• U.S. President Roosevelt exempted tobacco growers from having to fight in World War II because he declared tobacco an "essential crop."
  
• "Mother" or "Mommy" is the most often words spoken by a dying person.
  
• Mixing Sani-Flush and Comet cleaners have been known to cause explosions.
  
• "The Bird of Prey" was the name of the Wright brothers' first plane.
  
• The average adult can read 150-200 words a minute.
  
• CNN stands for "Cable News Network."
  
• 50% of teenage boys say that they would rather be rich than smart.
  
• A widow was once awarded $101,000 in damages because the funeral home forgot to bury her husband in his favorite cowboy hat.
  
• The term potty comes from the pint-sized chamber pot built for children.
  
• Kelloggs once released a cereal "Kellogg's Kream Krunch" that
  contained chunks of freeze-dried ice cream. It flopped.
  
• Insects outnumber humans 100,000,000 to 1.
  
• Bill Clinton is the first left-handed American president to serve two terms.
  
• There are more Barbie dolls in Italy than there are Canadians in Canada.
  
• Americans spend $1.5 billion dollars every year on toothpaste.
  
• A sex change has never been performed in Ireland.
  

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U.S. President Roosevelt exempted tobacco growers from having to fight in World War II because he declared tobacco an "essential crop."

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Essential enough to be included in soldiers' emergency rations.

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Mixing Sani-Flush and Comet cleaners have been known to cause explosions.

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Read the warning labels on the containers.

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CNN stands for "Cable News Network."

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Is there anybody who didn't know this? I mean besides the

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50% of teenage boys [who] say that they would rather be rich than smart.

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