- Useless Facts
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- A full-grown
pumpkin has about 15 miles of roots.
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- A porpoise
swims slowly in a circle as it sleeps.
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- At one time
in Holland it took four years to train to be a hatmaker but
only
- three years
to train to be a surgeon.
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- Despite the
many rat-infested slums in New York City, rats bite only
311
- people in an
average year. But 1,519 residents are bitten annually by
other
- New
Yorkers.
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- No one knows
why, but 90 percent of women who walk into a department
store
- immediately
turn to the right.
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- The term
skyscraper was first used way back in 1888 to describe an
11-story
- building.
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- Adults
average only one nightmare a year, but typically have seven
sexual
- fantasies a
day.
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- There are
twice as many kangaroos in Australia as there are people.
The
- kangaroo
population is estimated at about 40 million.
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- During his
entire lifetime, Herman Melville's timeless classic of the
sea,
- 'Moby Dick',
only sold 50 copies.
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- The liver,
not the heart, is the sign of romance in northern Morocco. When
a
- Moroccan girl
falls in love she says, "Darling, you have stolen my
liver."
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- Drivers tend
to drive faster when other cars are around. It doesn't
matter
- whether they
are in front, behind or beside them.
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- A small tribe
named the Todas in southern India doesn't greet each
other
- with a
handshake, they thumb their noses.
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- The host team
in an NFL football game must have 26 footballs inflated
and
- ready to play
with.
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- The world's
greatest lover was King Mongut of Siam. He had 9,000
wives.
- Before dying
of syphilis, he was quoted in saying he only loved the
first
- 700.
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