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Useless Facts 4
America once had a five cent bill.
A dime has 118 ridges around its edge
A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.
Greece's national anthem has 158 verses.
The pound sign (#) is called an anoctothorpe.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
Venus is the only Planet that rotates clockwise.
Barbie's full name is "Barbara Millicent Roberts"
In France the Big Dipper is called the "casserole
Most of the heat lost by Earth is through volcanoes
The Minneapolis phone book has 21 pages of Andersons.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
The yo-yo was originally a weapon in the Philippines.
There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.
The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
The record for the most couples kissing at once is 1600.
A lightning bolt reaches about 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
In developing nations, 80% of diseases are water related.
The nickname for a Japanese businessmen is "Salarymen."
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
Kilts are not native to Scotland. They originated in France.
No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
From space, the brightest man-made place is Las Vegas, Nevada.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
In 2002 the most popular car color in North America
was silver.
The number or word "One" appears 16 times on a U.S. dollar bill.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
In Canada, the most productive day of the workweek
is Tuesday.
Four-wheel roller skates were invented by James L. Plimpton in 1863.
The name of Oscar the Grouch's pet worm on Sesame Street is Slimey.
The quartz crystal in your wristwatch vibrates 32,768 times a second.
In Albania nodding the head means "no" and shaking the head means "yes".
More than two-thirds of Earth's land surface lies north of the equator.
There are approximately ten million bricks in the Empire State Building
A Boeing 747's wing span is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
The colors black, green and blue are used to print a U.S. dollar bill.
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
The only President in office to weigh less than 100 pounds was James Madison
The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
In computer-speak, wysiwyg is an acronym for 'what you see is what you get'
The average person over fifty will have spent one year looking for lost items.
The first aerial photograph was taken from a balloon during the U.S. civil war.
Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.
~Tom Stoppard
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