- The average person falls asleep in 7 minutes.
- Everyday is a holiday somewhere in the world.
- Diamonds are the hardest natural substance.
- The name of the popular search engine 'Google' came from a misspelling of the word 'googol', which is a very large number (the number one followed by one hundred zeros to be exact).
- The Eifel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets.
- The grapefruit gets its name from the way it grows in clusters like grapes on a vine.
- Employees of the Vatican pay no income tax.
- Phantom rain are raindrops that never reach the ground.
- There are more fake than real flamingos.
- One acre of peanuts will make about 30,000 peanut butter sandwiches.
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