WEIRD FACTS!!! DID YOU KNOW????
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WEIRD FACTS
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| Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. |
| American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad in first class. |
| 30% of Chinese adults live with their parents. |
| 200 million people in China live on less than $1 a day. |
| There are 100 million internet users in China. Some of the sites they can't access are BBC news, Amnesty International and Dalailama.com. |
| In 2006, there were 398 million mobile (or cell) phones in China. |
| China is the source of 70% of the worlds pirated goods. |
| 20% of the world's population lives in China. |
| People spend about two weeks of their lives at traffic lights! |
| Left handed people live slightly shorter lives than right handed people. |
| Armadillos are able to contract leprosy. |
| Ten years ago, only 500 people in China could ski. This year, an estimated 5,000,000 Chinese will visit ski resorts. |
| The ant, when intoxicated, will always fall over to its right side. |
| The original name of Bank of America was Bank of Italy. |
| Toxic house plants poison more children than household chemicals. |
| Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England, but only in tropical fish stores. |
| In Bahrain, a male gynecologist can only examine a woman's private parts through a mirror. |
| If the entire population of earth was reduced to exactly 100 people,50% of the world's currency would be held by 6 people. |
| In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first. |
| Fewer than half of the 16,200 major league baseball players have ever hit a home run. |
| A snail can sleep for three years. |
| Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants. |
| In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined. |
| Turtles can breathe through their butts. |
| Walt Disney was afraid of mice. |
| You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television. |
| Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes. |
| Most lipstick contains fish scales. |
| Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants. |
| Close to 80% of people who watch the Super Bowl on television, only do so to view the commercials. |
| In the 1800's, people believed that gin could cure stomach problems. |
| It took approximately 2.5 million blocks to build the Pyramid of Giza, which is one of the Great Pyramids. |
| Thomas Edison designed a helicopter that would work with gunpowder. It ended up blowing up and also blew up his factory. |
| McDonalds calls frequent buyers of their food heavy users. |
| Americans ate eight million more orders of french fries and almost six million more hamburgers this year compared to last. |
| The Netherlands has built 800 miles of massive dikes and sea walls to hold back the sea. |
| One pair of rats has the potential for 15,000 descendants in a year. |
| A female can produce up to twelve litters of twenty rats a year. |
| Male and female rats may have sex twenty times a day. |
| The rat has been called the world’s most destructive mammal - other than man. |
| Rats destroy an estimated 1/3 of the world’s food supply each year. |
| 25% of all fires of unknown origin are rat-caused. |
| 26% of all electric cable breaks and 18% of all phone cable disruptions are caused by rats. |
| The USA has more personal computers than the next 7 countries combined. |
| Members of the armed forces and the police cannot vote in the Dominican Republic. |
| US tops the world in plastic surgery procedures. Next comes Mexico. |
| 22% of American women aged 20 gave birth while in their teens. In Switzerland and Japan, only 2% did so. |
| Mexican women spend 15.3% of their life in ill health. |
| Most Zambians don't live to see their 40th birthday. |
| The Mall in Washington, D.C. is 1.4 times larger than Vatican City. |
| The women of Iceland earn two-thirds of their nation's university degrees. |
| American adults have been educated for the longest time. |
| The ten most generous countries are all in Europe. |
| 72% of people in Mali earn less than $1 per day. |
| The top 8 most developed countries all speak Germanic languages. Every such country is in the top 20. |
| More than 20% of the votes in the 2001 elections in Argentina were invalid. |
| You can be imprisoned for not voting in Fiji, Chile and Egypt - at least in theory. |
| 0.7% of Americans are currently in prison. |
| Saudi diplomats have 367 outstanding parking fines in Britain. |
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