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Did you know...

• Pogonophobia is the fear of beards.
• The roar you hear when you place a seashell next to your ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.
• The first Harley Davidson motorcycle was built in 1903, and used a tomato can for a carburetor.
• Most soccer players run an average of 7 miles per game.
• Pocohontas appeared on the back of the $20 bill in 1875.
• Plastic lawn flamingos outnumber real flamingos in the U.S.A.
• "Jaws" is the most common name for a goldfish.
• On an average workday, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.
• Alaska's borders could contain the 21 smallest U.S. states.
• A soccer ball is made up of 32 leather panels, held together by 642 stitches.
• Ants never sleep.
• "Clinophobia" is the fear of beds.
• Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph.
• The pacific giant octopus, the largest octopus in the world, grows from the size of a pea to a 150-pound behemoth potentially 30 feet across in only two years, its entire life span.
• There are approximately million bricks in the Empire State Building.
• 315 entries in Webster’s 1996 dictionary were misspelled.
• The total combined weight of the world's ant population is heavier than the weight of the human population.
• Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
• There are more nutrients in the cornflake package itself than there are in the actual cornflakes.
• Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England, but only in tropical fish stores.
• No word in the English language rhymes with "month", "orange", "silver" or "purple".
• The Mall in Washington, D.C. is 1.4 times larger than Vatican City.
• Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.