Random Facts

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The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

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Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.

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In 10 minutes, a hurrican releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.

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The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

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If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.

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King Kong was Adolf Hitler's favorite movie.

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The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."

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Male hospital patients fall out of bed twice as often as female hospital patients.

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Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

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30% of people asked to participate in an opinion poll refuse.