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th o Since the mid-18 century, 1.7 million species have been identified and described on earth. o Napoleons islands: born on Corsica, exiled to Elba, died on St. Helena. o The first Girl Scout troop was organized in Savannah, Georgia, on March 12, 1912. o Rene Descartes introduced the terms “real number” and “imaginary number” to mathematics. o The earliest evidence of beer was found in a pottery vessel in western Iran of 3500-3100 B.C. o The earliest known picture of witches flying on broomsticks date to about A.D. 1440 in France. o According to the U.S. Census Bureau, we spent $856 million to wash our cars in 1982. o The oldest sandals known were made of sagebrush bark fibers and were about 9,500 years old. The sandals were found in Catlow Cave, in central Oregon. o Kyoto was the ancient capital of Japan. o New Zealand was formerly known as the Cook Islands. o America’s first speeder was arrested in 1899 by a New York policeman riding a bicycle. The speeder was whizzing along at an estimated 12 m.p.h.! o Susan Butcher won the world’s longest dog sled race, the Iditarod, four times. o Toto of Wizard of Oz fame was a cairn terrier. o In Italy, a whole year’s salary is the proper amount to pay for an engagement ring. o Albert Einstein did not like to wear socks. o Confederate General Robert E Lee didn’t own slaves - he didn’t believe in slavery. o Killer bees are expanding their territory by 300 miles a year. o The first “Burma Shave” jingles were posted in Minnesota in 1926. o The United States bought Alaska from Russia for about 2 cents an acre. o American kids raked in more than $8.6 billion in allowances in 1989. o One-fifth of Americans spend their vacations at home. o People in the Southern U.S. watch more TV then people in any other region. o The U.S. is home to 2/3 of the world’s lawyers. o The U.S. Department of Defense spends about $6,000,000 on recruiting - every day. o 28% of liberals and 15% of conservatives say they’ve gone skinny dipping. o According to M magazine, 84 percent of bicyclists think about sex while cycling. o There are three museums in the world which only exhibit footwear. o Only one carat in every 23 tons of ore mined is a diamond. o A major league baseball team can break more than $150,000 worth of bats in one year. o Dan Quayle’s favourite film is “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” o Pigs killed off the dodo bird. o It was illegal in Nazi Germany to name your horse “Adolph.” o 1/3 of U.S. women polled say men aren’t as good in bed as they think they are. o Americans spend an average of 76 hours per week in bed; They’re asleep for 45 of those hours. o The smallest state has the longest name: State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. o There are an estimated 1,000,000,000,000,000 ants on earth. o Renoir’s last words: “What a pity I have to go now just when I was beginning to show promise.” o Nearly half of all psychiatrists have been attacked by one of their patients. o The energy produced by chewing bubble gum every day can light a city the size of L.A. o It takes at least 60 chinchillas to make a chinchilla coat. o Thomas Edison attended school for less than three months in his entire life. o Jellyfish have no blood. o Gloria Steinem was voted “best looking girl” at her high school prom.