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The cruise liner, 'Queen Elizabeth 2', moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!

The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.

The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.

The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.

The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.

The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.

The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.

The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!

The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist!

The elephant is one of the few mammals that can't jump!

The energy of a discharge of an electric eel could start 50 cars.

The estimated number of M&M's sold each day in the United States is 200,000,000.

The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water.

The famous aphrodisiac 'Spanish Fly' is made from dried beetle remains!

The faster a kangaroo hops, the less energy it burns!

The female pigeon cannot lay eggs if she is alone. In order for her ovaries to function, she must be able to see another pigeon.

The filming of the movie 'Titanic' cost more than the Titanic itself!

The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.

The first baseball caps were made of straw.

The first patented condom was meant to be reused!

The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.

The first bomb dropped by the Allies on berlin in WW2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!

The first ever patent in the UK was Aaron Rathbone & Roger Burges, Map makers in 1618!

The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.

The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.

The first household refrigerators cost about $16,000, in today's money!

The first person to go over Niagara falls was Annie Edson-Taylor. She made the trip in a wooden barrel and survived!

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!

The first programme shown on BBC2 was Play School

The first song played on Virgin Radio was Born to be wild by INXS!

The first telephone book was one page long and had only 50 names in it.

The first TV commercial showed a Bulova watch ticking onscreen for exactly 60 seconds.

The first two years of a dog's life are equal to 24 human years.

The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping the length of a football field.

The G in 'g-string' stand for groin.

The Giant South African Earthworm can grow up to 22 feet long and 1 inch in thick.

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

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