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Instant mashed potatoes (dehydrated potato flakes) were invented in Canadian in 1962. Wooly mammoths grew as tall as 14 feet, weighing 10 tons. Mammoths used tusks for protection and to attract mates. Phantom rain are raindrops that never reach the ground. The golden ratio of approximately 1.618 between two quantities such as lengths often appears in nature (tree branching, uncurling ferns, pine cone arrangements etc) and has been used throughout history to create aesthetically pleasing designs and art works such as Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa. The letter W is the only letter in the alphabet that has 3 syllables (all others have 1). All pilots on international flights identify themselves in English regardless of their country of origin. The most abundant metal in the Earth's crust is aluminum. The Nobel Peace Prize is named for Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite. Tug-of-war was an Olympic sport in the early 1900s. Born in 1777, German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss contributed brilliant work in geometry, statistics, number theories, algebra and much more. reload more facts