Interesting Facts #18

  • There is a one in six chance that it will be raining in a randomly selected location in the world.
  • A hermit crab can live up to three weeks without food or water.
  • Only 7 percent of Americans pronounce the second ‘s’ in the word ‘asterisk’.
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Interesting Facts #17

  • Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80%.
  • Percentage of American women who say they’d marry the same man: 50%.
  • Tokyo has had 24 recorded instances of people either killed or receiving serious skull fractures while bowing to each other with the traditional Japanese greeting.
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Interesting Facts #16

  • Nondairy creamer is flammable.
  • Although employees are legally obligated to wash their hands after using the restroom, they are not legally obligated to wash their hand after sneezing (gross!).
  • Because radio waves travel at 186,000 miles per second and sound waves saunter at 700 miles per hour, a broadcast voice can be heard sooner 13,000 miles away than it can be heard at the back of the room in which it originated
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Interesting Facts #15

  • It is physically possible for Men to breastfeed babies
  • A German World War II submarine was sunk due to malfunction of the toilet.
  • The largest living thing on the face of the Earth is a mushroom underground in Oregon, it measures three and a half miles in diameter.
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Interesting Facts #14

  • The number of people alive on earth right now is higher than the number of all the people that have died. Ever.
  • The total combined weight of the worlds ant population is heavier than the weight of the human population.
  • Scientists have determined that fungi are more closely related to human beings and animals than to other plants.
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