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| Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density. |
| Babies eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old. |
| Duracell, the battery-maker, built parts of its new international headquarters using materials from its own waste. |
| Infants spend more time dreaming than adults do. |
| Leather skin does not have any smell. The leather smell that you sense is actually derived from the materials used in the tanning process. |
| Teflon is the slipperiest substance in the world. |
| The only king without a moustache in a deck of cards is the king of hearts. |
| Women who read romance novels have sex twice as often as those who dont. |
| "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"! |
| A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation! |
| A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. |
| A shrimps heart is in its head. |
| A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite. |
| According to an age old custom, carrying a dead shrew in your pocket wards off rheumatism. |
| An iceberg contains more heat than a lit match. |
| Ancient Romans at one time used human urine as an ingredient in their toothpaste. |
| Children grow faster in the springtime than any other season during the year. |
| Chrysler built B-29s that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant called Diamond Star. |
| Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand. |
| Coconuts kill more people in the world than sharks do. Approximately 150 people are killed each year by coconuts. |
| Dirty snow melts faster than clean. |
| Dueling is legal in Paraguay, as long as both parties are registered blood donors. |
| During his lifetime, Herman Melvilles Moby Dick sold only 50 copies. |
| During his or her lifetime, the average human will grow 590 miles of hair. |
| Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct. |
| Eddie Cochrans last recording before he died was Three Steps to Heaven. |
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