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1. The dome on Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s home, conceals a billiards room. In Jefferson’s day, billiards were illegal in Virginia.
2. The most common speed limit sign in the United States is 25 m.p.h.
3. At any one time, there are 100 million phone conversations going on in the United States.
4. The world’s record for continuous pogo stick jumping is 41 hours.
5. 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.
6. You can make edible cheese from the milk of 24 different mammals.
7. Sir Isaac Newton, who invented Calculus, had trouble with names to the point where he would forget his brothers’ names.
8. In medieval Thailand, they had moveable type printing presses. The type was made from baked oxen dung.
9. By law, employees do not have to wash hands after sneezing.
10. The average American consumes enough caffeine in one year to kill a horse.
11. More American workers (18%) call sick on Friday than any other day of the week. Tuesday has the lowest percent of absenteeism (11%).
12. Enough beer is poured every Saturday across America to fill the Orange Bowl.
13. A newborn expels its own body weight in waste every 60 hours.
14. Whales die if their echo system fails.
15. Florida’s beaches lose 20 million cubic yards of sand annually.

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