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data/data/facts/statistics.json

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+[
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "'Obsession' is the most popular boat name."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "0.3% of all road accidents in Canada involve a Moose."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "1 in 5 of the world's doctors are Russian."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "1 in 8 Americans has worked at a McDonalds restaurant."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "1 in every 4 Americans has appeared someway or another on television."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "1 out of 3 of all cows in the US used for food purposes (beef) are used by the McDonald’s Corp."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "1,800 cigarettes are smoked per person each year in China."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "1/3 of all cancers are sun related."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "10 Percent of men are left-handed while only 8 percent of women are left-handed. Male or female, all left-handed people are \"in their right mind.\""
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "11% of the World is left handed."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "13 Americans are killed by vending machines each year."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "13 people are killed each year by vending machine's falling on them."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "15% of U.S. women send themselves flowers on Valentine’s Day."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "2.2 percent of American households do not have complete plumbing facilities."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "20% of all publications sold in Japan are comic books."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "3.9% of all women do not wear underwear."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "30% of all coffee sold in the U.S. is classified as \"gourmet.\""
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "314 Americans had buttock lift surgery in 1994."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "33% of women surveyed lie about their weight."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "4 million children die each year from inhaling smoke from indoor cooking fires made of wood and dung."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "40 percent of Americans suffer from shyness."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "40% of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "40% of all people who come to a party in your home snoop in your medicine cabinet"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "49.6% of US residents live in Eastern time zone, 29.3% live in the Central time zone, 5.3% live in the Mountain time zone, 15.0% live in the Pacific time zone and .8% live in any other time zone."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "60% of electrocutions occur while talking on the telephone during a thunderstorm."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "65 percent of your body is water."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "65% of statistics are made up."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Less than 1 percent of this water is drinkable."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "70% of all boats sold are used for fishing."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "73% of people who buy flowers for Valentine’s Day are men, while only 27 percent are women."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "90 percent of a tree is made up of air with the rest being made up of minerals from the soil."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "91% of Americans lie daily."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "94% of Americans say they would pick up a quarter laying on the street."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "95% of people text things they could never say in person."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "96% of Egypt is made up of the desert sands of the Sahara."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "97% of the earth’s water is undrinkable!"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "98% of Japanese are cremated."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "98% of all murders and rapes are by a close family member or friend of the victim."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "99 percent of Americans own a television."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "99% of the solar system mass is concentrated in the sun."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "A 1997 Gallup poll found that about one in four American workers - 24 percent - said that if they could do so, they would fire their boss."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "A baby is born approximately every 11 seconds in the United States!"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness beer."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "About 1 billion Valentine’s Day cards are exchanged each year. That’s the largest seasonal card-sending occasion of the year, next to Christmas."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "About 1/3 of American adults are at least 20% above their recommended weight."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "About 17% of humans are left-handed. The same is true of chimpanzees and gorillas."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "About 3% of pet owners will give Valentine’s Day gifts to their pets."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "About 40% of the world’s varieties of freshwater fish and more than half of the 8,600 species of birds in the world are in the Amazon River basin area."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "About 50 ant farms are sold an hour."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "About 8,000 Americans are injured by musical instruments each year."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "About 80 percent of all bird species in the world inhabit wetlands."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "About two hundred babies are born worldwide every minute."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "According to a study by the Economic Research Service, 27% of all food production in Western nations ends up in garbage cans. Yet, 1,2 billion people are underfed - the same number of people who are overweight."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "According to surveys, washing dishes is the most disliked household chore."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "According to the American Society for the Study of Headaches 80 percent of migraine sufferers are women."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "According to the Health Insurance Institute, a person who suffers an accident on a motorcycle has a 90 percent chance of injury or death. A person involved in an automobile crash has only a 10 percent chance of the same. Motorcycles account for 4 percent of all licenses vehicles in American yet are involved in 8 percent of all accidents."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "According to the National Safety Council, a toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "According to the National Safety Council, there is one accidental death every five minutes in the United States. There is a major injury every three seconds."