- Monopoly is the most played board game in the world.
- 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).
- While you sleep you can't smell anything, even really, really bad or potent smells.
- The Nobel Peace Prize is named for Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite.
- 9% of people skip breakfast daily.
- The wristwatch was invented in 1904.
- 80% of burglaries are committed by people aged 13-21.
- A bumble bee flaps its wings at 160 times a second.
- Over 500 meteorites hit the Earth each year.
- You transfer more germs shaking hands than kissing.
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