| Little known facts can be just interesting. | | | | |
| Here are some of those: A typical lightning | | | | When an item can't be removed from your |
| bolt is two to four inches wide and two miles | | | | credit report, you have the right to add a |
| long; A month that starts with a Sunday will | | | | 100-word explanation to it, permanently. All |
| have a Friday the 13th in it; Easter is the | | | | who receive the report will see your |
| first Sunday after the first full moon after | | | | explanation. If, for example, you had an |
| March 21; Close to 50% of all bank robberies | | | | argument with a doctor over a charge, you can |
| take place on Friday. | | | | explain the details. |
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| Do you know the furthest point on Earth from | | | | You can get free x-rays. Some dental schools |
| the center? It's the peak of Mount | | | | will x-ray your mouth for free, if you have |
| Chimborazo, in Ecuador, near the Equator. The | | | | the patience to sit there while the |
| Earth bulges at the equator, making Mount | | | | instructor coaches the student through the |
| Chimborazo even further out there than | | | | process. You then get your x-rays to take to |
| Everest. | | | | the dentist. |
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| Then there are the little known facts that | | | | Thre are still towns with nice houses you can |
| are funny. These include, for example, silly | | | | buy for less than $30,000. As of January, |
| laws that are still on the books. Here are | | | | 2006, these include Altoona, Pennsylvania, |
| some of those: By law, people in Vermont must | | | | Anaconda Montana, Hot Springs, Arkansas, and |
| take at least one bath a week; In Oklahoma, | | | | Independence, Kansas. More are listed on the |
| dogs need a permit signed by the mayor in | | | | web site: Houses Under Fifty Thousand .com. |
| order to congregate on private property in | | | | |
| groups of three or more; In Roanoke, VA, it's | | | | Buy two separate plane tickets to save |
| against the law to advertise on tombstones; | | | | hundreds. It cost $1750 to fly round trip |
| It's illegal to put coins in your ears in | | | | from Traverse City, Michigan to Quito, |
| Hawaii. | | | | Ecuador. That was the cheapest fare we found |
| | | | on any website. However, it was only $299 |
| "Odor Judger" is an actual job title, and job | | | | round-trip to Miami, and $405 round-trip from |
| description. So do you want to smell armpits | | | | Miami to Quito. $704 total! Save over $1000 |
| all day to help make effective deodorants? | | | | by buying two separate tickets. |
| I'm not sure why somebody other than some | | | | |
| strange fetishist would want this job. | | | | You can't fold a dollar bill in half eight |
| | | | times, doubling it each time. In fact, try it |
| Useful Little Known Facts | | | | even with a large piece of paper. It can't be |
| | | | done. You can win a bar bet with this fact, |
| Little known does not mean not useful. There | | | | so I'll classify this one among the |
| are many things most people don't know that | | | | interesting, funny AND useful little known |
| can be extremely useful. A few of these | | | | facts. |
| follow. | | | | |