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-More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
-The percentage of income tax paid by the average American has more than doubled since 1953. In 1953 the average family paid 11 percent of its income out in taxes. In 1976 it paid 23 percent.
-For his X-Files audition, David Duchovny showed up in a tie with pink pigs all over it.
-Eddie Murphy began writing comic routines for himself when he was just 15 years old, and before he turned 20, was selected to be a cast member of TV's Saturday Night Live
-The word "bookkeeper" is the only word in the English language with three, back-to-back double letter combinations.
-Time magazine named the computer its "Man of the Year" in 1982. -A chip of silicon a quarter-inch square has the capacity of the original 1949 ENIAC computer, which occupied a full city block.
-At the start of the twentieth century, the spectacular city of Las Vegas, Nevada, didn't even exist.
-Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treasury.
-The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
-The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
-A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time. It is 1/100 of a second.
-The Muppet Show was banned from TV in Saudi Arabia because one of its stars was a pig.