $800 and $1,500 a pound. Turkey began to roast and grind the coffee bean in the 13th Century, and some 300 years later, in the 1500's, the country had become the chief distributor of coffee, with markets established in Egypt, Syria, Persia, and Venice, Italy. Turkeys can reproduce without having sex. It's called parthenogenesis Turkeys drown in the rain Turtles can breathe through their butts. Turtles have no teeth. Twinkies have a shelf life of about 25 years. Two in every three car buyers pays the sticker price without arguing. Two normal kidneys contain 2 million tiny blood filters which filter 50 gallons of blood every day!. Two thirds of all left-handed people are men. Two U.S. Presidents with the initials "J.M." followed each other as president. Two-thirds of the world's coffee comes from Brazil. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
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