Interesting Facts

By Neeraj Kamboj

That’s right, you didn’t misread, here we have one thousand fun and interesting facts about literally everything you could think of!

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Everyone loves a surprising and interesting fun fact that makes you question the world around you—challenging your assumptions and long-held beliefs and ultimately proving that there’s never a time in your life when you stop learning. But you know what everyone loves even more than a fun fact? Well, a fun fact so surprising and interesting that you stop dead in your tracks to say, “Holy smokes! Really?”

To help you channel that feeling once more—OK, a full one hundred times!—we’ve compiled here the most interesting facts we could find in every genre imaginable that are guaranteed to stoke your curiosity. So read on, and enjoy! And once you’ve picked your jaw up off the floor, don’t miss these Random Facts That Will Simply Astonish You.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Neeraj Kamboj
• Release date: Apr 20, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463175408

Neeraj Kamboj

Neeraj Is an independent author and editor passionate about collecting the information on different subjects and combine them in the form of Books to save the time of peoples who are researching or interested about knowing the particular subjects.

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Interesting Facts

By

Neeraj Kamboj

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Every day 2,700 people die of heart disease

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The Dead Sea has been sinking for last several years

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Moscow was founded in 1147 by Yury Dolgoruky

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111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

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Most cows give more milk when they listen to music

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The most popular grown bulbs are tulips

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Annually 17 tons of gold is used to make wedding rings in the United States

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Early Romans used to use porcupine quills as toothpicks

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In 1958 the United States sent three mice into space named, Mia, Laska and Benji

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The lifespan of a rhinoceros is generally 50 years

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Walt Disney was afraid of mice

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It is estimated that over fifty-four million people died in World War II, which was the bloodiest war in history

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A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out

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In a lifetime, the average driver will honk 15,250 times

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Native Indians have been known to paint their doors blue, which they believe keeps the bad spirits out

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The human face is made up of 14 bones

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The feet have approximately 250,000 sweat glands

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Paul Hunn holds the record for the loudest burp, which was 118.1 decibels, which is as loud as a chainsaw

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Termites are roasted and eaten like popcorn in South Africa

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The first tattoo machine was invented by Samuel O'Reilly. He did this by using equipment that Thomas Edison used to engrave hard surfaces.

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Approximately 125 people die in the United States from an anaphylaxis to foods each year

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The largest apple pie ever baked was forty by twenty three feet

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In Greece, the climate is so warm that many of the cinemas do not even have roofs

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Over 4.5 billion sticks have Trident gum have been chewed. If the stick of gum were laid out end to end they could circle the globe approximately 1.8 times

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A catfish has about 100,000 taste buds

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In 1832, in Paisley, Scotland the first municipal water filtration works was opened

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More than half the time spent in United States courts is cases that involve automobiles

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An airplane mechanic invented Slinky while he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use for the springs. Barbie was invented by Ruth Handler after watching her daughter play with baby dolls imagining then in grown up roles

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Over 250 million Slinky toys have been sold since its debut in 1946

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The largest hamburger cooked in the world weighed in at 6,040 pounds

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The capital of Burkina Faso is Ouagadougou

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Teflon is the most slipperiest substance in the world

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A group of tigers is called a streak

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Canada is an Indian word meaning village or settlement.

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The phrase Often a bridesmaid, but never a bride, actually originates from an advertisement for Listerine mouthwash from 1924

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In 1888, Hollywood was founded by Harvey and Daeida Wilcox, who named the city after their summer home in Chicago

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The reason why golf balls have dimples on them is because it helps in the ball to move a farther distance by reducing drag

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A house cat spends 70% of its time sleeping

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In 1978, the World Water Speed record was made by Ken Warby from Australia. His average speed was 317.6 mph, and his jet-powered hydroplane was 27 feet long called Spirit of Australia. Warby built the boat himself in his back yard

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The capital of Vermont, Montpelier is the only state capital in the United States that does not have a McDonalds

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The hormone replacement drug Premarin is made from the urine of pregnant horses

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The most common injury caused by cosmetics is to the eye by a mascara wand

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A cow averages 40,000 jaw movements a day

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If a raisin is dropped into a glass of champagne it will bounce up and down in the glass

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The USA bought Alaska from Russia for 2 cents an acre

