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Thirteen Bits of Trivia By Frances

1.)   Heinz Catsup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles per year.

2.)   Most Americans’ car horns beep in the key of “F.”

3.)   Murphy’s Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.

4 .)  Babies are born without knee caps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

5.)   Shakespeare’s son’s name was Hamnet.

6.)   Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined

7.)   Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

8.)   The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.

9.)   Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

10.) Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

11.) The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.

12.) Percentage of men who say they are happier after their divorce or separation: 58

13.) Percentage of women who say they are happier: 85

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