2. Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years old or older.
3. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum
4. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise
5. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient in waking you up in the morning.
6. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
7. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
8. The first owner of the Marlboro Company died from lung cancer.
9. Pearls melt in vinegar.
10. 35% of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
11. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs, but not downstairs.
12. A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.
13. Richard Millhouse Nixon was the First US President whose name contains all the letters from the word 'criminal.' The second person was William Jefferson Clinton.
14. Turtles can breath through their butts.
15. Butterflies taste with their feet.
16. in 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
Adapted from the Borneo Post newspaper on the Good English column.. Enjoy reading!
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