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Fun Facts About stuff 23% of all
photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.
The best time for a person to buy shoes is in the afternoon. This is because the foot tends to swell a bit around this
time.
The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.
The first product that Sony came out with was the rice
cooker.
The first product that the toy company Mattel came out with was picture frames.
The first toilet being flushed in a
motion picture was in the movie Psycho.
The household wrench was invented by boxing heavyweight champion Jack Johnson in 1922.
The leading cause of poisoning for children
under the age of six in the home is liquid dish soap.
The most dangerous job in the United States is that of an Alaskan Crab
Fisherman.
The only king without a moustache in a deck of cards is the king of hearts.
The revenue that is generated from
gambling is more than the revenue that comes from movies, cruise ships, recorded music, theme parks, and spectator sports combined.
The United States produces enough plastic film
annually to cover the entire state of Texas.
The WD in WD-40 stands for Water Displacer.
There are 365 steps on the front of
the U.S. Capitol Building - one for every day of the year.
There is a giant mushroom in Oregon that is over 2,400 years old, covers
3.4 square miles of land, and is still growing!
To sell your home faster, and for more money, paint it yellow.
U-Haul is the
world's largest advertiser in the Yellow Pages.
Warner Chappel Music owns the copyright to the song 'Happy Birthday'. They make
over $1 million in royalties every year from the commercial use of the song.
Warren Beatty once worked as a rat-catcher!
Wheel
of Fortune star Vanna White holds the record for putting her hands together approximately 140,000 times to clap.
When Scott Paper
Company first started manufacturing toilet paper they did not put their name on the product because of embarrassment.
Women who
read romance novels have sex twice as often as those who don't.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!
If you buy a ticket on Monday you are a hundred times more likely to die before the draw is held on wednesday, than win the Jackpot!
The plastic tips on shoelaces are called "aglet
'Bimbo' is a brand of soft drink manufactured and marketed by Coca-
Cola, Inc.
'Formicophilia' is the fetish for having small insects crawl on your genitals.
'Jedi' is an official religion,
with over 70,000 followers, in Australia.
'Second Street' is the most common street name in the U.S.; 'First Street' is the
sixth! "
'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
-40 degrees Celsius is equal to -40 degrees Fahrenheit.
1/3 of Taiwanese
funeral processions include a stripper.
10 of the tributaries flowing into the Amazon river are as big as the Mississippi river.
10 percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
15 million gallons of wine were destroyed in the 1906
San Francisco earthquake.
15 percent of Americans secretly bite their toes.
160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental
Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road.
2 out of 3 adults in the United States have hemorrhoids.
2,500 newborn babies will be
dropped in the next month.
20% of tuxedo rentals take place in May.
20252 is Smokey the Bear's own zip code.
23% of all
photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.
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