1. Icebergs are approximately 1/8 (12.5 %) of the ice is above water and 7/8 (87.5 %) of the ice to be below the surface.
2. When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second
3. During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.
4. Each year, there are more than 40,000 toilet related injuries in the United States.
5. George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.
6. In New York City, approximately 1,600 people are bitten by other humans every year.
7. It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.
8. King Kong was Adolf Hitler''s favorite movie.
9. Ants never sleep.
10. No word in the the English dictionary rhymes with "MONTH".
11. The earth is weighs approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons
12. Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
13. The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.
14. Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine.
15. Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
16. Most lipstick is partailly made of fish scales.
17. Most dust particles in your house come from dead skin.
18. One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water.
19. Some toothpastes and deodorants contain the same chemicals found in antifreeze.
20. A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.
21. In Sweden there is a ski-thru Mcdonalds.
22. If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total is 5050.
23. Babies are born without knee caps.
24. Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult.
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