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Theft, disorderly conduct, larceny, armed robbery, assault and battery, and rape all statisti- cally increase dra- matically during the full moon.
Mussolini dodged the Italian draft.
Napoleon con- structed his battle plans in a sandbox.
Napoleon had con- quered Italy by the time he was twen- ty-six.
Native Americans do not have to pay tax on their land.
Natural gas has no smell. The odor is artificially added so that people will be able to identify leaks and take measures to stop them.
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had only one testicle.
Neanderthal man had a brain capaci- ty 100cc larger than modern man's.
Nearly 10% of American house- holds dress their pets in Halloween costumes.
Nearly 22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong account over the next hour.
Nearly 30% of female lottery win- ners hide their win- ning ticket in their bras.
Nearly 50% of the world’s scientists are assigned to military projects.
Nearly 80 percent of all sudden car- diac arrests hap- pen at home.
Neither the saxo- phone, the tuba, the coronet, nor the valve trumpet exist- ed before 1800.
New York's Central Park is nearly twice the size of the entire country of Monaco.
New Zealand is the first country to allow women to vote.
Next to Warsaw, Chicago has the largest Polish pop- ulation in the world.
Nike Air Soles do not actually have 'air' in them.
Ninety-nine percent of pumpkins sold in the United States are for the sole purpose of decora- tion.
No 2 cornflakes are identical!
No high jumper has ever been able to stay off the ground for more than one second.
No matter how cold it gets, gasoline will not freeze.
No one has ever been able to domesticate the African elephant. Only the Indian ele- phant can be trained by man.
No one knows how many people died during the sinking of the Titanic.
No one knows where Mozart is buried.
No one knows who designed the first American Flag.
No patent can ever be taken out on a gambling machine in the United States.
No piece of paper can be folded in
half more than 12 times. Most people even have trouble folding it 8 times.
No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
No president of the United States was an only child.
Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
None of the Beatles knew how to read music. (Paul McCartney eventually taught himself.)"
Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use finger- prints!
Nutmeg is extreme- ly poisonous if injected intra- venously.
Nylon is made from coal and petrole- um.
Oak trees are struck by lightning more than any other tree.
Oak trees can live 200 or more years.
Oak trees do not have acorns until
they are fifty years old or older.
Oenophobia is the fear of wine.
Of all the words in the English lan- guage, the word set has the most definitions!
Of all things, Andrew Jackson’s tombstone does not mention that he served as the pres- ident of the United States!
Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers (Moe, Curly, and Shemp).
Oil tycoon, John D. Rockefeller, was the world's first bil- lionaire.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
On average, a dis- posable diaper can holdupto7 pounds of liquid.
On average, a per- son will spend about five years eating during his or her lifetime.
On average, half of
all false teeth have some form of radioactivity.
On average, it takes 660 days from conception for an elephant to give birth.
On average, the life span of an American dollar bill is eighteen months.
On average, women can hear better than men.
On some Caribbean islands, the oysters can climb trees.
One 75-watt bulb gives more light than three 25-watt bulbs.
One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
One cubic foot of gold weighs more than 1,200 pounds!
One cubic mile of seawater contains about 50 pounds of gold.
One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
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