Every time you lick a stamp, you’re consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
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Plymouth Rock weighs seven tons.
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A one degree rise in temperature equals a 2% increase in peak electricity consumption.
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The Mayan calender, the most accurate in the world, ends in the year 2012.
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A telephone signal travels a 100,000 miles per second.
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There’s 31,622,400 seconds in a leap year.
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America once issued a 5-cent bill!
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Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States!
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In the U.S. the average bride is 21 years old, the average groom is 23.
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There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
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In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!
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Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!
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During your lifetime, you’ll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that’s the weight of about 6 elephants!
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7% of Americans don’t know the first 9 words of the American anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem!
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5% of Canadians don’t know the first 7 words of the Canadian anthem, but know the first 9 of the American anthem!