- Cooking or freezing does not reduce the heat (spiciness) of a chile pepper.
- Humans can encourage precipitation with cloud seeding.
- Cars were first started with ignition keys in 1949.
- At the deepest point in the ocean, the water pressure is equivalent to having about 50 jumbo jets piled on top of you.
- There is 200 times more gold in the world's oceans than has been mined.
- 45% of people use mouthwash daily.
- The wristwatch was invented in 1904.
- Out of the 250+ known species of shark only 18 are known to be dangerous to man.
- Kangaroos can't walk backwards.
- It is illegal to sing off-key in North Carolina.
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