- The word racecar can be spelled the same way backwards.
- The average American eats 263 eggs a year.
- The US shreds 7,000 tons of worn out currency each year.
- Employees of the Vatican pay no income tax.
- It takes 1 alligator to make a pair of shoes and 3 for a pair of boots.
- Jousting is the official sport of Maryland.
- A jiffy is an actual time measurement equaling 1/100th of a second.
- A blue whale can weigh as much as 30 elephants and as long as 3 large tour buses.
- The atomic symbol for iron is Fe (the original name for iron was Ferric).
- An astronaut can be up to 2 inches taller returning from space (the cartilage disks in the spine expand in the absence of gravity).
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