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American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad in first class.
200 million people in China live on less than $1 a day.
People spend about two weeks of their lives at traffic lights!
The original name of Bank of America was Bank of Italy.
If the entire population of earth was reduced to exactly 100 people,50% of the world's currency would be held by 6 people.
Fewer than half of the 16,200 major league baseball players have ever hit a home run.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
Turtles can breathe through their butts.
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
Male and female rats may have sex twenty times a day.
Americans ate eight million more orders of french fries and almost six million more hamburgers this year compared to last.
The USA has more personal computers than the next 7 countries combined.
22% of American women aged 20 gave birth while in their teens. In Switzerland and Japan, only 2% did so.
The Mall in Washington, D.C. is 1.4 times larger than Vatican City.
0.7% of Americans are currently in prison.
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life".
The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof'.
A single individual, Dr. Lieven P. Van Neste, owns over 200,000 domain names!
The ant can lift 50 times its own weight.
The Chico, California, City Council enacted a ban on nuclear weapons, setting a $500.00 fine for anyone detonating one within city limits.
Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
Women who read romance novels have sex twice as often as those who don't.
Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backwards.
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