1. Actress Meryl Streep holds the record for the most Oscar nominated actress, with a record of 13 nominations
2. In a year approximately 900 million trees are cut down to make the raw materials needed for American pulp mills and paper
3. Enamel is hardest substance in the human body
4. A leech has 32 brains
5. Thomas Edison designed a helicopter that would work with gunpowder. It ended up blowing up and also blew up his factory.
6. In the late 1800's, washing machines and butter churners were sometimes powered by dogs walking on treadmills.
7. In China, people eat a bar of chocolate for every 1,000 chocolate bars eaten by the British
8. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors
9. Clarence Crane the inventor of "Crane's Peppermint Life Savers" sold his rights to the popular candy for less than three thousand dollars.
10. Namco, who are the manufacturers of Pac Man the video game, has estimated that the original arcade game has been played over 10 billion times by individuals
11. In Ivrea, Italy, thousands of citizens celebrate the beginning of Lent by throwing oranges at one another
12. The sloth moves so slowly that green algae grows in the grooves of their hair
13. In the world, the United States and France have the most pet dogs. Approximately one out of every three families has a pet dog. Switzerland and Germany are the lowest only having one dog per every ten families
14. There are 50% more males that are left handed compared to females
15. Armadillos breed in July, but get pregnant in November after delaying implantation. This allows the young to be born during the spring when there is an abundance of food
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