Post Some Amusing Facts!

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Business

It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.

In 2001, the five most valuable brand names in order were Coca-Cola, Microsoft, IBM, GE, and Nokia.

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

Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum.

In 1897, Bayer, who is the makers of Aspirin, once marketed the drug heroin.

In the late 1960's, Mountain Dew bottles featured a hillbilly on them. These are now collector items worth five to ten dollars.

The first product to ever be scanned with a bar code was Wrigley's gum on June 26, 1974.

There is a Nike commercial that was shot in Kenya with Samburu tribesman speaking in their native language Maa. The slogan "Just Do It" appears when the tribesman is talking. In reality he was saying, "I don't want these. Give me big shoes."

Yamaha is Japan's largest maker of musical instruments.

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More Business

The first product that Sony came out with was the rice cooker.

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 U.K., and "Freestyle" in Australia.

The state of California has more 7-Eleven stores than any other state. There are approximately 1,200 stores.

The first and longest lasting cartoon characters to promote a Kellogg's product are Snap! Crackle! Pop! from Rice Krispies cereal

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

# 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.

Over one million Pet Rocks were sold in 1975, makine Gary Dahl, of Los Gatos, California, a millionaire. He got the idea while joking with friends about his pet that was easy to take care of, which was a rock.

In Canada, the most productive day of the workweek is Tuesday.

Nintendo was first establish in 1889 and they started out making special playing cards.

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Even More Business Facts

7-Eleven is the largest retail chain in the world.

Oil tycoon, John D. Rockefeller, was the world's first billionaire.

When Heinz launched their "green" ketchup in 2000, it delivered the highest increase in sales in the brand's history.

According to research, the most productive workday is Tuesday and the least productive is Friday.

In 1873, Colgate made a toothpaste that was available in a jar.

Painting a house yellow or having a yellow trim helps in selling a house faster.

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

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Entertainment

Aerosmith's "Dude Looks Like a Lady" was written about Vince Neil of Motley Crue.

Surveys indicate that the number one reason people play BINGO is for leisure.

The first restaurant to open in Hollywood was the Musso & Frank Grill in 1919.

In Greece, the climate is so warm that many of the cinemas do not even have roofs.

Belle from the Disney movie "Beauty and the Beast" makes a cameo appearance in Disney's "Hunchback of Notre Dame."

In 1982, a high school student from Los Angeles, California unscrambled the Rubik's Cube in 22.95 seconds.

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People

Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.

Bill Gates house was partially designed using a Macintosh computer.

In October 1973, Swedish sweet maker Roland Ohisson of Falkenberg was buried in a coffin made of nothing but chocolate.

Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had only one testicle.

Cleopatra married two of her brothers.

Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.

Bill Gates began programming computers at age 13.

Richard Pavelle`s solved the Rubik's cube underwater with only needing five gulps of air.

Abraham Lincoln's mother died when she drank the milk of a cow that grazed on poisonous snakeroot.

In 1876, Maria Spelterina was the first woman to ever cross Niagara Falls on a high wire.

Weatherman Willard Scott was the first Ronald McDonald.

Bill Gates donated close to $100 million to fight AIDS in India. As a percent of his total wealth, this would be comparable to him donating ten cents if he only had $60.

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Left handed people live slightly shorter lives than right handed people.

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looks like im doomed!

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Rats destroy an estimated 1/3 of the world’s food supply each year. :khead:

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The only "real" food that U.S. Astronauts are allowed to take into space is pecan nuts.

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Chocolate contains the same chemical, phenyl ethylamine that your brain produces when you fall in love.

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Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

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That must be why when you wear headphones you can get bumps on your ear... lol

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Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

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The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.

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wtf?

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An average human loses about 200 head hairs per day.

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If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.

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Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine.

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Coca-Cola was originally green.

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Mel Blanc, who played the voice of Bugs Bunny, was allergic to carrots.

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China uses 45 billion chopsticks per year and 25 million trees are chopped down to make 'em.

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A tuna called the 'Blue Fin' can be sold for over $20,000 around the world.

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Leather has enough nutritional value to sustain life for a short time.