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#1 A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel!

#2 A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile!

#3 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!

#4 Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!

#5 It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!

#6 The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!

#7 Most lipstick contains fish scales!

#8 It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis!

#9 No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!

#10 Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!

#11 If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!

#12 The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!

#13 Cat urine glows under a black-light!

#14 The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1!

#15 The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times!

#16 Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!

#17 A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!

#18 Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee!

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

#20 One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television!

#21 It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas!

#22 Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!

#23 Hummingbirds can weigh less than a penny!

#24 The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!

#25 The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders!
 
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#25 The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders!

:24: ... GAY!

Did you know that air is heavier than you think, if you put a cointainer around the Eiffel Tower, and took away the tower, the air that's left inside the container weighs more than the actual tower.
 
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