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10430. Fact
There are four main Blood types: A, B, AB and O and each Blood type is either Rh positive or negative. Blood types in the US Type O positive 38.4%, O negative 7.7%, A positive 32.3%, A negative 6.5%, B positive 9.4%, B negative 1.7%, AB positive 3.2%, AB negative 0.7%
10431. Fact
Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime.
10432. Fact
The city of Chicago has the only post office in the world where you can drive your car through
10433. Fact
It takes 12 honeybees to make one teaspoon of honey
10434. Fact
The U.S. Post Office handles 43 percent of the world's mail.
10436. Fact
A British term for slot machine is fruit machine or one-armed bandit.
10437. Fact
There are more collect calls on Father's Day than any other day of the year.
10438. Fact
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
10439. Fact
There's an average of of 178 sesame seeds on a Big Mac bun.
10440. Fact
Parker Brothers prints about 50 billion dollars worth of Monopoly money in one year.
10441. Fact
The average coach airline meal costs the airline $4.00. The average first class meal: $50.
10443. Fact
A Hungarian named Ladislo Biro invented the first ballpoint pen in 1938.
10444. Fact
Roasted coffee beans start to lose small amounts of flavor within two weeks. Ground coffee begins to lose its flavor in one hour. Brewed coffee and espresso begins to lose flavor within minutes.
10445. Fact
Weatherman Willard Scott was the first Ronald McDonald
10446. Fact
The lowest temperature ever recorded in the world was 129 degrees below 0 at Vostok, Antarctica, on July 21, 1983.
10447. Fact
The world's smallest winged insect, the Tanzanian parasitic wasp, is smaller than the eye of a housefly.
10448. Fact
Hundreds of years ago, only the wealthy people used to wear underwear
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More bullets were fired in 'Starship Troopers' than in any other movie ever made
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