- The 'black box' that houses an airplanes voice recorder is actually orange so it can be more easily detected amid the debris of a plane crash.
- The movie Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make with $5 million going towards actor's salaries.
- Amathophobia is the fear of dust.
- The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English alphabet.
- Orienteering originated from Sweden.
- Salt used to be a currency.
- All the planets in our solar system could fit inside Jupiter.
- Crocodiles are responsible for over a 1,000 deaths each year by the Banks of the Nile river.
- 53% of women don't leave home without makeup on.
- Diamonds mined in Brazil are much harder than those found in Africa.
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