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Here are some random Facts

The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book

most often stolen from Public Libraries.

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in

the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the

air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse

has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John

Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2,but the

last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.

In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England,

when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them mind their own

pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your

P's and Q's"

In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only

Ladies Forbidden.... and thus the word GOLF entered into the English

language.

If you yelled for 8 years ,7 months and 6 days you would have produced

enough energy to heat a cup of coffee.

2,500 left handers die each year using products designed for right handers.

In an average day, a four year old child will ask 437 questions.

Every year, the moon moves 1/2 an inch further from the earth.

There are only 18 countries richer than Bill Gates

One million $1 bills weighs 1 ton

The longest word in the English language according to the Oxford Dictionary is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovocanoconiosis.

The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovocanoconioses, its plural.

Hydroxydesoxycorticosterone and Hydroxydesoxycorticosterones are the largest anagrams.

The average women eats 20kg of lipstick in her life.

Every two and a half years, there are two full moons in a month instead of the usual one full moon. The second full moon is called a blue moon.

If you toss a 5 cent piece 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.