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NFL refs also get Super Bowl rings.
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President Hubert Hoover invented a game called “Hooverball” which was a cross between tennis and volleyball and was played with a medicine ball.
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Only one city has won three major championships in one year. In 1935, the Detroit Lions won the Super Bowl, the Tigers won the world series, and the Red Wings won the Stanley Cup.
Bill Gates' net worth is 4.5 times as large as North Korea's estimated GDP.
More than 100 baseballs are used during a typical professional baseball game.
93% of dog owners in the U.S. say their dog has made them a better person in at least one way, a study found.
You can’t hum while plugging your nose.
Elvis Presley once lived next to an Orthodox rabbi and his wife. On the Saturday sabbath, he ran errands and turned electronics on and off for them.
Tomatoes have more genes than humans.
In 2012, a Hong Kong business tycoon offered a US$65 million reward for any man who can woo and marry his lesbian daughter.
We’re one to two centimeters taller in the morning than at night.
80% of people are dissatisfied with their jobs.
One quarter of all our bones are in our feet.
he human body contains enough fat to make about seven bars of soap.
More than 13 million working days are lost every year because of stress-related illnesses.
You can’t lick your elbow.
Cats are such picky eaters because they are naturally driven to eat foods with a preferred ratio of protein to fat: 1 to 0.4.
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Firefighters in Dubai use jetpacks to tackle blazes in high-rise buildings.
You can’t tickle yourself.
By the time we die, we’ll have spent roughly a year sitting on the toilet.
The longest-running experiment is the pitch drop experiment. A funnel holding a sample of tar pitch sealed in a glass jar shows how some substances that appear solid are actually liquid. It takes 10 years for a single drop to form.
You are always looking at your nose; your brain just chooses to ignore it.
Astronauts can grow up to two inches taller while they’re in space.
The cost of sequencing a human genome went from US$100 million in 2007 to about US$3,000 in 2012.
Some blood vessels in a blue whale are actually big enough for humans to swim through.
We’re the only species known to blush.
People in Britain who wake in the middle of the night are most likely to do it at 3:44 a.m.