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* Reindeer like to eat bananas.
* Caesar salad has nothing to do with any of the Caesars. It was first concocted in a bar in Tijuana, Mexico, in the 1920's.
* Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
* Daylight Saving Time is not observed in most of the state of Arizona and parts of Indiana.
* In eighteenth-century English gambling dens, there was an employee whose only job was to swallow the dice if there was a police raid.
* 1 in every 4 Americans has appeared someway or another on television.
* The average talker sprays about 300 microscopic saliva droplets per minute, about 2.5 droplets Per word.
* When a Hawaiian woman wears a flower over her left ear, it means that she is not available.
* Tigers not only have striped fur, they have striped skin!
* A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
* A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
* On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1"encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
* The scene where Indiana Jones shoots the swordsman in Raider’s of the Lost Ark was Harrison Ford's idea so that he could take a bathroom break.
* If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
* On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
* Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.
* A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
* The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.
* The pupils of a goat's eyes are square.
* Prince Charles is an avid collector of toilet seats.
* Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
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