Trivia and Amazing Facts

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• An ostrich’s eye is bigger than it’s brain.

• Today, 62 million newspapers will be printed in the U.S., and 44 million will be thrown away. That means the equivalent of about 500,000 trees will be dumped into landfills this week.

• If you were to remove the scent receptors from a dog’s nose and lay them out flat, they would cover an area greater than the dog itself.

• Pearls melt in vinegar.

• Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word “criminal.” The second was William Jefferson Clinton.

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• The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California.

• In 1973, Swedish confectionery salesman Roland Ohisson was buried in a coffin made entirely of chocolate.

• Of all the restaurants that are opened, 90% of them fail in  the first year. Of the remaining ones that survive, 90% of  those fail in the second year.

• Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

• Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

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