Faudzil @ Ajak

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15 February 2014

10 GREAT FACTS A DAY - Part 165 (14/02/2014)






1641.            The city of Chicago has the only post office in the world where you can drive your
    car through.

1642.            The most overdue book in the world was borrowed from Sidney Sussex College in
    Cambridge, England and was returned 288 years later.

1643.            The average person can live about a month without eating any food, but can only
    live about a week without water.

1644.            There are about 34,000 species of spiders.

1645.            In 1968, Abbie Hoffman played with a yo-yo while testifying before a congressional
    committee. He was found in contempt.

1646.            The biggest candy eaters are the Dutch, who average 65 pounds of candy per
    person in a year.

1647.            55,700 people in the US are injured by jewelry each year.

1648.            The first owner of the Marlboro Company, Wayne McLaren, died of lung cancer.

1649.            American President Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929) used to like Vaseline being
    rubbed on his head while he ate breakfast in bed.
1650.            No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.


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