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INTERESTING FACTS
A female’s heart is smaller than a male’s by about 25%. Because of this, the female heart has to beat around six times more than the male heart to pump the correct amount of blood around the body.
INTERESTING FACTS
In 1325, two Italian city states fought over a bucket, which resulted in 2,000 deaths. It started when two soldiers stole a bucket from a well in the city center.
INTERESTING FACTS
In 2000 the first permanent crew inhabited the International Space Station (ISS). Since then, there’s always been a human presence in space.
INTERESTING FACTS
Turkey vultures use defensive vomit to get rid of any disturbing animal. They can propel their vomit up to 10 feet.
INTERESTING FACTS
During World War II, the very first bomb dropped on Berlin by the Allies killed the only elephant in Berlin Zoo.
INTERESTING FACTS
Peaches are the third most popular fruit grown in America.
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Emilie de Ravin‘s biggest TV role as Claire Littleton on the hit show “Lost“, loves peanut butter – which is unintentionally ironic because Emilie is allergic to peanuts. In reality, her biggest weakness is actually chocolate.
INTERESTING FACTS
Jupiter has 69 moons. A few are 12-37 miles in diameter, but most are barely 1 mile in size. Jupiter itself is 317 times the mass of the Earth.
INTERESTING FACTS
In a survey, 33% of dog owners admitted to chatting over the telephone with their dogs.
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Losing Weight is the most common New Year’s resolution.
INTERESTING FACTS
A sunset on Mars is blue.
INTERESTING FACTS
In “Part 1” of the Battlestar Galactica mini-series, there is a scene where Serenity, the ship from Firefly, can be seen flying through the sky.
INTERESTING FACTS
The smallest possible measurement of length is known as the Planck Length. Anything smaller than this would break everything we understand about physics.
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The social media website, MySpace, was founded in 2003 and sold for $580 million in 2005. At this time, it was the most visited social networking site in the world and even surpassed Google as the most visited website in the United States!
INTERESTING FACTS
One of the earliest depictions of dreadlocks dates back to 1600 BC to the Minoan Civilization, one of Europe’s earliest civilizations, who lived in what is now known as Greece.
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The most expensive domain name ever sold was cars.com for an astonishing $872.3 million.
INTERESTING FACTS
Polygamy is the practice of having more than one husband or wife at the same time. Polygyny is when a man is married to more than one woman, and Polyandry is when a woman is married to more than one husband.
INTERESTING FACTS
As of September 2016, the Giant Panda was downgraded from “endangered” to “vulnerable” on the Global List of Species at Risk of Extinction.
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The world’s oldest surviving bank is “Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena,” which was founded in 1472 and is currently Italy’s 3rd largest bank.
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The letter Z is the least frequently used letter in written English. It is more common in American English than in British English due to spelling differences.
INTERESTING FACTS
The cardboard holder that you often get around a takeaway cup of coffee is called a “zarf.”
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The logo for the Monster energy drink cans is not an M, as most believe, but are claw marks from a monster ripping through the can. In 2014 a YouTube video gained an international audience when they claimed that each segment of the claw mark looks like the Hebrew symbol for the number six, making the logo into 666, the number of the Beast.
INTERESTING FACTS
The largest pumpkin pie ever baked was in 2005 and weighed 2,020 pounds or just over 916kg.
INTERESTING FACTS
The Triangle took nearly 100 years to become a popular orchestral instrument.
INTERESTING FACTS
The first computer virus ever created was called Creeper back in 1971. Shortly after this virus was created, Reaper was created as the world’s first anti-virus.
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The earliest mention of the mythical creature, the Unicorn, dates back as far as 2700 BC in Asia and was described as a creature of great power and wisdom.
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The oldest webcam stream online today is The San Francisco FogCam which has been operational since 1994.
INTERESTING FACTS
In Japanese legend, it is said that anyone who folds 1,000 origami cranes will be granted a wish by the gods.
INTERESTING FACTS
Doggerland is the area of land connecting Great Britain to continental Europe. It was flooded by rising sea levels (6500-6200 BC), turning Great Britain into an island.
And, that concludes the interesting facts series. I see, the guys aren't still up.