Amazing Facts - 11

1.Native Americans used to use pumpkin seeds for medicine

2.The pound key (#) on the keyboard is called an octothorpe

3.The chemical name for caffeine is 1,3,7-trimethylzantihine

4.Corals take a long time to grow. Some corals only grow one centimeter in one year

5.Walmart-mart sells more apparel a year than all the other competing department stores combined

6.Canada has more inland waters and lakes than any other country in the world

7.Ramses II, a pharaoh of Egypt died in 1225 B.C. At the time of his death, he had fathered 96 sons and 60 daughters

8.The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want

9.Since its introduction in February 1935, more than two hundred million Monopoly board games have been sold worldwide

10.Women are twice as likely to be diagnosed with depression than men in the United States

11.The smallest man ever was Gul Mohammed (1957-1997) of India, who measured 1 feet, 10? inches

12. 500,000 tons of dog excrement are dumped annually on the streets of Paris

13.Hydrogen gas is the least dense substance in the world, at 0.08988g/cc

14.In Belgium, there is a museum just for strawberries

15.The Simpsons is the longest running prime-time animated series on television history

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