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8862. Fact
Montreal has an underground city, which has over 2,000 shops and 26 kilometres of walkways. This is the largest underground network for any city

8863. Fact
The country with the highest rate of cremations is Japan. In 1996, 98.7% of all deaths were cremated.

8864. Fact
Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters mt

8865. Fact
An albatross can sleep while it flies. It apparently dozes while cruising at 25 mph.

8866. Fact
In 37% of Americans, the thirst mechanism is so weak that it is

8867. Fact
In ancient times, any Japanese who tried to leave his homeland was put to death.

8868. Fact
The first patented condom was meant to be reused.

8869. Fact
Oral-B is a combination of oral hygiene and the letter B, which stands for the word better

8870. Fact
Many men masturbate daily, or even more frequently, well into their 20s and sometimes far beyond.

8871. Fact
Every second, 630 steel cans are recycled

8872. Fact
The pet ferret was domesticated more than 500 years before the house cat.

8873. Fact
Soldiers disease' is a term for morphine addiction. The Civil War produced over 400,000 morphine addicts.

8874. Fact
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

8875. Fact
Shipwreck Kelly (1885-1952) set many flagpole-sitting records. He sat for 49 days on one flagpole. He once estimated that he spent a total of over 20,000 hours sitting on flagpoles. Flagpole sitting was a craze started in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1929.

8876. Fact
Approximately 1-2 calorie are burned a minute while watching T.V

8877. Fact
Most lipstick contains fish scales

8878. Fact
Keanu Reeves is afraid of the dark.

8879. Fact
Every three seconds a baby is born somewhere in the world

8880. Fact
The first Ford cars used Dodge engines.

8881. Fact
The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night

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