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1. On the cartoon show 'The Jetsons', Jane is 33 years old and her daughter Judy is 15.
2. In the movie "Toy Story", the carpet designs in Sid's hallway is the same as the carpet designs in "The Shining."
3. The longest film ever released was "****" by Andy Warhol in 1967, which lasted 25 hours. After its utter failure, it was withdrawn and re-released in a 90-minute form as "The Loves of Ondine."
4. Chocolate syrup was used for blood in the famous 45 second shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's movie, Psycho, which actually took 7 days to shoot.
5. The lion costume in the film Wizard of Oz was made from real lions.
6. Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.
7. Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."
8. In the movie "Casablanca," Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam."
9. In every episode of "Seinfeld" there is a Superman somewhere.
10. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
11. All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
12. 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie

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1. Since 2010, not only does the United States have a central bank, but it also runs our economy and issues all of our currency.  The Federal Reserve has devalued the U.S. dollar by over 95 percent since 1913 and it has been used to create the biggest mountain of government debt in the history of the world. 
2. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled that U.S. government agents can legally sneak onto your property in the middle of the night, place a secret GPS device on the bottom of your car and keep track of you everywhere that you go.
3. The 50 wealthiest members of Congress saw their collective fortunes increase by 85.1 million dollars to $1.4 billion in 2009.
4. The U.S. government has accumulated a national debt that is rapidly approaching the 14 trillion dollar mark.
5. All over the United States, asphalt roads are being ground up and are being replaced with gravel because it is cheaper to maintain.  The state of South Dakota has transformed over 100 miles of asphalt road into gravel over the past year, and 38 out of the 83 counties in the state of Michigan have now turned some of their asphalt roads into gravel roads.
6. Americans now owe more than $849 billion on student loans, which is more than the total amount that Americans owe on their credit cards.
7. In 2010, Americans waste an astounding amount of food.  According to a study by the California Integrated Waste Management board, 63 percent of the average supermarket's waste stream is food. When you break that down, it means that each supermarket wastes approximately 3,000 pounds of food each year.
8. The city of Cleveland plans to sort through curbside trash to ensure that people are actually recycling properly.  If it is discovered that some citizens are not recycling they will be hit with very large fines.
9. Once upon a time, U.S. industry was the envy of the world.  But since 1979, manufacturing employment in the United States has fallen by 40 percent.
10. Even though the U.S. population has exploded in size, the number of Americans with manufacturing jobs today is smaller than the number of Americans who were employed in manufacturing in 1950.
11. Having one out of every eight Americans enrolled in the food stamp program is now considered "the new normal" and Americans continue to drop into poverty in astounding numbers.
12. One out of every six Americans is now being served by at least one government anti-poverty program.
13. A family of four actually has difficulty surviving on an income of $50,000 a year in America in 2010.
14. Barack Obama is backing a proposal to create a national database that will store the DNA of all individuals who have been arrested, even if they end up not being convicted of a crime.
15. In 2010, it takes the average unemployed American worker over 8 months to find a job.
16. The U.S. government has made some parts of Arizona off limits to U.S. citizens because of the threat of violence from Mexican drug smugglers.  The federal government has actually posted signs more than 100 miles north of the Mexican border warning travelers that certain areas are unsafe because of drug and alien smugglers.
17. One survey of the year 2010's college graduates discovered that 80 percent moved right back home with their parents after graduation.
18. The average American worker now pays literally dozens of different kinds of taxes each year.
19. Christians are being arrested and thrown in jail in some areas of the United States for quietly passing out Christian literature on public sidewalks.
20. The Florida State Department of Juvenile Justice has announced that it will begin using cutting edge analysis software to predict crime by young delinquents and will place "potential offenders" in prevention and education programs.
21. Organic milk is now considered such a national crisis that the FDA has been conducting military style raids on Amish farmers in the state of Pennsylvania.
22. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently announced that they are considering a crackdown on farm dust.
23. According to a new CDC report, nearly half of all Americans now use prescription drugs on a regular basis.
24. Oakland, California Police Chief Anthony Batts says that due to severe budget cuts there are a number of crimes that his department will simply not be able to respond to any longer.  The crimes that the Oakland police will no longer be responding to include grand theft, burglary, car wrecks, identity theft and vandalism.

