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-A theater manager in Seoul, Korea felt that The Sound of Music was too long, so he shortened it by cutting out all the songs.
-Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
-Bulgaria was the only soccer team in the 1994 World Cup in which all 11 players' last names ended with the letters "OV."
-Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every Games
-A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber. A ball of solid steel will bounce higher than one made entirely of glass.
-Most toilets flush in E flat.
-Warner Communications paid $28 million for the copyright to the song "Happy Birthday".
-The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
-The parachute was invented by Leonardo da Vinci in 1515
-The only nation whose name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan.
-Mount St. Helens dropped 1,313 feet in 1980
-The fortune cookie was invented in 1916 by George Jung, a Los Angeles noodlemaker.
-In Bavaria, beer isn't considered an alcoholic drink but rather a staple food.
-James Buchanon is said to have had the neatest handwriting of all the Presidents.
-The only insect that can turn its head 360 degrees is the praying mantis.
-Sharks and rays are the only animals known to man that don't get cancer. Scientists believe this has something to do with the fact that they don't have bones, but cartilage.
-When reflected from bright lights (head lights) deer's eyes are orange, whereas cats and dogs are green. Rabbits eyes remain black.
-Under the law of Mississippi, there’s no such thing as a female Peeping Tom
-In New York State, it is still illegal to shoot a rabbit from a moving trolley car.
-In Riverside, California, there is an old law on the city's books which makes it illegal to kiss unless both people wipe their lips with rose water.
-In Somalia, Africa, it's been decreed illegal to carry old chewing gum stuck on the tip of your nose.
-In Michigan it's illegal to place a skunk inside your bosses desk.-In Kentucky it is illegal to carry ice cream in your back pocket.
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