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If the world's current population were reduced to just 100 individuals, and all existing human ratios remained intact, we would encounter:

52 women, 48 men
70 Christians, 30 non-Christians
89 heterosexuals, 11 homosexuals
6 people possessing 59% of all wealth (all 6 residing in the United States)
80 living in substandard housing
70 unable to read
1 college-educated
50 suffering malnutrition
1 near death, 1 about to be born
1 who owns a computer

In the state of Alabama it is illegal to put ice cream in your back pocket

Pope John Paul II was named a Honorary Harlem Globetrotter in 2000

In many municipalities in the U.S., women were not allowed to serve on criminal juries until the 1970s

The "SAVE" icon in Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk with the shutter on backwards

The thumb has its own control section in the human brain, separate from the other fingers

Scientific name for snapping your fingers: fillip

Five Jell-O flavors that flopped: celery, coffee, cola, apple, chocolate

Austin, Texas is home to the largest urban bat population in the world with about 1.5 million Mexican Free-Tail bats residing there

A bowling pin only needs to tilt 7.5 degrees to fall

A full moon is 9 times brighter than a half moon

All clams start out as male, but some become female later in life

The first city to reach a population of 1 million people was Rome in 133 BC... London reached the mark in 1810 and New York in 1875... today, more than 300 cities around the world have populations that exceed 1 million people

Homosexuality remained on the American Psychiatric Association's list of mental illnesses until 1973

Christopher Columbus had light blonde hair

The average human body contains enough:

• iron to make a 3" nail
• sulfur to kill fleas on a medium-size dog
• carbon to make 900 pencils
• potassium to fire a toy cannon
• fat to make 7 bars of soap
• phosphorous to make 2,200 match heads
• water to fill a 10 gallon tank

Knowledge is growing so fast that 90% of what we will know in 50 years' time will be discovered in those next 50 years

40% of all indigestion remedies manufactured globally are purchased by Americans

One-third of humans cannot snap their fingers

If a car is traveling at 55 miles per hour, it will travel 56 feet before the driver can shift their foot from the accelerator to the brake

Fewer people have died in commercial airplane accidents in the U.S. over the past 60 years than have died in automobile accidents on U.S. roads in a typical 3 month period during the past 60 years

"Inbreeding is how we get championship horses" -- Carl Gunter, Louisiana State Representative, explaining why he opposed an anti-abortion bill that allowed abortion in cases of incest

"LACK OF BRAINS HINDERS RESEARCH" -- Headline, Columbus Dispatch, 2005

"Everything that can be invented has been invented" -- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899

"The world is more like it is now than ever before" -- Dwight D. Eisenhower, former U.S. President

"So?" -- Vice President Dick Chenney, responding to an ABC News correspondent citing a 2008 poll showing most Americans do not believe the Iraq war was worth fighting

LET IT BE... OR ELSE!

Pure electricity, when photographed, shows up as a brightly glowing liquid droplet flowing inside a tiny crystal

Coffee, as a world commodity, is second only to oil

During conscription during WWII, there were 9 documented cases of male enlistees with three testicles

Except for 2 and 3, every prime number will eventually be divisible by 6 if you either add or subtract 1

For every degree of longitude there is a time gap of 4 minutes

Henri Matisse's "Le Bateau" hung in the New York City's Museum of Modern Art for 47 days in 1961 before someone noticed it was upside down

If you take any number between 1 and 9, and multiply that number by 9, the sum of the two digit answer will always equal 9 (example: 7 x 9 = 63, and 6 + 3 = 9)

If you take any number and double it, add 10, divide by 2, and subtract your original number then the answer will always be 5

First toy advertised on American television: Mr. Potato Head (1952)

Monday is the only day of the week that has an anagram: dynamo

Of the 267 men who have been Pope, 33 died violently

On July 4, 1776 King George III of England wrote in his diary: "Nothing of importance happened today"

Kuwait is about 60% male (highest in the world), while Latvia is about 54% female (highest in the world)

Most people in the world hear slightly better in their right ear

Pierre, South Dakota is the only U.S. state capital name that does not share any letter with the name of its state

Poland's Stella Walsh (Stanislawa Walasiewiecz) won the Women's 100-Meter race at the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles, becoming the first female athlete to break the 12-second barrier... when she was killed in 1980 as an innocent victim in a failed robbery, the subsequent autopsy revealed she was male

For the first time in recorded history, the number of people on earth over age 60 now surpasses the people under age 5

More people die during the first week of the month than during the last

Actual term for your "pinky" finger: wanus

According to a 2007 survey of U.S. bar sales, the top ten most popular cocktails: Dry Martini, Manhattan, Whiskey Sour, Bloody Mary, Gimlet, Diaquiri, Tom Collins, Old fashioned, Margarita, Screwdriver

About 1/3 of Americans flush the toilet while still sitting on it

Two hundred million atoms in a row would measure 1 inch

The average American is currently holding 3 grudges simultaneously against family, friends, colleagues, current or former employers, or others

Sequential 1's with 9

1 x 9 + 2 = 11

12 x 9 + 3 = 111

123 x 9 + 4 = 1111

1234 x 9 + 5 = 11111

12345 x 9 + 6 = 111111

123456 x 9 + 7 = 1111111

1234567 x 9 + 8 = 11111111

12345678 x 9 + 9 = 111111111

123456789 x 9 + 10 = 1111111111

Sequential 8's with 9

9 x 9 + 7 = 88

98 x 9 + 6 = 888

987 x 9 + 5 = 8888

9876 x 9 + 4 = 88888

98765 x 9 + 3 = 888888

987654 x 9 + 2 = 8888888

9876543 x 9 + 1 = 88888888

98765432 x 9 + 0 = 888888888

Numeric Palindrome with 1's

1 x 1 = 1

11 x 11 = 121

111 x 111 = 12321

1111 x 1111 = 1234321

11111 x 11111 = 123454321

111111 x 111111 = 12345654321

1111111 x 1111111 = 1234567654321

11111111 x 11111111 = 123456787654321

111111111 x 111111111 = 12345678987654321

Without 8

12345679 x 9 = 111111111

12345679 x 18 = 222222222

12345679 x 27 = 333333333

12345679 x 36 = 444444444

12345679 x 45 = 555555555

12345679 x 54 = 666666666

12345679 x 63 = 777777777

12345679 x 72 = 888888888

12345679 x 81 = 999999999

Sequential Inputs of 9

9 x 9 = 81

99 x 99 = 9801

999 x 999 = 998001

9999 x 9999 = 99980001

99999 x 99999 = 9999800001

999999 x 999999 = 999998000001

9999999 x 9999999 = 99999980000001

99999999 x 99999999 = 9999999800000001

999999999 x 999999999 = 999999998000000001

Sequential Inputs of 6

6 x 7 = 42

66 x 67 = 4422

666 x 667 = 444222

6666 x 6667 = 44442222

66666 x 66667 = 4444422222

666666 x 666667 = 444444222222

6666666 x 6666667 = 44444442222222

66666666 x 66666667 = 4444444422222222

666666666 x 666666667 = 444444444222222222