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1. It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world’s population are drunk
2. The tip of a 1/3 inch long hour-hand on a wristwatch travels at 0.00000275 mph
3. Less than one per cent of the 500 Chinese cities have clean air, respiratory disease is China’s leading cause of death.
4. The number of cars on the planet is increasing three times faster than the population growth
5. The X’s that people sometimes put at the end of letters or notes to mean a kiss, actually started back in the 1000′s when Lords would sign their names at the end of documents to other important people. It was originally a cross that they would kiss after signing to signify that they were faithful to God and their King. Over the years though, it slanted into the X
6. Nova Scotia is Latin for ‘New Scotland.’
7. The term Cop comes from Constable on Patrol. It’s from England.
8. The collecting of Beer mats is called Tegestology.
9. Even though it is widely attributed to him Shakespeare never actually used the word ‘gadzooks’.
10. Only 2 blue moons (the saying ‘only once in a blue moon ‘ refers to the occurrence of two full moons during one calendar month) are to occur between now and 2001. Those times are January 1999 and March 1999
11. “Naked” means to be unprotected. “Nude” means unclothed
12. Upper and lower case letters are named ‘upper’ and ‘lower’, because in the time when al original print had to be set in individual letters, the ‘upper case’ letters were stored in the case on top of the case stored smaller, ‘lower case’ letters

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