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23 Very Interesting But Useless Facts

The U.S. pizza industry serves up to 100 acres of pizza every day.
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Scientists accidentally killed the world’s oldest animal while trying to do research on it.
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If you type in 52.376552, 5.198303 on Google Maps, you can see what is allegedly two guys dragging a dead body into a lake.
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After each player has moved three times in a chess match, there are 121 million possible routes that the match could follow.
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A standard 3×3 Rubik’s Cube has43,252,003,274,489,856,000 different possible configurations.
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The verb form of the word “run” has been calculated to have almost 650 different meanings.
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In the 14th century, French officials executed a pigin public who was charged with having eaten an infant.
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A cubic inch of bone is about four times as strongas concrete.
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Camels have three eyelids to help protect themselves from sand blowing in their eyes.
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The world’s oldest chewing gum dates back at least 5,000 years.
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An ostrich’s brain is approximately the same size as its eyeball.
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The ideal height for you to drop your buttered toast from if you want it to land butter side up is eight feet.
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People with higher incomes generally prefer theirtoilet paper to come over the roll, while those with lower incomes prefer it to go under.
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Women have been found to blink more often than men.
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The lint that collects in the bottom of your pockets has a name — gnurr.
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The founders of Hewlett-Packard flipped a coin to determine whose name would come first in the company.
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Some animals, like the western spotted skunk, are able to delay their pregnancies for months.
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Sigmund Freud once believed that cocaine could be used to help treat morphine addiction.
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Flamingos get their color from the carotenoid pigments in the foods that they eat, like algae and shrimp.
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The line between the two numbers in a fraction is called the vinculum.
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You can get a rough estimate of the temperatureby counting the number of times a cricket chirps in 15 seconds, then adding 37.
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