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15 Very Interesting Facts

May 8th 2007 00:20
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1. The creator of the NIKE Swoosh symbol was paid only $35 for the design.

2. Each year, 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!

3. Over 70,000 Australians have listed down 'Jedi' as being their religion in a census.

4. More than half of British adults have had sex in a public place.

5. Most alcoholic beverages contain all 13 minerals necessary to sustain human life.

6. Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate every second.

7. When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet without being hurt.

8. Most dreams last only 5 to 20 minutes.

9. The average life span of a U.S. dollar bill is 18 months.

10. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

11. California has issued at least 6 drivers licenses to people named Jesus Christ.

12. The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.

13. Penguins can convert salt water into fresh water.

14. U.S. President Calvin Coolidge liked to eat breakfast while having his head rubbed with Vaseline.

15. In ten minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined!
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