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Dec 13, 2006

Weird Facts

Taken from AmusingFacts.com



-In 1976, a Los Angeles secretary named Jannene Swift officially married a fifty pound rock. More than twenty people witnessed the ceremony.

-A 13-year-old boy in India produced winged beetles in his urine after hatching the eggs in his body.

-Every U.S. bill regardless of denomination costs just 4 cents to make.

-In New York City, approximately 1,600 people are bitten by other humans annually.

-The Welwitschia plant can live up to 2,000 years.

-A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

-Approximately 10.5 gallons of water is used in a dishwasher. Washing the dishes by hand can use up to 20 gallons of water.

-In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes.

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