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quotes.push("Scientists estimate that the pollutants inhaled from a 40-minute ride on the London Underground are equivalent to smoking two cigarettes.");
quotes.push("The oldest existing governing body operates in Althing in Iceland. It was established in 930 AD.");
quotes.push("The typical bolt of lightning heats the atmosphere to 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit.");
quotes.push("The first city in the world to have a population of more than one million was London.");
quotes.push("The world's average school year is 200 days per year. In the US, it is 180 days; in Sweden 170 days, in Japan it is 243 days.");
quotes.push("The first written account of the Loch Ness Monster was made in 565AD.");
quotes.push("In 1965, CEOs earned on average 44 times more than factory workers. In 1998, CEOs earned on average 326 times more than factory workers and in 1999, they earned 419 times more than factory workers.");
quotes.push("If you look through the ear of a gecko at just the right angle, you can see through to the other side.");
quotes.push("The average butterfly has a life span of less than a month.");
quotes.push("A seventh grader in Florida recently won her school science fair by proving there are more bacteria in ice machines at fast-food restaurants than in toilet bowl water.");
quotes.push("Mr. Potatohead was the first toy advertised on TV.");
quotes.push("The word <i>laser</i> is actually an acronym for <i>Light Amplification by Stimulated Emissions of Radiation.</i>");
quotes.push("Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.");
quotes.push("Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.");
quotes.push("More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.");
quotes.push("The letter <i>J</i> does not yet appear anywhere within the periodic table of the elements.");
quotes.push("The word <i>checkmate</i> comes from the Persian phrase <i>Shah Mat</i>, meaning <i>the king is dead</i>.");
quotes.push("When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home to a sellout crowd, the full stadium becomes the state's third largest city.");
quotes.push("All polar bears are left-handed.");
quotes.push("Light from the sun takes about 8 minutes to reach the earth.");
quotes.push("Check your map! The Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal is farther East than the Atlantic entrance.");
quotes.push("The Japanese national anthem is expressed in only four lines. The Greek anthem runs 158 verses.");
quotes.push("Automobiles take up about 24 percent of the total area of Los Angeles.");
quotes.push("The Goliath beetle of Africa has a huge armor that makes it the heaviest flying insect in the world. In fact, it weights more than eight mice and is a common pet with African children, who fly it from a string.");
quotes.push("There are approximately 13,000 identifiable varieties of roses throughout the world.");
quotes.push("Eau de Cologne was originally marketed as a way of protecting yourself against the plague.");
quotes.push("The last time the French government used the guillotine to execute a convicted criminal was in 1977.");
quotes.push("In the sixteenth century, doctors diagnosed skull fractures by having the patient bite down on a string and plucking it like a guitar to hear the sound.");
quotes.push("The first person to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel was a 63-year-old widow, back in 1901.");
quotes.push("The Bayer company introduced heroin in 1898 as an over-the-counter cough remedy.");
quotes.push("Neanderthal men had larger brains than humans of today.");
quotes.push("More fish are pets in the United states than dogs, cats or any other mammal.");
quotes.push("In 1894 there were only 4 automobiles in the US.");
quotes.push("Monkeys are forbidden to smoke cigarettes in South Bend, Indiana.");
quotes.push("Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression <i>to get fired.</i>");
quotes.push("Cookie Monster's real name is Sid.");
quotes.push("The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.");
quotes.push("A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.");
quotes.push("A group of crows is called a murder.");
quotes.push("One inch of rain over one square mile is 17,378,700 gallons of water.");
quotes.push("Antarctica contains about 90 percent of the world's ice and 70 percent of its fresh water. Antarctica is covered with ice an average of 7,000 feet thick. If all of the Antarctic ice melted, sea levels around the world would rise about 61 meters (200 feet). But the average temperature in Antarctica is -37C, so the ice there is in no danger of melting.");
quotes.push("A fear of long words is, ironically, called <i>Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia</i>");
quotes.push("An analysis of mammalian bite force, corrected for body size, shows that the Tasmanian Devil has the strongest bite of any living mammal.");
quotes.push("New Zealand was the first nation to grant women the right to vote.");
quotes.push("George W. Bush is the first u.s. president to declare himself exempt from over 750 U.S. laws, sidestepping most of the bill of rights including the constitutional requirement that the president follow all laws.");
quotes.push("An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.A 379.1 foot Redwood in Redwood National Park is currently the world's largest tree.");
quotes.push("The first ambulance service was established in Cincinnati in 1865.");
quotes.push("There is no single cat called the panther. The name is commonly applied to the leopard, but it is also used to refer to the puma and the jaguar. A black panther is really a black leopard.");
quotes.push("The Pacific Giant Octopus, the largest octopus in the world, grows from the size of pea to a 150 pound behemoth potentially 30 feet across in only two years, its entire life-span.");
quotes.push("West Virginia is the only state in the Union to have acquired its sovereignty by proclamation of the President of the United States.");
