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To save a 40-foot tree, a stack of newspapers averaging 4 feet in thickness must be recycled.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
"Fan" is an abbreviation for the word "fanatic." Toward the turn of the 19th century, various media referred to football enthusiasts first as "football fanatics," and later as a "football fan."
"Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.
"Mageiricophobia" is the intense fear of having to cook.
"Pants" used to be considered a bad word in England.
"Rhythms" is the longest English word without vowels.
"Second string," meaning "replacement or backup," comes from the middle ages. An archer always carried a second string in case the one on his bow broke.
"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."
"Villi," finger-like projections on the small intestine (their purpose is to increase the surface area for water and nutrient absorption) are four-hundredths of an inch long.
1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.
101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie.
14% of all U.S. adults (29.1 million) say they have traveled with a pet on a trip of 50 miles or more, one-way, away from home in the past three years.
23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.
27% of female lottery winners hid their winning ticket in their bras.
28. The only nation who's name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan.
315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
40% of all people who move to a new address also change their brand of toothpaste when they move.
40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
70% of VCR owners say they've never used their timer function.
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