- Before beginning his movie career Keanu Reeves managed a pasta shop in Toronto Canada.
- Americans consume over 10 billion bowls of soup each year.
- Ancient Romans thought strawberries could cure bad breath and chronic fainting.
- The hydrochloric acid found in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve a nail.
- Blue whale tongues can weigh 8,000 pounds, or as much as an elephant, and their hearts weigh close to a ton.
- Draughts (checkers) is older than chess.
- Salt used to be a currency.
- Ornithophobia is the fear of birds.
- Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras lived around the year 500 BC and is known for his Pythagorean theorem relating to the three sides of a right angle triangle: a^2 + b^2 = c^2.
- The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze over completely.
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