- Dairy products account for 29% of all food consumed in the U.S.
- The Chinese used fingerprints as a method of identification as far back as AD 700.
- Paper originated from China.
- Gunpowder is formed by mixing charcoal, saltpetre and sulphur.
- Grasshoppers have white blood.
- That after petrol, coffee is the largest item bought and sold.
- In 1900 the average life span in the US was 47.
- Oysters can change from one gender to another and back again.
- OMG was added to dictionaries in 2011, but it's first known use was in 1917.
- The most eaten fruit in America is the banana.
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