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o Ephelides are freckles. o In Switzerland, it is illegal to flush a toilet or pee standing up after 10 p.m. o Tom Cruise went weeks without bathing while filming The Outsiders. o Bee stings are acidic, wasp stings are alkali. o Q: What do your coccyx and appendix have in common? A: Nobody knows what they are for. o Streetlamps in Hershey, Pennsylvania, are shaped like chocolate kisses. o You can fit 600,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms into a thimble. o An onychophagiac is someone who habitually bites their nails. o Ouch! Hawaiians ounce used coconut husks for toilet paper. o Charles Dickens accurately described dyslexia 40 years before it was officially recognized. o Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill. o Largest fruit crop on Earth: Grapes (bananas are second). o In six moon missions, American astronauts brought home 843 pounds of lunar rock and soil. o Camels have three eyelids. o When the Irish say “Top of the mornin’ to you,” you answer “and the rest of the day to you.” o Pope John Paul I once wrote a fan letter to Pinocchio. o Gold was once used to treat lung cancer. o Thomas Edison had 5,000 pet birds. o Pizza Hut uses more than 80 million pounds of tomatoes each year. o Acupuncture uses 388 sites on the body, including 16 just for toothaches. o Approximately 50 million Americans snore. o During most of Earth’s history, the North and South poles had no ice. o Dachshunds were originally bred to hunt badgers. o Americans eat about 95 million pounds of marshmallows every year. o 7% of people say they get heartburn every day. o Time magazine was originally to be named Facts. o Dromomania is an abnormal impulse to travel. o Number of Starbucks in Chicago’s O’Hare Int’l Airport (2004): 15. In all of South Dakota: 6. o The South American basilisk lizard can run up to a quarter mile across the surface of water. o The original Starbucks logo featured a mermaid with naked breasts. o The busiest Pizza Hut in the world is located in Paris, France. o Your heart beats faster during a heated argument than during sex. o Michael Jackson owned the rights to South Carolina’s state anthem. o First film to win more than 10 Oscars: Ben-Hur. o Snakes can continue to bite after they’re dead. o Kissing can cause wrinkles. o Helen Keller could identify her friends by their odors. o The first crossing of the United States by automobile took 52 days in 1903. o Stenphobia is the fear of narrow spaces. o An eagle’s bones weigh half as much as its feathers. o British government toilet paper used to read, “Govt. Property, Now Wash Your Hands.” o The average person will suffer about 200 colds in their lifetime. o Sitka, Alaska, was once the capital of a Russian territory. o The medical term for the butt-crack is a natural cleft. o Chinese brides traditionally wear a red wedding dress.