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77) The name Wendy was made up for the book “Peter Pan.”

I knew that one.. it's my mom's name

 

[Pumpkin]

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80) The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age. Its name was Fred.

 

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81) The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

 

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82) The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher

 

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83) The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.

 

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84) The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.

 

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85) The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.

 

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86) The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs.

 

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87) The “L.L.” in L.L. Bean stands for Leon Leonwood.

 

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88) The longest one-syllable word in the English language is “screeched.”

 

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89) The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.

 

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90) The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.

 

[jassilem]

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85) The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.

Whose gonna answer a fucking penguin?

 

[Pumpkin]

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91) The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

 

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92) The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.

 

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93) The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra’s “Its A Wonderful Life”.

 

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94) The condom – made originally of linen – was invented in the early 1500s.

 

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

 

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96) The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.

 

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97) The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.