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9. Cadbury sells 200 million Creme Eggs in UK each year, which is more than three for every person who lives there.

10.Washington D.C.‘s cherry blossom trees were a gift to the United States from Japan.

11.A California women once tried to sue the makers of Cap’n Crunch because Crunch Berries did not contain any sort of berries.

12.Researchers use Calvin Klein’s Obsession for Men to attract animals to the cameras in the wilderness.

13. Bill Clinton was able to answer 3 questions about My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic when he appeared in Wait Wait...Don’t Tell Me!

14.In 2006, an Australian man attempted to sell New Zealand on ebay and its price rose up to $3,000. However, ebay shut it down before it could go on any further.

15.Some cats are allergic to humans.

16.Making plastic wallpapers was the initial intention for the inventors of the Bubble Wraps.

17. In the 1980s, Fergie of The Black Eyed Peas voiced Charlie Brown’s sister Sally.

18.The puppet Hoggle, used in Labyrinth, somehow ended up at the Unclaimed Baggage Center in Scottsboro, Alabama.

19..Many believed Hydrox Cookies are an Oreo knock-off, but Hydrox came 4 years before the Oreo in 1908.

20.An Ohio high student designed the 50-star American flag for a class project. His teacher gave him a B- for it.

21.William Faulkner once refused a dinner invitation from JFK’s house. “Why that’s a 100 miles away,” he said. “That’s a long way to go just to eat.”

22. The only number in word form in alphabetical order is forty.

23. In the UK, there used to be people called “knocker-uppers” that wake up lazy Britons by tapping their doors and windows with a long, wooden stick.

24.Jackie O was the editor of Michael Jackson’s 1988 autobiography Moonwalk.

25. Despite the urban legend, a bird will not explode when they digest uncooked rice.

26. 666 is the sum of all of the numbers on a roulette wheel.

27. By 1989, a new Blockbuster was opening in America approximately every 17 hours.

28. A $40 late fee on a VHS copy of Apollo 13 was the inspiration for Reed Hastings to start Netflix.

29. A baby can deprive parents 750 hours of sleep in the first year.

30.Saddam Hussein was presented with a key to the city by Detroit in 1980.

31.In the 1870s, a Belgian village tried to train 37 cats to deliver letters. (It didn’t work)

32. In 1957, Phillies center fielder, Richie ashburn, fouled off a pitch and broke fan’s nose. Somehow, he fouled on the next pitch and hit the same fan.

33.Right before the Nazis invaded Paris, H.A. and Margret Rey fled on bicycles carrying the manuscript for Curious George.

34.In 1970, Ernie from Sesame Street hit #16 on the Billboard Hot 100 with the timeless hit “Rubber Duckie.”

35.The mummy of Ramses II was issued a passport when he was sent to France in 1976. Ramses’ occupation? “King (decreased).”

36. The actor who was inside R2-D2 strongly disliked the actor who played C-3PO, calling him the rudest man he ever met.

37.Victoria Lilies can hold up to 70 pounds.

38.PETA once asked the Pet Shop Boys to consider changing their name to Rescue Shelter Boys.

39.An ad campaign for Kellogg’s Corn Flakes in 1907 offered a free cereal box to any women that can wink at her grocer.

40.J.K. Rowling invented Quidditch in a pub (a bar).

41.The word “unfriend” appeared in print back in 1659.

42. In 1958, Larry King accidentally smashed in JFK’s car. JFK said he would forget about the incident as long as King votes for him when he ran for president.

43. In 2016, the U.S. collected $3.35 billion in baggage fees.

44. Reno, Nevada is farther west than Los Angeles.

45. John Wilkes Booth’s brother once saved Abraham Lincoln’s son from a terrible railroad accident.

46.In 1996, Mister Rogers poured the wax that created the 100 billionth Crayola crayon.

47.The term “Frito Feet” was invented to describe a dog’s feet smelling like corn chips.

48.The smell of old books is described as “a combination of grassy notes with a tang of acids and a hint of vanilla over an underlying mustiness” by chemists.

49. When asked if Abraham Lincoln had any hobbies, Mary Todd Lincoln replied, “cats.”

50.ESPN founder, Bill Rasmussen, originally only wanted to put on a Connecticut sports show featuring Hartford Whalers highlights.