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  1. Lighting strikes the Earth 100 times every second

  2. There are over 89,000/Americans on waiting lists for organ transplant.

  3. Catsup leaves the bottle at a rate of 25 miles per year

  4. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

  5. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

  6. Antarctica is the only continent without reptiles or snakes.

  7. An average of 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year

  8. There is enough fuel in full jumbo jet tank to drive an average car four times around the world.

  9. A category three hurricane releases more energy in ten minutes that all the world's nuclear weapons combined.

  10. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

  11. Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to operate a television for three hours.

  12. Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors.

  13. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies you have $1.19. You also have the largest possible amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

  14. Most lipstick contains fish scales.

  15. A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a
    second.

  16. In space, Astronaut cannot cry because there is no gravity and tears can't flow.

  17. Every year 16 million gallons of oil runs off pavement into streams, rivers, and eventually, oceans in the United States. This is more oil than was spilled by the Exxon Valdez.

  18. Erosion at the base of Niagara Falls has caused the falls to recede approximately seven miles over the past 10,000 years.

  19. At any given time, there 1,800 thunderstorms in process over the earths atmosphere.

  20. In Calama, a town in Atacama Desert of Chile, it has never rained.

  21. The star Antares is 60,000 times larger than our sun. If our sun were size of a softball, the star Antares would be as large as a house.

  22. The Moon is moving away from the Earth at a tiny, although measurable rate every year. 40 million years ago it was orbiting 49 feet from the planet's surface.

  23. According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.

  24. You are more likely to be infected by flesh eating bacterial than you are to be struck by lighting.

  25. Toxic house plants poison more children than household chemicals do.

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