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· Approximately sixty circus performers have been shot from cannons. At last report, thirty-one of these have been killed.
· It took Leo Tolstoy six years to write "War & Peace".
· In the name of art, Chris Burden arranged to be shot by a friend while another person photographed the event. He sold the series of pictures to an art dealer. He made $1750 on the deal, but his hospital bill was $84,000.
· November 29 is National Sinky Day; a day to eat over one's sink and worship it.
· On average, there are 333 squares of toilet paper on a roll.
· The numbers on opposite sides of a die always add up to 7.
· If you were born in Los Alamos, New Mexico during the Manhattan project (where they made the atomic bomb), your birth place is listed as a post office box in Albuquerque.
· The Hoover Dam was built to last 2,000 years. The concrete in it will not even be fully cured for another 500 years.
· The Tokyo World Lanes Bowling Center is the largest bowling establishment in the world. It has 252 lanes and one very tired pinsetter.
· The longest Monopoly game ever played was 1,680 hours long, that's 70 straight days!
· Victor Hugo's Les Miserables contains one of the longest sentences in the French language—823 words without a period.
· The 1997 Jack Nicholson film - "As Good As It Gets", is known in China as "Mr. Cat Poop". Bruce was the nickname of the mechanical shark used in the "Jaws" movies.
· Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
· Under the law of Mississippi, there’s no such thing as a female Peeping Tom.
· Every citizen of Kentucky is required by law to take a bath at least once a year.
· In Saudi Arabia, a woman reportedly may divorce her husband if he does not keep her supplied with coffee.
· Prior to 1900, prize fights lasted up to 100 rounds.
· Not all Golf Balls have 360 dimples. There are some as high as 420. Thereare also all different kinds of dimple patterns.
· The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples.
· No one seems to know why people blush.
· Between 25% to 33% of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light.
· Men have more blood than women. Men have 1.5 gallons for men versus 0.875 gallons for women.
· In 1977, a 13 year old child found a tooth growing out of his left foot.
· Your thumb is the same length as your nose.
· There is an average of 50,000 spiders per acre in green areas.
· You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day that in any other weather.
· Mosquitoes prefer children to adults, and blondes to brunettes.
· Spiders have transparent blood.