Originally bubble wrap was conceived as a wallpaper. Since that did not work out, it was used as a wrapping material. Every year enough bubble wrap is made to stretch it all the way to moon and back.

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Congrats to Zack and Chris for guessing the answer:

• dwindle
• dwarf
• dwell(ing)
• dweeb

• 22222 is Arlington, Virginia
• 44444 is Newton Falls, OH
• 55555 is Young America, MN
• 12345 is Schenectady, New York.

In the 1500s, houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof.

When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof. Hence the saying "It's raining cats and dogs."

Children across the world spend 5 billion hours every year playing with Lego bricks, available in 90 different colors, according to the company’s Web site.

Too bad an old fact says you can only fold a sheet of paper 7 times.

These tragic events have resulted from consumers rocking or tilting the machines in an attempt to obtain free soda or money. In response, vending machine manufacturers have voluntarily agreed to provide warning labels for the 1.7 million vending machines in the marketplace.

Inside a piano, there are roughly 230 wires of varying sizes and tension. When you press a piano key, 1-3 wires are struck by a hammer, causing it to vibrate at a unique frequency. Each of these wires is under 200 pounds of tension or more. These wires are held tight by a large cast iron frame (peek inside a grand piano sometime) which prevents the piano from caving in on itself!

While sitting down, lift up your right foot and move it around in circles clockwise.

Then with your right hand, try to draw number 6's in the air at the same time. It's impossible!

That is enough for 36 million free tickets, at the basic rate of 25,000 miles - or enough to give almost everyone who flew out of Kennedy International Airport last year a free ticket.

According to Daniel Boorstin in his book "The Discoverers," an assistant to the Roman consul was assigned to notice when the sun crossed the meridian, and to announce it in the Forum, since lawyers had to appear in the courts before noon.

In the late 1830's and 1840's, the abbreviation fad began with many of the abbreviated expressions being exaggerated misspellings. One predecessor of OK was OW, "oll wright," and there was also KY, "know yuse," KG, "know go," and NS, "nuff said."

The average office chair with wheels will travel 8 miles this year.

The average pencil will draw a line 35 miles long.

The Guiness World Record for dominoes is 3,847,295 in 2002.

It took 100 people 3 months of full-time work. Once set into motion, the dominoes fell for 35 minutes straight.

All that space allowed NYC to spread out the "Gates" art exhibit across 23 miles in February 2006, according to an old FactMe! fact.

• 666 is used in every UPC barcode for groceries.
• 666 is the sum of all the numbers on a roulette wheel.
• Ronald Reagan changed the number of the house he and his wife moved into after he left the presidency from 666 St. Cloud Road to 668.

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz said Starbucks expects to spend about $200 million this year for health care for its 80,000 U.S. employees — more than the total amount it spends on green coffee from Africa, Indonesia and other countries.

This won't happen again in our lifetimes! (or until the year 3006)

Of all the denominations, the $20 bill is the most often counterfeited.

The Rubik's World Championship includes speed-solving for the standard (3x3) Rubik's cube, but also includes more unusual events like solving the cube one-handed, with feet, or blindfolded.

Rubik's cube was introduced to the world 25 years ago.

However, the presence of the prefix in- has misled many people into assuming that inflammable means "not flammable" or "noncombustible." This -in is an intensive prefix derived from the Latin preposition in. This prefix also appears in the word enflame. But many people are not aware of this derivation, and for clarity's sake it is advisable to use only "flammable" to give warnings.

They have become romantic figures just like "cowboys". Like the North American cowboy, gauchos are generally reputed to be strong, silent types, but arrogant, and capable of violence when provoked.

"Gaucho pants" are now all the rage even though they look funny.

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Dust mites in your bed feed on them; so much so that the weight of a mattress will double every ten years because of the dead bugs inside!

The German sauna competition uses the same rules: participants sit in 110-degree heat, with water poured on the stove every 30 seconds to create more steam. Kramp's time falls short of the almost 12 minutes set by Finn Leo Pusa to win last year's international championship in Heinola, Finland.

This brings up the twin hazards of wife carrying: (1) Run too hard and you risk throwing out your back and (2) Finish too slowly and you risk implying your wife is fat.

Here are some of the The Top 10 Things Overheard at the World Wife Carrying Championship:
7. "No, you can't have second helpings."
2. "No spurs! No spurs!"
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Barnes and Noble will sell about 50,000 copies in the first 24 hours -- more than 99% of books sell in their lifetime. The book's publisher, Scholastic, has announced a first printing of 10.8 million copies -- 7 times the first run of Bill Clinton's "My Life".

95% of these bills replace worn out or damaged currency already in circulation.

Camel brand cigarrettes have a picture of a camel on the box.

If you look closely, you can see a "happy" man in sillouhette inside the camel facing the opposite direction.

Crazy.

It contained poop.

When the gunman discovered what was in it, he threw it down in disgust, pointed his gun at the dog and demanded money. He pulled the trigger twice, but fortunately, it didn't fire...

She survived.

The longest scientific word in the English language is "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilivolcanoconiosis."

So what is Victoria's secret? Turns out no one knows!

"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

76 percent of people who get chocolate bunnies eat the ears first. Do you?

When all was said and done, Louisa and Rich were still willing to give each other a congratulatory kiss on a job well done.

A couple of weeks ago, he finished the New York Times' Sunday puzzle in 5 minutes. Of course, that was online, he said; it would have taken more time by hand. The puzzles in the New York Times increase in difficulty from Monday to Sunday.

As a city, Venice, Italy has the most bridges in the world.

Pittsburgh, PA has the second most bridges in the world.