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1. Today, Americans are losing their homes in staggering numbers. One out of every seven mortgages was delinquent or in foreclosure during the first quarter of 2010.
2. Many of our leading scientists are now calling themselves "transhumanists" and are openly proclaiming that a future where men have fully merged with machines is inevitable.
3. Americans who spend large amounts of cash are viewed as "potential criminals" by the U.S. government in 2010.
4. New full body security scanners going into airports all across the United States can actually see through our clothing and produce very clear and very detailed images of our exposed bodies as we walk through them.
5. The U.S. financial system has become a massive gambling parlor in 2010.  As a result, a horrific derivatives bubble has developed that threatens to destroy our entire economy at any moment.  Nobody knows exactly how big the derivatives bubble is, but low estimates place it at around 600 trillion dollars and high estimates put it at around 1.5 quadrillion dollars.  Once that bubble pops there simply will not be enough money in the entire world to fix it.
6. The U.S. government is spending an amount of money equivalent to approximately 25.4 percent of GDP this year.
7. Today, 10,000 people make 30% of the total income in the United States.
8. According to a recent poll of Americans between the ages of 44 and 75, 61% said that running out money was their biggest fear. The remaining 39% thought death was scarier.
9. Approximately 57 percent of Barack Obama's 3.8 trillion dollar budget for 2011 consists of direct payments to individual Americans or is money that is spent on their behalf.
10. A recent Department of Justice guide for investigators of criminal and extremist groups lists "constitutionalists" and "survivalists" alongside organizations like Al-Qaeda and the Aryan Brotherhood.
11. The U.S. trade deficit has exploded to nightmarish proportions over the past two decades.  Every single month tens of billions more dollars goes out of the United States than comes into it.  Essentially, the United States is becoming far poorer as a nation each and every month.
12. Factories are closing in droves across the United States because the American people would rather buy things made in China.
13. Millions upon millions of good paying middle class jobs are being shipped off to China and they are never coming back.  Meanwhile, U.S. politicians stand by idly and do nothing.
14. Some analysts now believe that China could become the largest economy in the world by the year 2020.
15. If the U.S. government was forced to use GAAP accounting principles (like all publicly-traded corporations must), the annual U.S. government budget deficit would be somewhere in the neighborhood of four to five trillion dollars.
16. According to one recent survey, 28% of all U.S. households have at least one person that is currently searching for a full-time job.
17. The U.S. dollar continues to rapidly decline in value.  An item that cost $20.00 in 1970 will cost you $112.35 today.  An item that cost $20.00 in 1913 will cost you $440.33 today.
18. Major international organizations are actually proposing that the United States start considering the adoption of a truly global currency.
19. Students at a high school in Missouri have built a car that they claim can get up to 450 miles per gallon.  On another note, some of the top energy experts in the world believe that thorium could solve our energy problems and supply very cheap energy for society for hundreds of thousands of years.  But in today's world technologies such as these are endlessly suppressed by the rich and powerful.
20. One Colorado high school student is seeking an explanation from officials at his school after he was ordered by security guards to remove American flags from his truck because they might make other students at the high school "uncomfortable".
21. Three California high school students were recently forced to remove their American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo.
22. Memorial crosses erected along Utah public roads to honor fallen state troopers have been found unconstitutional by a federal appeals court and now must be removed permanently.
23. One group of high school students made national headlines recently when they revealed that a security guard ordered them to stop singing the national anthem during a visit to the Lincoln Memorial.

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1. For the movie the Wizard of Oz, Judy Garland was paid $35 a week while Toto received $125 a week.

2. The Blues Brothers once held the record for crashing the most police cars in a movie at approximately 30. The record was eventually broken by Blues Brothers 2000.

3. In the movie E.T. there is a scene where the young boy lures the extraterrestrial with some Reese’s pieces. Originally Spielberg was going to use M+M’s, but he could not get the rights. Reese’s pieces were the replacement.

4. When the Mother-Ship passes over the Devil’s Tower near the end of Spielberg’s movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, R2-D2 can be seen hanging from the bottom of the ship.

