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Lionesses find lions with darker manes more attractive.
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During the Christmas season, almost 28 LEGO sets are sold every second.
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If you announce your goals to others, you are less likely to make them happen because you lose motivation, studies confirmed
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1.3 million Earths could fit inside the sun, an average-sized star.
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Italy is the largest producer of wine in the world.
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In 1600, a volcano eruption in Peru caused a famine that killed about 2 million people in Russia
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Bill Gates continued to fly coach until 1997, when his net worth was already US$36 billion.
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London was founded by the Romans, who named it Londinium
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160,000 U.S. children miss school every day due to a fear of bullying.
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Coffee is most effective if consumed between 9:30 am and 11:30 am.
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In the U.K., it is legal for kids over 5 years old to drink alcohol at home or on other private premises
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YouTube was founded by 3 former employees of PayPal
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The moon is moving away from us by 3.78 cm (1.48 in) a year.
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The estimated number of dinosaur species that existed in the Mesozoic era is between 1,543 and 2,468 species.
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The Eiffel Tower is the tallest structure in Paris: 324 metres (1,063 ft) high
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Many Fish can taste without even opening their mouths.
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People in Africa and Asia have to walk an average of 3.7 miles (6 KM) to collect water.
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Your brain uses 20% of the total oxygen and blood in your body
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A man rode his bike from Sweden to Mount Everest and then tried to summit. He turned around 300 feet from the top
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The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) spends $14 billion of its $31 billion annual budget on animal research.
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If you earn more than US$21,000 a year, you are part of the richest 4% of the planet
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Texas has its own pledge of allegiance
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Anne Frank was born in Frankfurt, Germany, but her family moved to Amsterdam in the early 1930s when the Nazis gained control.
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Mount Everest has about 200 dead bodies on it, which are now landmarks on the way to the top
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The weird bright dots you see floating when you look at the sky are your white blood cells
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In Denmark, it's illegal to burn foreign flags, but not illegal to burn the Danish flag.
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The tower where Big Ben is located is officially known as "Elizabeth Tower." It was completed in 1859.
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Michael Jackson wanted to do a Harry Potter musical, but J.K. Rowling said no.
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Dolphins Recognize and Admire Themselves in Mirrors.
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Benjamin Franklin published a paper saying America's population growth was so fast, it would surpass Britain in 100 years. This alarmed British leadership and was a factor in their oppression of the colonies.
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Each Russian consumes 18 litres (4.8 US gal) of alcohol per year, doubling what experts consider dangerous
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There are no terrestrial (land) snakes in New Zealand.
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A year on Marshas 687 earth days.
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There are more left-handed people with IQs over 140 than right-handed people, a study found.
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India is the world's largest democracy, with 1.2 billion people
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When awake, the human brain produces enough electricity to power a small light bulb
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Nelson Mandela's name at birth was "Rolihlahla" which means troublemaker."
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You don't like the original version of a song because it's better. You like it because it's the one you heard first.
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The Eiffel Tower was originally intended for Barcelona, Spain, but the project was rejected
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At their current birth rate, South Koreans will go extinct by 2750
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Nearly 700 million Chinese people drink contaminated water.
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Rapper Tupac Shakur was a voracious reader, and particularly enjoyed Shakespeare
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Alexander the Great was simultaneously the King of Macedonia, Pharaoh of Egypt, King of Persia, and King of Asia.
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Written language was invented independently by the Egyptians, Sumerians, Chinese, and Mayans.
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North Korea is the world's only nation to currently have a US Navy ship captured.
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The weird offspring of a donkey and a zebra is called a "zonkey.
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Coffee is the world's second most valuable traded commodity, only behind petroleum.
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The extinct Ubykh language, spoken in the Caucasus until 1992, holds the record for most consonants: it had 83 but only two vowels.
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John F. Kennedy won a Pulitzer Prize in 1957, although much of the book was ghostwritten by his aide Theodore Sorensen.
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If you point your car keys to your head, it increases the remote's signal range.
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The world's largest grand piano was built by a 15-year-old in New Zealand.
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There were only 9 developers on the team for GoldenEye 007 for Nintendo 64.
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There is an underwater version of rugby, unsurprisingly called "underwater rugby".
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When mice live in the wild, they typically only live for about six months.
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Giant Pandas eat approximately 28 pounds of bamboo a day – that's over 5 tons per year!
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The Nobel Peace Prize is named for Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite.
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You fart on average 14 times a day, and each fart travels from your body at 7 mph.
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One of the ingredients needed to make dynamite is peanuts.
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The largest living organism in the world is a fungus. It is in Oregon, covering 2,200 acres and is still growing.
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A horse's canter is a 3-beat gait. On the second beat, opposite front and rear legs hit the ground at the same time. After the third beat is a "rest", or suspension, when all three legs are off the ground.
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The shortest war in history lasted for only 38 minutes.
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Your fingernails grow faster when you are cold.
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Applesauce was the first food eaten in space by astronauts.
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Snails take the longest naps with some lasting as long as three years.
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The average person spends two weeks of their life waiting at traffic lights.
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Before 1913 parents could mail their kids to Grandma's – through the postal service.
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Don't like mosquitoes? Get a bat. They could eat 3,000 insects a night.
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A typical cough is 60 mph while a sneeze is often faster than 100 mph.
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Are you terrified that a duck is watching you? Some people are. That is anatidaephobia.
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American Black bears are not just black but include bears of varying colors including blonde, cinnamon, brown, white and even silver-blue.
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Because of the 4 stages of the Water Cycle – Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation and Collection – water falling as rain today may have previously fallen as rain days, weeks, months or years before.
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Goats have rectangular pupils in their eyes.
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Cans of diet soda will float in water but regular soda cans will sink.
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Birds can not live in space – they need gravity to be able to swallow.
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Some perfumes actually have whale poo in them.
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The longest Monopoly game ever played was 1,680 hours long, which is seventy straight days
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Over 1,600 people in North America have been victims of trunk entrapment (being locked inside of a car trunk)
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In 1992, when EuroDisney first opened in France, the public beat some of the park characters because at the time most people had been against the park being built
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A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.
