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A Boeing 767 airliner contains 3,100,000 parts.

Belief in the existence of vacuums used to be punishable under Church law.

Your skin weighs twice as much as your brain. 

An owl can see a mouse moving from over 150ft away by a light no brighter than candlelight.

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A cubic mile of ordinary fog contains less than a gallon of water.

If you think of the Milky Way as being the size of the continent of Asia, our solar system would be the size of a penny.

The chicken is the closest living relative to the Tyrannosaurus Rex Myth or fact??

 
The average driver will be locked out of their car nine times during their life time (yes, men are in the stats).

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Termites are affected by music; the termites will eat your house twice as fast if you play them loud music.
Paraskavedekatriaphobia is the extreme fear of Friday the 13th.

One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!

 
Christopher Trace, the first presenter of Blue Peter, was the body double for Charlton Heston in the film Ben-Hur.

Thomas Edison got patents for a method of making concrete furniture and a cigar which was supposed to burn forever.

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The Chinese used fingerprints as a method of identification back in 700.

 
Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than it does through the air.

A greenfly born on a Tuesday can be a grandparent by Friday.

 
There are more mobile phones in UK than there are people.

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You use an average of 43 muscles for a frown and you use an average of 17 muscles for a smile, and they say every two thousand frowns creates one wrinkle.

 
Baby robins eat 14 worms per day and parent robins make around 100 food visits to the nest every day!

 
The first man to die during planning & construction of the Hoover Dam was the father of the last man to die during its construction. December 20, 1922 with J.G. Tierney a Bureau of Reclamation employee who was part of a geological survey and drowned when he fell from a barge. Exactly 13 years later, in 1935, his son Patrick W. Tierney, fell to his death from an intake tower.

You will have to walk 80 kilometers for your legs to equal the amount of exercise your eyes get daily.

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In England during World War I, many German names and titles were changed and given more English-sounding names, including the royal family's from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor. Kaiser Wilhelm II countered this by jokingly saying that he was off to see a performance of 'The Merry Wives of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.'
 
Both turdoid and turdine mean "belonging to the family turdus," Turdus musicus is the song thrush & Turdus viscivorus is the mistletoe thrush.

Nearly a quarter of all mammals can fly; with a huge 985 known species, bats make up 23.1% of all known mammals by species.

January is National Soup Month in the United States, January is the seasonal equivalent to July in the Southern Hemisphere; & on Jan 14th, 90% of New Year resolutions will be broken!

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Iceland, Europe's second largest island following Great Britain, boasts of having the world's oldest 'active' parliamentary body, Althing, which first met in 930AD.

The Turkish football club, Galatasaray, has an A for every other letter.

The tongue of a mature Blue Whale has approximately the same mass as that of an entire adult elephant.

The study, which tested telephones, desks, water coolers, doorknobs, and toilet seats, compiled 7,000 samples from major centers across the country. What they found, was that while phones ranked highest in bacteria levels, the office desk was a close second.