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The blob of toothpaste that sits on your toothbrush has a name. It’s called a “nurdle.” |
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If you put some Viagra in a vase, it will make flowers stand up straight for a week beyond when they would normally wilt. |
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Human babies are born without knee caps which develop 2-6 years later. |
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The suits on a deck of cards initially symbolized something: hearts stood for the Church, spades – the military, clubs – the agriculture, and diamonds – dedicated to the merchants |
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The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum. |
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Catfish are the only animals that naturally have an odd number of whiskers. |
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There are more lakes in Canada than in the rest of the world combined. |
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The voices of Yoda and Miss Piggy were done by the same person. |
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When a species is suspected as extinct but then discovered to still be alive, it is classified as a member of the Lazarus Species. |
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There are 22 miles more canals in Birmingham UK than in Venice. |
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Eskimo's have hundreds of words for snow but none for hello. |
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It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times. |
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Queen Lydia Liliuokalani was the last reigning monarch of the Hawaiian Islands. She was also the only Queen the United States ever had. |
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The Shell Oil Company originally began as a novelty shop in London that sold seashells. |
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558-Million-Year-Old Fossil Is the Oldest Known Animal on the Planet |
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There are more trees on Earth than there are stars in the Milk Way Galaxy. While the Milk Way boasts 100 billion stars, Earth tops that numbers with its 3 trillion trees. |
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In Japan, more paper is used to make manga comic books than to make toilet paper. |
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When three-letter airport codes became standard, airports that had been using two letters simply added an X. |
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At one point in the 1990s, 50% of all CDs produced worldwide were for AOL. |
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Before settling on the Seven Dwarfs we know today, Disney considered Chesty, Tubby, Burpy, Deafy, Hickey, Wheezy, and Awful. |
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Only one McDonald’s in the world has turquoise arches. Sedona, AZ thought yellow clashed with the natural red rock. |
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The 50-star American flag was designed by an Ohio high school student for a class project. His teacher originally gave him a B–. |
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Calvin Klein's Obsession for Men is used by researchers to attract animals to cameras in the wilderness. |
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Chock Full o' Nuts coffee does not contain nuts. It's named for a chain of nut stores that the founder converted into coffee shops. |
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If you start counting at one and spell out the numbers as you go, you won't use the letter "A" until you reach 1,000. |
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After Leonardo da Vinci's death, King Francis I of France hung the Mona Lisa in his bathroom. |
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William McKinley was on the $500 bill, Grover Cleveland was on the $1,000, and James Madison was on the $5,000. |
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That's Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury (1861-1864) |
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The $100,000 Gold Certificate was used only for official transactions between Federal Reserve Banks and was not circulated among the general public. This note cannot be legally held by currency note collectors. |
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