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I hade this fun conversation on the shoutbox on "Did you know?" facts. I'll share some:
1. 1 in 10 live on an island.
2. The odds of being struck by lightning are about 600,000 to one.
3. On average in the West, people move house every 7 years.
4. According to the US Census Bureau, 19% of US children live in poverty. (1999)
5. There are more than 150 million sheep in Australia, a nation of 17 million people.
6. Since 1495, no 25-year period has been without war.
7. When killed in battle, Japanese officers were promoted to the next highest rank.
8. In 1997, the US maintained 13,750 nuclear warheads, 5,546 of them on ballistic missiles.
9. China has the most TV sets (300 million).
10. There are more TV sets in the US than there are people in the UK.
11. Women make up 49% of the world population.
12. The living does not outnumber the dead: since the creation about 60 billion people have died.
13. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
14. Due to earth's gravity it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 metres.
15. If you put Saturn on water, it would float.
16. American Express created the first credit card in 1951.
17. There are more than 7 million millionaires in the world.
18. About one-third of recorded CDs are pirated.
19. English is the top spoken language on the Internet, 452 million people.
20. The longest word in the English language contains 189,819 letters.
(from didyouknow.org)
Actually the longest word is not in the English dictionary so people dispute it for being a word.
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