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o In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills. o The first baseball team to put numbers on their uniforms was the New York Yankees in 1929. o Cats do not have sweat glands. o The longest that any high jumper has been ever been able to stay in the air is one second. o 1 in 100 American boys, and 1 in 150 girls, will become lawyers. o The oldest tree in the world is the macrozamia tree of Australia. It lives for 7,000 years. o Men are 10 times more likely to be color-blind than women. o The first state to let women vote was Wyoming. o An Atlantic salmon can jump 15 feet out of the water. o A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana. o There have been over 69 movies featuring the character Zorro. o At one time, Hawaiian women were forbidden by law to eat coconuts. o For every hour you listen to the radio, you hear approximately 11,000 spoken words. o The Boy Scouts were founded in 1910. o Until 1857, foreign coins were considered U.S. money if they were made of a precious metal. o All the Zodiac symbols, except for one - Libra. o A New York man carried a milk bottle on his head continuously for 24 miles. o During the Plague many people thought they could cure themselves by sniffing human waste. o A squid can swim up to 35 miles per hour. o Women live longest in Japan (74.2 years). Second place: Sweden (73.1 years). nd o Men live longest in Japan (79.9 years). 2 place: Norway (79.4 years). o About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money. o In Alabama, a man was once tried and convicted for wearing a false moustache to church. o In the U.S., less than 50% of the lawsuits files actually go to court. o 63% of Americans who earn minimum wage are women. o It’s against the la to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas. o The San Blas Indian women of Panama consider giant noses a mark of beauty. (They paint black lines down the center of their nose to make them appear longer,) o There are more cars registered in California than in any other state. o More than 100 romance novels are published every month. o According to Walt Disney, Mickey and Minnie are married. o Electronic equipment gets dusty faster than furniture. o It cost $3 million to build the Titanic… and $100 million to make the movie. o 85% of all Canadian brides receive a diamond engagement ring. o The dial tone of a normal telephone is in the key of “F”. o A typical American kid spends 68 days - 18% of the year - in front of a TV or computer screen (in 2007). o When the Pony Express went out of business, it was $200,000 in debt. o First company to earn $1 billion in one year: General Motors, in 1955. o Ancient Egyptians worshipped over 2,000 gods. o 200 million atoms placed in a row would measure one inch. o Silly rabbit! Trix are for dentists! When Trix cereal was introduced in 1954, it was 46.6% sugar. o In ancient China, criminals caught robbing travelers had their noses cut off. o Although it is widely attributed to him, Shakespeare never used the word “gadzooks.” o According to the U.S. Weather Service, 1-day forecasts are right ¾ of the time.