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Friday's Fun Facts

• Excessive caffeine consumption is the second leading cause of heart disease behind smoking.
• India exports more human hair, in total and per capita, than any other country. The color of 99.502 percent is classified as "black" or "ebony".
• The Estonian language has 32 different words for "hat."
• On average, a gym member who signs a 12 month contract will visit their gym eight times.

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Here are some Super Bowl facts for this weekend.

• The longest Super Bowl winning streak has only been two in a row
• Mike Ditka, Tom Flores, and Tony Dungy have all won a Super Bowl both as a player and a coach
• In 2000, St. Louis quarterback Kurt Warner set a record with 414 yards passing
• Pittsburgh has won the most Super Bowls at 6 times

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I will be on hiatus for a couple of weeks as I am going on vacation starting today. You will still get Friday's Fun Facts though. Be good until I get back.

• If all the diamonds stored by major diamond companies were released, a perfect two-carat diamond would be worth about three dollars.
• Within the industry, rubber band manufacturers refer to the elasticity of their products "Stretchy", "Extra Stretchy" and "Super Stretchy". At the last trade show the hot rumor was that "Super Extra Stretchy" was about to be introduced by one of the companies.
• In mid-August 2003, the world's largest collection of arctic ice core samples, stored at the State University of New York at Buffalo, completely melted due to the prolonged power outage affecting Eastern North America.
• Starting with elementary school and going all the way through a four year college program, the average student will carry five times their adult weight in class related books on their back.

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Have a great weekend!

• People with more than ten toes are eight times more likely to be left-handed.
• The game of foosball was invented in mid-16th-century Germany, predating soccer (football) by nearly 200 years. (That one's for you, Kristi)
• If the average American driver were to aggressively invest the money currently used for gasoline, they would have over $118,000 in that investment after 10 years.
• Since Franklin D. Roosevelt's election in 1933, the incumbent presidential candidate has won if it rains on election day in Washington, D.C.

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• Musician magazine has estimated that only one in 6,500 people who buy a harmonica will ever be able to play even the simplest song on it, making it the musical instrument with the lowest proficiency. The kazoo, on the other hand, has the highest proficiency.
• The average novel takes twice as long to write as it does to edit.
• Wales has the most Rugby pitches per capita with one pitch for every 1287 people. New Zealand is second: one for every 1528 people.
• The average, natural grass, professionally-maintained baseball infield contains 1,707,000 blades of grass.

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• The first home pizza delivery service that allowed ordering by phone was started in 1927 by now-defunct St. Mark's Pizza in New York City. Deliveries soon fell prey to the Great Depression, and weren't revived until after World War II.
• Swiss cheese is the most popular cheese worldwide.
• 1 in 12 Americans will never consume alcohol.
• Every year, seemingly due to New Years' resolutions, sales of cigarettes drop by about 30 percent in January, but then regain half that in February, and are back to normal levels in March.

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Happy New Year!

• Bats always turn left when exiting a cave,
• Men whose drivers licenses describe them as "bald" are twice as likely to be required to wear glasses while driving.
• The average person will handle less than 94 different $100 bills in their lifetime.
• A recent study found PowerPoint presentations to be the greatest source of office place annoyance.

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Merry Christmas!

• If all of the mercury from tainted fish were collected worldwide, it would amount to less than a drop of the highly toxic material.
• Contrary to the belief that the Harry Potter book series encourages literacy by its mere popularity, most fans of Harry Potter do not read books unrelated to the series.
• Every Republican president since Eisenhower has pronounced "nuclear" as "noo-kyoo-ler"
• The average male's hair starts to grey at the age of 32.

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Are you done Christmas shopping yet? Have you even started?

• Gaming and probability experts predict that one of the multi-state lottery games will have a jackpot in excess of one billion US dollars some time in the next 6.24 years if the rules for the current lotteries remain as they are currently constituted
• The most-purchased item at Office Depot is a 1.69 oz. bag of plain M&M's.
• A random sample of people named Anna conducted in 2002 by the Institute for Nomenclature found that 32 percent of the Anna's were unaware or had never noticed that their name was spelled the same backwards and forwards.
• In liquid form, the entire population of the United States could fit into ten major league stadiums, filled to the brim.

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Have a nice weekend.

• Through measurements of brainwaves, scientists have determined that cats think about sex twice as much as humans.
• In October 1994, Jeff Bezos wanted to name his new Web venture "Cadabra" -- as in "abracadabra." But his attorney convinced him that this magical moniker sounder a bit too much like "cadaver." Reluctantly, Bezos went with his second choice: Amazon.com.
• Guinea Pigs have no natural predators.
• In 2006, 8432 men were asked what their their three wishes would be if they came upon a magic genie. The top answers were: something to do with health/longevity (87.2 percent); wealth (50.5 percent) and world peace (48.3 percent). 12.8 percent said they would wish for better "endowment".

