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1. Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.
2. Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes.
3. Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500.
4. Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult.
5. One car out of every 230 made was stolen last year.
6. Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia
7. When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second.
8. A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel.
9. A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile.
10. The Philadelphia mint produces 26 million pennies per day.
11. $203,000,000 is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
12. 1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire are strung across the Unites States.
13. 10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.
14. 1 in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.
15. 11% of the world is left-handed.
16. Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can’t find any food.
17. 123,000,000 cars are being driven on highways in the United States.
18. We shed 40 pounds of skin in a lifetime.
19. A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.
20. 166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the United States.
21. When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.
22. 22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong bank accounts in the next hour.
23. In Disney’s Fantasia, the Sorcerer to whom Mickey played an apprentice was named Yensid, which is Disney spelled backward.
24. To escape the grip of a crocodile’s jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.
25. 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.
26. Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum.
27. A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein.
28. Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year.
29. 25% of a human’s bones are in its feet.
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