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The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
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| Men can breastfeed babies |
| The average American consumes 1.2 pounds of spider eggs a year and eat 2.5 pounds of insect parts a year. |
| The number of people alive on earth right now is higher than the number of all the people that have died. Ever. |
| Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted. |
| Just about 3 people are born every second, and about 1.3333 people die every second. The result is about a 2 and 2/3 net increase of people every second. Almost 10 people more live on this Earth now, than before you finished reading this. |
| The deadliest war in history excluding World War II was a civil war in China in the 1850s in which the rebels were led by a man who thought he was the brother of Jesus Christ. |
| The total combined weight of the worlds ant population is heavier than the weight of the human population. |
| The US national anthem actually has three verses, but everyone just knows the first one. |
| Every drop of seawater contains approximately 1 billion gold atoms. |
| Its impossible to smoke oneself to death with weed. You won't be able to retain enough motor control and consciousness to do so after such a large amount. |
| Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. |
| The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it. |
| The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. |
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