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The Pentagon cost $49,600,000 to build in 1941.
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103. The first drug to be sold in the form of a tablet is Aspirin. 104. When a women is pregnant, her senses are all heightened. |
102. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
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101. Albert Einstein was cremated and his ashes were spread over a river located in New Jersey.
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95. One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water. 96. After the Eiffel Tower was built, one person was killed during the installation of the lifts. No one was killed during the actual construction of the tower. 97. Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does. 98. Pigs have no sweat glands, which is why they stay in water or mud to keep cool. 99. Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush. 100. The list of ingredients that make up lipstick include fish scales. |
94. The largest bill U.S. bill made is for $100,000.
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93. If all the cars from the U.S. were taken and lined up from bumper to bumper, there would be enough cars to go to the moon from earth and back.
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92. The Sears Tower located in Chicago, Illinois is made up 76,000 tons of steel.
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91. There are an estimated 2,500 collisions between birds and planes each year in the US.
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23. A great leader must serve the best interests of the people first, not those of multinational corporations. Human life should never be sacrificed for monetary profit. There are no exceptions. In addition, a leader should always be open to criticism, not silencing dissent. Any leader who does not tolerate criticism from the public is afraid of their dirty hands being revealed under heavy light. And such a leader is dangerous, because they only feel secure in the darkness. Only a leader who is free from corruption welcomes scrutiny; for scrutiny allows a good leader to be an even greater leader. Unknown. |
22. Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. Richard Armour.
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21. Corruption is a true enemy to development. Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
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19. The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. Thomas Jefferson. http://quotesgram.com/good-government-quotes/
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72. The reason why your nose gets runny when you are crying is because the tears from the eyes drain into the nose. 73. The word assassination was invented by William Shakespeare. 74. Benjamin Franklin invented the rocking chair. 75. Persia changed its name to Iran in 1935. 76. Construction workers hard hats were first invented and used in the buildingof the Hoover Dam in 1933. 77. At lift off, US space shuttles weight about 4.5 million pounds. 78. Doctors in Canada use an adhesive similar to Krazy Glue instead of stitches, lowering the possibility of bacterial infection and minimizing scarring. 79. The planet Venus spins opposite to the other planets in the solar system. 80. During a typical human life span, the human heart will beat approximately 2.5 billion times 81. There is a town in Norway called "Hell." 82. Most heart attacks occur between the hours of 8 and 9 am. 83. The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations. 84. Daytime dramas are called Soap Operas because they were originally used to advertise soap powder. In America in the early days of TV, advertisers would write stories around the use of their soap powder. 85. The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean. 86. The electric chair was invented by a dentist. 87. Girls have more tastebud than boys. 88. Hitler and Napolean both had only one testical. 89. After being picked an orange cannot ripen. 90. Sharks have survived on earth for about 400 million years. |
12. "Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change."— Muhammad Ali, professional boxer
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11. "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."— Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States.
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10. "There are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."— Mahatma Gandhi, Indian political and spiritual leader.
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9. "If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the fewwho are rich."— John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States
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8. "As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality exist in our world, none of us can truly rest."— Nelson Mandela, Former President of South Africa
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7. "There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not for everyone's greed."— Frank Buchman, Protestant evangelist. |
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