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In the United States only 80 miles separate the highest point of land and the lowest point in the lower 48 states. Mount Whitney on the eastern border of Sequoia National Park in California is 14,496 feet high, and a pool called Badwater in Death Valley is 280 feet below sea level.

The shallowest sea is the sea of Azov. It is 13 meters at its deepest.

It snows more in the Grand Canyon than it does in Minnesota.

Odontophobia is the fear of teeth

Morphine was given its name in 1803 by the discoverer, a 20 year old German pharmacist named Friedrich Saturner. He named it after Morpheus, the Greek god of dreams.

Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them

The actor who played the T-1000 in Terminator 2 (Robert Patrick) and the lead singer of Filter are brothers

Persia changed its name to Iran in 1935.

¥ The number of cars on the planet is increasing three times faster than the population growth

Great Britain was the first country to issue stamps in 1840.

Every second there are 418 Kit Kat fingers eaten in the world

A whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.

A poem written to celebrate a wedding is called an epithalamium.

Mass murderer Charles Manson recorded an album titled Lie.

The human heart weighs less than a pound

3284. Bharat Ratna

Bharat Ratna : dr. b. c. roy
physician, politician, former chief minister of west bengal
Year : 1961
Region : west bengal.

The average cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven is $6,400.

The smallest will ever written was 3.8 cm in diameter. It had 40 words written on it and was signed by two witnesses

A Michigan law states that a wife's hair legally belongs to her husband.

The tallest woman that ever lived was Zeng Jinlian who was 8 feet 2 inches tall of China. Shed died at the age of 17

Bees kill more people a year than sharks do.

The Hubble telescope is so powerful that it is like pointing a beam of light at a dime that is two hundred miles away.

In Delaware it is illegal to get married on a dare.

More pollution is emitted from the average home compared to the average car.

Amazingly, goalies in the National Hockey League played without masks until the year 1959

Planet Venus is the only planet to spin counter-clockwise.

Austria was the first country to use postcards.

In 1997, the record for the highest skydive by a dog at 4,572 feet was established by a dog named Brutus

Children grow faster in the springtime than any other season during the year

Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, or creamy.

In New York City there are 6,374.6 miles of streets

A one kilogram packet of sugar will have about 5 million grains of sugar

In 1659, it was illegal to celebrate Christmas in Massachusetts.

Five Jell-O flavors that flopped: celery, coffee, cola, apple, andchocolate.

Glenn Miller was the first performer to earn a gold record. He got it for the Chattanooga Choo Choo on February 10, 1942.

An apple, potato, and onion all taste the same if you eat them with your nose plugged.

Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny, was allergic to carrots.

If you cut a 'V'shape into your toe nails, you can prevent 'in-grown'toe nails.

The human heart pumps 1.5 million gallons of blood a year.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum.

A bean has more DNA per cell than a human cell

The nail of our middle finger grows the fastest and the nail of our thumb grows slowest.

By the age of 60, most people have lost 50% of their taste buds.

The average life expectancy of geese is 25 years.

Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country

99% of the pumpkins sold in the US end up as jack-o-lanterns.

The largest fish in the world is the whale shark. It can weigh several tons and grow to more than fifty feet in length

7,000 new insect species are discovered every year.

Warner Brothers Corset Company created the bra cup sizing system, which is now used universally used by manufacturers

A woman's breasts can swell up to 30% when she is aroused.

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