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The most comprehensive pure linguistic Chinese-language dictionary, records more than 23,000 head Chinese characters and gives over 370,000 definitions.
Most U.S. stamp adhesive contains about one-tenth of a calorie. British stamps could set you back 5.9 calories. Of course, one lick won’t transfer all of that to your belly.
Here’s a little funny and creepy fact: not only are groups of crows called murders, but the birds actually hold funerals for their dead. Spooky!
Before the current era of commercial skyscrapers, there was an era where the tallest buildings were Christian churches and cathedrals (c. 1250–1901).
Bees are the only insect that produce food that people eat. Thanks, bees!
Squeamish? Don’t go to any cheese shops in Sardinia, lest you find yourself face to face with Casu Marzu, a cheese that gets its taste from live maggots. Eek!
In 1993, a company attempted to launch a giant billboard into low earth orbit. From earth, the billboard would look almost as big as a full moon. After the project was canceled, a bill was introduced that banned any further space advertising.
Lettuce is a member of the sunflower family. Is your mind blown?
Jin Songhao of China won the world record for longest skin contact with snow at 46 minutes and 7 seconds!
Hearing is the fastest human sense. A person can recognize a sound in as little as 0.05 seconds.
The heaviest onion on record was grown by Pete Glazebrook of England. It weighed 17 pounds
In 1999, Coca Cola invented a vending machine that could adjust its prices based on the temperature, allowing it to hike up the price of a Coke on a hot summer day.
The title of tallest Mohawk goes to Kazuhito Watanabe, a Japanese fashion designer. His ‘hawk’ measures three feet 8.6 inches!
Eating an early dinner, or just skipping it altogether, may increase the amount of fat a person burns at night, a study found.
Elmer Fudd’s original name was Egghead.
The actors who voiced Mickey and Minnie mouse from the 1980s to the 2010s were married!
On November 9th, 2016, the most searched "How Did..." question on Google was "How did Trump win?"
In some Harry Potter movie scenes where Harry, Ron, and Hermione are doing their Hogwarts schoolwork, the actors were actually doing their REAL schoolwork!
There are 189 things named after George Washington: 1 state, 7 mountains, 8 streams, 10 lakes, 33 counties, 9 colleges, and 121 towns and villages.
Forgetful? Move to Eastern Pennsylvania where the word “jawn” can be used to a person, place, or thing you just can’t remember.
The city of Oatman, Arizona, hosts a Solar Egg Frying Contest every 4th of July.
The oldest domestic cat on record lived for 38 years. She was Creme Puff of Austin, Texas.
Armadillo is a Spanish word meaning “little armored one.”
Apparently, the world’s fastest ant runs faster than Usain Bolt!
When spun on a table, a U.S. ‘Lincoln Memorial' one-cent coin will land on tails 80% of the time.
ittle brown bats make for the longest nappers — in captivity, they nap up to 19.9 hours a day. Wish we could take a nap that long!
At 10,582sq km in size and about 100km across, Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia – the world's largest salt flat – is roughly the size of Jamaica.
The longest noodle ever made is more than 10,000 feet long. That’s almost two miles! Wonder how long it would take us to slurp that?