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "After each player has moved three times in a chess match, there are 121 million possible routes that the match could follow."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "Airport security personnel find about six weapons a day searching passengers."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "American Airlines saved $40,000 in '87 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "Americans are responsible for about 1/5 of the world's garbage annually."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "Annual growth of WWW traffic is 314,000%"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "Approximately 16 Canadians have their appendices removed, when not required, every day."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "Approximately 98% of software in China is pirated."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "Approximately half the money paid out by fire-insurance companies in the United States is paid for fire loss due to arson."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "Approximately sixty circus performers have been shot from cannons. At last report, thirty-one of these have been killed."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "As many as nine out of ten people are right-handed, and the word for that side, \"right,\" is derived from a variety of sources, all of which suggest strength. Left, on the other hand, comes from the Old English, lyft, for useless, weak."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "As much as six percent of the world's population may experience sleep paralysis, the inability to move and speak for several minutes after awakening."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "At any one time, 0.7% of the world’s population are drunk."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "At least 9 million people in the world share your birthday."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "Between 25% and 33% of the population sneeze when exposed to light."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "During an average lifetime, a man will spend 3,350 hours shaving."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "Every day, 1 acre of trees produces enough oxygen for 18 people."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "Five out of six people never keep diaries of any sort. Only six percent say they keep a daily diary, and many of these people are just Franklin Day Planner types, not real diarists."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "For every 230 cars that are made, 1 will be stolen."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "For every 50 miles driven in an automobile, a person has a one-in-a-million chance of being killed in a motoring accident."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "Forty percent of the American population has never visited a dentist."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "Forty six percent of the world's water is in the Pacific Ocean. The Atlantic has 23.9 percent; the Indian, 20.3; the Arctic, 3.7 percent."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "Four out of five Americans throw sweepstakes mailings into the trash."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of where they grew up."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "If everyone in the world took a daily bath, our entire supply of fresh water would be get dirty in a single day."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "Only 7% of the population are lefties."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "Over 160 billion pieces of mail are sent every year in the U.S."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "Porsche owners are more likely to cheat on their partners than any other car owner."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "The Amazon rain forest supplies one-fifth of the world’s oxygen!"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "The average American consumes 87 hot dogs a year."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "The average American family spends more on taxes than on food, clothing and shelter combined."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "The average adult laughs 7 to 8 times a day."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "The ice that covers 98% of Antarctica holds 90% of the worlds fresh water."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "There are 2 credit cards for every person in the United States."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "There are about 2 chickens for every human in the world."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "There is 1 slot machine in Las Vegas for every 8 inhabitants."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "Women are 37% more likely to go to a psychiatrist than men are."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "Your bathroom is the scene of 3 percent of all accidents in the home."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "statistics",
+    "fact": "Your bedroom is the scene of about 40 percent of all accidents in the home. No other spot in your home ranks higher."
+  }
+]

data/data/facts/trivia.json

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+[
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "\"Lassie\" was played by a group of male dogs; the main one was named Pal."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "\"Moon\" was Buzz Aldrin's (second man on the moon) mother's maiden name."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "\"Stewardesses\" is the longest word typed with only the left hand."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "\"Typewriter\" is the longest word that can be made using only the top row on the keyboard."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "$26 billion in ransom has been paid out in the U.S. in the past 20 years."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "$283,200 is the absolute highest amount of money you can win on Jeopardy."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "5,840 people with pillow related injuries checked into U.S. emergency rooms in 1992."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "7.5 million toothpicks can be created from a cord of wood."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "A 17th-century Swedish philologist claimed that in the Garden of Eden God spoke Swedish, Adam spoke Danish, and the serpent spoke French."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "A Chinese checkerboard has 121 holes."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "A Macintosh LC575 has 182 speaker holes."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "A McDonald’s Big Mac bun has an average of 178 sesame seeds."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "A Rubik’s Cube can make 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 different combinations!"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber. A ball of solid steel will bounce higher than one made entirely of glass."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "A bonnet is the cap on the fire hydrant."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "A cave man’s life span was only 18 years."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "A literal translation of a standard traffic sign in China: “Give large space to the festive dog that makes sport in the roadway.”"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "A normal piece of paper cannot be folded more than 7 times."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "A poem written to celebrate a wedding is called a epithalamium."