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Weird Fact of the Day:
Frosted Flakes mascot "Tony the Tiger" has a wife, son (Tony Jr.) and daughter (Antoinette) that were used in early advertising commercials.
Approximately one out of every 55 women from Canada give birth in their car on the way to the hospital or clinic.
Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.
Ukrainian people celebrate Christmas on January 7th, which is the Orthodox Christmas Day.
The temperature of milk when it leaves the body of a cow is 101 degrees Fahrenheit. The milk is then quickly chilled and stored at a temperature of 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
Oral sex is illegal in Arizona, Florida, Minnesota, Louisiana, part of Michigan, North and South Carolina, Utah and Virginia. In Idaho, it can get you life in prison. Premarital sex was illegal in Connecticut until the late 1960s. A 15-year old girl in Mississippi can marry without parental consent, but must wait a year to legally have sex with her husband.
The American Airlines Sports Center, in Dallas, has most toilets per capita than any other sports and entertainment venue in the USA.
96% of candles that are purchased are by women.
The word "laser" stands for "Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission by radiation."
Only female mosquitoes bite humans. Male mosquitoes live on natural liquids from plants and other resources.
Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
The term "raining cats and dogs" developed because people in the middle ages has slippery roofs and cats and dogs would slip off when it rained!
January is named for the Roman god Janus. Janus was a temple god who could look forward and backward at the same time.
There is a town in Texas called Ding Dong. In 1990, the population was only twenty-two people.
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