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There is a muppet named Kami that appears on the South African version of the T.V. show "Sesame Street" that is HIV-positive
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There are approximately one hundred million people in the United States that have a chronic illness
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The oldest working Post Office in the world is located in the village of Sanquer, located in the Scottish Lowlands. It has been operating since 1712
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Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning
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Bananas were discovered by Alexander the Great in 327 B.C. when he conquered India
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Levan, which is located in Utah, got its name from "navel" which is levan spelt backwards. It was named this because it is in the center of Utah
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Women who drink more than two cups of coffee a day have a higher chance of developing osteoporosis
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The banana was officially introduced in 1876 in the U.S. at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. The bananas were wrapped in tinfoil and were sold for 10 cents each
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According to Scientists, vampire bat saliva is the best known medicine for keeping blood from clotting.
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Only 4% of babies are born on their actual due date
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In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile Services(two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number theotherchannel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, butnochannel 1.
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Finnish folklore states that when Santa comes to Finland to deliver gifts, he leaves his sleigh behind and rides on a goat named Ukko instead
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Every hour one billion cells in the body must be replaced
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Tobacco kills more Americans each year than alcohol, cocaine, crack, heroin, homicide, suicide, car accidents, fire and AIDS combined
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The best time for a person to buy shoes is in the afternoon. This is because the foot tends to swell a bit around this time
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Americans, on average, spend 18% of his or her income on transportation as compared to only 13% spent on food
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The first box of Crayola that was ever sold had the same eight colours that are sold in the box today consisting of red, blue, yellow, green, violet, orange, black and brown. The box was sold for a nickel in 1903
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A turtle can breathe through its butt.
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When Scott Paper Co. first started manufacturing toilet paper they did not put their name on the product because of embarrassment
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The most senior crayon maker Emerson Moser retired after making 1.4 billion crayons for Crayola. It was then that he revealed that he was actually colorblind
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Pretzel that have no salt on them are called "baldies."
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The 1912 Olympics was the last Olympics that gave out gold medals that were made entirely out of gold
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Monopoly is the best-selling board game in the world
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One ounce of chocolate has about 20 mg of caffeine in it
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Two out of five people end up marrying their first love
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In the Sahara Desert, there is a town named Tidikelt, which did not receive a drop of rain for ten years
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The Christmas season begins after sunset on December 24th and lasts until January 5th. This is also known as the Twelve Days of Christmas
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Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue more than any other color
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The scarlet tanager, a songbird native to Illinois, can eat as many as 2,100 gypsy-moth caterpillars in one hour
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To make one raindrop of water, it takes approximately a million cloud droplets
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At 120 miles per hour, a Formula One car generates so much downforce that it can drive upside down on the roof of a tunnel
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India used to be the richest country in the world until the British invasion in the early 17th Century
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Some African tribes refer to themselves as "motherhoods" instead of families
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Between 1902 and 1907, the same tiger killed 434 people in India
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There are approximately 9,000 taste buds on the tongue
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A fetus starts to develop fingerprints at the age of eight weeks
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The reason why your nose gets runny when you are crying is because the tears from the eyes drain into the nose
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On October 15, 1794, the first silver dollar coins were released to be circulated to the public
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In one day, the Tootsie Roll Industry makes over 16 million lollipops
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In many of the milk ads that are shown, a mix of thinner and white paint is used instead of milk
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The game of squash originated in the United Kingdom. It came about after a few boys, who were waiting for their turn to play racquets, knocked a ball around in a confined area adjoining the racquets court
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New Jersey has a spoon museum that has over 5,400 spoons from across the world
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Hydrogen is the most common atom in the universe
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The Sears Tower located in Chicago, Illinois is made up 76,000 tons of steel
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There are more recreational golfers per capita in Canada than any other country in the world
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The largest bill U.S. bill made is for $100,000
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In the United States birds and planes collided more than 22,000 times between the years of 1990 and 1998
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The average number of pillowcases washed a day at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas is 15,000
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Over 40 million Americans have chronic bad breath
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There are 158 verses in the Greek National Anthem
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A regulation baseball has exactly 108 stitches
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In a study that was done by the University of Chicago in 1907, it was concluded that the easiest color to spot is yellow. This is why John Hertz, who is the founder of the Yellow Cab Company picked cabs to be yellow
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On average it takes a shark seven days to replace a tooth
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An individual coral animal is called a polyp
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Navel oranges got their name because the bottom of this type of orange resembles a belly button or navel
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In 1865, the U.S. Secret Service was first established for the specific purpose to combat the counterfeiting of money
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In 1967, the IMAX film system was invented by Canadian Ivan Grame Ferguson to premier at Expo 67.
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Every three days a human stomach gets a new lining
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In 1873, Colgate made a toothpaste that was available in a jar
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The Kodiak, which is native to Alaska, is the largest bear and can measure up to eight feet and weigh as much as 1,700 pounds
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The smallest man ever was Gul Mohammed (1957-1997) of India, who measured 1 feet, 10? inches
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500,000 tons of dog excrement are dumped annually on the streets of Paris
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In Belgium, there is a museum just for strawberries
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The more a person struggles to get out of quicksand the faster they will sink. Staying still, and being calm will actually make the body float in the quicksand because the body is less dense than the quicksand is
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On average, a Canadian girl owns seven Barbie dolls, whereas an American girl owns eight
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A piece of French toast that was partially eaten by Justin Timberlake sold on eBay
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Eating dandelions can make you urinate more
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Enough paper is recycled in the USA every day, that a 15 mile long train of boxcars could be filled up with paper.
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The palms of your hands and the soles of your feet cannot tan, or grow hair
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At the White House, president John Adams was said to be the first to display fireworks there
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About 10% of the 100,000 thunderstorms that occur in the USA every year are classified as severe.
