Interesting Facts Part 3

1. All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.

2. Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

3. Pearls melt in vinegar.

4. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

5. The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

6. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

7. A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.

8. The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

9. Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word 'criminal.' The second was William Jefferson Clinton.

10. Turtles can breathe through their butts.

11. Butterflies taste with their feet.

12. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.

13. On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.

14. On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

15. Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

16. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

17. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

18. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

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