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It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot.

QANTAS, the name of the Australian national airline, is a former acronym for Queensland And Northern Territories Air Service.

If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total is 5050.

A wire coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened.

M&M's stands for the last names of candy men Forrest Mars and Bruce Murrie.

A cat has four rows of whiskers.

A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge, a dime has 118 ridges.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

New Zealand kiwis lay the largest eggs with respect to their body size of any bird.

Michigan was the first state to have roadside picnic tables.

Panama hats come from Ecuador not Panama.

The L.L. in L.L. Bean stands for Leon Leonwood.

The Los Angeles Rams were the first U.S. football team to introduce emblems on their helmets.

The ZIP in Zip Code stands for Zone Improvement Plan.

Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.

Cleopatra used pomegranate seeds for lipstick.

Only 1/3 of the people that can twitch their ears can twitch only one at a time.

Ralph Lauren's original name was Ralph Lifshitz.

Goat's eyes have rectangular pupils.

Dirty Harry's badge number is 2211.

Mayonnaise was invented by the chef of the Duc de Richelieu in 1756.

Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.

Babies are born without knee caps, which appear only when a child reaches 2 to 4 years of age.

Ben and Jerry's send the waste from making ice cream to local pig farmers to use as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor: Mint Oreo.

Pinocchio was made of pine.

The heat of peppers is rated on the Scoville scale.

Hummingbirds are the only birds able to fly backwards.

Coca-Cola contains neither coca nor cola.

Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty," but he did say, "Beam me up, Mr. Scott".

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

The hundred billionth crayon made by Crayola was Perriwinkle Blue.

Sarsaparilla is the root that flavors root beer.

Reindeer milk has more fat than cow milk.

"Freelance" comes from a knight whose lance was free for hire, i.e. not pledged to one master.

The patron saint of skiers is St. Bernard.

On average, a person falls asleep within 7 minutes.

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

'Strengths' is the longest word in the English language with just one vowel.

Every two thousand frowns creates one wrinkle.

When you see most stars, you're essentially looking hundreds or thousands of years into the past.

The Easter Island Heads actually have bodies, they are buried under the ground.

Joe DiMaggio had more home runs than strikeouts during his career.

Mary Katherine Campbell was the only woman to win the Miss America title twice, 1922 and 1923.