1. When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go — the first is usually sight, followed by taste, smell and touch.
2. A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it has been decapitated.
3. 100 people choke to death on pens each year. One is more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a spider.
4. Alexander’s funeral would have cost $600 million today. A road from Egypt to Babylon was built to carry his body.

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1. John Kerry’s hometown newspaper, the Lowell Sun, endorsed George W. Bush for president in 2004. Bush’s hometown newspaper, the Lone Star Iconoclast, endorsed John Kerry for president in 2004.
2. Only 939 of the 1,400,000 high school seniors who took the SAT in 2004 got a perfect score of 1600. Two of them are twin brothers Dillon and Jesse Smith from Long Island, NY.
3. Billboard magazine has recently launched a top 20 chart of cell phone ringtones.
4. The US Army is handing out $2,500 to Fallujah residents whose property was destroyed by US planes and artillery.
5. George W. Bush, who presents himself as a man of faith, rarely goes to church. Yet he received votes from nearly two out of three voters who attend church at least once a week.
6. In 2015, it is estimated that half the federal budget will be spent on programs for the elderly.
7. A private elementary school in Alexandria, Virginia, accidentally served margaritas to its schoolchildren, thinking it was limeade.
8. The Chicago Cubs are suing former Hartford Courant newspaper carrier Mark Guthrie to get back $301,000 in pay that was intended to go to a Cubs pitcher with the same name. The Tribune Company owns both the Hartford Courant and the Chicago Cubs.
9. In February 2004, a Disney World employee was killed when he fell from a parade float and was trapped between two float sections. OSHA termed this a serious workplace violation, but Disney was fined only $6,300.
10. Even today, 90% of the continental United States is still open space or farmland.
11. The second Saturday in September is usually a popular time for weddings. Not in 2004, as most couples did not want their anniversaries on September 11.

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1. 60.7 percent of eligible voters participated in the 2004 presidential election, the highest percentage in 36 years. However, more than 78 million did not vote. This means President Bush won re-election by receiving votes from less than 31% of all eligible voters in the United States.
2. John Quincy Adams, sixth president of the United States, loved to skinny dip in the Potomac River.
3. La Paz, Bolivia has an average annual temperature below 50 degrees Fahrenheit. However, it has never recorded a zero-degree temperature. Same for Stanley, Falkland Islands and Punta Arenas, Chile.
4. 41% of Chinese people eat at least once a week at a fast food restaurant. 35% of Americans do.
5. A Wisconsin forklift operator for a Miller beer distributor was fired when a picture was published in a newspaper showing him drinking a Bud Light.
6. G-rated family films earn more money than any other rating. Yet only 3% of Hollywood’s output is G-rated.
7. Richard Hatch, winner of the first “Survivor” reality series, has been charged with tax evasion for failing to report his $1,000,000 prize.
8. The entire fleet of Unicoi County Tennessee’s salt trucks was rendered out of commission in one accident. All three trucks were badly damaged when one of them began skidding down a road, causing a chain reaction accident. Officials blamed road conditions.
9. More people study English in China than speak it in the United States of America (300 million).
10. Fast food provider Hardee’s has recently introduced the Monster Thickburger. It has 1,420 calories and 107 grams of fat.

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1. Chicago is closer to Moscow than it is to Rio de Janeiro.
2. Dogs have two sets of teeth, just like humans. They first have 30 “puppy” teeth, then 42 adult teeth.
3. In 1950, President Harry Truman threw out the first ball twice at the opening day Washington DC baseball game; once right handed and once left handed.
4. A Swiss ski resort announced it would combat global warming by wrapping its mountain glaciers in aluminum foil to keep them from melting.
5. The chameleon has a tongue that is one and a half times the length of his body.
6. Beethoven dipped his head in cold water before he composed.
7. There once was a town named “6″ in West Virginia.
8. Ten years ago, only 500 people in China could ski. This year, an estimated 5,000,000 Chinese will visit ski resorts.
9. In 1920, Babe Ruth broke the single season home run record, with 29. The same year, he became the first major leaguer to hit 30 home runs. The same year, he became the first major leaguer to hit 40 home runs. The same year, he became the first major leaguer to hit 50 home runs.

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1. Almonds are members of the peach family.
2. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
3. Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
4. One person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
5. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
6. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
7. More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
8. Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of “Lorne Greene’s Animal Kingdom”.

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1. There are more cars in Southern California than there are cows in India.
2. The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows.
3. The province of Alberta, Canada is completely free of rats.
4. Illinois has the most personalized license plates of any state.
5. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
6. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
7. The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
8. The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.
9. There are 206 bones in the adult human body, but 300 in children (some of the bones fuse together as a child grows).
10. Fleas can jump 130 times higher than their own height. In human terms this is equal to a 6 foot person jumping 780 feet into the air.
11. Snakes are true carnivores as they eat nothing but other animals. They do not eat any type of plant material.
12. There are no poisonous snakes in Maine.
13. The blue whale can produce sounds up to 188 decibels. This is the loudest sound produced by a living animal and has been detected as far away as 530 miles.
14. The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.
15. It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.
17. Erosion at the base of Niagara Falls (USA) undermines the shale cliffs and as a result, the falls have receded approximately 7 miles over the last 10,000 years.
18. The longest living cells in the body are brain cells which can live an entire lifetime.
19. The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
20. North Dakota has never had an earthquake.
21. Alexander Graham Bell (who invented the telephone) also set a world water-speed record of over seventy miles an hour at the age of 72.
22. There is enough fuel in a full tank of a jumbo jet to drive an average car four times around the world.
23. Hawaii is moving toward Japan 4 inches every year.
24. Chimps are the only animals that can recognize themselves in a mirror.
25. The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.
26. There are more living organisms on the skin of a single human being than there are human beings on the surface of the earth.
27. Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
28. If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
29. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
30. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

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