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The Black Widow spider eats her mate during or after sex.

Napoleon’s penis was sold to an American Urologist for $40,000.

Eating the heart of a male Partridge was the cure for impotence in ancient Babylon.

A bull can inseminate 300 cows from one single ejaculation.

When a Hawaiian woman wears a flower over her left ear, it means that she is not available.

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In Aspen Colorado, you can have a maximum income of $104,000 and still receive government subsidized housing.

Honking of car horns for a couple that just got married is an old superstition to insure great sex.

Dr. Kellogg introduced Kellogg’s Corn Flakes in hopes that it would reduce masturbation.

The sperm of a mouse is actually longer than the sperm of an elephant.

In medieval France, unfaithful wives were made to chase a chicken through town naked.

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The phrase “rule of thumb” is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.

The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight in case of war or emergency, they could be used as airstrips.

The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army. G.P. for ‘General Purpose’ vehicle.

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

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In the early 1940s, the FCC assigned television’s Channel 1 to mobile services (like two-way radios in taxis) but did not re-number the other channel assignments.

The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

“I am.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

Hershey’s Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it’s kissing the conveyor belt.

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Hong Kong holds the most Rolls Royce’s per capita.

Average number of days a West German goes without washing his underwear: 7

Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.

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 Over 60% of all those who marry get divorced.

400-quarter pounders can be made from 1 cow.

A full-loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes at least 20 minutes to stop.

Coca-Cola was originally green.

Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.

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During a severe windstorm or rainstorm the Empire State Building sways several feet to either side.

In the last 3,500 years, there have been approximately 230 years of peace throughout the civilized world.

 The Black Death reduced the population of Europe by one third in the period from 1347 to 1351.

The average person spends about two years on the phone in a lifetime.

Length of beard an average man would grow if he never shaved 27.5 feet

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Non-dairy creamer is flammable. [link]

The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the “American Pie.” (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)

Golf courses cover 4% of North America.

 The average person will accidentally eat just under a pound of insects every year.

Until 1994, world maps and globes sold in Albania only had Albania on them.

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The average talker sprays about 300 microscopic saliva droplets per minute, about 2.5 droplets per word.

The Earth experiences 50,000 Earth quakes per year and is hit by Lightning 100 times a second.

Every year 11,000 Americans injure themselves while trying out bizarre sexual positions.

If we had the same mortality rate now as in 1900, more than half the people in the world today would not be alive.

On average, Americans eat 18 acres of pizza everyday.

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Tom Sawyer was the first novel written on a typewriter.

If Texas were a country, its GNP would be the fifth largest of any country in the world.

There are 1 million ants for every human in the world.

The ‘Golden Arches’ of fast food chain McDonalds is more recognized worldwide than the religious cross of Christianity.

Former basketball superstar Michael Jordan is the most recognized face in the world, more than the pope himself.

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