Amazing Facts - 21

1. A common drink for Tibetans is Butter Tea which is made out of butter, salt, and brick tea

2. Bourbon was first made by a Baptist minsister from Bourbon County in Kentucky in 1789. That is where it got its name

3. The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites

4. McDonald restaurants serve food and drink to an amazing 43 million customers on a daily basis

5. The game Monopoly was once very popular in Cuba; however, Fidel Castro ordered that all games be destroyed

6. Nearly half of all Americans suffer from symptoms of burnout

7. During the era of Louis XIV, women used lemons to redden their lips

8. 70% of the poor people in the world are female

9. The thickness of the Arctic ice sheet is on average 10 feet. There are some areas that are thick as 65 feet

10. The adult human body requires about 88 pounds of oxygen daily

11. The biggest pumpkin the world weighs 1,337.6 pounds

12. The highest consumption of Pizza occurs during Super Bowl week

13. During World War II, condoms were used to cover rifle barrels from being damaged by salt water as the soldiers swam to shore

14. Approximately 55% of movies released are Rated R

15. The Roman emperor Domitian took great pleasure in being secluded in his room for hours and catching flies and stabbing them with pens

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