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One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water.
One in 500 humans has one blue eye and one brown eye.
One in every 4 Americans has appeared on televi- sion!
One in three male motorists picks their nose while driving.
One in three snake bite victims is drunk. One in five is tatooed.
One million people are bitten by ani- mals in the United States each year.
One of the many Tarzans, Karmuela Searlel, was mauled to death on the set by a raging elephant!
One out of 20 peo- ple have an extra rib.
One out of every 11 workers in North Carolina depends on tobacco for their livelihood !
One percent of Greenland's popu- lation lives in a sin- gle apartment building!
One punishment for an adulterous wife in medieval France was to make her chase a chicken through town naked.
One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet!
One quarter of the human brain is used to control the eyes.
One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
One third of the electricity produced on earth is used to power electric light bulbs!
Onions have no fla- vor, only a smell.
Only 1 out of 700 identity thieves gets caught!
Only 1 person in 2 billion will live to be 116.
Only 1% of bacte- ria cause disease in humans!
Only 1% of bacte- ria cause disease.
Only 51% of South Carolina high school students will graduate, the low- est of any state.
Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
Only eight men were killed in the battle of Lexington!
Only female bees work.
Only female mos- quitoes bite and drink blood.
Only male fireflies can fly.
Only two in one thousand diamonds are considered truly colorless.
Organized crime is estimated to account for 10% of the United States' national income.
Originally, BMW was an airplane engine manufactur- er.
Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
Originally, Jack-O- Lanterns were made from turnips.
Originally, Nintendo was a playing card manufacturer.
Out of all the sens- es, smell is most closely linked to memory.
Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into win- dows!
Over 4.6 million Whopper sand- wiches are sold at Burger King every day!
Over 50% of lottery players go back to work after winning the jackpot.
Over 90% of all fish caught are caught in the northern hemisphere.
Over 98 percent of Japanese people are cremated after they die.
Over one million stray dogs live in the New York City metropolitan area.
Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue!
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often smear Vaseline on their teeth so their lips won't stick when smiling.
Pain travels through the body at 350 feet per sec- ond!
Pain travels through your body at 350 ft. per sec- ond.
Pancakes are com- monly served for breakfast, lunch, and dinner in Australia.
Panophobia is the fear of everything.
Paper money is not made from wood pulp but from cot- ton. This means that it will not disin- tegrate as fast if it is put in the laun- dry.
Parrots have 500 pounds per square inch of pressure in their beaks.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.
Pearls melt in vine- gar.
Penguins can con- vert salt water into fresh water.
People in nudist colonies play vol- leyball more than any other sport.
People in parts of Western China put salt in their tea instead of sugar.
People in the United Kingdom eat more cans of baked beans than the rest of the world combined.
People that suffer from gum disease are twice as likely to have a stroke or heart attack.
People who are lying to you tend to look up and to the left (their left).
People who ride on roller coasters have a higher chance of having a blood clot in the brain.
People with blue eyes are better able to see in the dark.
Pepsi-Cola was originally called 'Brad's drink'.
Persia changed its name to Iran in 1935.
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