DID YOU KNOW FACTS

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 Did You Know, Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
 Did You Know, The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
 Did You Know, 40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
 Did You Know, TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
 Did You Know, Butterflies taste with their feet.
 Did You Know, Coca-Cola was originally green.
 Did You know, If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
 Did You Know, Every day more money is printed for
Monopoly than the US Treasury.
 Did You Know, It is impossible to lick your elbow.
 Did You Know, Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
 Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating.
 Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
 Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult.
 When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second.
 A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood.
 During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.
 Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
 A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
 There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses.
 Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
 Basketball is a famous American sport invented by a Canadian who was working at a YMCA in the U.S.
 The hardness of ice is similar to that of concrete.
 The average cocoon contains about 300-400 metres of silk.
 The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.
 Whitby, Ontario has more donut stores per capita than any other place in the world.
 Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "E".
 Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine.
 Most lipstick is partailly made of fish scales.

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