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Here's an interesting fact for Aspies - Satoshi Tajiri, the creator of Pokemon, is autistic.

Ariel is the only Disney Princess to ever have had a child.

Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.

Slash of 'Guns N' Roses' refused to allow the band's music to be used on 'Glee', because he thinks that the show is horrible.

Yo Mama jokes were invented by Shakespeare.

Bikinis and tampons were both invented by men.

Dr.Seuss invented the word "nerd".

Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard.

Jedi is an official religion in Australia, with over 70,000 followers.

The little paper ribbon that sticks out of Hershey's Kisses chocolate is often referred to as a "NigglyWiggly".

Charles Lindbergh scattered the ashes of his son from his plane.

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Charles Lindberg delivered air-mail as well

Charles Lindbergh also was an anti-Semitic who broadcast pro-Nazi propaganda over American radio and raised money for the Nazi war chest before WWII.
Recordings of these broadcasts still exist,despite his family trying, for years, to have them destroyed.

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Charles Lindberg was anti-war, but when the war came, he did his patriotic duty.

There's a "Hug Me" Coca-Cola machine in Singapore which gives you a can of coke each time you hug it.

Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them. A fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.

If you eat too many carrots, the beta carotene found in carrots will turn you slightly orange.

The design of the Sonic Hedgehog's shoes were a concept taken from Michael Jackson's boots.

Before her claim to fame, Madonna worked at Dunkin' Donuts and lost her job for squirting jelly filling all over customers.

Adolf Hitler's father was illegitimate.

Sylkat

It takes 63 feet of wire to make a Slinky.

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

The Muppet Show was banned from TV in Saudi Arabia because one of its stars was a pig.

Donald Duck lives at 1313 Webfoot Walk, Duckburg, Calisota.

Leave it to Beaver premiered on October 4, 1957 the same day Sputnik I was launched.

Moose kill more people in the US than any other wild animal.

All that was found of the body of the last Czarina was one finger.


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Despite the hump, a camel's spine is straight.

Hippo milk is pink.

Flies are deaf.

Sheep can recognize other sheep from pictures.

Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue.

No one knows where Mozart is buried.


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The side of a hammer is called a 'cheek'.

If you type "illuminati" backwards, followed by '.com' in your address bar, you'll end up at the U.S. government's national security page.

Speed dating was invented by a rabbi in 1999, based on a Jewish tradition of chaperoned gatherings of young Jewish singles.

Chainsaws were derived from a tool originally intended to help deliver babies.

It would take 4,000 helium balloons to lift a 110 pound person.