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Charlie Chaplin ever joined his own lookalike game in Monte Carlo. He did it for fun without anybody knewing this. He finished third place.

 

Sweden is the biggest user of ketchup spending$4 a year on it. Australia comes in second with $2.50 spent on ketchup each year. Third place goes to the United States and Canada who spend $2.20 a year on ketchup. How do other countries stack up: Germany $1.70, United Kingdom $1.60, Poland and Japan $1.40, France $1.20, and Russia $0.90http://www.pugetsoundpmi.org/images/ketchup.jpg

 

The Can opener wasn't invented until 48 years after the can.

 

In living memory, it was not until February 18, 1979 that snow fell on the Sahara. A half-hour storm in southern Algeria stopped traffic. But within a few hours, all the snow had melted.

 

Before she met Popeye, Olive Oyl went out with Ham Gravy.

 

in 1923 fiddlin john Carson of Fannin county Georgia (pop 19,79)made the first country music record:The little old log cabin in the lane and the old hen cackled and the Rooster is going to crow

 

The Human Body Is Worth $4.50

The U.S. Bureau of Chemistry and Soils invested many a hard-earned tax dollar in calculating the chemical and mineral composition of the human body, which breaks down as follows:

# 65% Oxygen
# 18% Carbon
# 10% Hydrogen
# 3% Nitrogen
# 1.5% Calcium
# 1% Phosphorous
# 0.35% Potassium
# 0.25% Sulfur
# 0.15% Sodium
# 0.15% Chlorine
# 0.05% Magnesium
# 0.0004% Iron
# 0.00004% Iodine

Additionally, it was discovered that our bodies contain trace quantities of fluorine, silicon, manganese, zinc, copper, aluminum, and arsenic. Together, all of the above amounts to less than one dollar

 

In 1765, the sandwich was invented by John Montagu, the fourth Earl of Sandwich, who gave the food its name. The Earl used to order roast beef between pieces of toast for a snack while he was at the gaming tables, it allowed him to keep one hand free to play while he ate.

 

the first motel in the world was located in San Luis obispo california in 1925

 

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The next glass of water you drink could contain molecules that Dinosaurs drank - there is the same amount of water on Earth as there was when it was formed.

 

The Yellow Kid created by Richard Felton Outcault in 1895 is reconized as the first"comic strip" or comic book

 

Betsy Ross and Elvis Presley were the only real people to ever have been the head on a Pez dispenser. The Elvis Pez dispenser was named "Elvis Pezly."

 

Dismal first-year sales of famous products:
1. VW Beetle (U.S.)--sold 330 first year.
2. Liquid Paper--sold 1,200 bottles first year
3. Cuisinart--sold 200 first year.
4. Remington typewriter--sold 8 first year.
5. Scrabble--sold 532 first year.
6. Coca-Cola--sold 25 bottles first year. (For total of $50; supplies and advertising ran $70.)

 

Since the 1960's sunset watchers have flocked to Mallory Square in Key West FL.(pop 25,476)for the nightly Sunset Celebration which includes performers and artists

 

The official name of the piano is gravicembalo col piano e forte, but most people find it difficult to pronounce this.

 

The largest living thing on earth is a tree named "The General Sherman Tree" in Sequoia National Park. It is 275 feet (84 m) tall and 37 feet (11 m) wide at the widest part of the base.

 

australian scientists have created an electricity generator fueled by decomposing bananas and are working on plans for a full scale fruit fired power station