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Sylvia Plath was a famous poet who killed herself at age thirty-one by sticking her head into a gas oven
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A baseball will go farther in hot temperature than in cold temperature
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Niagara Falls actually stopped flowing back in 1848 for about 20 hours because there was ice that was blocking the Niagara River
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The world's first underground was the London Underground in1863. It has 275 stations and 253 miles of track.
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The first American president to deliver a speech over the radio was Warren G. Harding
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There are more than 40 million Americans that have "chronic halitosis," which is bad breath that never goes away
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The human body makes anywhere from 1 to 3 pints of saliva every 24 hours
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Cheetahs are the fastest land animal and can reach speeds up to 72mph
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The purpose of tonsils is to destroy foreign substances that are swallowed or breathed in
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The adult human body requires about 88 pounds of oxygen daily
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The biggest pumpkin the world weighs 1,337.6 pounds
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The highest consumption of Pizza occurs during Super Bowl week
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Approximately 55% of movies released are Rated R
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The Roman emperor Domitian took great pleasure in being secluded in his room for hours and catching flies and stabbing them with pens
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Tarantulas can live up to 30 years
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On average redheads have 90,000 hairs. People with black hair have about 110,000 hairs
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The accent that Mike Myers used for the character Shrek came from the accent that his mother would use when she was telling him bedtime stories when he was a child
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In the Netherlands, there are special traffic lanes for bicycles. There are approximately 17,000 kms of cycle lanes with special bicycle traffic lights.
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It was believed by Ancient Hindus that the world was a sphere and rested on the back of four elephants, which stood on a turtle
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Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were both epileptic
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Every year, more than one million miles of Twizzlers licorice is made
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A penguin swims at a speed of approximately 15 miles per hour
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The word Thailand means "land of the free."
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Jellyfish have been on Earth for over 650 million years. This is before sharks and dinosaurs
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Although white wine can be produced from both red and white grapes, red wine can only be created from red grapes
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Shirley Temple was considered to play the role of Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz."
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One million cloud droplets are needed to make enough water to produce one raindrop.
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In the world, the Netherlands has the highest concentration of museums in the world. Just in Amsterdam alone there are 42 museums
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Amongst pre-schoolers, Caillou is the fastest-ever-growing television show and is seen in close to 97% of U.S. households
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Rice flour was used to strengthen some of the bricks that make up the Great Wall of China
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India has the most post offices in the world
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Women take three times longer than men when using the toilet
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In America, approximately 25% of kids aged 6-14 have a magaznie subscription
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Canada has more donut shops per capita than the United States
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In 1886, Coca-cola was first served at a pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia for only five cents a glass. A pharmacist named John Pemberton created the formula for Coca-cola
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75% of all raisins eaten by people in the United States are eaten at breakfast
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Whale oil was used in some car transmissions until 1973
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Border collies are the most intelligent breed of dog
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Coca-Cola used to contain cocaine when it was initially introduced
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All the Krispy Kreme donut stores collectively could make a doughnut stack as high as the Empire State Building in only 2 minutes
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The first letter Vanna White ever turned on the game show Wheel of Fortune was the letter "T."
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Harley Proctor got the idea to name the soap "Ivory" while he was listening to a bible reading at a church in 1879
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The average American drinks 400 glasses of milk in a year
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Some people start to sneeze if they are exposed to sunlight or have a light shined into their eye
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In 1989, twenty-three people were hired in Jacksonville Florida just to flush toilets so the pipes would not freeze
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Lake Baikal is the oldest freshwater lake on Earth, having formed between 20 and 25 million years ago
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Atlantic salmon can jump as high as 4.5 meters out of the water
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Although the outsides of a bone are hard, they are generally light and soft inside. They are about 75% water
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Each nostril of a human being register smell in a different way. Smells that are made from the right nostril are more pleasant than the left. However, smells can be detected more accurately when made by the left nostril
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Automobile building is the largest manufacturing industry in the world.
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Polar bears can eat as much as ten percent of their body weight in less than one hour
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Marlboro was the first cigarette company to market a cigarette that had a red filter called "beauty tip." This was done to hide the lipstick marks left on the filter from women smokers
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In Japan, the number four is considered to be unlucky because the Japanese word for four sounds very similar to the word death
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The life expectancy of a $100 bill is nine years
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The words moron, imbecile, and idiot are not interchangable. The one with the highest level of intelligence is a moron, followed, by an imbecile, and then idiot
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Anise is the scent on the artificial rabbit that is used in greyhound races
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Dogs have four toes on their hind feet, and five on their front feet.
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Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
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The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
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If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
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In the TV series I Love Lucy, Ricki Ricardo never actually said "Lucy you have some 'splaining to do"
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The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
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Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
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Cost of raising a medium-sized dog to the age of 11: £4000
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If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib.
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If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
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Every person has a unique tongue print as well as fingerprints.
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Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
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Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages them.
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It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland.
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Horatio Nelson, one of England's most illustrious admirals was throughout his life, never able to find a cure for his sea-sickness.
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Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
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There are more chickens than people in the world (at least before that chicken-flu thing).
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All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
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The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is "Live Free or Die." These license plates are manufactured by prisoners in the state prison in Concord.
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Only 1 in 2,000,000,000 will live to be 116 or older.
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When you tie a noose, the rope is wrapped twelve times around because it's the same length as a persons head.
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The sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog," uses every letter in the alphabet.
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The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.
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Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.
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When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per year.
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Most American car horns honk in the key of F.
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The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; '7′ was selected after the original 7-ounce containers and 'UP' for the direction of the bubbles.
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A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
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70% of all boats sold are used for fishing.
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The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
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The thumbnail grows the slowest, the middle nail the fastest, nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
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If Texas were a country, its GNP would be the fifth largest of any country in the world.
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There are 1 million ants for every human in the world.
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The 'Golden Arches' of fast food chain McDonalds is more recognized worldwide than the religious cross of Christianity.
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This common everyday occurrence composed of 59% nitrogen, 21% hydrogen, and 9% dioxide is called a 'fart'.
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Meteorologists claim they're right 85% of the time (think about that one!)
