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Bees kill more people a year than sharks do.

The Hubble telescope is so powerful that it is like pointing a beam of light at a dime that is two hundred miles away.

In Delaware it is illegal to get married on a dare.

More pollution is emitted from the average home compared to the average car.

Amazingly, goalies in the National Hockey League played without masks until the year 1959

Planet Venus is the only planet to spin counter-clockwise.

Austria was the first country to use postcards.

In 1997, the record for the highest skydive by a dog at 4,572 feet was established by a dog named Brutus

Children grow faster in the springtime than any other season during the year

Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, or creamy.

In New York City there are 6,374.6 miles of streets

A one kilogram packet of sugar will have about 5 million grains of sugar

In 1659, it was illegal to celebrate Christmas in Massachusetts.

Five Jell-O flavors that flopped: celery, coffee, cola, apple, andchocolate.

Glenn Miller was the first performer to earn a gold record. He got it for the Chattanooga Choo Choo on February 10, 1942.

An apple, potato, and onion all taste the same if you eat them with your nose plugged.

Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny, was allergic to carrots.

If you cut a 'V'shape into your toe nails, you can prevent 'in-grown'toe nails.

The human heart pumps 1.5 million gallons of blood a year.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum.

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