Wierd Facts!!!

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The highest point in Florida is only 345 feet above sea level. Britton Hill is in the Florida Panhandle. The highest point in Florida’s peninsula is Sugarloaf Mountain near Clermont at 312 feet.

The average American spends 38.5 total days brushing their teeth over a lifetime.

People who drink 3 or more glasses of soda each day have 62% more tooth decay, fillings and tooth loss than others.

If you don't floss, you miss cleaning 40% of your tooth surfaces.

While most people are familiar with the big brands, like Shell, ExxonMobil and BP, only .4% of the gas stations in the country are owned by one of the five major oil companies.

In a 2011 study, Kimberly-Clark researchers tested for bacteria on hundreds of surfaces, from ATMs to elevator buttons, in six major U.S. cities. The dirtiest of them all? Gas pumps.

In Oregon and New Jersey, there's no self-service option at the pump. Gas attendants have to assist you.

There are both male and female ladybugs, so why do we call them “ladies”? According to Oxford Dictionaries, they’re named after one particular lady: the Virgin Mary.

Ladybugs aren’t bugs—they’re beetles. True bugs belong to the order Hemiptera, and these include familiar insects such as bedbugs and cicadas. Ladybugs, on the other hand, are part of Coleoptera, the beetle order.

In parts of England, and for reasons that are unclear, the ladybug is a bishop. Local variants of this name abound, including the amazing bishy bishy barnabee.

Making of one pair of Levi 501s requires 37 separate sewing operations.

The oldest known pair of Levi's jeans were found in 1997 and were 100 years old.

In a time when the jeans were worn by factory workers, jeans for men had zippers on the front, but jeans for women had zippers on the side.

There is an abandoned subway station under City Hall in New York that no train stops at but you can see it in passing if you take the number 6 train.

It is possible to travel from Portugal to Vietnam solely by train. At 17,000 km, this is the longest train journey in the world.

In Moscow, stray dogs have learned to commute from the suburbs to the city. They reach the city, scavenge for food, then catch the train home in the evening.

Prior to the Renaissance period, the voice was thought to be 'sent forth by the heart'.

‘Vocal cords' are now more accurately known as 'vocal folds', to reflect the different layers of muscle, ligament and membrane that make up their structure.

Americans eat 13 billion hamburgers each year, which is enough to circle the earth more than 32 times.

A single fast-food hamburger can contain meat from hundreds, or even thousands, of different cattle.