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» The United kingdom eats more cans of baked beans than the rest of the world combined.
» The United States has never lost a war when donkeys were used.
» The United States has the highest minimum drinking age in the world.
» The United States Postal Service handles over forty percent of the world''s mail volume.
» The United States produces more tobacco than it does wheat.
» The universally popular Hershey bar was used overseas during World War II as currency.
» The University of Alaska stretches over 4 time zones.
» The venom of a small scorpion is much more toxic than the venom of a large scorpion.
» The venom of the king cobra is so deadly that just one gram of it can kill 150 people.
» The volume of the Earth''s moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
» The warmest temperature ever recorded on Antarctica was 3 degrees F.
» The weight of a carat (200 milligrams), standard unit of measurement for gemstones, is based on the weight of the carob seed.
» The weight of air in a milk glass is about the same as the weight of one aspirin tablet.
» The Wild Turkey is the only bird with a beard.
» The winter of 1932 in the US was so cold that Niagara falls froze completely solid!
» The word ''gymnasium'' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means ''to exercise naked.''"
» The word ''Indiana'' is Native American for ''Land of the Indians'', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.
» The word ''News'' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South!
» The word ''set'' has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
» The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish and Portuguese.
» The word Tips is actually an acronym standing for ''To Insure Prompt Service''.
» The World Trade Center towers used to have two zip codes, 10047-10048, one for each building.
» The world''s smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.
» The world''s termites outweigh the world''s humans 10 to 1!
» The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!
» The worldís youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
» The Yo-Yo originated as a weapon in the Philippine Islands during the sixteenth century.
» The Zip Code 12345 is assigned to General Electric in Schenectady, New York.
» The ëBig Dipperí is known as ëThe Casseroleí in France.
» There are 10 towns named Hollywood in the United States!
» There are 10 towns named Hollywood in the United States.
» There are 206 bones in the human body!
» There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
» There are 53 Lego bricks manufactured for each person in the world.
» There are 635,013,559,599 possible hands in a game of bridge.
» There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea.
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