- The blueprints for the Eiffel Tower covered more than 14,000 square feet of drafting paper.
- Coffee is the most popular beverage worldwide with over 400 billion cups consumed each year.
- Cheerios cereal was originally called Cheerioats.
- It's possible to lead a cow up stairs but not down.
- It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.
- The US produces 19% of the world's trash.
- Raindrops are not tear shaped (they more resemble the shape of a tiny hamburger bun).
- A Boeing 747 airliner holds 216,847 litres (57,285 gallons) of fuel.
- All of the clocks in the movie 'Pulp Fiction' are fixed to 4:20.
- The Taj Mahal in India is made entirely out of marble.
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