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The Empire State Building in New York was the tallest building in the world from 1931 until 1971, and was the first building of over 100 floors.
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Contrary to popular belief, it’s really, really hard to see the Great Wall of China from space, particularly with the naked eye.
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The first footprints on the moon will remain there for a million years.
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Days on Venus are longer than years. Due to its slow axis rotation, it takes 243 Earth days to spin once; but it only takes 225 Earth days to go around the sun
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Humans could never “land” on Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus or Neptune because they are made of gas and have no solid surface.
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But you could ice skate on one of Jupiter’s moons, Europa, which is covered in ice. An Axel jump would take you 22 feet in the air!
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Our modern interpretation of Santa Claus with a red outfit and white beard is due in large part to holiday Coca-Cola ads that began in 1931.
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Queen Victoria’s husband, Prince Albert, wasn’t the first to introduce Christmas trees to Britain from his native Germany—Queen Charlotte did that in the late 1700s. But, Victoria and Albert are credited with popularizing the custom in the mid-1800s.
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Buckingham Palace in London, England, has 775 rooms, including 78 bathrooms
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The White House in Washington, DC, has 132 rooms, including 35 bathrooms.
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It takes 570 gallons to paint the exterior of the White House.
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The teddy bear is named after President Theodore Roosevelt. After he refused to shoot a captured black bear on a hunt, a stuffed animal maker decided to create a bear and name it after the president.
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Lincoln Logs were created by John Lloyd Wright, son of famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright, in the 1920s. They were named after Abraham Lincoln, who grew up in a log cabin
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Play-Doh started out as a wallpaper cleaner before the head of the struggling company realized the non-toxic material made a good modeling clay for children and rebranded it
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In the 1940s, a retired schoolteacher came up with Candyland to entertain children who were hospitalized from polio. Because its color system required no reading, young kids could easily play.
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People started wearing pajamas, originally spelled “pyjamas,” instead of nightgowns so they’d be prepared to run outside in public during World War I air raids in England
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At Medieval Times dinner attractions, you eat with your hands because people didn’t use utensils in the middle ages.
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Freelancers originally referred to self-employed, sword-wielding mercenaries: literally “free lancers.”
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Although no longer connected to the beer company, Guinness World Records was founded by the managing director of Guinness Brewery in the 1950s
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Michelin stars are highly coveted by elite and upscale restaurants the world over—but they’re actually given out by the Michelin tire company, the same one whose mascot is the marshmallow-like Michelin Man. If you want to get fancy, pronounce it in the original French, “mich-LEH.”
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More people visit France than any other country (Spain is second; the US third).
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You can still stay at the world’s oldest hotel, Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan in Japan, which was founded in 705 AD.
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The longest place name in the word, at 85 letters, is “Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu,” New Zealand. Locals just call it Taumata Hill.
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The coldest temperature ever recorded occurred in Antarctica, -144 Fahrenheit, as reported by researchers in a scientific journal in 2018.
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The hottest temperature ever recorded occurred in Furnace Creek, Death Valley, California, at 134 degrees Fahrenheit on July 10, 1913.
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Japan records the most earthquakes of any country in the world; but the most earthquakes actually occur in Indonesia.
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Each year, 16 million thunderstorms happen around the world, and at any given moment, there are about 2,000 thunderstorms in progress.
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Sweden has 267,570 islands, the most of any country in the world.
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Australia contains a number of pink lakes, but the most stunning is the Pepto Bismol-colored Lake Hillier. The color may be the result of certain algae.
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At over 29,000 feet tall, Mt. Everest is the highest point on Earth, but it doesn't compare to the deepest point on Earth, the Mariana Trench, which is over 36,000 feet deep—nearly seven miles—in the Pacific Ocean.