Did you know...?
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 1) Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.

 2) Pearls melt in vinegar.

 3) It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with
 enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.

 4) Thirty-five percent of the people who use
 personal ads  for dating are already married.

 5) The 3 most valuable brand names on earth:
 Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

 6) It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not
 downstairs.

 7) Humans are the only primates that don't have
 pigment  in the palms of their hands.

 8) Ten percent of the Russian government's income
 comes   from the sale of vodka.

 9) The sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps over
 the  lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet. (Developed
      by Western Union to Test telex/two communications)

 10) Average life span of a major league baseball:
 7 pitches.

 11) A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows
 why.

 12) The reason firehouses have circular stairways
 is from   the days of yore when the engines were
 pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground
 floor and figured out how to walk up straight
 staircases.

 13) The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the
 "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean
 song.)

 14) Each king in a deck of playing cards
 represents a great  king from history. Spades-King David;
 Clubs-Alexander the Great; Hearts-Charlemagne; and
 Diamonds- Julius Caesar.

 15) 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 =
 12,345,678,987,654,321

 16) Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of
 their unwanted people without killing them used to
 burn their  houses down - hence the expression, "to
 get fired."

 17) Hershey's Kisses are called that because the
 machine  that makes them looks like it's kissing
 the conveyor  belt.

 18) The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used
 in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle,  G.P.

 19) The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower
 than the lowest point in Colorado.

 20) The only two days of the year in which there
 are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA,NHL,
 or NFL),  are  the day before and the day after the
 Major League  All-Star Game.

 21) Only one person in two billion will live to
 be 116 or  older.

 22) The mask used by Michael Myers in the
 original  "Halloween" was actually a Captain Kirk
 mask painted white.

 23) If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne,
 it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the
 bottom.

 24) Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.

 25) Actor Tommy Lee Jones and vice-president Al
 Gore  were  freshman roommates at Harvard.

 26) The fingerprints of Koala bears are virtually
 indistinguishable from those of humans, so much
 so that they could be confused at a crime scene.

 27) All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction"
 are stuck  on 4:20.

 28) James Doohan, who plays Lt. Commander
 Montgomery  Scott on Star Trek, is missing the entire
 middle finger  of his right hand.

 29) The Eisenhower interstate system requires
 that one mile in every five must be straight. These
 straight sections are usable as airstrips in times
 of war or  other emergencies.

 30) There are 293 ways to make change for a
 dollar.

 31) Months that begin on a Sunday will always
 have a  "Friday the 13th."