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o Until 1796, the State of Tennessee was known as Franklin. o Most animals are color-blind. o The word “girl” shows up in the Bible only once. o Full-grown grizzly bears can bite through ½-inch steel. o Movie star Errol Flynn once worked on an Australian sheep ranch, castrating sheep with his teeth. o The word noon originally meant “3 p.m.” o According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the average American marriage lasts 9.4 years. o Australian soldiers used “We’re Off to See the Wizard” as a marching song during WWII. o Worldwide, there are 8,500 chapters of the Barbie Fan Club. o Weight-loss tip: Melting an ice cube in your mouth burns about 2.3 calories. o Twenty percent of all publications sold in Japan are comic books. o 21% of U.S. children say that if they were president, they’d “eat ice-cream for every meal.” o There’s a town in Texas called “Ding Dong.” o A New York man carried a milk bottle on his head continuously for 24 miles. o Ancient Roman banquet halls had “vomitoriums,” so people could keep on eating even when full. o The Pilgrims refused to eat lobsters because they thought they were really big insects. o There are 550 hairs in the average eyebrow. o Your thumbnail grows the slowest. o U.S. men live longest in the Pacific states (Ore., Cal., Hawaii, Alaska, Wash.). o American women live longest in the South (Ken., Tenn., Miss., Ala.). o The only place you can see the sun rise on the Pacific and set on the Atlantic is Panama. o A snake’s ears are in its jaws. o Hockey pucks can travel up to 100 m.p.h. o Believe it or not: Internationally, “Baywatch” is the most popular TV show in history. o Disneyland has the fourth largest navy in the world. o Americans consume more than 20 pounds of candy per person per year. o Hair grows at a rate of .00000001 miles per hour. o Gone With the Wind is the only Civil War epic ever filmed without a single battle scene. o Clint Eastwood was the #1 box office star in both the ‘70s and the ‘80s. o Mahatma Gandhi is buried in California. o Parrot tongue and ostrich brains were considered delicacies in the Roman Empire. o The original jukeboxes came with earphones - only one person could listen at a time. o The average American develops their first phobia at age 13 1/2. o It takes seven standard shuffles to thoroughly mix a 54-card deck. o TV sitcom characters rarely say goodbye when they hang up the phone. o Raccoons, slugs, and ants all like to get drunk. o More people watch primetime TV on Thursday night than on any other night. o Elvis’s favorite amusement ride was the bumper cars. o 70% of Americans think Elvis is still alive. o Flamingos hold their heads upside down because it is the only way they can eat. o A queen bee can lay as many as 3,000 eggs in a day. o Americas first nudist organization was founded by three men in 1929. o Cab fare from New York City to Los Angeles (not including tip): $6,519.73 USD o Cracker Jack is the world’s largest purchaser of popcorn. o The oldest American university is Harvard, founded in 1636.