- In Japan, letting a sumo wrestler make your baby cry is considered good luck.
- Two of Snapple's founders were window washers in Brooklyn.
- Most dinosaurs lived to be more than 100 years old.
- Different names for the number 0 include zero, nought, naught, nil, zilch and zip.
- A blue whale can weigh as much as 30 elephants and as long as 3 large tour buses.
- Ants won't cross a chalk line.
- The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime.
- You are 1% shorter in the evening than you are in the morning.
- The longest attack of hiccups lasted 68 years.
- All of the cobble stones used to line the streets in New York were originally stones found in the hulls of Belgian ships ballast.
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