- Household dust is made of dead skin cells.
- Phantom rain are raindrops that never reach the ground.
- Labor Day is the unofficial end of hot dog season.
- Antarctica is 98% ice and 2% barren rock.
- Britain was the first country to use postage stamps.
- 93% of households in Denmark consume wine (the highest % in the world with France second with 85% of households).
- Archimedes of Syracuse lived around the year 250 BC and played a large role in the history of geometry including a method for determining the volume of objects with irregular shapes.
- Rain contains vitamin B12.
- What comes after a million, billion and trillion? A quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, nonillion, decillion and undecillion.
- Hawaii officially became apart of the US on June 14 1900.
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