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o The Klingon Dictionary has sold over 250,000 copies. o All spiders are cannibals. o If you dog has bad breath, he may need to have his teeth cleaned. o Uranus is green. o Jack Kerouac wrote his first novel at age 11. o At its thickest point, Antarctica is 15,700 feet thick. o Chicago’s average winter temperature is colder than that of Reykjavik, Iceland. o Trinidad’s paradoxical frog starts as a foot-long tadpole and “grows” into an inch-long frog. o Question: If you say, “I always lie,” are you telling the truth? o Minimum wage in 1950: 75 cents an hour. o Scientists say you have more nightmares when your bedroom is cold. o Actor Mark Wahlberg has three nipples. o MTV aired video #1,000,000 in March 2000. o In her witchcraft trial, Joan of Arc was also charged with disobeying her parents. o There are 41 references to dogs in the Bible…and most of them are negative. o Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. o Costa Rico has no army. o A mirage can be photographed. o A giant panda consumes about 120 pounds a bamboo a day. o The word “galaxy” comes from the Greek gala, for “milk.” o There are no rhymes in the English language for orange, silver, or purple. o Neither Cary Grant or Billy Joel graduated from high school. o Zigazig is a city in Egypt; Wagga Wagga is a city in Australia. o Cockroaches have white blood. o American kids make about $8.6 million per year in allowance. o Survey says: 95% of us put our left sock on first. o A normal page of a book is about 500,000 atoms thick. o Betamax VCRs were commercially available until 2002. o One of every three insects in the world is a beetle. o The combined area of the entire United Kingdom is smaller than the state of Oregon. o Modern bowling comes from the German game of heidenwerfen, which translates to “strike down the heathens.” o The first domain name ever registered was Symbolivs.com o According to some scholars, Jesus wore a size 10-3/4 sandal. o Rabbits can see forward and backward at the same time. o Mythomaniacs are people who lie constantly. o An elephant can hold up to a gallon of water in its trunk. o You can estimate the age of a star by its color…typically, the redder, the older. o Cat owners are more likely to leave their pets money in their wills than dog owners are. o In the 1800s, people segregated their books by the sex of the author. o Fred Rogers took a morning swim every day in the nude. o Length of time it takes a drop of ocean to travel around the world: 1,000 years. o Longest running product endorsement in history: Bill Cosby for Jell-O. o A single tiger can eat six tons of meat a year…the equivalent of 60,000 hamburgers. o On average, men spend 45 seconds in a public restroom. Women typically spend 80.