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Most of the world's people must walk at least 3 hours to fetch water!

George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew marijuana on their plantations!

Iron weighs more after it rusts.

Until 1857, any foreign coins made of precious metal were legal tender in the United States.

Most lipstick contains fish scales!

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

Coca-Cola's 'Super Pure' Dasani bottled water is just filtered tap water!

Ted Turner owns about 2% of New Mexico.

Sales of Rolaids, Alka-Seltzer, and Tums jump 20% in December "

The symbol on the 'pound' key (#) is called an octothorpe.

It takes Several hundred thousand years for newly made photons (light) to travel from the core of the sun to it's surface.

English novelist Arnold Bennet drank a glass of water in a Paris Hotel to prove it was safe. He died two months later of Typhoid!

A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!

A Russian man who wore a beard during the time of Peter the Great had to pay a special tax.

Penguins can convert salt water into fresh water.

The most powerful electric eel is found in the rivers of Brazil, Columbia, Venezuela, and Peru, and produces a shock of 400-650 volts.

Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.

Apples are 25% air.

Wearing yellow makes you look bigger on camera; green, smaller.

The Zip Code 12345 is assigned to General Electric in Schenectady, New York.