- American's eat 18 billion hot dogs a year.
- Every day 7% of the US eats at McDonalds.
- The Chinese used fingerprints as a method of identification as far back as AD 700.
- Pearls melt in vinegar.
- There are 7 points on the Statue of Liberty's crown.
- Thin skinned lemons are the juiciest.
- That in the 17th century the value of pi was known to 35 decimal places (today to 1.2411 trillion).
- Archimedes of Syracuse lived around the year 250 BC and among other things, developed a method for determining the volume of objects with irregular shapes.
- Snakes eat their body weight in one year.
- The 3 most common languages in the world are Mandarin Chinese, Spanish and English.
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