5. When filming summer scenes in winter, actors suck on ice cubes just before the camera rolls – it cools their mouths so their breath doesn’t condense in the cold air.

6. The Godfather was the first movie in over twenty years in which Marlon Brando was required to audition.5. When filming summer scenes in winter, actors suck on ice cubes just before the camera rolls – it cools their mouths so their breath doesn’t condense in the cold air.

7. Before anyone is killed in the movie The Godfather, an orange is always seen somewhere.

8. Near the beginning of the movie Back To The Future there’s a scene where they show all of the clocks at Doc’s house. If you look closely there is one clock with a little man hanging from the minute hand.

9. Brooke Shields spent a lot of time during the filming of Blue Lagoon standing/walking in a trench beside Chris Atkins so that she wouldn’t be taller than him in the scenes that they had together.

10. The producers of the movie Gone With The Wind were fined 5,000 dollars for allowing the word “damn” to be heard within the movie’s dialog.

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1. Flamingos are pink because shrimp is one of their main sources of food.
2.  The Mayans and Aztecs symbolized every tenth day with the dog, and those born under this sign were believed to have outstanding leadership skills.
3. When a male Tiger and female Lion mate they make a Tigon, when a male Lion and Female Tiger mate they make a Liger.
4. French poodles did not originate in France – they came from Germany.
5.  The breeding age for male goats is between 8-10 months.
6.  Elephants don't drink through their trunks like a straw.
7.  Baby whales grow to a 1/3 of their mother's length in the womb.
8. Goats do not have teeth in their upper front jaw.
9.  Goat’s milk is higher in calcium, vitamin A and niacin than cow’s milk.
10.  Turkeys have a poor sense of smell, but excellent sense of taste.
11.  Cats can hear ultrasound.
12.  Tuna fish can swim 40 miles in a single day.
13.  Bumblebees have hair on their eyes.
14.  Penguins can jump 6 feet out of water.
15.  Giraffe hearts pump twice as hard as a cow's to get blood to its brain.
16.  Dogs can smell about 1,000 times better than humans.
17.  Some dogs can smell dead bodies under water!
18.  More than 45 million turkeys are cooked and eaten in the US at Thanksgiving.
19. Baby whales can gain up to 200 pounds per day.
20. Dogs have a wet nose to collect more of the tiny droplets of smelling chemicals in the air.
21.  Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
22.  A group of frogs is called an army.
23.  Barn owls hunt mostly small mammals such as the short-tailed vole.
24.  A ducks quack does echo, it's just very hard to hear.
25.  A cheetahs lifespan is up to 12 years in the wild

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1. Shark corneas are being used in human eye transplants.
2. Dogs are about as smart as a two or three-year-old child.
3.  Butterflies have their skeletons on the outside of their bodies, this is known as the exoskeleton. 
4. Arachnophobia is the fear of spiders.
5.  Polar bears are the world's largest land predators.
6. Butterflies can only see the colours red, green and yellow.
7. Yellowtail is the general name for loads of different species of fish that have yellow tails or a yellow body.
8.  There are roughly twenty four thousand species of butterflies.
9.  A dik-dik is a tiny antelope that lives in East Africa, Namibia and Angola.
10.  Dik-diks weigh between three and six kilograms.
11. Female polar bears normally start having baby cubs at the age of four or five.
12.  Fireflies are also known as Lightning Bugs.
13. Even though a polar bears average body temperature is 37°C; they don’t give off any detectable heat, so they won’t show up in infrared photographs.
14. Dogs can see better when the light is low.
15.  Dumbledore isn’t only the Headmaster of Hogwarts; in fact a dumbledore is an old English term for a type of bee.
16.  Most young fireflies feed on nectar and pollen, although adult fireflies do not need to eat to survive.
17. 79% of pet owners sleep with their pets.
18. Two dogs were among the Titanic survivors.
19.  Many species of owls have special feathers for flying silently.
20.  An elephant can smell water up to 3 miles away.
21.  There is only one pink bottlenose dolphin which has been discovered, in an inland lake in Louisiana, USA.

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