Miscellaneous

Bizarre Fact #101:
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A car that shifts manually gets 2 miles more per gallon of gas than a car with automatic shift.

Bizarre Fact #102:
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A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile.

Bizarre Fact #103:
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A gator in the road is a huge piece of tire from a blow out on a truck, called a gator because the fly up when a truck runs one over and take out your air lines causing you to lose air and forcing your spring brakes to come on which causes a rather abrupt stop.

Bizarre Fact #104:
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A lead pencil is good for about 50,000 words.

Bizarre Fact #105:
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A man irate about his income tax paid Uncle Sam with a plaster of Paris check that weighed several pounds. He wasn't all that bright, because once the government cashed the check, it was returned to him and he had to keep it for five years for his records.

Bizarre Fact #106:
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A man irate about his income tax paid Uncle Sam with a plaster of Paris check that weighed several pounds. He wasn't all that bright, because once the government cashed the check, it was returned to him and he had to keep it for five years for his records.

Bizarre Fact #107:
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A man named John Bellavia has entered over 5000 contests, and has never won a thing.

Bizarre Fact #108:
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A McDonald's straw will hold 7.7ml, or just over one-and-a-half teaspoons of whatever you are drinking. This means that it would take 17,000 strawfuls of water to fill up a 34 gallon bathtub.

Bizarre Fact #109:
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A standard 747 Jumbo Jet has 420 seats.

Bizarre Fact #110:
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According to Dennis Changon, spokesman for the International Civil Aviation Organization in Montreal, Canada - if all of the commercial planes in the world were grounded at the same time there wouldn't be space to park them all at gates.