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The only real person to ever to appear on a pez dispenser was Betsy Ross.
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Mike Nesmith's (the guitarist of The Monkeys) mom invented White Out.
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Only 6 people in the whole world have died from moshing.
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Virginia Woolf wrote all her books standing.
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Einstein couldn't speak fluently until after his ninth birthday. His parents thought he was mentally retarded.
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Deborah Winger did the voice of E.T.
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Kelsey Grammar sings and plays the piano for the theme song of Fraiser.
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Thomas Edison, acclaimed inventor of the light bulb, was afraid of the dark.
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On the ground, a group of geese is a gaggle, in the sky it is a skein.
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To Ensure Promptness, one is expected to pay beyond the value of service – hence the later abbreviation: T.I.P.
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The scene where Indiana Jones shoots the swordsman in Raider's of the Lost Ark was Harrison Ford's idea so that he could take a bathroom break.
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Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
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If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
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One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 1930s lobbied against hemp farmers they saw it as competition.
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Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
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The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint – no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.
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Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
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The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.
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The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.
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The word "dexter" whose meaning refers to the right hand is typed with only the left hand.
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The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead."
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The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
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The pupils of a goat's eyes are square.
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Van Gogh only sold one painting when he was alive.
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A standard slinky measures 87 feet when stretched out.
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In 1994, the company that had a patent on GIFs tried to charge a fee for using GIFS. The PNG was invented as an alternative, and the company backed down.
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China is spending $3 billion dollars to build panda-shaped solar farms in order to get more young people interested in renewable energy.
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Mercury and Venus are the only two planets in our solar system that do not have any moons.
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The average American child is given $3.70 per tooth that falls out.
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The world's first motel is in San Luis Obispo, which was built in 1925. When opened, it cost $1.25 for a two-room bungalow with a kitchen and a private adjoining garage.
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Videogames have been found to be more effective at battling depression than therapy.
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Scotland was one of the few countries able to hold off being conquered by the Romans in the first century A.D.
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The longest noodle ever made is more than 10,000 feet long, or almost two miles.
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A flock of peacocks is called a party.
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The Supreme Court has its own basketball court.
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We believe that time stops at the speed of light.
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The founder of sportswear companies Puma and Adidas were brothers.
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While SPAM is most popular in Hawaii, it was actually invented in Minnesota.
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The world's longest French fry is 34-inches long.
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Cherries are a member of the rose family (Rosaceae) as are quince, pears, plums, apples, peaches and raspberries!
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Lima beans have an amazing ability to command wasps as a defense. If insects are eating the lima bean's leaves, the plant gives off a substance that acts as a signal to parasitic wasps to swoop in and destroy their enemy (i.e. the leaf-eating insects).
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Apples float because they are one-quarter air!
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Ripe cranberries will bounce like a ball. (Go on, try it!). They also float.
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German Chocolate Cake is not from Germany. German is actually the last name of the man who invented a kind of baking chocolate (Sam German).
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The Wright Brothers only flew together once (though both piloted the planes individually): on May 25, 1910 they took a six-minute flight piloted by Orville with Wilbur as his passenger.
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Regardless of their size, naval tradition declares submarines be called "boats" rather than "ships."
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Benjamin Franklin was the fifth in a series of the youngest son of the youngest son.
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Paraskevidekatriaphobia means fear of Friday the 13th, which occurs one to three times a year.
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In Italy, 17 is considered an unlucky number. In Japan, 4 is considered an unlucky number.
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In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles.
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The ZIP in "ZIP code" means Zoning Improvement Plan.
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Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose active ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903.
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It's estimated that at any one time around 0.7% of the world's population is drunk.
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Daniel Boone hated coonskin caps.
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55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses.
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Dr. Seuss pronounced his name "soyce".
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Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
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India has a Bill of Rights for cows.
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American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by taking out an olive from First Class salads.
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About 200,000,000 M&Ms are sold each day in the United States.
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Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
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There are 318,979,564,000 possible combinations of the first four moves in Chess.
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There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
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Coconuts kill about 150 people each year. That's more than sharks.
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Half of all bank robberies take place on a Friday.
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The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before it.
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The first bomb the Allies dropped on Berlin in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
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The average raindrop falls at 7 miles per hour.
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Bruce Lee was so fast that they had to slow the film down so you could see his moves.
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During his entire life, Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting, "Red Vineyard at Arles".
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By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
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One in ten people live on an island.
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28% of Africa is classified as wilderness. In North America, its 38%.
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Humphrey Bogart NEVER said "Play it again, Sam" in Casablanca
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They NEVER said "Beam me up, Scotty" on Star Trek.
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Sharon Stone was the first Star Search spokes model.
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The rhinoceros beetle is the strongest animal and is capable of lifting 850 times its own weight.
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On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the American flag is flying over the Parliament Building.
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$283,200 is the absolute highest amount of money you can win on Jeopardy.
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Rats and horses can't vomit.
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Winston Churchill was born in a ladies room during a dance.
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Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
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You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
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Hedenophobic means fear of pleasure.
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Ancient Egyptian priests would pluck every hair from their bodies.
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An ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
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The catfish has over 27000 taste buds (more than any other animal)
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A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
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Many insects can carry 50 times their own body weight. This would be like an adult person lifting two heavy cars full of people.
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There are over a million described species of insects. Some people estimate there are actually between 15 and 30 million species.
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Most insects are beneficial to people because they eat other insects, pollinate crops, are food for other animals, make products we use (like honey and silk) or have medical uses.
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Butterflies and insects have their skeletons on the outside of their bodies, called the exoskeleton. This protects the insect and keeps water inside their bodies so they don't dry out.
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11% of the world is left-handed.
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A healthy (non-colorblind) human eye can distinguish between 500 shades of gray.
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Lizards can self-amputate their tails for protection. It grows back after a few months.
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A honeybee can fly at fifteen miles per hour.
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A "jiffy" is the scientific name for 1/100th of a second.
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Venus and Uranus are the only planets that rotate opposite to the direction of their orbit.
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John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe died on July 4th.
