Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Amanda Knows...

the first toilet ever seen on television was on “Leave it to Beaver”.

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the highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.

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Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

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95% of the creatures on earth are smaller than a chicken egg.

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one in twelve Americans alphabetize their spice rack.

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about 8,000 Americans are injured by musical instruments each year.

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the most common birth date in the USA is October 5
and the least common is May 22.

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the world’s largest birthday cake
was created in 1989
it weighed 128,238 pounds, 8 oz.
and used 16,209 pounds of icing.

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human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.

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termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.

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every minute in the U.S. six people turn 17.

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if you attempted to count the stars in a galaxy
at a rate of one every second
it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.

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just twenty seconds worth of fuel remained
when Apollo 11’s lunar module landed on the moon.

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an ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

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banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

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a sentence that uses every letter in the alphabet.
“The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.”

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where the phrase, “goodnight, sleep tight” came from.

In Shakespeare’s time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on.

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only one person in 2 billion will live to be 116 or older.