| 2221/
The typical American eats 263 eggs a year.
2222/ The fastest growing
nail is on the middle finger.
2223/ France has the
highest per capita consumption of cheese.
2224/ The shortest English
word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is feedback.
2225/ A typical hen lays
19 dozen eggs a year.
2226/ A scallop has 35
blue eyes.
2227/ The left leg of
a chicken in more tender than the right one.
2228/ Like fingerprints,
everyone's tongue print is different.
2229/ Fortune cookies
were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.
2230/ A giraffe can clean
its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
2231/ You blink about
84,000,000 times a year.
2232/ When someone annoys
you, it takes 42 muscles to frown, but it only takes 4 muscles
to extend your arm and whack them in the head.
2233/ Coca-Cola was originally
green.
2234/ Average life span
of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
2235/ 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.
2236/ The highest point
in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
2237/ The human heart
creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt
blood 30 feet.
2238/ Banging your head
against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
2239/ The Ten Commandments
contain 297 words. The Bill of Rights is stated in 463 words.
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address contains 266 words.
A recent US Federal directive to regulate the price of cabbage
contains 26,911 words.
2240/ The citrus drink
7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because
the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated
the direction of the bubbles.
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