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Archimedes was killed because of pi.
Last year, trains running late cost the country $14.
Just one in twenty children are born on their expected due date.
Yankee Doodle was the first musical recording.
The original voice of Mickey Mouse was provided by Walt Disney himself.
When glass shatters, the cracks splinter at speeds in excess of 3,000 mph.
Because the earth is slowing down, each day is 0.00000002 seconds longer than the one before.
Today the Egyptian pyramids are actually located more than 3 miles south of where they were built due to the earth's shifting surface.
A Czech flight attendant once fell 33,316 feet and survived.
LASER stands for "Light Amplification by Stimulated Emissions of Radiation".
The first train to ever carry people made its maiden voyage n 1825 in England.
The phrase 'Mind your P's and Q's' stems from old times when ales were sold by the pint or quart. Minding your p's and q's meant not to drink too much. (debated: other sites maintain that the phrase came from the old printers when the "p" block and the "q" block looked too similar since they were printed backward, so they were kept in two different drawers).
Acorns on oak trees don't come out until the tree is 50 years old.
The ashes of a cremated adult weighs approximately 9 lbs.
The word "month" has no rhyming words in the English language.
Though a duck's quack might be loud, it doesn't echo.
In Cuba, toasters are illegal.
There are more babies born in India every year than there are people in the entire continent of Australia.
Approximately every 15 seconds in the United States, a head injury occurs. (5,760 per day, 2,102,400 per year).
Lobster was one of the main courses at the first Thanksgiving celebration.
When a fly lands on the ceiling, it grabs on with its front legs and swings the rest of itself up. Therefore it performs a loop, or flip, not a roll, as is commonly believed.
There are tiny holes around the cap of soda bottle to enable the pressure to release when unscrewed. Without them, every bottle would explode open like a champagne bottle.
Bicycle tires will always go flat if gone unused long enough.
No one knows how the M&M logo is printed on the candies, only that it is done by machine. Also, the letters stand for Mars and Murrie.
The percent of colors in M&M candies: 30% brown, 20% yellow and red, 10% orange, green, and tan.
The sea turtle (leatherback) is the biggest reptile alive.
The Marianas Trench, discovered in 1951, is the deepest spot in the ocean. Mount Everest could fit in it and still be over a mile underwater.
The turkey buzzard has the longest life span in the world at up to 30 years in captivity.
Without carotene the carrot wouldn't be orange.
Bilbo and Frodo Baggins were both born September 22.
'Samuel Adams' Triple Bock beer has reached 17% alcohol by volume--the world's strongest.
Marcel Bich, a Frenchman, invented the Bic pen. They dropped the "h" so it wouldn't be pronounced "bitch" in America.
If gum is chewed while peeling onions, the peeler won't cry.
In Paraguay, it is legal to duel so long as both parties are listed as blood donors.
Dolphins never truly sleep. If they did, they would suffocate because they can't breathe when they're unconscious. Therefore, they sleep with one eye open, letting half of their brain sleep at a time.
If a person polishes with "Pledge" furniture polish in the States, they are polishing with "piss" in the Netherlands; that's what the term means there.
Jimmy Hoffa's middle initial was "R". It stood for "Riddle".
The south pole is colder than the north pole.
J.C. Penney's full name is James Cash Penney's.
Pine cones can be used to forecast rain. The scales will shut up when it is on the way.
In one day's time, bamboo often grows three feet long.
During the average year, 100 people die from choking on ball point pens.
Ketchup originally began as a common name for sauce. It was usually made with mushrooms or the brine from fish, combined with spices and herbs. Mushroom "ketchup" is still sold in the UK and other countries. Other early ingredients in the ketchup sauce included lobster, oyster and anchovy, walnut, grape, lemon, cucumber, cranberry and kidney bean.
The name Häagen-Dazs isn't European, rather a made-up name designed to look European to Americans. It's a "foreign branding" marketing ploy.
The shortest full sentence in the English language is "Go"
The term "melon head" comes from the dolphin, the forehead of which is actually called a "melon" due to its unique shape.
Not only are butterflies pretty, they taste with their feet.
A guy by the name of Ernest Vincent Wright once wrote a 50,000-word book without using the letter "e".
Every sixty seconds in the United States 6 people turn 17.
By the numbers, 437 questions are asked by a 4-year-old per day.
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