quotes.push("There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with month, orange, purple and silver.");
quotes.push("The name Wendy was made up for the book <i>Peter Pan</i>.");
quotes.push("The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000");
quotes.push("It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer, and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month -- what we know today as the honeymoon.");
quotes.push("If you were to spell out numbers, you would have to write to one-thousand until you would find the letter <i>A</i>");
quotes.push("bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were all invented by women.");
quotes.push("In an average day, a four year old child will ask 437 questions.");
quotes.push("There have been fewer people below 2km in sea than have been on the moon.");
quotes.push("The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are useable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.");
quotes.push("Up to three thousand species of trees have been cataloged in square mile of the Amazon Rainforest.");
quotes.push("In Joliet, Illinois, it is illegal to mispronounce the name <i>Joliet.</i>");
quotes.push("A redwood's roots are only about 5 or 6 feet deep and spread out over about an acre.");
quotes.push("London police photographed the eyes of Jack the Ripper's victims because they thought his image might be recorded in them.");
quotes.push("The combined population of North American colonies in 1610 was 350.");
quotes.push("Bagpipes were invented in Iran and brought to Scotland by the Romans.");
quotes.push("The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.");
quotes.push("In 1900 the average age at death in the US was 47.");
quotes.push("Ketchup was once used as a medicine in the United States. In the 1830s it was sold as Dr. Miles's Compound Extract of Tomato.");
quotes.push("James J. Ritty, owner of a tavern in Dayton, Ohio, invented the cash register in 1879 to stop his patrons from pilfering house profits.");
quotes.push("One species of African antelope, the sitatunga, can sleep underwater.");
quotes.push("When potatoes first appeared in Europe in the seventeenth century, it was thought that they were disgusting, and they were blamed for starting outbreaks of leprosy and syphilis. As late as 1720 in America, eating potatoes was believed to shorten a person's life.");
quotes.push("Benjamin Franklin was America's first political cartoonist. His drawing of a snake divided into eight parts was published in Philadelphia in 1754.");
quotes.push("More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.");
quotes.push("Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.");
quotes.push("Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.");
quotes.push("1 in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.");
quotes.push("Approximately 10.5 gallons of water is used in a dishwasher. Washing the dishes by hand can use up to 20 gallons of water.");
quotes.push("New Jersey has a spoon museum that has over 5,400 spoons from across the world.");
quotes.push("The titan arum flower is the largest flower in the world and gives off a horrible odor that smells like rotting flesh when it blooms.");
quotes.push("The world's deepest gold mine is seven kilometers below the surface of the Earth.");
quotes.push("The first hot air balloon flight traveled for 5.5 miles over Paris and lasted for 23 minutes.");
quotes.push("At lift off, US space shuttles weight about 4.5 million pounds.");
quotes.push("It takes the Hubble telescope about 97 minutes to complete an orbit of the Earth. On average, the Hubble uses the equivalent amount of energy as 30 household light bulbs to complete an orbit.");
quotes.push("Every year approximately 2,500 left-handed people are killed by using object or machinery designed for right-handed people.");
quotes.push("Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.");
quotes.push("Charlie Brown's father was a barber.");
quotes.push("Scientists have identified only 4,000 different viruses, a fraction of the estimated 400,000 believed to exist on Earth.");
quotes.push("The Kiwi, national bird of New Zealand, can't fly, lives in a hole in the ground, is almost blind and lays only one egg each year -- yet is has survived for 70 million years.");
quotes.push("The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the combined wealth of the 48 poorest countries.");
quotes.push("Americans spend six times as much on home video games -- $5.5 billion -- as they do on school library materials for their children.");
quotes.push("Men who donate blood have a 30 percent reduced risk of heart disease compared to those who do not. The difference is attributed to reduced levels of iron following blood donation.");
quotes.push("Triskadekaphobia, fear of the number 13, dates back to Nordic mythology. But the combination of Friday and the number 13 seems to have originated with Christ, whose last supper before his arrest seated 13 and he was crucified on a Friday.");
quotes.push("The waste produced by one chicken in its lifetime can supply enough electricity to run a 100 watt bulb for five hours.");
quotes.push("ENIAC, the first electronic computer, appeared 50 years ago. The original ENIAC was about 80 feet long, weighed 30 tons, had 17,000 tubes. By comparison, a desktop computer today can store a million times more information than an ENIAC, and is 50,000 times faster.");
quotes.push("After the French Revolution of 1789 selling sour wine was considered against national interest, and the merchant was promptly executed.");
quotes.push("The oldest inhabited city is Damascus, Syria.");
quotes.push("The most populated city in the world - when major urban areas are included - is Tokyo, with 30 million residents.");
quotes.push("Earth is the only planet not named after a pagan God.");
quotes.push("The fist product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum.");
quotes.push("A car that shifts manually gets 2 miles more per gallon of gas than a car with automatic shift.");
