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Animals
In New Zealand is home to 4 million people and 70 million sheep.
The heart of a blue whale is the size of a small car.
A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle - a group of geese in the air is a skein.
Sharks are immune to all known diseases.
A house fly lives only 14 days.
Millions of trees are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them.
Money
The first credit card was issued by American Express in 1951.
If you stack one million US$1 bills, it would be 361 ft high and weight exactly 1 ton.
A million dollars' worth of $100 bills weighs only 22 lb.
Miscellenous
The odds of being struck by lightning are about 600,000 to one.
The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.
China uses 45 billion chopsticks per year. 25 million trees are chopped down to make 'em sticks.
More personal telephone calls are made on Mother's Day in the USA than on any other day in any other country.
Food
Wine is sold in tinted bottles because wine spoils when exposed to light.
An onion, apple and potato all have the same taste. The differences in flavor are caused by their smell.
Approximately one billion snails are served in restaurants annually.
In the US, about 280 million turkeys are sold for the Thanksgiving celebrations.
Over 90% of all fish caught are caught in the northern hemisphere.
Chocolate is the number one foodstuff flavor in the world, beating vanilla and banana by 3-to-1.
TIP is the acronym for "To Insure Promptness.”
Carrots have zero fat content.
The tall chef's hat is called a toque.
Watermelons are 97% water, lettuce 97%, tomatoes 95%, carrots 90%, and bread 30%.
Three quarters of fish caught are eaten - the rest is used to make things such as glue, soap, margarine and fertilizer.
People
Half the world's population is under 25 years of age.
One in ten people in the world live on an island.
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
Men loose about 40 hairs a day. Women loose about 70 hairs a day.
The length from your wrist to your elbow is the same as the length of your foot.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth.
On average a hiccup lasts 5 minutes.
In the US, murder is committed most frequently in Aug. and least frequently in Feb.
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