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Despite a population of over a billion, China has only about 200 family names.

The f-word is used 257 times in the movie Pulp Fiction.

In the late 19th century the Supreme Court of the United States legally declarded the tomato a vegetable.

Sharks have upper and lower eyelids, but they do not blink

More water flows over Niagara Falls every year than any other falls on earth.

In Albuquerque, New Mexico it is illegal for cab drivers to reach out and pull potential customers into their cabs.

Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

Approximately 200 pets are buried in a pet cemetery out of the thousands of pets that die each day

Eating 11 pounds of apples will make you gain one pound of weight

A whole library floor of books can be stored on 50 Gigabytes.

Most snakes have six rows of teeth

In 1884, Dr. Hervey D. Thatcher invented the milk bottle.

Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his wife or mother because they were both deaf

A cat has four rows of whiskers.

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body

The mola mola or ocean sunfish lays up to 5,000,000 eggs at one time.

The snake can see through its eye lids when its eyes are closed

Half of all bank robberies take place on a Friday.

The average office document gets copied 19 times

Of all known forms of animals life ever to inhabit the Earth, only about 10 percent still exist today.

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