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1. The word Karate means, "empty hand."

2. There are about 6,800 languages in the world.

3. The little cirlces of paper that are cut out after a paper has been punched by a hole puncher are called "chad"

4. The name of the award given to honor the best sites on the internet is called "The Webby Award."

5. TIME magazine's Man of the Year for 1982 was the computer.

6. The most popular recipient of Valentine cards are school teachers.

7. The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.

8. Leonardo Da Vinci never signed or dated his most famous painting, the Mona Lisa.

9. Research indicates that people prefer the colour blue for their casual clothing.

10. Fido means faithful in Latin.

11. There are approximately fifty Bibles sold each minute across the world.

12. Playwright Shakespeare was only 18 years old when he married Ann Hathaway, who was 26 years old at the time.

13. The word Himalayas means the "home of snow."

14. Microsoft made $16,005 in revenue in its first year of operation.

15. When Sony introduced the walkman, it had a variety of different names in different countries. It was called "Soundabout" in the U.S., "Stowaway" in the UK., and "Freestyle" in Australia.

16. Coca-Cola used to use the slogan "Good to the last drop," in 1908. This slogan was later used by Maxwell House.

17. Marlboro was the first cigarette company to market a cigarette that had a red filter called "beauty tip." This was done to hide the lipstick marks left on the filter from women smokers.

18. The largest cereal company in the world is Quaker Oats, located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA.

19. Yahoo! first started out "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web."

20. The first email was sent out by Ray Tomlinson in 1971.

21. There was no punctuation until the 15th century.

22. Santa Claus has a brother named Bells Nicholas according to French Tradition. He visits homes on New Year's Eve after everyone is asleep, and if a plate is set out for him, he fills it with cookies and cakes.

23. The Faberge, "Winter Egg" was sold in 1994 for $5.6 million. This is the most expensive decorative egg that has ever been sold.

24. The colour blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.

25. Australia's national anthem is called "Advance Australia Fair."

26. French artist, Michel Vienkot, uses cow dung as paint when he creates his pictures.

27. The artist Vincent Van Gogh sliced part of his ear off in madness.

28. January is named for the Roman god Janus. Janus was a temple god who could look forward and backward at the same time.

29. Lachanophobia is the fear of vegetables.

30. The longest Monopoly game ever played was 1,680 hours long, which is seventy straight days.

31. 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.

32. Monopoly is the best-selling board game in the world.

33. The term "mayday" used for signaling for help (after SOS) comes from the French "M'aidez" which is pronounced "MAYDAY" and means, "Help Me."

34. In 2003, the U.S. Government spent about $2,000,000.00 on potato research!

35. Most NASCAR Teams use nitrogen in their tires instead of air.

36. In France, it is legal to marry a dead person!

37. Tohru Iwatani, the inventor of the video game Pac-Man, came up with the idea when he saw a pizza with a slice missing at a dinner party.

38. Sheep can recognize other sheep from pictures!

39. The word "Indiana" is Native American for 'Land of the Indians', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.

40. The Bank of America was originally the Bank of Italy!

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41. Cinderella is known as Rashin Coatie in Scotland, Zezolla in Italy, and Yeh-hsien in China.

42. The Lion King is the top grossing Disney movie of all-time with domestic gross intake of $312 million.

43. The Walt Disney character Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.

44. Donkey are commonly used by the Iraqi Military to launch rockets!

45. President Bush and Saddam Hussein both have their shoes made by the same Italian shoemaker!

46. James Bond is also known as Mr. Kiss-Kiss-Bang-Bang.

47. The number of births that occur in India each year is higher than the entire population of australia.

48. The city of Las Vegas has the most hotel rooms in the world.

49. Annually, the amount of garbage that is dumped in the world's ocean is three times the weight of fish that is caught from the oceans.

50. 7-11 sells 10,000 pots of coffee an hour, every hour, every day.

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51. It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from sun to earth.

52. One out of 20 people have an extra rib.

53. It takes Several hundred thousand years for newly photons (light) to travel from the core of the sun to it's surface.

54. Every hour one billion cells in the body must be replaced.

55. Every day, the average person swallows about a quart of mucous.

56. The largest employer in Central Florida is Walt Disney World. There are approximately 50,000 people working there.

57. There are three golf balls sitting on the moon.

58. The chances of making two holes-in-one in a round of golf are one in 67 million.

59. A lot of lovemaking can unblock a stuffy nose. Sex is a natural antihistamine. It can help combat asthma and hay fever.

60. Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from producing tears.

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61. In 1933, Mickey Mouse is believed to have received 800,000 fan letters.

62. There were more than 750 artists that worked on Walt Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."

63. Women buy four out of every 10 condoms sold.

64. Energy is being wasted if a toaster is left plugged in after use.

65. The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean.

66. A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven.

67. You weigh less at the top of a mountain than at sea level.

68. Teflon is the slipperiest substancce in the world.

69. The average office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.

70. U-Haul is the world's largest advertiser in the Yellow Pages.

71. The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.

72. Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.

73. Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village'.

74. Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country.

75. Leather skin does not have any smell. The leather smell that you sense is actually derived from the materials used in the tanning process.

76. In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes.

77. There is a giant mushroom in Oregon that is over 2,400 years old, covers 3.4 square miles of land, and is still growing!

78. Another name for a Microsoft Windows tutorial is 'Crash Course'!

79. Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.

80. All babies are color blind when they are born.