Amazing Facts - 42

1. In a survey conducted in 2000 by Kimberly-Clark, it was found that men prefer to fold their toilet paper, and women like to wad it

2. On average, a person has two million sweat glands

3. France, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Greece, and Australia have always been in the modern Olympics since it began in 1896

4. The longer white infants from low-income families are breast-fed, the less likely they will be overweight as young children, researchers said on Monday

5. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

6. The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is one of the few places in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane

7. The most popular treat for Halloween trick-or-treaters are candy bars with Snickers being the most popular

8. Corned beef got its name because this beef was preserved with pellets of salt that were the size of corn kernels, which was also referred to as "corns" of salt

9. The Canandian province of New Brunswick had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839.

10. In 1908, the first machine to make lollipops opened for business in New Haven, Connecticut

11. In 1976, a Los Angeles secretary named Jannene Swift officially married a fifty pound rock. More than twenty people witnessed the ceremony

12. The most diners per capita in the world are located in the U.S. state New Jersey

13. In Denmark, people eat about 36 pounds of candy a year. The highest consumption of candy of any country

14. John Van Wormer invented paper milk cartons after dropping a bottle of milk one morning. The bottle broke spilling the milk everywhere. That annoyance was enough for Van Wormer to come up with the idea.

15. The long fibres that are found in bananas are excellent in making paper. The long fibres that are found in the banana plant can make the banana fibre paper approximately 3000 times stronger than regular paper

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