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10049. Fact
Freshens the air in your car. Place a sheet of Bounce under the front sea

10050. Fact
The difference between apple juice and apple cider is that the juice is pasteurized and the cider is not.

10051. Fact
Over 4.6 million Whopper sandwiches are sold at Burger King every day.

10052. Fact
Dalmatians are born without spots

10053. Fact
The magician's words hocus-pocus were taken from the name of a mythological sorcerer, Ochus Bochus, who appeared in Norse folktales and legends.

10054. Fact
Two normal kidneys contain 2 million tiny blood filters which filter 50 gallons of blood every day.

10055. Fact
The original Volkswagen Bug has finally stopped production. The last one rolled out in brazil on July 31st 2003. The car was introduced in 1946 and spent 57 years in production. There were more classic vw bugs produced then any other car ever (about 400 million).

10056. Fact
The more panels a football has - and therefore the more seams - the easier it is to control in the air.

10057. Fact
Dustin Phillips of the U.S. has the record for ketchup drinking. He drank a 14-ounce bottle of tomato ketchup through a ? inch straw in 33 seconds on September 23, 1999

10058. Fact
The best selling Crayola crayon box is the set of 24 crayons

10059. Fact
The streets of Victor, Colorado, once a gold rush town, are paved with low-grade gold.

10060. Fact
German immigrant, Louis Prang was the first to bring Christmas cards to America

10061. Fact
The Pacific Ocean holds 46% of the world's water. The rest is divided up as followed: Atlantic Ocean 23.9%, Indian Ocean 20.3%, and the Arctic Ocean 3.7%.

10062. Fact
The microwave oven was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

10063. Fact
Only 1 out of 100 people have a computer.

10064. Fact
When Scott Paper Co. first started manufacturing toilet paper they did not put their name on the product because of embarrassment

10065. Fact
The oldest known vegetable is the pea.

10066. Fact
Bobby Carpenter was the first American player to score 50 goals in a season

10067. Fact
Americans spent over $360 million in 1982 to avoid having bad breath.

10068. Fact
The Pentagon in Arlington Virginia has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.

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Lee De Forest, the inventor of the radio tube, was tried for fraud in 1913. He was accused of tricking the public into buying stocks in his company, the Radio Telephone Company, by making absurd and deliberately misleading claims about the possibility of transmitting the human voice across the Atlantic Ocean.      .. More >>
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