- In France, it's illegal for employers to send emails after work hours.
- Asparagus can grow up to 7 inches in a day.
- The Statue of Liberty weighs over 225 tons.
- Babylonians measured the circumference of a circle as approximately 3 times the diameter, which is fairly close to today's measurement which uses the value of Pi (around 3.14).
- Employees are more likely to book holidays off work on a Monday that any other week day.
- In the U.S., there is an official rock, paper, scissors league.
- According to manufacturer Spalding the average lifespan of an NBA basketball is 10,000 bounces.
- The most popular snack food is potato chips.
- A ten-gallon hat holds less than a gallon of liquid.
- The corkscrew was invented in 1890.
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