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Amazing things that people have actually researched or pondered:

Barbie's measurements (if she were life-size):  39-23-33

Coca-cola was originally green

Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treasury

Smartest dogs: 1)border collie; 2)poodle;  3)golden retriever
Dumbest dog: 1)afghan

There are more collect calls on Father's Day than any other day of
the year

Heinz Catsup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles PER YEAR

It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs

Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better

State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work:  Alaska

Percentage of Africa that is wilderness:  28

Percentage of North America that is wilderness:  38

Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000

Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland or Disney World:  70

Average life span of a major league baseball:  7 pitches

Percentage of bird species that are monogamous:   90

Percentage of mammal species that are:  3  (tigers being one)

Only first lady to carry a loaded revolver:  Eleanor Roosevelt

Only president to win a Pulitzer:  John F. Kennedy, for "Profiles in
Courage"

Only president awarded a patent:  Abe Lincoln, for a system of
buoying vessels over shoals

President who discovered a new proof for The Pythagorean Theorem:
Jimmy Carter

Only food that does not spoil:  honey

Only bird that can fly backwards:  Hummingbird

An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it

In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees

Polar bears are left-handed

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair

The youngest pope was 11 years old

Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school

Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses

Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined

The parachute was invented by Leonardo da Vinci in 1515

They have square watermelons in Japan ... they stack better