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The oldest roller coaster in the world is the Leap-The-Dips roller coaster located in Lakemont Park in Pennsylvania. The roller coaster was built in 1902

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Kemo Sabe means soggy shrub in Navajo

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A study indicates that smokers are likely to die on average six and a half years earlier than non-smokers

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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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Business.com is currently the most expensive domain name sold for $7.5 million

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Humpback whales are capable of living up to 95 years

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Americans on average use about 580 pounds of paper per year per person

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Serving ice cream on cherry pie was once illegal in Kansas

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In a year approximately 900 million trees are cut down to make the raw materials needed for American pulp mills and paper

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The YKK on the zipper of your Levis stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the worlds largest zipper manufacturer

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Uranus is the only planet that rotates on its side

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Feb 1865 and Feb 1999 are the only months in recorded history not to have a full moon

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All of Chrysler's PT Cruisers are built in Mexico.

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On average, the Pentagon uses 666 rolls of toilet paper in one day

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To make one glass of orange juice, 50 glasses of water are needed to grow enough oranges to make the juice

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Babies that are exposed to cats and dogs in their first year of life have a lower chance of developing allergies when they grow older

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In 1942 the Jello company introduced Cola flavored jello, which only lasted a year

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The ostrich has two toes on each feet which gives it greater speed

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From 1939 to 1942, there was a undersea post office in the Bahamas

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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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Former U.S. President William Taft converted the White House stable into a four car garage in 1909

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A British term for slot machine is fruit machine or one-armed bandit.

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A lion feeds once every three to four days

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The first translation of the Bible into English was in 1382 A.D., by John Wycliff

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In the U.S. 7 out of 10 homes use candles

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Studies show that divorced women have more trouble starting new relationships than divorced men

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Studies have shown that classical music helps cows produce more milk

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There is a town named Dildo in the province of Newfoundland, Canada

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Battle Creek, Michigan is referred to as the Cereal Bowl of America. The city produces the most breakfast cereals than any other city in the world

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Ringo Starr appeared in a Japanese advertisement for apple sauce. Ironically his name means apple sauce in Japanese

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One ragweed plant can release as many as a million grains of pollen in one day

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In 1965, the price for an issue of TV Guide was 15 cents

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Tiger Woods was introduced to golf at nine months of age by his father

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The patent number of the telephone is 174465.

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Approximately 200 pets are buried in a pet cemetery out of the thousands of pets that die each day

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In the Pacific Islands when people get burns they often use a banana leaf as treatment

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During the Easter season, 600 million Marshmallow Peeps are bought my Americans. The Marshmallow Peep is the most popular Easter candy besides chocolate

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When explorers first arrived in Venezuela, they were reminded of Venice. They named the country Little Venice, which translated into Spanish is Venezuela

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Eating parsley after eating an onion can help in getting rid of onion breath

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Of all the restaurants that are opened, 90% of them fail in the first year. Of the remaining ones that survive, 90% of those fail in the second year

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Female and male black bears cannot tolerate being around each other except when they breed

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An adult esophagus can range from 10 to 14 inches in length and is one inch in diameter

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According to Scientists, vampire bat saliva is the best known medicine for keeping blood from clotting.

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The thing that hangs from the top of the beak of a turkey is called the snood

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Panthers are known as black leopards, as they are the same species of leopard. If looked at closely, black spots can be seen on a panther

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A one kilogram packet of sugar will have about 5 million grains of sugar

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The reason why bubble gum is pink is because the inventor only had pink colouring left. Ever since then, the colour of bubble gum has been predominantly pink

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In 1955, only 330 Volkswagen Beetle's were sold at a price of $1800 each in the United States.

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Leonardo Da Vinci never signed or dated his most famous painting, the Mona Lisa

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Every second there are 418 Kit Kat fingers eaten in the world

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Pretzel snacks have been around for over 1300 years. A European monk invented the snack using used leftover bread dough

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In 1893, the first mosque in the United States was built

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When Nylons first went on sale in the United States in 1940, four million pairs were sold in only a few days

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Some arthritis medications contain gold salts, which is used as an anti-inflammatory

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George Washington had teeth made out of hippopotamus ivory

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There were 13 couples celebrating their honeymoon on the Titanic

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In the 1920's, Q-Tips were invented by Leo Gerstenzang who got the idea after watching his wife clean their baby's ears with cotton stuck onto a toothpick.

