- 32% of all land in the U.S. is owned by the government.
- Tug-of-war was an Olympic sport in the early 1900s.
- The human body of a 70 kg person contains 0.2mg of gold.
- Scissors were most likely invented ancient Egypt.
- Cans of diet soda will float in water but regular soda cans will sink.
- Lightning strikes the Earth 6,000 times every minute.
- The WD in WD-40 stands for Water Displacer.
- Folklore states that if you split a double strawberry in half and share it with the opposite sex, you'll soon fall in love.
- Squirrels lose more than half of the nuts they hide.
- The shortest war in history lasted for only 38 minutes.
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