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Baby Ruth candy bar was named after Grover Cleveland's daughter, Ruth, not the baseball player.
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Dolphins can look in different directions with each eye. They can sleep with one eye open.
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The Falkland Isles (pop. about 2000) has over 700000 sheep (350 per person).
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There are 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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The city of Venice stands on about 120 small islands.
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The past-tense of the English word "dare" is "durst"
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Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.
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Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions!
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What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.
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"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
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"Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.
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The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London
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Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
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Present population of 5 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080.
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Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle.
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Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
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Coca-Cola would be green if coloring weren't added to it.
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On average a hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute.
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The six official languages of the U.N. are: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.
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Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
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It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.
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You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206.
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The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds
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Owls are the only birds that can see the color blue.
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A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years!
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More people speak English in China than the United States.
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The toothbrush was invented in China in 1498.
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Mongolia is the largest landlocked country.
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In Japan, watermelons are squared. It's easier to stack them that way.
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98% of Japanese are cremated.
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The number "four" is considered unlucky in Japan because it is pronounced the same as "death".
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Australian soldiers used the song "We're Off to See the Wizard" as a marching song in WWII.
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The Australian $5 to $100 notes are made of plastic.
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The Nullarbor Plain of Australia covers 100,000 square miles (160,900 km) without a tree.
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The first female guest host of "Saturday Night Live" was Candace Bergen.
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In 1933, Mickey Mouse, an animated cartoon character, received 800,000 fan letters.
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The Simpsons is the longest running animated series on TV.
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The average human brain has about 100 billion nerve cells.
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Barbie's full name is "Babara Millicent Roberts."
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The mother of Michael Nesmith of "The Monkees" invented whiteout.
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Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
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The shortest British monarch was Charles I, who was 4 feet 9 inches.
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Tina Turner's real name is Annie Mae Bullock.
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Beethoven dipped his head in cold water before he composed.
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Camels chew in a figure 8 pattern.
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Sailfish can leap out of the water and into the air at a speed of 50 miles (81 km) per hour.
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A skunk's smell can be detected by a human a mile away.
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A lion in the wild usually makes no more than 20 kills a year.
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The state of Florida is bigger than England.
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There are over 58 million dogs in the US
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In Raiders of the Lost Ark there is a wall carving of R2-D2 and C-3P0 behind the ark
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"I" is the most spoken word in the English language
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Spain leads the world in cork production
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There is a city in Norway called "Hell"
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The human feet perspire half a pint of fluid a day
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The Grand Theft Auto franchise has lawsuits that total over $1 billion.
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A dime has 118 ridges on its edge.
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On average, a secretary will use its left hand for 56% of what they type on a keyboard.
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The Pokemon Rhydon was the first to ever be created.
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Super Mario Land was the most popular game on the Game Boy during its release.
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SEARS once sold houses.
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An encrypted monument stands outside of the CIA headquarters in Virginia.
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David Bowie helped topple the Berlin wall.
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Tap water in Manhattan is not Kosher.
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A park ranger from the U.S was once hit by lightning 7 times.
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The most successful predator is a wild dog.
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A man was once saved by a sea lion.
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Saliva can be used to monitor alcohol intake.
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Some pandas fake a pregnancy to get better healthcare.
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The inventor of the frisbee became a frisbee himself.
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Depending on how they descend, waterfalls have different classifications.
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Neil Armstrong never said 'That's one small step for man'.
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The odds of getting a royal flush is 1 in 649,740.
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More people speak English as their second language than those who use it as their mother tongue.
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Sleep deprivation makes it harder to lose weight.
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The world's largest single drop waterfall is the Kaieteur Falls.
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There is a scientific term for brain freezes.
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Only one letter in the English alphabet cannot be found on the periodic table.
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The calling shotgun for the front passenger seat comes from a messenger.
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Pointing your car keys to your head helps you find your car faster.
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The fat Buddha statue and in pictures is not Buddha himself.
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A jockey from 1923 managed to finish a race after dying.
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You can not talk and inhale or exhale at the same time... try it!
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More than 480million people have played Monopoly.
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Your heart is about the same size as your fist.
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Frogs drink water through their skin.
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A pet hamster can run up to 8 miles a night on a wheel.
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Monkeys can go bald in old age, just like humans.
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The world's heaviest carrot grown by Christopher Qualley in the USA weighed 10.7kg (or 22.44 lb).
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French fries originated in Belgium, not France.
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Emperor penguins can last 27 minutes underwater and can dive as deep as 500m.
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Octopuses have blue blood and nine brains.
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There are about 100,000 muscles in an elephant's trunk, but not a single bone.
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You can hear a lion's roar from a distance of 3 miles.
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Prairie dogs "kiss" each other as a way to identify each other.
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Contrary to popular belief, lightning can strike twice.
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The human nose can detect a trillion different scents.
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Human noses and ears never stop growing.
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The human heart beats 115,000 times a day.
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Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
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Apples are actually a part of the rose family.
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The planet Neptune's days are 16 hours long.
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Before becoming president, Lincoln lost 5 different elections.
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Thomas Edison did not invent the lightbulb.
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Most people cannot lick their elbows.
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The Olympics used to give medals for art, not just sports.
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A jar of Nutella is sold every 2.5 seconds.
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French fries are Belgian, not French.
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Your nose may not grow like Pinocchio's, but it does get warmer when you tell a lie.
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Tomatoes and avocados are actually fruits, not vegetables
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The Queen of England has two birthdays.
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The number four is the only number to have the same amount of letters as its value.
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Every human has a unique tongue print.
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In your lifetime, you will spend 25 years sleeping.
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You cannot smell while you sleep.
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The man who designed the Pringles can, Fred Bauer, is buried in one-or at least some of his ashes are.
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There's a world record for the holder of the most world records: Ashrita Furman, who's set more than 600 records and currently holds more than 200. His records have ranged from fastest mile on a pogo stick, longest time to hula hoop underwater and greatest distance traveled on a bicycle balancing a milk bottle on the head.
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The sun makes up more than 99% of the mass in our solar system.
