1. The white trail that follows a plane is actually ice.

2. The longest one-syllable word is "screeched."

3. The male scorpion fly gets other males to bring him food by imitating a female fly.

4. Bibliophobia is the fear of books.

5. Paprophobia is the fear of paper.

6. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

7. More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world.

8. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months, and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

9. A cockroach can live several years with it's head cut off.
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10. August 8th is the start of "National Pickle Week."

11. The octopus can change it's color in less than a second.

12. Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of big words.

13. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.

14. Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

15. The average human being eats about 70 tons of food in a lifetime.

16. A jellyfish is 95% water.

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