Learn Something New Every Day: Strange Facts

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1. Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food FROM freezing.

2. The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog", uses every letter in the alphabet.

3. Average life span of a major league baseball is 7 pitches.

4. A 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

5. The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year by the weight of books.

6. Nutmeg can extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

7. The density of neuron star is 1.5 to 3 times of sun's mass.

8. Almost 85% of the universe is a form of dark matter.

9. The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It to Beaver".

10. Only one person in two billion will live up to 116 of age.

11. 200 companies contributing 29% to the world economy employs only 0.9% of the world's work force.

12. 98 tons of ore historic buried plant material is used to make one U.S gallon of gasoline.

13. Strong negative emotions lead to damage of immune system.

14. Due to pollution and overfishing, population of American, Asian and Europeans eels have declined up to 99%.

15. The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.

16. Neutrons have a life of 14 minutes outside the nucleus of an atom.

17. Only 22% of original forests on earth have remained.

18. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.

19. On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

20. Reno, Nevada is west of Los Angeles, California.

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