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| The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites. |
| The only nation whose name begins with an "A" but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan. |
| The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is. |
| The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building. |
| The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672. |
| The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F. |
| The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher. |
| The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons. |
| 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. |
| Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. |
| Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas. |
| Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours. |
| Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. |
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