- Flushable toilets were in use in ancient Rome.
- Fresh cranberries can be bounced like a rubber ball.
- The word denim comes from 'de Nimes' or from Nimes which is a town in France.
- You can tell what a narwhal has eaten each year based on the layers of its tusk.
- Instant mashed potatoes (dehydrated potato flakes) were invented in Canadian in 1962.
- Some playing cards in India are round.
- There are 31,556,926 seconds in a year.
- Scotland has 421 words for snow.
- House cats have 18 claws.
- The first ground vacuum packed coffee was first introduced in 1900.
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