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Lined up, all of the planets in the solar system could fit between the Earth and the moon.
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The Great Wall of China is not actually visible from space with the naked eye.
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One million Earths could fit inside the sun.
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It rains diamonds on both Jupiter and Saturn. On these planets, lightning turns methane in the atmosphere into carbon, which hardens into bits of graphite and diamond as it falls to the ground.
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Since 1945, all British tanks have included equipment to make tea.
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Ancient Romans used human urine as mouthwash. The ammonia in urine is an effective natural cleaning agent.
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The world's shortest war, the Anglo-Zambian War, lasted less than 45 minutes. It was fought between the United Kingdom and the Zanzibar Sultanate in 1896 and was won by the British.
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Tug of war was an Olympic sport between 1900 and 1920.
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Ronald Reagan, in addition to being the US president and a film star, was also a lifeguard when he was younger and saved multiple people from drowning.
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The oldest known advertisement is over 5,000 years old. It advertises the sale of a slave named Shem in ancient Egypt.
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Winston Churchill smoked an average of 10 cigars a day.
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Samuel L. Jackson was a cheerleader in college.
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In 2014, a group of researchers in England determined that the song "Wannabe" by The Spice Girls was the catchiest song ever written. People could identify it in about 2.3 seconds, well below the average of 5 seconds it took to recognize other songs.
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The same woman, E.G. Daily, was the voice of both Tommy Pickles in Rugrats and Buttercup in The Powerpuff Girls.
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None of the four members of The Beatles could read or write music.
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Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling created the game of Quidditch after a fight with her then-boyfriend. She said her frustration from the fight caused her to come up with the idea of the violent game.
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In 2016, Mozart sold more CDs than any other artist, beating artists such as Beyonce, Adele, and Justin Bieber.
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During World War II, actress Audrey Hepburn delivered messages for resistance fighters in the Netherlands.
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Every year 16 million gallons of oil runs off pavement into streams, rivers, and eventually, oceans in the United States. This is more oil than was spilled by the Exxon Valdez.
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In space, astronauts cannot cry because there is no gravity and tears can't flow.
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Most lipstick contains fish scales.
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If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies you have $1.19. you also have the largest possible amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
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Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors.
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Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to operate a television for three hours.
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San Francisco cable cars are the only National Monuments that can move.
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February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
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Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
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A rainbow can be seen only in the morning or late afternoon. It can occur only when the sun is 40 degrees or less above the horizon.
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Lightning strikes the Earth 100 times every second.
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La Paz, Bolivia has an average annual temperature below 50 degrees Fahrenheit. However, it has never recorded a zero-degree temperature. Same for Stanley, the Falkland Islands, and Punta Arenas, Chile.
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There are over 87,000 Americans on waiting lists for organ transplants.
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Toxic house plants poison more children than household chemicals do.
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You are more likely to be infected by flesh-eating bacteria than you are to be struck by lightning.
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It is physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.
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Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
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Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.
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It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.
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A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
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Women blink nearly twice as often as men.
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Most of the dust particles in your house are dead skin.
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There are more living organisms on the skin of a single human being than there are human beings on the surface of the earth.
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The longest bout of hiccups lasted nearly 69 years.
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Babies is born without kneecaps. They appear between the ages of 2 and 6.
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Men can read smaller print than women. Women can hear better.
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Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
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If you sneeze too hard you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force they can pop out.
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A kiss stimulates 29 muscles and chemicals that cause relaxation. Women seem to like light and frequent kisses while men like them more strenuous.
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Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
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Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
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The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
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According to Chinese acupuncture, there is a point on the head that you can press to control your appetite. It is located in the hollow just in front of the flap of the ear.
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In a recent survey, Americans revealed that banana was their favorite smell.
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In Ancient Egypt , priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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More than 8,100 US troops are still listed as missing in action from the Korean War.
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As of January 1, 2004, the population of the United States increases by one person every 12 seconds. There is a birth every eight seconds, an immigrant is added every 25 seconds, and a death every 13 seconds.
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Inn the great fire of 1666, half of London was burnt down but only six people were injured.
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Toto was paid $125 per week while filming The Wizard of Oz.
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The only member of the band ZZ Top without a beard has the last name Beard.
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In Egypt around 1500 B.C., a shaved head was considered the ultimate in feminine beauty. Egyptian women removed every hair from their heads with special gold tweezers and polished their scalps to a high sheen with buffing cloths.
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A Boeing 767 airliner is made of 3,100,000 separate parts.
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The first FAX machine was patented in 1843, 33 years before Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the telephone.
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Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
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"Typewriter" is the longest word that can be made using the keys on only one row of the keyboard.
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In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones: Bhutan.
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More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
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No word in the English language rhymes with month, silver, or purple.
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The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
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The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
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There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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The word "testify" is based on the Ancient Roman practice of making men swear on their testicles when making a statement in court.
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In England in the 1880s, "pants" was considered a dirty word.
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According to many language experts, the most difficult kind of phrase to create is a palindrome, a sentence or group of sentences that reads the same backward and forward. A few examples: Red rum, sir, is murder. Ma is as selfless as I am. Nurse, I spy gypsies. Run! A man, a plan, a canal - Panama. He lived as a devil, eh?
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The dot that appears over the letter i is called a "tittle."
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Almonds are members of the peach family.
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Cranberry is the only Jell-O flavor that contains real fruit flavoring.
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The drive-through line on opening day at the McDonald's restaurant in Kuwait City, Kuwait was seven miles long at its peak.
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American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served first class.
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Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
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The average American drinks about 600 sodas a year.
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Number of US states that claim test scores in their elementary schools are above national average: 50.
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One in every four Americans has appeared on television.
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In 1998, more fast-food employees were murdered on the job than police officers.
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There are more collect calls on Father's Day than any other day of the year.
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Title 14, Section 1211, of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969, makes it illegal for U. S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles.
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There are more cars in Southern California than there are cows in India.
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Percentage of Americans who say that God has spoken to them: 36.
