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    Fast Facts

    ? The Chang Jiang River is the fourth longest river in the world.

    ? On a trip to the South Sea Islands, French painter Paul Gauguin stopped off briefly in Central America where he worked as a laborer on the Panama Canal.

    ? President Theodore Roosevelt was the first to announce to the world that Maxwell House Coffee is “”Good to the last drop.””

    ? The average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.

    ? A recent Gallup poll shows that 69 percent of Americans believe in an afterlife.

    ? A UFO is reported every three minutes. In the United States, reported sightings are most likely to occur in July at 9 p.m. or 3 a.m.

    ? An ordinary TNT bomb involves atomic reaction, and could be called an atomic bomb. What we normally call an A-bomb actually involves nuclear reactions and therefore should be called a nuclear bomb.

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