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FROM ISSUE # 162 (June 2009) | IN THIS ISSUE
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The average home creates more pollution than an average car.

Tipping at a restaurant in Iceland is considered an insult.

Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.

Louis IV of France had a stomach the size of two regular stomachs.

Every time you lick a stamp, you gain 1/10 of a calorie.

A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood.

Singapore has only one train station.

The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

The U.S. army packs Tabasco pepper sauce in every ration kit that they give to soldiers.'

No word in the English dictionary rhymes with "MONTH".

Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.

A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.

In Sweden there is a ski-thru Mcdonalds, just like the 'drive-thrus' in rest of the world.


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