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Have a great (cold if you're in MN) weekend!

• The Vatican has a 5,000 square foot library that was sealed in 1215, with specific instructions that it was not to be opened until February 19, 2010. (Has anyone heard more about this?!?!?)
• Spider silk is an extremely strong material and its on-weight basis has been proven to be stronger than steel. Experts suggest that a pencil-thick strand of silk could stop a Boeing 747 in flight.
• Lou Gehrig was one of thousands of people who contracted what became known as Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS). New York doctors named the disease after the Yankee slugger posthumously to draw attention to its deadliness.
• Republicans are more likely to be involved in extramarital affairs than Democrats. (I wonder if Tiger is a Republican?)

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I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

• As of 2009 Pahrump, Nevada has the most world record holders per capita of any city in the world, with 38 such records held among the total of its roughly 40,000 residents.
• One in three cars has a dent or scratch longer than two inches.
• There are 984 towns or cities in the United States that do not have at least one Main Street.
• A 2008 study by the Association of American Fence and Netting Manufacturers found that fully one third of fences purporting to be electrified are in fact non-electrified. (Of that third, 90 percent of non-electrification was due to power or maintenance issues, and ten percent due to the sign placer's intent to deceive.)

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Happy Friday!

• Composing a 10,000 word document on a non-electric typewriter burns 135 more calories than producing that same document on a computer due to the differences in pressure required for each keystroke.
  
• The adhesion of Post-it brand sticky notes has increased 55 percent since 1990.
• Each year spam email costs nine times more in lost bandwidth capability than the value of postage paid for all unsolicited "junk" mail worldwide.
• When the first pencil with an eraser was introduced in 1858, the New York Times decried it as "yet another hallmark of the steady decline of our once noble age."

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The facts are all about airports today. Have a great weekend!

• In 2008, 87 percent of airline passengers made a phone call within 5 minutes of disembarking from the plane. Among those who did not make a phone call, 72 percent sent an SMS text message.
• The Munich airport has the highest ratio of ATMs to departing passengers of any similarly sized airport in the world.
• Dallas-Fort Worth airport serves 2.87 percent more departing passengers than arriving passengers, which is the largest differential of any airport in the world.
• Codes for Canadian airports start with 'Z' because the man who desgnated them was named Zachary Zebedevelamov and, he said, he wanted to 'leave his mark on Canada."
• From 1950 to 1958 three airlines had daily scheduled service between Idlewild (now JFK) Airport and Newark Airport.

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Have a great weekend!

• The electric bellows that blows air for the pipe organ at the Ely Cathedral in England could fill the Hindenberg with air in 18 hours and 4 minutes.
• Nolan Ryan has touched more baseballs than any other person.
• Sydney, Australia has the highest percentage of classical music lovers of any city in the world.
• There are currently three potato-battery-powered vehicles registered in the state of California.

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Happy Halloween!

• Experts have calculated that if a person could see everyone who came within 168 meters of Times Square in New York City, it would take less than 7o hours for that person to see someone he or she has met previously.
• Grand Rapids, Michigan was the first city to put fluoride in their water
• 90% of the continental US is still open space or farmland
• Architect James Horan was awarded $500 and a parcel of land in Washington, D.C. for his 1792 winning design for the President's House, now known as the White House.

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Happy Friday and cross your fingers for a Vikings win this weekend.

• Every day, $164 million worth of ties are worn in Washington, D.C. alone.
• In the 1893 case Nix v. Hedden, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the tomato is a vegetable.
• One out of 15 Americans don't know the order of the months.
• The average strip club's operating hours are longer than the average public library's.

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Have a wonderful weekend!

• Over half of the calories consumed worldwide come from rice.
• When women were asked what their top three wishes would be their answers were: Health/Longevity for self (79.4%); Health/Longevity for family and friends (64.7%); improved body figure (43%); 14.4% indicated they would wish for "better endowed partners"
• The upholestery covering the chairs in the House of Representatve's chamber of the US Capital is replaced once every 5 years. In the Senate, the rate is once every 9 years.
• While biologists have been able to determine the evolutionary need for most human facial features, there is no accepted theory for the evolution of the protruding nose.

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Have a great weekend! Tanya and Chris are getting married tomorrow!

• It takes the average American four year to earn $100,000. Alex Rodriguez (A-Rod) makes $100,00 every six pitches
• The average American adult woman owns 4.2 bras and 12 pairs of underwear. Both figures are almost double what they were 35 years ago (Dana Interjection: 12 pair of undies? Seriously? If that's the case, I have a TERRIBLE underwear addiction with about 80 pairs!)
• More people die from malnutrition than any other cause
• There are only four words in the English language that end in "dous". Tremendous, horrendous, stupendous and hazardous