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FACT: A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.
FACT: A white tiger can only be born when both parents carry the gene for white colouring.
FACT: A woman has approximately 4.5 litres of blood in her body, while men have 5.6 litres.
FACT: A women from Berlin Germany has had 3,110 gallstones taken out of her gall bladder.
FACT: A world record 328 pound ovarian cyst was removed from a woman in Galveston, Texas, in 1905. updated
FACT: A yawn usually lasts for approximately six seconds.
FACT: ABBA got their name by taking the first letter from each of their names (Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, Anni-frid.)
FACT: Abdul Kassam Ismael, Grand Vizier of Persia in the tenth century, carried his library with him wherever he went. Four hundred camels carried the 117,000 volumes.
FACT: About 1 in 5,000 North Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.
FACT: About 10% of the 100,000 thunderstorms that occur in the USA every year are classified as severe.
FACT: About 25 percent of all the energy consumed in the US is from natural gas.
FACT: About 26 per cent of all indoor water used by households in Sydney, Australia are for laundry.
FACT: About 30% of American admit to talking to their dogs or leaving messages on their answering machines for their dogs while they are away.
FACT: About 30% of Canadians rely on getting their water from the ground for their domestic use.
FACT: About 70 percent of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money.
FACT: About 85% or product warning labels on household products are inadequate.
FACT: About twenty-five percent of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light.
FACT: About two hundred years before the birth of Christ, the Druids used mistletoe to celebrate that winter was approaching.
FACT: According to legend, tea originated in China when tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water.
FACT: According to research, Los Angeles highways are so congested that the average commuter sits in traffic for 82 hours a year.
FACT: According to research, the most productive workday is Tuesday and the least productive is Friday.
FACT: According to Scandinavian traditions, if a boy and girl eat from the same loaf of bread, they are bound to fall in love.
FACT: According to Scientists, vampire bat saliva is the best known medicine for keeping blood from clotting. .
FACT: According to studies, an average roll of toilet paper lasts about five days in the bathroom.
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