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A little known fact….

The first testicular guard "Cup" was used in Hockey in 1874 and the first helmet was used in 1974.

It took 100 years for men to realize that the brain is also important.
 
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In the sport of Cricket, these "cups" are referred to as a "box". In an unfortunate case of mismarketing last year, Kentucky Fried Chicken released a lunch pack called a "Cricketer's box" Makes you hungry dunn'it..NOT!
 
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other fun facts
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Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating.

Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.

Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult.

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.

A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood.

During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.

Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.

There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses.

Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
 
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a little more little known facts …

Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food!

The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!

In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!

There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!

About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30!

More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones!

Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe

In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!

Slugs have 4 noses!

Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!

Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!

The average American/Canadian drinks about 600 sodas a year!

It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland!

Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes!

Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue!
 
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The payment Nike gave to Michael Jordan exceeds the payments the company made to all of its workers in Malaysia.

Marilyn Monroe had six toes on every foot.

All of US presidents wore glasses, but some of them never put them on in public.

Walt Disney who created Mickey Mouse was afraid of mice.

Pearls can dissolve when put in vinegar.

35 percent of those who post marriage ads are already married.

Marlboro, Coca-Cola and Budweiser are the most expensive trademarks on the planet, in the order given.

One can make a cow climb a staircase up but no one can make it come downstairs.

Duck quacking produces no echo and nobody knows why

Spiral stairs of American fire-brigades came from the time when horses were used to raise pumps and other heavy items. Horses crowded down straight stairs unable to imagine how to climb them.

Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first American President who had all of the letters of the word "criminal" in his name. William Jefferson Clinton was the second.

On average, 100 people die of chocking with ball-point pens every year.

90 percent of taxi drivers in New York are immigrants.

Elephant is the only animal that cannot bounce up and down.

One man out of two million people has a chance to live up to 116 years.

On average, women wink twice as often as men.

The human body-build does not let us lick the elbow.

The building of the University Library in Indiana subsides one inch every year because construction engineers did not take the weight of books into account when building it.

Snails can sleep for up to three years.

Crocodiles cannot put out their tongues.

Lighters were invented before matches.

US citizens eat 18 hectares of pizza every day.

Almost everyone who has just finished reading this text made an attempt to lick their elbows.
 
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even more fun facts ….
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The starfish is one of the few animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out!

Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, or creamy!

A jellyfish is 95 percent water!

In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals!

The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs!

A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate!

More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world!

The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly!

Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!

One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet!

America once issued a 5-cent bill!

You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime! Wow!

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!

There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month

Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool! He changed it every 2 innings!

Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung!

A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years! Wow!
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!

Here are some interesting numbers to look at! (*1997)
166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the U.S!
1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire a strung across the U.S!
123,000,000 cars are being driven down the U.S's highways!
85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S!
56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball each year!

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!

The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head!

In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs!
 
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