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    • Elephants are not afraid of mice.
  • No two Corn Flakes look the same.
  • The number 57 on a Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickle the company once had.
  • Einstein’s last words were in German. Because the attending nurse did not understand German, his last words will never be known.
  • In 1812, after being shot in the chest, Theodore Roosevelt finished a speech he was delivering before he accepted any medical help.
  • The world’s longest name is Adolph Blaine Charles Daivid Earl Fredrick Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Sherman Thomas Uncas Victor William Xeres Yancy Zues Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorft Sr.
  • An anthropophagite eats people.
  • Fingernails grow 1/25 of an inch per week.
  • Ostriches do not bury their heads in the sand.
  • The Tooth Fairy is paying around $2 per tooth these days.
  • In virtually every language on earth, the word for “”mother”” begins with the letter m.
  • The food Americans waste in one day could feed an estimated 240,183 people.
  • You can think 625 thoughts on the caloric energy of one Cheerio.
  • Selenophobia is the fear of the moon.
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