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    Fast Facts

    There are more than 15,000 miles of neon lights in the signs along the Las Vegas strip.

    There’s a town in Texas called Ding Dong.

    Florida’s Disney World is larger than the entire city of Buffalo, N.Y.

    Los Angeles is 2 centimeters closer to San Francisco than it was a year ago.

    Mick Jagger runs the equivalent of 5 miles on stage during each Rolling Stones concert.

    A human jaw can open 30 degrees; a snake jaw can open 130 degrees.

    Seventy-three percent of Americans would rather go grocery shopping than floss.

    Twenty-two percent of U.S. teenagers can’t name the country from which the United States declared its independence.

    A 2005 survey found that the average American receives his or her first romantic kiss at age 14.

    The five least frequently used letters in order: k, j, x, z and q.

    There are 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet.

    The chances of being hit by lightning in your lifetime are about 1 in 600,000.

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