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	An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.		Charlie Chaplin once secretly entered a Charlie Chaplin  look-alike contest. He won 3rd prize.
	There is an average of 178 sesame seeds on a MacDonald's bun.		The Midmar Mile that is held near Pietermaritzburg South Africa, now the world's largest open water swim was swum for the 1st time in 1973 with 53 competitors.
	The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every single letter in the alphabet.		An aluminium can in South Africa takes about 90 days to return to the shelf after being recycled.
	It takes about 10 - 20 years for a plastic bag to degrade, 50 years for a tin can and 450 years for a plastic bottle.  Please recycle.		In the 16th & 17th century anyone caught drinking coffee in Turkey was put to death.
	It takes more calories to eat a celery stick than the celery has in it.		Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing.
	Hitler suffered from claustrophobia and Queen Elizabeth I from anthrophobia (fear of roses).		If you are an average person, it's going to take 465 trees to provide you with a lifetime of paper.
	Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting while he was alive.		The 20% of the world's people who live in the highest income countries consume 86% of the world's resources.
	The most popular food in Britain is fish and chips.		The African Elephant is the biggest land animal with a weight of up to 8200kg.
	Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors.		In the book "Les Miserables" there is a sentence that's 3 pages long, 823 words and is divided by 93 commas, 51 semicolons and 4 dashes.
	French toast first came from the Romans and dates back to between 1000 & 2000 BC.		550 hot dogs are eaten every second of the day in U.S.A.
	It is estimated that 243 183 people could be fed for one year with the food Americans waste in one day.		Leonardo da Vinci spent 12 years painting the Mona Lisa's lips.
	Every queen named Jane has either been murdered, imprisoned, gone mad, died young or been dethroned.		Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windscreen wipers and laser printers were all invented by women.
	In 1920 there were an estimated 120 elephants left in the whole of South Africa.  Today the Kruger National Park alone has over 9000 elephants.		Currently about 400-million people worldwide face severe water shortages, according to the United Nations.  By 2050, it will be four-billion.
	The Sahara desert is the world's second largest desert after Antarctica.		There is a town or city called London on all 7 continents.
	Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button.  It was eliminated during surgery.		Giraffes are the tallest living creatures,  have the longest necks, have the largest hearts of any land animal (approx 13kg, a human heart only weighs 300g) and have the highest blood pressure of any living animal.
	Albert Einstein was considered retarded and Joseph Priestly (discoverer of oxygen) never took a science course.		A goldfish has a memory of about 3 seconds and a pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
	Laughing lowers the levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system.		Killing baby seals is a sport in Canada and Norway.  A total of 335,000 baby harp seals were killed in 2006 in Canada alone.
	No-one knows why, but 90% of women who walk into a department store immediately turn to the right.		Every second 3 Barbie dolls are sold somewhere in the world.
	Originally, croquet was considered a more important sport than tennis.		Scuba stands for "Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus." .
	Humans can survive for several weeks without food but only about 3 days without water.		The embryos of Tiger sharks fight each other while in their mother's womb.  The survivor being the baby shark that is born.
	About 10,4 % of the world's land surface is permanently covered with ice.		The 1st recorded mention of cheese cake was that it was served to athletes at the Olympic Games in 776BC.
	Enough scrap iron and steel is recycled each year to build 6,700 Eiffel Towers.		Blype is the skin that you peel off after sunburn.
	Babies are born without kneecaps.  They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.		111 111 111 x 111 111 111 = 123 456 789 876 543 21.
	The longest living insects are queen termites - they can live for 50 years.		South Africa's National Flower is the Protea, which is part of the Fynbos family.
	South Africa has 11 official languages.		South Africa is one of only 12 countries, where we can drink water from a tap and ours was found to be 3rd best quality in the entire world.
	The Cape Peninsula has more species of plants per hectare than any other area of the world.		The Kruger Park has the most innovative management of a national park anywhere in the world - and is the world's most profitable game park.
	We were the first country to protect the great white sharks.		South Africa is the only country in which two Nobel Peace prize winners lived on the same street.  Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu both lived in Vilakazi Street in Soweto.
	South African Breweries is the 4th largest brewer in the world and produces over 50% of China's beer!		The swordtail is the fastest swimmer of all the fish
	The smallest bird in the world is the Hummingbird, weighs 1oz and the only bird that can fly backwards.		A house fly lives only 14 days.
	Jagersfontein in the Free State has the deepest vertical man-made hole.		Lake Fundudzi in Venda is possibly the world’s only inland freshwater lake formed by a landslide.
	The smallest island in the world is Bishop Rock near the United Kingdom.  It has only a lighthouse on it.	@	The first electronic mail, or "email", was sent in 1972 by Ray Tomlinson.
	The Romans invented the first popsicle (ice lolly).		Fishing is the biggest participant sports in the world.
	A badminton shuttle easily travels 180 km/h (112 mph).		The United Nations flag is the only flag that may fly above an USA flag on an American flagpole.
	Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.		More people die from falling coconuts than from shark attacks.
	Thomas Crapper was the inventor of the flushing toilet.		The temperature in a flame is lower close to the source and highest near the top.
	A human heart beats 100,000 times a day.		Mount Ararat is a volcano.
	Central air conditioners use about 98% more energy than ceiling fans.		Alfred Nobel from the Nobel Prize invented dynamite.
	Men are four times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.		Milk is white because of a combination of the calcium and protein called casein.