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o Women like blue bedrooms the most; men like white. o On average, Nevada gets only 7 ½ inches of rain per year. o It’s illegal to hunt camels in Arizona. o Nuns have the longest life expectancy of any demographic group in the U.S. th o In 16 century Turkey, drinking coffee was punishable by death. o Training a seal to balance a ball on its nose is illegal in Sweden. o 20% of Americans say they make love with the television on. o Experts say that the best time to study is right before bed. o 42% of college students say they nap 5 to 6 times a week. o A week-old gazelle can outrun a full grown horse. o More than 6 billion pens are thrown away every year in the U.S. o Pound for pound, grasshoppers are 3 times more nutritious as beef. o General George Patton was dyslexic. o The first advertisement to discuss body odor was a 1919 ad for the deodorant Odo-Ro-No o The only continent with no tress is Antarctica. o The British pound got its name because it was originally equal to the value of a pound of silver. o Groundhog predictions are correct only 28% of the time. o It took Leonard de Vinci four years to pain the Mona Lisa. o Dog food bags can’t be recycled: They have plastic linings inside. o Americans throw away around 10% of the food they buy at the supermarket. o The film Total Recall contained 55 paid references to 31 products. o People removed at the last minute from the Sgt. Pepper cover: actor Leo Gorcey, Gandhi and Hitler. o Glass is considered a liquid, not a solid. o There are an estimated 4,000 sunken ships off the coast of New England. o A “Brannock Device” is the thing shoe salespeople use to measure feet. o Mother Jones was Mary Harris Jones, a crusader for the rights of labourers. o The average homebuyer looks at eight houses before finding the right one. o Horses use 17 muscles to twitch their ears. Humans use only 9. th o In 1991 General Motors was #1 on the Fortune 500 list - but 485 in profitability. o Only 41% of Americans say they like the way they look in the nude. o There are enough stones in the Great Wall of China to build an 8’ wall around the equator. o About 650,000 Americans invite dogs to birthday parties thrown for their own dogs. o Mafia means “beauty, excellence, bravery” in Italian o The golden eagle can spot a rabbit from 2 miles away. o The letters “J” and “V” are the youngest letters of the alphabet. They’re about 375 years old. o Odd numbered highway move north and south. Even go east and west. o 42% of U.S. men and 31% of U.S. women say they clean their belly buttons every day. o The Ringling Brothers were originally a family orchestra, not a circus. o Annie Oakley was so good with a gun that Sitting Bull called her “Little Sure Shot.” o George Reeves, TV’s Superman, needed three people to help him out of his costume. o The comic strip “Dick Tracy” was originally called “Plainclothes Tracy.” o 80% of Americans have never eaten breakfast in bed. 68% say it’s a bad idea. o Alibi means “elsewhere” in Latin. o 2.5% of American adults sleepwalk regularly. o Dr. Seuss designed the first animated color TV commercial in 1949, for Ford.