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "A short time before Lincoln's assassination, he dreamed he was going to die, and he related his dream to the Senate."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "A team of four people made angry birds in eight months."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "According to the National Health Foundation, after suffering a cold one should wait at least six days before kissing someone."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "Adolf Hitler’s favorite movie was “King Kong.”"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "Adolph Hitler was Time Magazine’s “Man of the Year” for 1938."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "Airbags explode at 200 miles (322 km) per hour."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "Al Capone's famous scar (which earned him the nickname \"Scarface\") was from an attack. The brother of a girl he had insulted attacked him with a knife, leaving him with the three distinctive scars."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "Alaska could hold the 21 smallest States."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "Alaska has the highest percentage of people who walk to work."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "Alaska is the most northern, western and eastern state; it also has the highest latitude,the most eastern longitude and the most western longitude."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their first cousins"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "Albert Einstein never memorized his own phone number."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "Albert Einstein’s last words were spoken in German. As the nurse attending him didn’t speak the language, we’ll never know what he said."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "Alcoholic beverages have 13 minerals that are necessary for human life."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "Aldous Huxley was, for one term at Eton, George Orwell's French teacher."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "Alexander the Great ordered his entire army to shave their faces and heads. He believed that bears and long hair were too easy for an enemy to grab preparatory to cutting off his head."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "Alexander the Great was an epileptic."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "Alexandre Dumas père was one-quarter black."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, the man who designed the Eiffel Tower, also designed the inner structure of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "All 17 children of Queen Anne died before her."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "All U.S Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "All gondolas in Venice, Italy must be painted black, unless they belong to a high official."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "All of the cobble stones that used to line the streets in New York were originally weighting stones put in the hulls of Belgian ships to keep an even keel."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "All royal babies are baptised with water brought from the River Jordan."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "All snow crystals are hexagonal."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "All the dirt from the foundation to build the World Trade Center in NYC was dumped into the Hudson River to form the community now known as Battery City Park."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "All totalled, the sunlight that strikes Earth at any given moment weighs as much as an ocean liner."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "Alma mater means bountiful mother."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "American car horns beep in the tone of F."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "American colonists discovered that superior candles could be made from the fruit of a squat bush growing in the sand dunes along the New England seashore. The small, grayish bayberry was picked, crushed, and boiled. It had to be skimmed several times before the pale, nearly transparent, green fat was sufficiently refined. Bayberry candles were highly prized, because so much labor and so many berries were needed to make just one candle."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "American gymnast George Eyser, won six medals even though his left leg was made out of wood."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "Americans spend more than $600 million a year on hot dogs. They consume enough of them each year to form a chain stretching from the Earth to the Moon and back again. The average American eats forty hot dogs a year. But the hot dog is not an American invention; it was the first produced in Germany in 1852 by a group of butchers in Frankfurt."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "An American urologist bought Napoleon's penis for $40,000."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "An Olympic gold medal must contain 92.5 percent silver"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "An airplane uses more fuel flying at 25,000 feet than at 30,000 feet. The higher it flies, the thinner the atmosphere and the less atmospheric resistance it must buck."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "An average orange falls just as fast as a skydiver. It's hard to catch in free fall, though - the \"burble\" of disturbed air around the jumper pushes the orange away."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "An average person’s yearly fast food intake will contain 12 pubic hairs."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "An expert fly fisherman may have as many as 10,000 flies in his collection."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "An iron carried the following warning: \"Never iron clothes while they are being worn.\""
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "An ordinary TNT bomb involves atomic reaction, and could be called an atomic bomb. What we call an A-bomb involves nuclear reactions and should be called a nuclear bomb."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "An under-arm deodorant container had printed on it: \"Caution: Do not spray in eyes.\""
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "Antarctica is the only continent that does not have land areas below sea level."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "Arabic numerals are not really Arabic; they were created in India."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "Arachibutyrophobia is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "Aristotle stuttered."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "Arizona was the last of the 48 adjoining continental states to enter the Union."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "Artist Andy Warhol became famous for his painting of Campbell's Soup cans. Before that - he made his living painting shoes for advertisements."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "As many as 50 gallons of maple sap are needed to make a single gallon of maple sugar."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "At any given time, there are at least 1,800 thunderstorms in progress over the earth's atmosphere."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "At last count there were about 226,000 trees in New York's Central Park."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "At latitude 60 degrees south you can sail all the way around the world."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "Barbie's full name is \"Babara Millicent Roberts.\""
