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Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad in first class.
30% of Chinese adults live with their parents.
200 million people in China live on less than $1 a day.
There are 100 million internet users in China. Some of the sites they can't access are BBC news, Amnesty International and Dalailama.com.
In 2006, there were 398 million mobile (or cell) phones in China.
China is the source of 70% of the worlds pirated goods.
20% of the world's population lives in China.
People spend about two weeks of their lives at traffic lights!
Left handed people live slightly shorter lives than right handed people.
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Armadillos are able to contract leprosy.
Ten years ago, only 500 people in China could ski. This year, an estimated 5,000,000 Chinese will visit ski resorts.
The ant, when intoxicated, will always fall over to its right side.
The original name of Bank of America was Bank of Italy.
Toxic house plants poison more children than household chemicals.
Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England, but only in tropical fish stores.
In Bahrain, a male gynecologist can only examine a woman's private parts through a mirror.
If the entire population of earth was reduced to exactly 100 people,50% of the world's currency would be held by 6 people.
In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.
Fewer than half of the 16,200 major league baseball players have ever hit a home run.
A snail can sleep for three years.
Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
Turtles can breathe through their butts.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
Close to 80% of people who watch the Super Bowl on television, only do so to view the commercials.
In the 1800's, people believed that gin could cure stomach problems.
It took approximately 2.5 million blocks to build the Pyramid of Giza, which is one of the Great Pyramids.
Thomas Edison designed a helicopter that would work with gunpowder. It ended up blowing up and also blew up his factory.
McDonalds calls frequent buyers of their food heavy users.
Americans ate eight million more orders of french fries and almost six million more hamburgers this year compared to last.
The Netherlands has built 800 miles of massive dikes and sea walls to hold back the sea.
One pair of rats has the potential for 15,000 descendants in a year.
A female can produce up to twelve litters of twenty rats a year.
The rat has been called the world’s most destructive mammal - other than man.
Rats destroy an estimated 1/3 of the world’s food supply each year.
25% of all fires of unknown origin are rat-caused.
26% of all electric cable breaks and 18% of all phone cable disruptions are caused by rats.
The USA has more personal computers than the next 7 countries combined.
Members of the armed forces and the police cannot vote in the Dominican Republic.
US tops the world in plastic surgery procedures. Next comes Mexico.
22% of American women aged 20 gave birth while in their teens. In Switzerland and Japan, only 2% did so.
Mexican women spend 15.3% of their life in ill health.
Most Zambians don't live to see their 40th birthday.
The Mall in Washington, D.C. is 1.4 times larger than Vatican City.
The women of Iceland earn two-thirds of their nation's university degrees.
American adults have been educated for the longest time.
The ten most generous countries are all in Europe.
72% of people in Mali earn less than $1 per day.
The top 8 most developed countries all speak Germanic languages. Every such country is in the top 20.
More than 20% of the votes in the 2001 elections in Argentina were invalid.
You can be imprisoned for not voting in Fiji, Chile and Egypt - at least in theory.
0.7% of Americans are currently in prison. Wow!
Saudi diplomats have 367 outstanding parking fines in Britain.
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