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4021/ It takes one 15-20 year
old tree to produce 700 paper grocery bags.
4022/ Workers at Matsushita Electric
Company in Japan beat dummies of their foremen with bamboo
sticks to let off steam. The company has enjoyed 30 per cent
growth for 25 consecutive years.
4023/ Kleenex tissues were originally
used as filters in gas masks.
4024/ Lang Martin balanced seven
golf balls vertically without adhesive at Charlotte, NC on
9th February 1980.
4025/ In 1955, one-third of all
watches sold were Timexes.
4026/ Kerimaki Church in Finland
is the world's biggest Church made of wood.
4027/ Due to a retinal adaptation
that reflects light back to the retina, the night vision of
tigers is six times better than that of humans.
4028/ The male Argus pheasant
of Asia has the longest feathers of all the flying birds.
Its tails feathers can reach a length of six feet (1.7 metres)
4029/ Tuna swim at a steady rate
of nine miles per hour for an indefinite period of time -
and they never stop moving. Estimates indicate that a 15 year
old tuna travels one million miles in its lifetime.
4030/ Totally Hair Barbie is
the best selling Barbie of all time.
4031/ During the time that the
atomic bomb was being hatched by the United States at Alamogordo,
New Mexico, applicants for routine jobs like janitors were
disqualified if they could read. Illiteracy was a job requirement.
The reason: the authorities did not want their rubbish or
other papers read.
4032/ The two hottest months
at the equator are March and September.
4033/ The Venus flytrap can eat
a whole cheeseburger.
4034/ It takes 3,000 cows to
supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of
footballs.
4035/ When the University of
Nebraska Cornhuskers play American Football at home, the stadium
becomes the state's third largest city.
4036/ Flamingo tongues were a
common delicacy at Roman feasts.
4037/ The very first bomb dropped
by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only
elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
4038/ Adolf Hitler was Time's
Man of the Year for 1938.
4039/ The musk ox has the longest
hair of any polar animal. The hairs of the outer layer of
their coats can reach up to three feet (one metre) long.
4040/ Casey Kasem is the voice
of Shaggy on Scooby-Doo.
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