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On average, we lose 11 oz. of weight while we are asleep at night.

Paul Hornung holds the NFL record for the most points in a single season. He scored 176 points in 1960.

Tasmania has the cleanest air in the inhabited world.

90% of all restaurants fail during their first year of operation.

In Baltimore it is illegal to mistreat oysters.

Mars is the home of Olympus Mons, the largest known volcano in our solar system

The first American astronaut in space was Alan B. Shepard Jr

The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that it breaks the sound barrier. The crack of the whip is actually a tiny sonic boom.

Car accidents rise 10% during the first week of daylight savings time.

Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on his famous transatlantic flight.

The words volt and voltage are named for a member of the Italian nobility in the 1700s named Count Voltman.

Cats cannot taste sweet things.

According to Hammurabi's Code, the penalty for medical malpractice was to cut off the doctor's hands.

Fog and a cloud are the same thing, only at different altitudes. Fog is simply a cloud lying on the earth, while clouds are fog floating in the sky.

Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard their hooves fall off.

Cold water weighs more than hot water.

For two years, during the 1970s, Mattel marketed a doll called Growing Up Skipper. Her breasts grew when her arm was turned.

Florida law forbids rats to leave the ships docked in Tampa Bay.

Next to man, the porpoise is the most intelligent creature on earth

In order to scare away predators, Giant petrels, a type of seabird, throw up all over the intruder

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