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» The Queen Mary - the grandest vessel of her day - had many of her vital components made by car manufacturer Skoda!
» The quills of a porcupine are soft when they are born.
» The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
» The right lung takes in more air than the left.
» The Saguaro Cactus, found in South-western United States does NOT grow branches until it is 75 years old.
» The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
» The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on its fur!
» The smallest human penis ever recorded was just 5/8 of an inch long!
» The song ''Strawberry Fields Forever'', sung by the Beatles, refers to an orphanage located in Liverpool.
» The speed of a typical raindrop is 17 miles per hour.
» The Stanley Cup originally was only seven and a half inches high.
» The starfish is one of the few animals who can turn it''s stomach inside-out!
» The state of Florida is bigger than England!
» The state of Florida is bigger than England.
» The state of Wyoming is named after a valley in Pennsylvania.
» The state sport of Maryland is Jousting.
» The state with the longest coastline in the Continental U.S. is Michigan.
» The sting from a killer bee contains less venom than the sting from a regular bee!
» The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.
» The streets of Victor, Colorado, once a gold rush town, are paved with low-grade gold.
» The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
» The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
» The symbol on the ''pound'' key (#) is called an octothorpe.
» The Taj Mahal took 20 years and 20 thousand men to finish!
» The temperature of the earth''s interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
» The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.
» The tongue is the strongest muscle in the human body.
» The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
» The U.S. Army accidentally ordered an 82 year supply of freeze-dried tuna salad mix for troops in Europe.
» The U.S. eastern seaboard consumes almost 50% of all ice cream sandwiches.
» The U.S. founding fathers'' name for the American Revolution was ''The War with Britain''.
» The U.S. Government spent $277,000 on pickle research in 1993.
» The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.
» The U.S. has more bagpipe bands than Scotland does.
» The U.S. militaryís dried food rations can be re-hydrated with urine!
» The U.S. motto, ''In God We Trust'', was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.
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