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The name Snickers for the popular candy bar was named after a horse that the Mars family owned

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Snake is a delicacy in China

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Thomas Watson, who was the chairman of IBM in 1943 predicted that their would probably only be a world market for five computers.

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If you were standing on Mercury, the Sun would appear 2.5 times larger than it appears from Earth

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Each year there are approximately 20 billion coconuts produced worldwide

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Twit is the name given for a pregnant goldfish

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The largest LEGO castle that was ever built was built with 400,000 LEGO bricks and was 4.45 m x 5.22 m

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Archipelago is the word to describe a large group of islands that are located close together

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In the United States, approximately 50 million people fish per year

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Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur

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Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters

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The steepest street in the world is Baldwin Street located in Dunedin, New Zealand. It has an incline of 38%

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If all the insects in the world were put on a scale, they would out weigh all creatures

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Bugs Bunny was originally called Happy Rabbit.

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The longest kiss on record lasted 30 hours and 45 minutes. Dror Orpaz and Carmit Tsubara recorded it on April 5, 1999 at a kissing contest held in Tel Aviv, Israel

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In Britain, one out of every four potatoes is eaten in the form of french fries

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Male goats will pee on each other in order to attract mates

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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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There are 158 verses in the Greek National Anthem

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The smoke that is produced by a fire kills more people than a burn does because of carbon monoxide and other dangerous gases

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There have been close to 200 coups and counter-coups in the country of Bolivia

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In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak

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There are approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day

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Approximately 40% of the U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit by the end of the Civil War

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In total, Americans eat more than 45 billion sandwiches each year, while sales of custom-made sandwiches are rising 15 percent per year

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Pineapples were first called anana, which is Caribbean for excellent fruit.

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Children grow faster in the springtime than any other season during the year

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The reason why bubbles are round is because this is the most efficient shape that the soap film can take for the amount of air trapped inside

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Corned beef got its name because this beef was preserved with pellets of salt that were the size of corn kernels, which was also referred to as corns of salt

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Buckingham Palace has over six hundred rooms

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Armadillos can be housebroken

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The 20th president of the United States James Garfield could write Greek with one hand and Latin with the other at the same time

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The highest recorded speed of a sneeze is 165 km per hour

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Sir John Harington, the godson of Queen Elizabeth I, was the inventor of the toilet

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The speed of sound must be exceeded to produce a sonic boom.

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People that suffer from gum disease are twice as likely to have a stroke or heart attack

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In the U.S. there is, on average, three sex change operations per day

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In a lifetime, the heart pumps about one million barrels of blood

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The name of the famous snack Twinkies was invented by seeing a billboard in St. Louis, that said Twinkle Toe Shoes.

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Eighty percent of the Vanilla Beans which are used to make ice cream is grown in Madagascar

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A man filed a lawsuit against his doctor because he survived longer than what the doctor had predicted

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Bill Bowerman, the co-founder of the shoe company Nike, got his first shoe idea after staring at a waffle iron. This gave him the idea of using squared spikes to make the shoes lighter

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TWIX Caramel Cookie Bars were first introduced in 1979

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Dandelion root can be roasted and ground as a coffee substitute

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The mother of famous astronomer Johannes Kepler was accused of being a witch

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It is common in Israel and Egypt to eat watermelon with feta cheese

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Some of the titles that were considered for the hit T.V. show Friends were Six Of One, Across the Hall, and Insomnia Cafe

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Chocolate accounts for less than two percent of the fat in the American diet

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The Tibetan name for Mount Everest is Chomolungma

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Water expands 9% when it is frozen

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A Canadian Tour company offers a two-day course in igloo building

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Emus cannot walk backwards

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Tasmania is said to have the cleanest air in the world

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Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously

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The average human scalp has 100,000 hairs

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After 8 months, babies are more likely to get a diaper rash

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Strawberries are a member of the rose family

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In Czechoslovakia, there is a church that has a chandelier made out of human bones

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The highest point in France is Mont Blanc, located in the Alps.

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In order to mate, a male deep sea anglerfish will bite a female when he finds her. The male will