Useless Trivia

The liquid inside young coconuts
>can be used as a substitute for
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>Blood plasma .
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>No piece of paper can be folded in half
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>more than seven (7) times.
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>Donkeys kill more people annually
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>than plane crashes.
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>You burn more calories sleeping
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>than you do watching television.
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>Oak trees do not produce acorns
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>until they are fifty (50) years of age or older.
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>The first product to have a bar code
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>was Wrigley's gum.
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>The King of Hearts is the only king
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>WITHOUT A MOUSTACHE
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>American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987
>by eliminating one (1) olive
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>from each salad served in first-class.
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>Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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>(Since Venus is normally associated with women,
>what does this tell you!)
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>Apples, not caffeine,
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>are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
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>Most dust particles in your house are made from
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>DEAD SKIN!
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>The first owner of the Marlboro Company
>died of lung cancer.
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>So did the first "Marlboro Man."
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>Walt Disney was afraid
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>OF MICE!
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>PEARLS MELT
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>IN VINEGAR!
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>The three most valuable brand names on earth:
>Marlboro, Coca Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
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>It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...
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>but, not downstairs.
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>A duck's quack doesn't echo,
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>and no one knows why.
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>Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush
>be kept at least six (6) feet away from
>a toilet to avoid airborne particles
>resulting from the flush.
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>(I keep my toothbrush in the living room now!)
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>Richard Millhouse Nixon
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>was the first U.S. president
>whose name contains all the letters
>from the word "criminal."
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>The second ?
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>William Jefferson Clinton
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>(Please don't tell me you're SURPRISED!?!!)
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>And the best for last.....
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>Turtles can breathe through their butts.
>(I know some people like that, don't YOU?)
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STRANGE BUT TRUE

• Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!
• The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!
• The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!
• The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
• Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!
• Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia!
• The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders!
• A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!
• Most lipstick contains fish scales!
• The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!
• No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
• A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!
• The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
• Clinophobia is the fear of beds!
• A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
• The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!
• Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
• The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!
• A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!
• In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!
It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland