- Diet Coke was introduced in 1982.
- The first flight traveled at less than 7 mph (ground speed).
- An area of the Suns surface to the equivalent of a postage stamp would shine with the brightness of over 1,500,000 candles.
- Norway once knighted a penguin.
- Everyday, more money is printed for Monopoly sets than for the U.S. Treasury.
- The first hot air balloon passengers were a sheep, duck, and rooster.
- A 'googolplex' is the number 1 followed by a googol zeros, a number so ridiculously big that it can't be written because there literally isn't enough room in the entire universe to fit it in!.
- Gorillas sleep 14 hours a day.
- The numerical digits we use today such as 1, 2 and 3 are based on the Hindu-Arabic numeral system developed over 1000 years ago.
- It takes 1 week to make a jelly bean.
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