quotes.push("The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime.");
quotes.push("The New York phone book had 22 Hitlers listed before World War II ... and none after.");
quotes.push("The vocabulary of the average person consists of 5,000 to 6,000 words.");
quotes.push("You share your birthday with at least nine million other people around the world.");
quotes.push("All pet hamsters are descended from a single female wild golden hamster found with a litter of 12 young in Syria in 1930.");
quotes.push("Catnip can affect lions and tigers as well as house cats.");
quotes.push("Infant beavers are called kittens.");
quotes.push("Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.");
quotes.push("Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.");
quotes.push("In 1797 James Hetherington inventented the top hat and wore it in public. He was arrested for disturbing the peace.");
quotes.push("The first e-mail was sent over the internet in 1972.");
quotes.push("The Mayan Empire lasted six times as long as the Roman Empire.");
quotes.push("The highest temperature produced in a laboratory was 920,000,000 F -- 511,000,000 C -- at the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor in Princeton, NJ, USA.");
quotes.push("No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.");
quotes.push("Knowledge is growing so fast that ninety per cent of what we will know in fifty years time, will be discovered in those fifty years.");
quotes.push("It takes 70% less energy to produce a ton of paper from recycled paper than from trees.");
quotes.push("The highest temperature on Earth was 136°F -- 58°C -- in Libya in 1922.");
quotes.push("The lowest temperature on Earth was -128.6°F -- -89.6°C -- in Antarctica in 1983.");
quotes.push("The common goldfish is the only animal that can see both infra-red and ultra-violet light.");
quotes.push("A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.");
quotes.push("The expression 'three dog night' originated with the Eskimos and means a very cold night - so cold that you have to bed down with three dogs to keep warm.");
quotes.push("If any of the heads on Mt. Rushmore had a body, it would be nearly 500 feet tall.");
quotes.push("The Hoover Dam was built to last 2,000 years. The concrete in it will not even be fully cured for another 500 years.");
quotes.push("One plain milk chocolate candy bar has more protein than a banana.");
quotes.push("By the time a child finishes elementary school she will have witnessed 8,000 murders and 100,000 acts of violence on television.");
quotes.push("A honey bee must tap two million flowers to make one pound of honey.");
quotes.push("During World War II, bakers in the United States were ordered to stop selling sliced bread for the duration of the war on January 18, 1943. Only whole loaves were made available to the public. It was never explained how this action helped the war effort.");
quotes.push("The difference between apple juice and apple cider is that the juice is pasteurized and the cider is not.");
quotes.push("The largest living organism ever found is a honey mushroom, Armillaria ostoyae. It covers 3.4 square miles of land in the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon, and it's still growing");
quotes.push("Watermelon, considered one of America's favorite fruits, is really a vegetable (Citrullus lanatus). Cousin to the cucumber and kin to the gourd, watermelons can range in size from 7 to 100 pounds.");
quotes.push("Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.");
quotes.push("There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.");
quotes.push("Marie Currie, who twice won the Nobel Prize and discovered radium, was not allowed to become a member of the prestigious French Academy because she was a woman.");
quotes.push("American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.");
quotes.push("Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.");
quotes.push("The fortune cookie was invented in 1916 by George Jung, a Los Angeles noodlemaker.");
quotes.push("The verb <i>cleave</i> is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.");
quotes.push("<i>Big cheese</i> and <i>big wheel</i> are Medieval terms of envious respect for those who could afford to buy whole wheels of cheese at a time, an expense few could enjoy at the time.");
quotes.push("The word <i>yo-yo</i> was a registered trademark of Duncan until 1965.");
quotes.push("The wick of a trick candle has small amounts of magnesium in them. When you light the candle, you are also lighting the magnesium. When someone tries to blow out the flame, the magnesium inside the wick continues to burn and, in just a second or two, relights the wick.");
quotes.push("At any given time, there are 1,800 thunderstorms in progress over the earth's atmosphere.");
quotes.push("The odds of seeing three albino deer at once are one in seventy-nine billion, yet one man in Boulder Junction, Wisconsin, took a picture of three albino deer in the woods.");
quotes.push("People who laugh a lot are much healthier than those who don't. Dr. Lee Berk at the Loma Linda School of Public Health in California found that laughing lowers levels of stress hormones, and strengthens the immune system.");
quotes.push("Maine is the only state that has a one-syllable name.");
quotes.push("In the past, the US Bullion Depository in Fort Knox, Kentucky has stored the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, the Articles of Confederation, Lincoln’s Gettysburg address, three volumes of the Gutenberg Bible, and Lincoln’s second inaugural address.");
quotes.push("The largest recorded earthquake in the United States was a magnitude 9.2 that struck Prince William Sound, Alaska on Good Friday, March 28, 1964.");
quotes.push("The first vending machine was invented by Hero of Alexandria around 215 BC. When a coin was dropped into a slot, its weight would pull a cork out of a spigot and the machine would dispense a trickle of water.");
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