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Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
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In Tokyo you can buy a toupee for your dog.
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The world's oldest wooden wheel has been around for more than 5,000 years
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Sudan has more pyramids than any country in the world
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The bumblebee bat is the world's smallest mammal
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The circulatory system is more than 60,000 miles long
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Theodore Roosevelt had a pet hyena
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The CIA headquarters has its own Starbucks, but baristas don't write names on the cups
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Giraffe tongues can be 20 inches long
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Europeans were scared of eating tomatoes when they were introduced
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The inventor of the microwave appliance received only $2 for his discovery
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The Eiffel Tower can grow more than six inches during the summer
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In the UK, The Queen legally owns all unmarked swans.
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To keep from drifting apart, sea otters hold hands while they sleep.
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Goats have accents.
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Gorillas can catch human colds - you're probably still safe to go to the zoo with the sniffles, though.
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Forget bald eagles. The turkey was once almost named the national bird.
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A group of owls is called a parliament.
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Before the invention of modern false teeth, dentures were commonly made from the teeth of dead soldiers.
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In ancient Egypt, servants were smeared with honey so flies would flock to them instead of the pharaoh.
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It was once considered sacrilegious to use a fork.
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George Washington owned a whiskey distillery.
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More than two percent of the American population was killed during the Civil War.
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Joseph Stalin used to have people removed from photos after they died or were removed from office.
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In 2015, Belfast police used ice cream truck music to deter teenage rioters.
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Gatorade was named after the University of Florida Gators.
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China didn't win its first Olympic medal until 1984.
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Tennis was originally played with bare hands.
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The Cleveland Browns are the only team to neither play in or host a Super Bowl.
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Wilt Chamberlain is in the Volleyball Hall of Fame.
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By the time we die, we'll have spent roughly a year sitting on the toilet.
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You are always looking at your nose; your brain just chooses to ignore it.
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Astronauts can grow up to two inches taller while they're in space.
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Some blood vessels in a blue whale are actually big enough for humans to swim through.
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We're the only species known to blush.
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You only breathe out of one nostril at a time.
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Babies are born with more bones than adults. (Babies have 300 bones while adults only have 206.)
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Most newborns lose all the hair they were born with by the time they're six months old.
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It's impossible to burp in space.
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Everyone has their own unique smell, except identical twins.
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The cashew nuts we eat are actually attached to a large cashew apple that is used to make soft drinks in Brazil. Ca-shew on that fact!
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Mice actually do not like cheese! They prefer sweets if given the choice - they like to eat fruit, seeds, and grains!
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Turkey was probably not eaten at the first Thanksgiving - instead, wildfowl, goose, and even possibly... passenger pigeons and swans were consumed!
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A flock of ravens is called a conspiracy. Dark stuff!
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Caterpillars have 12, count 'em, 12 eyes!
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Mice have pretty funny names: A female mouse is a doe and a male mouse is a buck. Baby mice are sometimes called pinkies because of their color and sometimes called pups.
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Did you know that gorillas, monkeys, bonobos, and other primates make a new nest to sleep in every night?!
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Sea otters like to hold each other's paws when they sleep, so they don't drift apart while dreaming. How sweet is that?!
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Did you know that jellyfish have been around even before dinosaurs?
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All clownfish are born male! They can also all change their sex to female, but they can't turn it back to male after doing so. So Nemo could become a girl fish all along!
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Did you know apples come from the same plant family as roses? So do plums, raspberries, and many other delicious fruits. Next time, instead of roses, just send your mother a lovely bouquet of plums!
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The first Akita dog came to this country in 1937 - as a present for Helen Keller!
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Turns out, a dog's paw print is just as unique as a human's. Good news for dog detectives!
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A camel can drink up to 40 gallons of water in one go. That's seriously impressive!
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Don't bring your crystal ball to Maryland! Fortune telling is illegal in the state.
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Speaking of ferrets, did you know they used to be used to protect grain stores from rodents?
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The technical term for a fear of long words is "hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia." No way you can self-diagnose yourself with that one!
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The White House has 35 bathrooms. So every bathroom break can be different for POTUS!
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Greyhounds can run up to 45 mph. So don't challenge one to a race!
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Hiking naked is illegal in Switzerland. Though we must say, it doesn't seem like a good idea in general!
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A flock of flamingos is called... wait for it... a flamboyance! Fancy.
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New York's Central Park is bigger than Monaco. That's right, one park is bigger than an entire country!
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Using ferrets to hunt other animals is illegal in West Virginia. Good to know!
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Don't let the chicken cross the road in Georgia (the country.) No, seriously. It's illegal!
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Here's a fact to sit on: there are over 9,000 benches in Central Park.
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Theodore Roosevelt's kids had a pet bear, badger, and hyena, to name but a few animals - and they brought them all to the White House!
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There are over 700 ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic symbols. That's a lot compared to 26 letters of alphabet!
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A woodpecker's tongue is bigger than its entire head. It keeps it wrapped up around its brain to protect it from the impact of all that pecking!
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Here's one to tickle your funny bone: the human hand has 54 bones. That's more than a quarter of the bones in the whole body. Wow!
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Want a license plate in the shape of a polar bear? All you have to do is move to Nunavut Province in Canada!
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How do you tell if a cranberry is ripe? It'll bounce like a rubber ball.
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Here's a little funny and creepy fact: not only are groups of crows called murders, but the birds actually hold funerals for their dead. Spooky!
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Bees are the only insect that produce food that people eat. Thanks, bees!
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Squeamish? Don't go to any cheese shops in Sardinia, lest you find yourself face to face with Casu Marzu, a cheese that gets its taste from live maggots. Eek!
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The actors who voiced Mickey and Minnie mouse from the 1980s to the 2010s were married!
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In some Harry Potter movie scenes where Harry, Ron, and Hermione are doing their Hogwarts schoolwork, the actors were actually doing their REAL schoolwork!
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Forgetful? Move to Eastern Pennsylvania where the word "jawn" can be used to a person, place, or thing you just can't remember.
