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Crayola is a French word that means ''Oily chalk.''"
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Duracell, the battery-maker, built parts of its new international headquarters using materials from its own waste.
» During World War II, Uncle Ben''s was the exclusive supplier of rice to the U.S. Armed Forces.
» Each year, there are more than 40,000 toilet related injuries in the United States.
» Early Romans used to use porcupine quills as toothpicks.
» Fine-grained volcanic ash can be found as an ingredient in some toothpastes.
» From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.
» Gardening is said to be one of the best exercises for maintaining healthy bones.
» George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.
» In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.
» In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people''s clothes.
» In New York City, approximately 1,600 people are bitten by other humans every year.
» Indoor pollution is 10 times more toxic than outdoor pollution.
» Infants spend more time dreaming than adults do.
» It costs about 3 cents to make a $1 bill in the United States.
» It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.
» King Kong was Adolf Hitler''s favorite movie.
» Leather skin does not have any smell. The leather smell that you sense is actually derived from the materials used in the tanning process.
» Left-handed people are better at sports that require good spatial judgment and fast reaction, compared to right-handed individuals.
» Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
» Malcolm X''s original name is Malcolm Little.
» Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
» Medical research has found substances in mistletoe that can slow down tumor growth.
» Microsoft made $16,005 in revenue in its first year of operation.
» Most dust particles in your house come from dead skin.
» Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had only one testicle.
» New York''s Central Park is nearly twice the size of the entire country of Monaco.
» Next to Warsaw, Chicago has the largest Polish population in the world.
» Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
» Oil tycoon, John D. Rockefeller, was the world''s first billionaire.
» On average, a disposable diaper can hold up to 7 pounds of liquid.
» On average, the life span of an American dollar bill is eighteen months.
» One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water.
» Paper money is not made from wood pulp but from cotton. This means that it will not disintegrate as fast if it is put in the laundry.
» Pilgrims did not eat with forks. They only used spoons, knives and their fingers.
» Q-Tip Cotton Swabs were originally called Baby Gays.
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