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    amazing facts

    <span style=&#39;color:red&#39;>More Monopoly money is printed yearly than real money throughout the world.

    Penguins are not found in the North Pole

    People photocopying their buttocks are the cause of 23% of all photocopier errors worldwide.

    A dentist invented the Electric Chair.

    Rudolf the Red-nosed reindeer was actually created as a promotional figure for Montgommery Wards department stores.

    A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.

    Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%

    A whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.

    Walt Disney got the idea for Mickey Mouse from watching mice play in a garage, where he was forced to work, because he could not afford to rent an art studio.

    About 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens each year.

    About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they&#39;re still sitting on it.

    Alexander Graham Bell&#39;s wife and mother were both deaf .

    The &#39;O&#39; when used as a prefix in Irish surnames means &#39;descendant of.&#39;

    Alfred Hitchcock did not have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.

    Cockroaches break wind every 15 minutes.

    Charlie Brown&#39;s dad was a barber.

    Fish scales are an ingredient in most lipsticks.

    Frank Baum, the writer of &#39;The Wizrd of OZ&#39;, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence &#39;Oz.&#39;

    The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.

    On average, every chocolate bar contains at least three insect legs.

    Up until the early 20th century, New Jersey and Wisconsin had laws allowing the castration of epileptics </span id=&#39;red&#39;>


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    some interesting facts!
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