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- The price of an average Tic Tac is 0.0125$.

- The preservative used in SPAM is also a chemical used to manufacture explosives.

- A cup of coffee a day will keep dimentia away.

- A molecule of water consists of two hydrogen atoms and an oxygen atom, however, by weight, hydrogen only makes up 20% of the weight of the water molecule, and oxygen takes up 80%.

- When you throw oxygen on a fire, it blows up. When you throw hydrogen on a fire, it blows up. When you dump water on a fire, why doesn't it really blow up

- If you rearrange the letters in Ronald Wilson Reagan, you come up with Insane Anglo Warlord.

- A scientific study was required to determine that safety belts in a car will prevent the occupants from being thrown out the windows in the event of a crash.

- A World War II Spitfire Mk II was armed with 8 .50 calibre machine guns and could fire continuously for roughly 18 seconds.

- Off! Mosquito spray doubles as an effective teenager repellant.

- When lit on fire, Duracell lasts longer than Energizer.

- According to the New York Times (102402), Swiss Army Knife sales have dropped drastically at airports throughout the United States. I wonder why...

- A tin can contains 0% tin.

- The most commonly sung song in the United States is Happy Birthday.

- Despite popular belief, the nearest star is not Proxima Centuari.

- Montgomery, Alabama's area code is 404. You'd need to be familiar with the internet to get this one.

- Computer moniters are affected by magnets because they contain neodymium, a magnetic substance.

- Mercury thermometers freeze up at -38.87 degrees C.

- The O has been the least changed letter in the english alphabet.

- Negative numbers are completely made up by evil math teachers and the IRS in the real world, you can't have less than nothing or else something will implode.

- By all definitions, experience is corruption.

- Halloween used to be so much more fun...when kids would vandalize a house if the occupants didn't relinquish any candy.

- Saying someone's eyes shine like the moon is actually an insult to their genetic makeup; those people with dark eyes can absorb more light, and generally see things brighter.

- Mozilla is cool.

- There have been no reports of cats or dogs falling from the sky, however, it is only unlikely, not at all impossible.

- If attacked by a shark, stick your thumb in its eye.

- If you're being chased by a bear, run downhill.

- If you're being chased by a rampaging moose, run like hell.

- A large milkshake from Burger King contains enough energy in the form of calories to light a standard 40 Watt incandescent light bulb for 37.79 hours.

- 0 degrees Kelvin is where atoms quit moving completely and just sit there.

- 6 is the smallest perfect number.

- On Google, you can run searches in Klingon, provided you know it.

- A tin of Altoids has about 75 mints.

- According to Crayola, all of its art products are non-toxic.

- There are 210 staples in a standard length strip.

- Living things can levitate if exposed to a sufficiently intense magnetic field.

- The most frequently forgotten word in the english language is...uhhh...

- Bee stings are acidic; wasp stings are alkalinic, if that's a word.

- The earth is growing in size, due to material from micrometeorites.

- Two triangles pointing left at a vertical line, a square, a triangle pointing to the right, two vertical dashes, and two triangles pointing to the right at a vertical line. Recognize those symbols Most people should...but don't.

- TNT stands for TriNitroTolulene, but I doubt I spelled that right.

- The end of the rainbow is technically the border between where its raining, and where its not that is farthest away from the sun.

- Noctilucent clouds occur at the operating altitude of an SR-71.

- The magnetic field of earth is measured as 1 gauss.

- The Alaska Driving Manual costs 0.54$ to make.

- Windows XP in a Nutshell is actually a book of over 500 pages.

- 1 AU is equal to the distance from the sun to the earth. Talk about human vanity...

- Female rabbits are called does, baby rabbits are called kittens.

- The longest word in Japanese, translated into English, is 12 letters long.

- Surprisingly, most anti-microsoft websites are best viewed with Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher.

- The Transcontinental Railroad was completed in 1869 at Promotory, Utah.

- The bloodiest battle in history occured during the Civil War.

- The dot above your is are called tittles.

- Always pillage before you burn.

- An ostrich's brain is smaller than its eye.

- A starfish has no brain.

- A duck's quack does not echo.

- A pound of butter contains just as much energy in its atomic bonds as a pound of TNT.

- A dime has 118 ridges on its side.

- Every car manufactured in America has a horn which honks in F sharp.

- I think the second smallest perfect number is 28. I'm stuck in a news room, I'm bored.

- As of June 4th, 2003, the legal classification of Broadband High-speed Internet is any connection which exceeds 128 Kbs. And I remember when 56K was fast...

- The holes beside the bridge on a violin or any other stringed insturment are called F-holes. As a secondary, note, the term F-holes may sound dirty, but that's only because people's minds have gotten dirtier.

- Two dollar bills are not officially out of circulation, however, they are considered to be bad luck.

- Sulpuric acid, the stuff which leaks from car batteries, is what makes toilet paper so soft and fluffy.

- There is a Japanese cola drink called God. It comes in many flavors.

- There is actually a cursor icon present in Windows which has an extended middle finger. Rumors are that it may have been included in the operating system to be used in conjunction with the Remote Assistance feature.

- A person's IQ is not supposed to change during their life. Which means, I'm as stupid as I was when I was born...

- A single human DNA molecule averages around 5ft, 5in when stretched out to its entirety.

- Breathing into a paper bag to relieve hiccups works by increasing the amount of carbon dioxide in your bloodstream.

- Nearly 80% of what you say is addressed solely to yourself.

- Men lose less hair than women in their lives...so why are there so many bald men, and so few bald women

- For those of you who are considering being decapitated, note that everyone dies of anoxia (not sure if I spelled it right), in which the brain dies from lack of oxygen. When you are decapitated, your brain does not die instantly, you remain alert enough for a few seconds afterwards.

- Why is Earth the only planet in the solar system not named after a god

- Every continent's name ends with the same letter it starts with.

- Left handed people tend to die sooner than their right handed counterparts, however, the population of left handed people is increasing...

- Your brain, like it or not, sees the world upside down. When an image is focused by the lens of your eye, it is also inverted. Your brain has adapted to counteract this.

- The earth's orbit is deteriorating. In a few million years, we won't need leap years.

- Before the word she, there was the word heo.

- If you're a guy, you are 7 times more likely to be struck by lightning than a girl. Life is unfair, eh

-A toothbrush within 6 feet of a toilet can get airborne bacteria from flushing

-A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out

-No word in the english language rhymes with month, orange, silver

-The first bomb dropped by the allies on berlin in ww2 killed the only elephant in the berlin zoo

-Babies are born without kneecaps

-Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave

-Leonardo da vinci could draw with one hand and write with the other at the same time

-Technically, the banana is a berry

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