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If Pinocchio said, “My Nose Will Grow Now,” it would create a paradox.
The moon is (slowly) slowing the Earth's rotation.
The piano is only a few decades older than the U.S.A.
And might using the same bot flow, who knows!
Saint Thomas More is the patron saint of statesmen and politicians.
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In Japan, people do not have signatures, they use stamps called Hanko, and every individual in Japan has one.
In 1923, the sheet music for ‘Yes, We Have No Bananas' sold 1,000 copies a day.
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From 1953 to 1964, the CIA conducted completely uncontrolled tests in which they drugged people unknowingly, then followed and watched them without intervening.
Houseflies find sugar with their feet, which are 10 million times more sensitive than human tongues.
Ticks can grow from the size of a grain of rice to the size of a marble.
Approximately 2,000 silkworm cocoons are needed to produce one pound of silk.
Nutella has very few hazelnuts. It is 58% sugar and is 32% fat, most of which is palm oil.
In 2015, a tiny Tokyo restaurant with only 9 seats became the first ramen restaurant in the world to obtain a Michelin star.
While 71% of Americans believe in hell, only 0.5% think that they are likely to end up there, a survey found.
While gathering food, a bee may fly up to 60 miles in one day.
Ants can lift and carry more than fifty times their own weight.
In the European Union you are not allowed to skip your break if you are working more than 6 hours a day.
Mexican Jumping Beans, sometimes sold commercially, actually have a caterpillar of a bean moth inside.
Since 1875, the exact weight of a kilogram has been defined by the International Prototype of the Kilogram, a cylinder that sits locked in an environmentally regulated vault outside Paris. Every 40 years, it's removed and compared to a half-dozen copies around the world.
It takes about one hundred Monarch Butterflies to weigh an ounce.
When the droppings of millions of cattle started ruining the land in Australia, dung beetles were imported to reduce the problem.
Under Apartheid in South Africa, Filipinos were classified as black while Chinese were considered "non-white" and Japanese, Taiwanese and Koreans were "honorary whites."
Wasps feeding on fermenting juice have been known to get "drunk' and pass out.
The queen of a certain termite species can lay 40,000 eggs per day.
A man called Michael Nicholson enrolled in school for 55 years straight, earning 30 degrees.
Honeybees have to make about ten million trips to collect enough nectar for production of one pound of honey.
In 2012, the world's first lab grown burger cost $325,000. By 2015, a lab grown burger only cost $11.36.
Insects have been present for about 350 million years, and humans for only 300,000 years.