- The word fortnight is a contraction of the 2 words 'fourteen nights'.
- MasterCard was originally called MasterCharge.
- There are over 2,500 different types of mushrooms.
- Artificial Christmas trees have outsold real ones every year since 1991.
- Half of all crimes are committed by people under the age of 18.
- Hawaiian pizza was actually created in Canada.
- Your fingernails grow faster when you are cold.
- Tiger shark embryos begin attacking each other in their mother's womb before they are even born.
- The average person spends two weeks of their life waiting at traffic lights.
- The odds of being struck by lightning are 600,000 to 1.
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