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Mexican Fruit bats can be four feet long, with a wingspan of six feet.

Obscure fact:

It is illegal to eat oranges while bathing in California.

At a cost of $150 billion, the International Space Station is the most expensive thing that has ever been built.

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Between 2,000 and 3,000 people a year visit the tomb of Benito Mussolini, the Fascist Italian dictator.

Obscure fact:

It takes about 142 licks to reach the center of a Tootsie pop.

Mother Theresa's sarcophagus is in the former dining room of her convent in India.

Obscure fact:

Coca-Cola was originally green.

When former President Jimmy Carter was in office, his brother had his own brewing company.

The product was called 'Billy Beer'.

Mother Teresa exhibited other sadistic traits, as well.

A Frenchman named Jean-Marie Loret, who died in 1985, may well have been Adolf Hitler's son.

Some of the first European farmers was also found to be cannibalistic to anyone out side their tribes.
Mind you, this was when farming was new to humans and the ice age was coming to an end.
Those first farmers vanished, its being assumed because of disease.

The Anasazi were cannibals.

They are gone, too.

Some of our vary first written language is over 12,000 years old.
But it was all pictographs cut in stone slabs that rivaled the pyramids stones in size.
Although thats still up to question when you consider the Nazca plains.

Obscure fact:

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

The word 'bookkeeper' and its variants, is the only non-hyphenated word in the English language to contain three consecutive sets of double letters.

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Obscure fact:

The word Pennsylvania is misspelled on the Liberty Bell.