- Sailors once thought wearing gold earrings improved eyesight.
- The largest exporter of sugar is Cuba.
- Dirty snow melts quicker than clean snow.
- Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys.
- The fastest gust of wind ever recorded on Earth was 253 miles per hour.
- A snail can sleep for 3 years.
- The original name of Bank of America was Bank of Italy.
- Babylonians measured the circumference of a circle as approximately 3 times the diameter, which is fairly close to today's measurement which uses the value of Pi (around 3.14).
- Its physically impossible for pigs to look up at the sky.
- There are more chickens than people in the world.
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