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A List of 100 Strange (Mostly Worthless) Facts - Page 5
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"Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive double
letters
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Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people
do.
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The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in
the English language.
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If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line would never
end because of the rate of reproduction.
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China has more English speakers than the United States.
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Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
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Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
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Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man
never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his Lifetime.
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Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred
grams.
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The longest place name still in use is:
Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi-
Pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu - a New Zealand hill.
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Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
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Scientists in Australia 's Parkes Observatory thought they had positive proof
of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However,
after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a microwave in the
building.
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