- In Japan, letting a sumo wrestler make your baby cry is considered good luck.
- More than 75% of all countries are north of the equator.
- That you burn more calories eating celery than it contains (the more you eat the thinner you become).
- A blue whale can weigh as much as 30 elephants and as long as 3 large tour buses.
- Greyhounds can see better than any other dog breed.
- Snakes eat their body weight in one year.
- 96% of candles sold are purchased by women.
- The first credit card was a Diner's Club card issued in 1950.
- The equals sign (=) was invented in 1557 by a Welsh mathematician named Robert Recorde.
- The Snapple name combines the words Snappy and Apple.
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