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| Enough beer is poured every Saturday across America to fill the Orange Bowl. |
| More American workers (18%) call sick on Friday than any other day of the week. Tuesday has the lowest percent of absenteeism (11%). |
| The average American consumes enough caffeine in one year to kill a horse. |
| By law, employees do not have to wash hands after sneezing. |
| In medieval Thailand, they had moveable type printing presses. The type was made from baked oxen dung. |
| Sir Isaac Newton, who invented Calculus, had trouble with names to the point where he would forget his brothers' names. |
| You can make edible cheese from the milk of 24 different mammals. |
| The Ottoman Empire once had seven emperors in seven months. They died of (in order): burning, choking, drowning, stabbing, heart failure, poisoning and being thrown from a horse. |
| The world's record for continuous pogo stick jumping is 41 hours. |
| At any one time, there are 100 million phone conversations going on in the United States. |
| The most common speed limit sign in the United States is 25 m.p.h. |
| The pet ferret was domesticated more than 500 years before the house cat. |
| When Saigon fell, the signal for all Americans to evacuate was Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" being played on the radio. |
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