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One can hypnotize a chicken by holding its head against the ground and drawing a line straight outward from its beak.



The Bible does not contain the word bible.



In Nevada, U.S. Route 50 is known as “The Loneliest Road in America.” Because of the barren terrain and low traffic, 
AAA warns its member to stay off the road unless they’re sure of their survival skills.
There are only five towns along the road, and all of them offer “Route 50 Survival Kits.” 


Stop in all five and you’ll get a survival certificate signed by the governor.



Captain Kirk never actually said “Beam me up, Scotty” in any Star Trek episode or movie.



If you want to be really, really alone, head for 48°52.6'S 123°23.6'W in the South Pacific Ocean. 
That’s “Point Nemo,” the point in the ocean farthest from any land. 
You’ll be in the middle of 22,405,411 square kilometers of ocean, an area larger than the entire former Soviet Union.
The point on land farthest from any ocean is at 46°16.8'N 86°40.2'E, outside the Chinese city of Urumqi, 
in the Dzoosotoyn Elisen Desert. It’s 1,645 miles from the nearest coastline.



Emmy Award trophies are made at the maximum-security El Dorado Correctional Facility in Kansas.



Playboy Playmate of the Month modeling payouts:
1959-1960: $500
1961-1965: $1,000
1966-1967: $2,500
1968-1969: $3,000
1970-1977: $5,000
1978-1983: $10,000
1984-1989: $15,000
1990-today: $20,000




The Nike “swoosh” logo was created by Carolyn Davidson, a freelance graphic design student, in 1971.
She was paid $35.



What’s the largest living thing in the world? It depends:

Savannah elephants get up to 26,400 pounds, and of course some land dinosaurs were far larger.
In the ocean, the blue whale can reach 100 feet and weigh 150 tons. It’s thought to be the largest animal that’s ever lived.
There’s a fungus in Oregon’s Malheur National Forest that fills 2,200 acres, but technically it’s not one individual organism.
Likewise, there are some stands of aspens that grow from one gigantic root system. One covers 200 acres and weighs an estimated 6,600 tons.
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef stretches for 2000 kilometers — it’s not a single creature, but it’s certainly the world’s largest “superorganism.”
The overall winning candidate is probably a tree, California’s “General Sherman.” It’s 274 feet tall and 36 feet thick at the base, with a trunk volume of 1,487 cubic meters.
The largest bacterium ever discovered, by the way, is Thiomargarita namibiensis — it grows to 0.75 mm in diameter, which means you can see it with the naked eye. Eww.



In high school, Robin Williams was voted “most likely not to succeed.”