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102. The "Big Bang" is said to have created the universe.

103. The Apollo 11 had only 20 seconds of fuel left when it landed.

104. The ashes of the metal magnesium are heavier than magnesium itself.

105. The average life of a nuclear plant is 40 years.

106. The bark of a redwood tree is fireproof. Fires that occur in a redwood forest take place inside the trees.

107. The billionth digit of pi is 9.

108. The Boeing 737 jet is nicknamed "Fat Albert."

109. The Boeing 747 has been in commercial service since 1970.

110. The Bureau of Standards says that the electron is the fastest thing in the world.

111. The CN Tower, in Toronto, is the tallest free standing structure in the world.

112. The color black is produced by the complete absorption of light rays.

113. The color of diamond dust is black.

114. The company, Kodak, is the largest user of silver.

115. The condensed water vapor left by jets in the sky is called a contrail.

116. The densest substance on Earth is the metal "osmium."

117. The external tank on the space shuttle is not painted.

118. The first American submarine was built around 1776.

119. The first atomic bomb exploded at Trinity Site, New Mexico.

120. The first ever made computer was called ENIAC.

121. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.

122. The leaves of the Victorian water lily are sometimes over six feet in diameter.

123. The metal instrument used in shoe stores to measure feet is called the Brannock device.

124. The metal part at the end of a pencil is twenty percent sulfur.

125. The one-hundred eleventh element is known as unnilenilenium

126. The process of splitting atoms is called Fission.

127. The radio-active substance, Americanium-241 is used in many smoke detectors.

128. The Saguaro Cactus, found in the Southwestern United States doesn't grow branches until it is 75 years old.

129. The Saturn V moon rocket consumed 15 tons of fuel per second.

130. The shock-wave from a nitroglycerine explosion travels at 17,000 miles per hour.

131. The Siberian larch accounts for more than 20% of all the worlds trees.

132. The Sitka spruce is Britain's most commonly planted tree.

133. The smallest unit of time is the yoctosecond.

134. The speed of sound must be exceeded to produce a sonic boom.

135. The strength of early lasers was measured in Gillettes, the number of blue razor blades a given beam could puncture

136. The tail section of an airplane gives the bumpiest ride.

137. The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that it breaks the sound barrier, the crack of the whip is actually a tiny sonic boom.

138. The total quantity of energy in the universe is constant.

139. The two hottest months at the equator are March and September.

140. The U.S. standard railroad gauge (distance between rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches.

141. The Venus's flytrap can eat a whole cheeseburger.

142. There are five trillion, trillion atoms in one pound of iron.

143. Three astronauts manned each Apollo flight.

144. Three stars make up Orion's belt.

145. Toronto was the first city in the world with a computerized traffic signal system.

146. Twenty years make up a vicennial period.

147. Two wrongs may not equal a right, but three rights do equal a left.

148. When CBS broadcast the first television show in color, no one other than CBS owned a color television set.

149. When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds up to 3,000 miles per hour.

150. You are most likely to lose your hearing than any of the other senses if you are hit by lightning.

151. 4,000 people are injured by tea pots every year.

152. A 60-minute cassette contains 565 feet of tape.

153. A coat hanger is forty-four inches long if straightened.

154. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

155. A good quality Persian rug which contains one million knots in every three square inches can last as long as 500 years.

156. A good typist can strike twenty keys in a second.

157. A person uses more household energy shaving with a hand razor at a sink (because of the water power, the water pump and so on) than he would by using an electric razor.

158. A quarter has 119 ridges on its edge.

159. A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans

160. A typical double mattress contains as many as two million house dust mites.

161. A wedding ring is generally exempt by law from inclusion among the assets in a bankruptcy estate. That means that a wedding ring can't be seized by creditors, no matter how much the bankrupt person owes.

162. According to a market research survey done some time ago, 68% of consumers receiving junk mail actually open the envelopes.

163. According to one study, 24% of lawns have some sort of lawn ornament.

164. All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

165. All hospitals in Singapore use Pampers diapers.

166. Aluminum is strong enough to support 90,000 pounds per square inch.

167. Americans spend $1.5 billion dollars every year on toothpaste.

168. An average of 200 million credit cards are used every day in the United States.

169. Approximately 30 billion cakes of Ivory Soap had been manufactured by 1990.

170. As of 1983, an average of three billion Christmas cards were sent annually in the United States.

171. At the height of inflation in Germany in the early 1920s, one U.S. dollar was equal to 4 quintillion German marks.

172. Avery Laser Labels are named after company founder R. Stanton Avery.

173. Barbie has a signature color,

174. Camera shutter speed "B" stands for bulb.

175. Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself."

176. Cow is a Japanese brand of shaving foam.

177. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great; Hearts - Charlemagne; and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

178. Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class.

179. Each of us generate 5 pounds of rubbish a day; most of it is paper.

180. Every year, over 8,800 people injure themselves with a toothpick.

181. Hallmark makes cards for 105 different relationships.

182. How valuable is the penny you found laying on the ground? If it takes just a second to pick it up a person could make $36.00 per hour just picking up pennies.

183. If done perfectly, any rubix cube combination can be solved in 17 turns.

184. If you lace your shoes from the inside to the outside, the fit will be snugger around your big toe.

185. In 1955, one-third of all watches sold were Timex.

186. In 1977, Cairo only had 208,000 telephones and no telephone books.

187. In 1990, there were about 15,000 vacuum cleaner related accidents in the U.S.

188. In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.

189. In every deck of cards, the King of Hearts is sticking his sword through his head. That's why he's often called the Suicide King.

190. In historic Deerfield, Massachusetts a guide was showing us fireplaces and some old cooking items. One of the items was an iron standing grid that they would slide bread slices into and place in front of the fire. This grid could turn around and the story goes that the women would push it with their toe; originating the term toe stir which eventually became toaster.

191. In order for a deck of cards to be mixed up enough to play with properly, it should be shuffled at least seven times.

192. It takes a plastic container 50,000 years to start decomposing.

193. It's rumored that sucking on a copper penny will cause a breathalyzer to read 0.

194. Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been mixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float.

195. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since.

196. John F. Kennedy's rocking chair was auctioned off for $442,000.

197. Johnson & Johnson's "BAND-AID" brand adhesive bandages have been around for 75 years.

198. Ketchup is excellent for cleaning brass, especially tarnished or corroded brass.

199. Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.