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If you flip a coin ten times, the odds against its coming up with the same side showing each time are 1,023 to 1.
If you put a raisin in a fresh glass of champagne, it will rise and fall contin- uously.
If you took a stan- dard slinky and stretched it out it would measure 87 feet.
It is possible to go blind from smoking too heavily.
It is possible to see a rainbow at night!
It snows more in the Grand Canyon than it does in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
It takes 100 pounds of rain water to produce a single pound of food from the earth.
It takes 17 muscles to smile, 43 to frown.
It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.
It takes 492 sec- onds for sunlight to reach the Earth!
It takes a drop of ocean water more than 1,000 years to circulate around the world.
It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.
It takes about a week to make a jelly bean.
It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
It takes five min- utes to execute someone in a gas chamber.
It takes Several hundred thousand years for newly made photons (light) to travel from
the core of the sun to it's surface.
It takes six months to build a Rolls Royce, and 13 hours to build a Toyota.
It takes the same amount of time to age a cigar as wine.
It takes twelve ears of corn to make a tablespoon of corn oil.
It takes up to four hours to hard boil an ostrich egg.
It took 20,000 men 22 years to build the Taj Mahal.
It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up.
It was illegal to sell E.T. dolls in France because there is a law against selling dolls without human faces.
It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland!
It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland!
It would take 20 new mid-size cars to generate the same amount of pollution that a
1960's mid-size car produced.
It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska!
It's against the law to pawn your den- tures in Las Vegas!
It's illegal to own a red car in Shanghai, China.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs, but not downstairs.
It’s a common practice in southern India for a man to marry his elder sis- ter’s daughter.
J. Edgar Hoover liked to fire FBI agents whose palms were sweaty when shaking hands.
Jackie Kennedy Onassis was secretly a chain smoker.
Jacksonville, Florida, has the largest total area of any city in the United States.
James Bond is also known as Mr. Kiss- Kiss-Bang-Bang.
Jean-Claude Van Damme learned to speak English by watching the car- toon 'The Flintstones'.
Jennifer Aniston's original name is Jennifer Anastassakis!
Jericho is the old- est walled city in the world at 9,000 years old.
Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison were all 27 years old when they died.
Jimmy Carter is the first U.S. President to have been born in a hospital.
Jimmy Hoffa's mid- dle name is, appro- priately, Riddle.
John F. Kennedy was the first Roman Catholic President of the USA!
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