- The ball on top of a flag pole is called the truck.
- The smallest country in the world takes up .2 square miles: Vatican City.
- The Internet was originally called ARPANet (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) designed by the US department of defense.
- The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
- A camel can shut its nostrils during a desert sandstorm.
- The only one-syllabled U.S. state is Maine.
- The average person falls asleep in 7 minutes.
- The first letters of the months July through to November spell JASON.
- You have to eat 5kg (11lb) of potatoes to put on .5kg (1lb) of weight (a potato has no more calories than an apple).
- The human body of a 70 kg person contains 0.2mg of gold.
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