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I found a lot of facts on common English phrases/movie lines stuff like that, and I thought they were pretty cool. There are 42 facts in this chapter, guysss! I hope you enjoy!! Remember to vote/comment...pwetty pwease (horrible imitation of baby voice)?

BTW, check out the funny pun to the side!

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1. If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times,but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.

2. Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

3. The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

4. Coca Cola was originally green.

5. 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

6. Every person has a unique tongue print.

7. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

8. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

9. The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

10. The youngest Pope was 11 years old.

11. Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.

12. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

13. Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson".

14. In "Casablanca", Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam".

15. In the TV series I Love Lucy, Ricki Ricardo never actually said "Lucy you have some 'splaining to do"

16. A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.

17. Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."

18. First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer

19. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original film "Halloween" was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.

20. James Doohan, who played Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott on Star Trek, was missing the entire middle finger of his right hand.

21. All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.

22. Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.

23. During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance. (We saw a portion of this film in Latin!)

24. The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

25. Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

26. Every day more money is printed for monopoly than the US Treasury.

27. The city with the most Roll Royces per capita: Hong Kong

28. Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%

29. Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33

30. Cost of raising a medium-sized dog to the age of 11: £4000 (approx. $6456; I tried doing this in my head but it didn't exactly work)

31. Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."

32. The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.

33. The term "whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got the "whole 9 yards."

34. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

35. The US Interstate road system was designed so that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.

36. The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of fuel that it burns.

37. A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.

38. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.

39. Most lipstick contains fish scales. (This fact is really common, but I wanted to add it anyways)

40. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear trousers.

41. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine

42. You can tell from the statue of a mounted horseman how the rider died. If all four of the horse's feet are on the ground, he died of natural causes. One foot raised means he died from wounds suffered in battle. Two legs raised means he died in action.