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		<description><![CDATA[82 STRANGE but TRUE Facts (One is incorrect! Can you find it?) 1. Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world&#8217;s largest zipper manufacturer. 2. 40 percent of McDonald&#8217;s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals. 3. 315 entries in Webster&#8217;s 1996 Dictionary were misspelled. 4. On the average, 12 [...]]]></description>
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<p>(One is incorrect! Can you find it?)</p>
<p>1. Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world&#8217;s largest zipper manufacturer.</p>
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<p>2. 40 percent of McDonald&#8217;s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.</p>
<p>3. 315 entries in Webster&#8217;s 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.</p>
<p>4. On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.</p>
<p>5. Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog&#8217;s heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.</p>
<p>6. Ketchup was sold in the 1830&#8242;s as a medicine.</p>
<p>7. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.</p>
<p>8. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.</p>
<p>9. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.</p>
<p>10. Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa&#8217;s lips.</p>
<p>11. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That&#8217;s the opposite of the norm.</p>
<p>12. The original name for the butterfly was &#8220;flutterby&#8221;!</p>
<p>13. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can&#8217;t sink in quicksand.</p>
<p>14. Mosquito repellents don&#8217;t repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito&#8217;s sensors so they don&#8217;t know you&#8217;re there.</p>
<p>15. Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.</p>
<p>16. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley&#8217;s gum.</p>
<p>17. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.</p>
<p>18. Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.</p>
<p>19. Adolf Hitler&#8217;s mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.</p>
<p>20. The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.</p>
<p>21. To escape the grip of a crocodile&#8217;s jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.</p>
<p>22. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.</p>
<p>23. The &#8220;pound&#8221; (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.</p>
<p>24. The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.</p>
<p>25. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.</p>
<p>26. The average person&#8217;s left hand does 56% of the typing.</p>
<p>27. Dreamt&#8221; is the only word in the English language that ends in &#8220;mt&#8221;.</p>
<p>28. It&#8217;s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.</p>
<p>29. In Chinese, the KFC slogan &#8220;finger lickin&#8217; good&#8221; comes out as &#8220;eat your fingers off&#8221;.</p>
<p>30. A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.</p>
<p>31. We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.</p>
<p>32. Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines</p>
<p>33. Mexico City sinks abut 10 inches a year.</p>
<p>34. Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.</p>
<p>35. Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.</p>
<p>36. When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying &#8220;yes&#8221; in Sri Lanka</p>
<p>37. There are more chickens than people in the world.</p>
<p>38. The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.</p>
<p>39. There are more telephones than people in Washington , D.C.</p>
<p>40. The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.</p>
<p>41. The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three Times each morning.</p>
<p>42. The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the Combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.</p>
<p>43. The first owner of the Marlboro cigarette Company died of lung cancer.</p>
<p>44. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.</p>
<p>45. The world&#8217;s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.</p>
<p>46. Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears Never stop growing.</p>
<p>47. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.</p>
<p>48. A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a Few weeks.</p>
<p>49. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.</p>
<p>50. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.</p>
<p>51. When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.</p>
<p>52. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned His wife or mother because they were both deaf.</p>
<p>53. A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a Carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After Weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe Leaving her mentally retarded</p>
<p>54. &#8220;I am.&#8221; is the shortest complete sentence in the English language</p>
<p>55. Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking Countries because Colgate translates into the command &#8220;go hang Yourself.&#8221;</p>
<p>56. Like fingerprints, everyone&#8217;s tongue print is different.</p>
<p>57. &#8220;Bookkeeper&#8221; is the only word in English language with three consecutive Double letters.</p>
<p>58. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed People do.</p>
<p>59. The sentence &#8220;the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog&#8221; uses every Letter in the English language.</p>
<p>60. If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line Would never end because of the rate of reproduction</p>
<p>61. China has more English speakers than the United States</p>
<p>62. Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.</p>
<p>63. Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.</p>
<p>64. An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.</p>
<p>65. Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our Bodies.</p>
<p>66. Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average Man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his Lifetime.</p>
<p>67. According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.</p>
<p>68. The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi- Pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu &#8211; a New Zealand hill.</p>
<p>69. If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at Approximately 4:30pm the previous day.</p>
<p>70. Scientists in Australia &#8216;s Parkes Observatory thought they had positive Proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a Microwave in the building.</p>
<p>71. Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times.</p>
<p>72. More than 40,000 parasites and 250 types of bacteria are exchanged during a French kiss.</p>
<p>73. Men can read smaller print than women, but women can hear better.</p>
<p>74. Coca-Cola was originally green.</p>
<p>75. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.</p>
<p>76. The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.</p>
<p>77. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States</p>
<p>78. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.</p>
<p>79. Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!</p>
<p>80. You can&#8217;t kill yourself by holding your breath.</p>
<p>81. It is impossible to lick your elbow.</p>
<p>82. People say &#8220;Bless you&#8221; when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.<br />
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