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       50 DID U NO FACTS
       By: eba95 Date: August 9, 2010, 10:36 am
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       Marie Curie,
       the Nobel prize winning scientist
       who discovered radium, died of
       radiation poisoning.
       2. The volume of the Earth's moon is
       the same as the volume of the Pacific
       Ocean.
       3. The first song played on Virgin Radio
       was Born to be wild by INXS!
       4. A person will burn 7 percent more
       calories if they walk on hard dirt
       compared to pavement.
       5. Polar bear fur is not white, it's clear.
       6. Yahoo! was originally called 'Jerry's
       Guide to the World Wide Web'.
       7. It is physically impossible for pigs to
       look up into the sky.
       8. How does a shark find fish? It can
       hear their hearts beating.
       9. In Ancient Greece, if a woman
       watched even one Olympic event,
       she was executed.
       10. Eighty percent of Americans will be
       the victim of violent crime at least
       once in their lifetime.
       11. During the Gold Rush in 1849, some
       people paid as much as $100 for a
       glass of water!
       12. C3PO is the first character to speak in
       Star Wars.
       13. The state sport of Maryland is
       Jousting.
       14. The first patented condom was
       meant to be reused!
       15. King Kong was Adolf Hitler's favorite
       movie.
       16. A sneeze travels out your mouth at
       over 100 m.p.h.!
       17. Justin Timberlake's half-eaten french
       toast sold for over $3,000 on eBay!
       18. An egg will float if placed in water in
       which sugar has been added.
       19. 7,000 new insect species are
       discovered every year.
       20. More steel in the United States is
       used to make bottle caps than to
       manufacture automobile bodies.
       21. The Yo-Yo originated as a weapon in
       the Philippine Islands during the
       sixteenth century.
       22. Dolphins nap with one eye open.
       23. The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the
       Pacific Ocean.
       24. Out of all the senses, smell is most
       closely linked to memory.
       25. If you counted 24
       hours a day, it would take 31,688
       years to reach one trillion!
       26. In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II
       was named an "Honorary Harlem
       Globetrotter."!
       27. Your skeleton keeps growing until
       you are about 35, then you start to
       shrink.
       28. About 10% of Jewish households
       have Christmas Trees.
       29. Frozen lobsters can come back to life
       when thawed!
       30. Each 5 mph (miles-per-hour) you
       drive over 60 mph is like paying an
       additional $.10 a gallon for gas!
       31. The banana tree cannot reproduce
       itself. It can be propagated only by
       the hand of man.
       32. The lense of the eye continues to
       grow throughout a person's life.
       33. Tasmania is said to have the cleanest
       air in the world.
       34. The city of Las Vegas has the most
       hotel rooms in the world.
       35. Research indicates that babies who
       suck on pacifiers are more prone to
       ear aches.
       36. Nearly 10% of American households
       dress their pets in Halloween
       costumes.
       37. World's heaviest primates: morbidly
       obese humans. After that: gorillas at
       485 lbs.
       38. A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long
       in just one night!
       39. Eskimos don't gamble.
       40. A moth has no stomach.
       41. A Russian man who wore a beard
       during the time of Peter the Great
       had to pay a special tax.
       42. Identical twins do not have identical
       fingerprints.
       43. In the White House, there are 13,092
       knives, forks and spoons!
       44. Only 1% of bacteria cause disease.
       45. In one day, a full grown redwood
       tree expels more than 2 tons of
       water through its leaves.
       46. A person produces about half a liter
       of farts a day.
       47. Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the
       Sherlock Holmes stories, was an
       ophthalmologist by profession!
       48. When a giraffe's baby is born it falls
       from a height of six feet, normally
       without being hurt.
       49. The average housefly weighs 10 to
       15 millionths of a pound.
       50. Contrary to popular belief, lightning
       travels from the ground upwards not
       from the sky downwards.
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