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o Haircut hint: Thursday is the least busy day for barbershops. o Fish can get seasick. But can they get airsick? o Heavy fact: There are an estimated 5 ½ million billion tons of air in the atmosphere. o Snakes are immune to their own poison. o Schoolhouses were traditionally painted red because red was the cheapest color available. o The state capital of Texas has been moved 15 times. o The average drinking glass holds 50 teaspoons of water. o Toads don’t have teeth but frogs do. o In 1995, twenty-one states had one telephone are code; California had 14. o Singer Wayne Newton is a descendant of Pocahontas. o America’s first minimum wage, in 1938 was 25 cents an hour. o On an average weekday, people in New York City make 36 million telephone calls. o Kentucky produces more whiskey than every other state combined. o The hippopotamus has skin that’s two inches thick. o The telephone was invented in 1876; the telephone booth was patented in 1883. o The American Robin isn’t a robin. It’s a thrush. o Walter Cronkite was a college dropout; Peter Jennings is a high school dropout. o Coca-Cola was originally green. o Ashes to ashes: 28% of Americans are cremated when they die. o It’s illegal to ship live mice through the U.S. mail. o The Great Pyramid in Egypt weighs an estimated 6.6 million tons. o A pigs tail stops curling when the pig is sick. o In 193, the U.S. income tax on $4,000 was 1 cent. o The housefly’s taste buds are in its feet. o Identical twins always have the same blood type. o If you go blind in one eye, you’ll only lose about one-fifth of your vision. o In Kentucky, it’s illegal to marry your wife’s grandmother. o A queen honeybee can lay as many as 1,500 eggs in a single day. o A camel can drink 25 gallons in half an hour. o It would take 7 billion particles of fog to fill a teaspoon. o The word “communist” was coined in Paris, France, in the 1830s. o Reindeer milk has five times as much fat as cow milk. o Alvin the Chipmunk’s favorite food was “Jell-O with a hot dog in it.” o Hopeless romantics: 85% of 18 to 24-year-olds say that every person has a “perfect match.” o Poll results: About 75% of Americans under 35 say they sometimes eat pizza for breakfast. o The average baby spends 27.5 months in diapers. o Only 33% of patients admitted to emergency rooms for heart attacks have actually had one. o There are at least 10 towns named Hollywood in the United States. o Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries do. o Study results: Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music. o Mental patients suffer from far fewer headaches than the general public. o It’s estimated that you’ll walk more than 65,000 miles in your lifetime. o You burn more calories when sleeping than watching TV. o Arachibutyrophobia: The fear of having peanut butter stuck to the roof of your mouth. o Medical note: Pigs can catch swine flu from humans.