Amusing Facts .......these are

• About 100 people a year choke to death on ballpoint pens.
  


• There are 40,000 traffic intersections in Los Angeles.
  


• Yellowstone was the world's first national park.
  


• In publishing, a left-hand page is called "verso." The right is called "recto."
  


• Cecil B. Demille's middle name was Blount.
  


• The first known written advertisement is more than 3,000 years old. It was found in the ruins of Thebes.
  


• A group of bears is called a "sleuth."
  


• The decibel was named after Alexander Graham Bell.
  


• Major League baseball teams use about 850,000 balls per season.
  


• During Roman times, it wasn't uncommon for dice to be made from the knuckles of sheep.
  "Maori" translates as "ordinary."
  


• Of the 398 million telephones in the world, more than a third are in the United States.
  


• Harry Houdini's motto was, "Secure knots secure not Houdini."
  


• The Vatican's Swiss Guard still wears a uniform designed by Michelangelo in the early 16th century.
  


• "Parathesia" is the medical condition commonly referred to as "pins and needles."
  


• Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
  


• The English language has about 1,000 recognized euphemisms for "vagina."
  


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  It's estimated that armed citizens kill three times more criminals than police officers do.
  


• The female ants are the ones that do all the work.
  


• There are 132 Hawaiian islands.
  


• America has just about an equal proportion of extroverts (49.3 percent) and introverts (50.7 percent).
  


• Charles Dickens wrote under the pen name Boz.
  


• The expression "hat trick" comes from cricket, where at one time, if a player scored three consecutive wickets, he was awarded a hat.
  


• Bruce Lee was the 1958 Cha-Cha champ of Hong Kong.
  


• It takes 60 seconds for blood to make one complete circuit of the human body.
  


• A male donkey is a jackass. A female is called a jenny.
  


• In France, the U.S. TV drama Law and Order is called New York District.
  


• Fishermen in China train otters to herd fish into their nets.
  


• The most push-ups ever performed in one day was 46,001.
  


• John D. Rockefeller was world's first billionaire.
  


• King Arthur's horse was named Lamri. The word means "the foaming one."
  


• Studies show more women talk to their cars than men do.
  


• The perfect pickle should have seven "warts" per square inch.
  


• The Salvation Army's motto is, "Blood and fire."
  


• One-fifth of all of America's dairy cows are in Wisconsin.
  


• William Shatner shared the first interracial kiss in American television history with Star Trek


• costar Nichelle Nichols in 1968. The episode was titled "Plato's Stepchildren."