Top 25 General Facts You should know

1. One out of 20 people has an extra rib.
2. 44% of kids watch television before they go to sleep.
3. Every three days a human stomach gets a new lining.
4. The typical pencil can draw a line that is thirty-five miles long.
5. The word "toy" came from an old English word that means "Tool."
6. Smokers are twice as likely to develop lower back pain than a non-smoker.
7. Humans are born with 300 bones in their body, however, when a person reaches adulthood they only have 206 hones. This occurs because many of them join together to make a single bone.
8. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
9. The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dogs" uses every letter in the English language.
10. Of married couples, 70% of men and 60% of women have cheated on their spouses.
11. No piece of paper can be folded in half  more than 7 times
12. Each year there are approximately 20 billion coconuts produced worldwide. 
13. The largest employer in the world is the India Railway System in India, employing over 1.6 million people.
14. China has more English speakers than the United State.
15. Infants spend more time dreaming than adults do.
16. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
17. Hydrogen gas the least dense substance in the world at 0.08988g/cc.
18. The fastest-moving land snake is the Black Mamba, which can move up to 7 miles per hour.
19. Rabbit can live up to ten years.
20. Isaac Newton used to be a member of parliament 
21. An average person laughs about 15 times a day.
22. The palm of your hands and the soles of your feet cannot tan or grow hair.
23. One of the most dangerous insects in the world is the common housefly. They carry and transmit more diseases than any other animal in the world.
24. The sun is approximately 149 million kilometers from the earth.
25. Carbon monoxide can kill a person in less than 15 minutes 

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