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1. "60 Minutes" on CBS is the only TV show to not have a theme song or music.
2. "Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
3. "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
4. "Underground" and "Underfund" are the only 2 words in the English language that begin and end with the letters "und."
5. 'Stewardesses' is the longest English word that is typed with only the left hand.
6. 'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
7. 0.7% of Americans are currently in prison. Wow!
8. 1 pound of lemons contain more sugar than 1 pound of strawberries.
9. 1.5 million Americans are charged with drunk driving each year.
10. 100% of all lottery winners gain weight.
11. 100,000 marine mammals die each year from eating or becoming entangled in plastic debris.
12. 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie.
13. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
14. 2 billion people still cannot read.
15. 20% of Americans think that the sun orbits around the Earth.
16. 22% of American women aged 20 gave birth while in their teens. In Switzerland and Japan, only 2% did so.
17. 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.
18. 23% of employees say they have had sex in the office.
19. 25% of all fires of unknown origin are rat-caused.
20. 26% of all electric cable breaks and 18% of all phone cable disruptions are caused by rats.
21. 3,400,000 Americans are considered "Extreme Commuters". These people commute over 90 minutes round trip every day to work.
22. 3.9% of all women surveyed say they never wear underwear.
23. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
24. 32 out of 33 samples of well-known brands of milk purchased in Los Angeles and Orange counties in California had trace amounts of perchlorate. Perchlorate is the explosive component in rocket fuel.
25. 35 Billion e-mails are sent each day throughout the world.
26. 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
27. 40% of all people who come to a party in your home snoop in your medicine cabinet.
28. 41% of Chinese people eat at least once a week at a fast food restaurant. 35% of Americans do.
29. 55% of Americans claim they would continue working even if they received a $10,000,000 lottery prize.
30. 60% of all US potato products originate in Idaho.
31. 60.7 percent of eligible voters participated in the 2004 presidential election, the highest percentage in 36 years. However, more than 78 million did not vote. This means President Bush won re-election by receiving votes from less than 31% of all eligible voters in the United States.
32. 61,000 people are airborne over the US at any given time.
33. 65% of Elvis impersonators are of Asian descent.
34. 71% of office workers stopped on the street for a survey agreed to give up their computer passwords in exchange for a chocolate bar.
35. 72% of Americans sign their pets' names on greeting cards they send out.
36. 72% of people in Mali earn less than $1 per day.
37. 75% of wild birds die before they are 6 months old.
38. 80% of millionaires drive second-hand cars.
39. 82% of Americans made a purchase at Wal-Mart in 2002.
40. 85% of the men who cheat on their wives die while having sex.
41. 90% of Canada's 31,000,000 citizens live within 100 miles of the U.S. border.
42. 92% of Chinese belong to the Han nationality, which has been China's largest nationality for centuries. The rest of the nation consists of about 55 minority groups.
43. A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
44. A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
45. A 18th century London literary club was called Kit-Cat Club.
46. A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel!
47. A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
48. A Boeing 767 airliner is made of 3,100,000 separate parts.
49. A British gymnast survived a fall from a fourth story window because he went into a somersault and came down on two feet.
50. A Brussels Airlines flight to Vienna was aborted because the pilot was attacked in the cockpit. The attacker was a passenger's cat, who got out of its travel bag.
51. A Costa Rican worker who makes baseballs earns about $2,750 annually. The average American pro baseball player earns $2,377,000 per year.
52. A Duke is the highest rank you can achieve without being a king or a prince.
53. A Dutch court ruled that a bank robber could deduct the 2,000 Euros he paid for his pistol from the 6,600 Euros he has to return to the bank he robbed.
54. A Georgia company will mix your loved one's ashes with cement and drop it into the ocean to form an artificial reef.
55. A Massachusetts surgeon left a patient with an open incision for 35 minutes while he went to deposit a check.
56. A Nigerian woman was caught entering the UK with 104 kg of snails in her baggage.
57. A Swiss ski resort announced it would combat global warming by wrapping its mountain glaciers in aluminum foil to keep them from melting.
58. A US ton is equivalent to 900 kg (2000 pounds). A British ton is 1008 kg (2240 pounds), called a gross ton.
59. A Wisconsin forklift operator for a Miller beer distributor was fired when a picture was published in a newspaper showing him drinking a Bud Light.
60. A baby is born without kneecaps. They appear between age 2 and 6.
61. A baseball ball has exactly 108 stitches, a cricket ball has between 65 and 70 stiches.
62. A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile!
63. A chariot imported from Egypt cost around 600 shekels of silver (1 Kings 10:29). That would be about $77,000. One shekel was 4 days wages.
64. A chef's hat is shaped the way it is for a reason: its shape allows air to circulate around the scalp, keeping the head cool in a hot kitchen.
65. A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation!
66. A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
67. A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.
68. A compass does not point to the geographical North or South Pole, but to the magnetic poles.
69. A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!
70. A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.
71. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
72. A crocodile's tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth and cannot move it.
73. A deployed air bag adds as much as $2,000 to the cost of repairing a vehicle. That's enough for insurance companies to often declare the car "totaled".
74. A diamond will break if you hit it with a hammer. More
75. A dog was the first in space and a sheep, a duck and a rooster the first to fly in a hot air balloon.
76. A dog was the first in space and a sheep, a duck and a rooster the first to fly in a hot air balloon.
77. A dog was the first in space and a sheep, a duck and a rooster the first to fly in a hot air balloon. A dog was the first to parachute.
78. A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
79. A fathom is 1,8 metres (6 feet).
80. A female can produce up to twelve litters of twenty rats a year.
81. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
82. A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down.
83. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
84. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 50cm (20 in) tongue.
85. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
86. A grand piano can be played faster than an upright (spinet) piano.
87. A green diamond is the rarest diamond.
88. A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle - a group of geese in the air is a skein. More
89. A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!
90. A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average!
91. A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!
92. A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.
93. A house fly lives only 14 days.
94. A house in Baghdad worth $15,000 before the Iraq war now sells for $120,000 to $150,000.
95. A huge underground river runs underneath the Nile, with six times more water than the river above.
96. A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
97. A jellyfish is 95 percent water.
98. A kiss stimulates 29 muscles and chemicals causing relaxation. Women seem to like it light and frequent, men like it more strenuous.
99. A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
100. A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years.
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