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "Baton Rouge is a French term meaning “red stick.”"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "Before Columbus arrived in the Americas, no native american had type B blood."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "Bill Gates' first business was Traff-O-Data, a company that created machines which recorded the number of cars passing a given point on a road."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "Bill Gates’ first business was Traff-O-Data, a company that created machines which recorded the number of cars passing a given point on a road."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "Black was the only colour that Ford produced the Model T. It was the only paint available which would dry fast enough to keep up with the fast pace of the assembly line."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "England is smaller than New England."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "Every time you lick a stamp you consume 1/10 of a calorie."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "February is Black History Month."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "Fitchburg, Massachusetts is the second hilliest city in the US."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "Flag semaphore invented in Europe in 1791 by Claude and Ignace Chappe. Using this form of communication, Napoleon Bonaparte was able to send a message from Rome to Paris in about 4 hours at the rate of 15 characters per minute."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "Flamenco dancer Jose Greco took out an insurance policy through Lloyd's of London against his pants splitting during a performance."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "For 186 days a year the sun is not seen at the North Pole."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "Hot water is heavier than cold."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "In 1221, Genghis Khan killed 1,748,000 people at Nishapur in one hour."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "In 1374 at Aix-la-Chapelle during the siege of the Black Death, a thousand men, women, and children lost all control, joined hands, and danced in the streets, shrieking and maiming each other until they all died of wounds or fatigue."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "In 1711, when work on St. Paul's Cathedral in London was completed and was shown to George I, the King is reported to have exclaimed to its architect, Christopher Wren, that the work was “aweful” and “artificial.” In the eighteenth century, “aweful” meant awe-inspiring, and “artificial” meant full of great art."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "In 1765, the sandwich was invented by John Montagu, the fourth Earl of Sandwich, who gave the food its name. The Earl used to order roast beef between pieces of toast for a snack while he was at the gaming tables, it allowed him to keep one hand free to play while he ate"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "In 1776 a man who made $4,000 a year was considered wealthy."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "In 1778, fashionable women of Paris never went out in blustery weather without a lightning rod attached to their hats."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "In 1790 only 5 percent of the American population lived in cities."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "In 1815 French chemist Michael Eugene Chevreul realized the first link between diabetes and sugar metabolism when he discovered that the urine of a diabetic was identical to grape sugar."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "In 1824, Andrew Jackson received more popular votes than John Adams, yet lost the election. The vote was so close that neither candidate received a majority of the electoral votes. The decision then went to the House of Representatives, which elected Adams."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "In 1825, Upper Peru became Bolivia."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "In 1830 the Taj Mahal was sold to a British merchant who planned to dismantle it stone by stone and ship the marble back to England, where it would be used to embellish English estates. Though wrecking machinery was brought into the gardens of the Taj, the plan was discourage; the project turned out to be too expensive."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "In England, corn means wheat. In the Bible, corn means grain."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "It is impossible to lick your elbow."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "James Fixx, the man who popularized jogging in America died of a heart attack while running."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, and Dostoyevsky were all epileptics."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "Most toilets flush in E flat."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "Outside the USA, Ireland is the largest software producing country in the world."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "Play-doh was first invented as a wallpaper cleaner."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "Plymouth Rock weighs seven tons."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers!"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through the air."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "Superglue will not stick to Teflon."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "The first fossilized specimen of Australopithecus afarenisis was named Lucy after the paleontologists' favorite song 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,' by the Beatles."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "The right rear tire on your car will generally wear out before the others do."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "The side of a hammer is a cheek."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "The work of an artist cannot be exhibited in the Louvre until he has been dead for at least sixty years. The only exception ever made to this rule was Georges Braque."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "There are an average of eight peas in a pod."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "There wasn’t a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "Trivia is the Roman goddess of sorcery, hounds and the crossroads."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "Twins are born less frequently in the eastern part of the world than in the western."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "Uranus' orbital axis is tilted at 90 degrees."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "When you tie a noose, the rope is wrapped twelve times around because it's the same length as a persons head."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "callithump—a loud parade."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "clerihew—a light satirical four-line verse containing specific reference to a person, invented by E. Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956). Clerihew wrote his first clerihew while still in school:"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "googol—the figure 1 followed by 100 zeros."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "haruspex—an ancient Roman priest who practiced fortunetelling by reading entrails of sacrificed animals."
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "trivia",
+    "fact": "“Facebook Addiction Disorder” is a mental disorder identified by Psychologists."
+  }
+]