The useless bits of info to see if we can make a million posts thread

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The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.

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The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

[Mutha]

In Kentucky, 50 percent of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.

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The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.

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The band Duran Duran got their name from an astronaut in the 1968 Jane Fonda movie "Barbarella.

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The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.

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The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice.

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The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.

[Missy_Moo]

The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."

[Missy_Moo]

The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life".

[LOAFIE]

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[Missy_Moo]

The company providing the liability insurance for the Republican National Convention in San Diego is the same firm that insured the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic.

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The condom - made originally of linen - was invented in the early 1500s.

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The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.

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The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.