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The oldest domestic cat on record lived for 38 years. She was Creme Puff of Austin, Texas.
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Apparently, the world's fastest ant runs faster than Usain Bolt!
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Little brown bats make for the longest nappers - in captivity, they nap up to 19.9 hours a day. Wish we could take a nap that long!
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The longest noodle ever made is more than 10,000 feet long. That's almost two miles! Wonder how long it would take us to slurp that?
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Otto the bulldog broke the record for a dog to skate through the longest human tunnel when he skated through the legs of 30 people without any assistance. Otto, you're our hero.
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A flock of peacocks is called a party. Party hard, peacocks!
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The Supreme Court has its own basketball court, with a great nickname: "The highest court on the land!" Get it?!
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Time stops at the speed of light.
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The average human body carries more bacteria cells than human cells.
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Oona Chaplin, who played Robb Stark's wife in Game of Thrones, is Charlie Chaplin's granddaughter.
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The founder of sportswear companies Puma and Adidas were brothers! Rudolf "Rudi" Dassler is the brain behind Puma, while his big bro Adolf "Adi" Dassler gave the world Adidas.
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The original Ferris Wheel was designed and constructed in Chicago, Illinois, by George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr.
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While SPAM is most popular in Hawaii, it was actually invented in Minnesota. The state even serves as home to the SPAM museum!
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Glaciers, ice caps, and ice sheets hold nearly 69 percent of the world's freshwater.
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Whale songs can be used by scientists to sonically map out the ocean floor.
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The first person charged with speeding in a vehicle was going eight miles per hour.
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A border collie named Striker, from Hungary, set the record for fastest dog to open a car door window.
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The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.
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If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
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More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
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17.35 seconds is the fastest anyone has run across 100 meters of ice. (Nico Surings, 2006)
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The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.
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The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
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A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
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A hard-working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there.
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A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
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Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
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The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life.
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"Bingo" is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box.
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The Beatles song "Dear Prudence" was written about Mia Farrow's sister, Prudence, when she wouldn't come out and play with Mia and the Beatles at a religious retreat in India.
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A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.
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Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed-and continue living.
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A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
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Solid structures (parking lots, roads, buildings) in the United States cover an area the size of Ohio.
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Physicists have already performed a simple type of teleportation, transferring the quantum characteristics of one atom onto another atom at a different location.
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The Nike swoosh was designed by a Portland State University student and purchased by Nike for $35.
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Seven percent of Americans claim they never bathe at all.
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When you hear a bullwhip snap, it's because the tip is traveling faster than the speed of sound.
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Orthodox rabbis warned that New York City drinking water might not be kosher because it contains harmless micro-organisms that are technically shellfish.
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In 1997, a woman in Bradenton, Florida, lost her cat. In 2004, she got a call from the local animal shelter. The cat turned up wandering the streets in San Francisco, California. The cat's identity was proven with a microchip that had been implanted prior to 1997.
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There are currently more U.S. 100-dollar bills in Russia than there are in the United States.
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The Pentagon in Washington, D.C., has five sides, five stories, and five acres in the middle.
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Two very popular and common objects have the same function, but one has thousands of moving parts, while the other has absolutely no moving parts-an hourglass and a sundial.
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A snail can have about 25,000 teeth.
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Moisture, not air, causes super glue to dry.
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An average American will spend an average of 6 months during his or her lifetime waiting at red lights.
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The California Department of Motor Vehicles has issued six driver's licenses to six different people named Jesus Christ.
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Brushing your teeth regularly has been shown to prevent heart disease.
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Married men change their underwear twice as often as single men.
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Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the U.S. Treasury.
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Chances that a burglary in the United States will be solved: 1 in 7.
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When George Lucas was mixing the American Graffiti soundtrack, he numbered the reels of film starting with an R and numbered the dialog starting with a D. Sound designer Walter Murch asked George for Reel 2, Dialog 2 by saying "R2D2." George liked the way that sounded so much he integrated that into another project he was working on.
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A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.
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Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it is known as Tennessee.
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Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.
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The world's oldest piece of chewing gum is 9,000 years old.
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Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe.
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637 people once gathered together dressed as gorillas. It was to help raise money for the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, and it was the largest crowd to gather together dressed as gorillas.
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The longest book title ever written: "Per favore dite a mia madre che faccio il pubblicitario lei pensa che sono un pierre e che quindi regalo manciate di free entry e consumazioni gratis a chi mi pare, rido coi vips, i calciatori le veline e le giornaliste, leggo Novella e mi fotografano i paparazzi, entro neI privé saltando la coda, bevo senza pagare, sono ghiotto di tartine e gin tonic, ho la casa piena di oggetti di design, conosco Paris Hilton, Tom Ford ed Emilio." (Davide Ciliberte).
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Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. president to be born in a hospital.
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Smartest dogs: 1) border collie; 2) poodle; 3) golden retriever. Dumbest dog: 1) afghan.
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Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%.
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The portion of ice cream sold that is vanilla: 1/3.
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President who discovered a new proof for the Pythagorean Theorem: Jimmy Carter.
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Only animal besides a human that can get sunburn: a pig.
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Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses.
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It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is "shake," and the 46th word from the last word is "spear."
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The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.
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A full 7% of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness beer.
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Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
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In June 2017, the Facebook community reached 2 billion active users.
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Samuel L. Jackson requested a purple lightsaber in Star Wars to accept the part of Mace Windu.
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The giant stone heads on Easter Island have hidden bodies!
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Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.
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In 1998, Sony accidentally sold 700,000 camcorders that could see through people's clothes.
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During your lifetime, you will spend around seventy-nine days brushing your teeth.
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M&Ms are named after the businessmen who created them.
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Pigeons can tell the difference between Picasso and Monet.
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The real name for a hashtag is an octothorpe.
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You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from over 2 miles away.
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The last letter added to the English alphabet was 'J'.
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You can't hum if you hold your nose.
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Vatican City is the smallest country in the world.
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Japan has over 200 flavors of Kit Kats.
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Kris Jenner has 12 grandchildren.
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