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The first ballpoint pens in America sold for US$12.50, the equivalent of US$164 today.
There is a geocache on the International Space Station placed in 2008. It has since been visited four times by other astronauts.
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The Vatican had music that was forbidden to be copied and was only played twice per year. It was secret for almost 150 years until a 14-year-old Mozart heard it and transcribed it from memory.
Canada eats more macaroni and cheese than any other nation in the world.
Octopuses only touch in situations of mating or aggression. Female octopuses sometimes do both, strangling and eating the male after mating.
Camel’s milk doesn’t curdle.
Rolling Stone magazine originally gave Nirvana's Nevermind a 3-star rating in 1991. They now give it 5 stars and rank it as the 17th greatest album of all time.
All porcupines float in water.
Scotland wanted to replicate the Parthenon bigger and cheaper in 1826. It was never completed and is now nicknamed “Scotland’s Disgrace.”
Peaches are members of the same family as almonds.
Dark matter, along with dark energy, theoretically makes up 95% of the universe but has not really been discovered yet.
The longest one-syllable word is "screeched."
A French general gave John Quincy Adams a pet alligator. Adams kept it in one of the White House bathtubs and enjoyed showing it off.
Windows + Alt + 3: Open the Xbox Live News app
Windows + Alt + 2: Open the Xbox Live Netflix app
In 1866, The United States purchased Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million by writing a check.
Montana comes from the Spanish word montaña or mountain. The state is home to 64 mountain ranges.
Seals only sleep with half their brain when out at sea.
In the Philippines, you can buy spaghetti at McDonald’s, where they also sell a “McDo” piece of chicken.
Pigeons have been trained by the U.S. Coast Guard to spot people lost at sea.
A fish discovered in Australia in 2015 was named ‘Blue Bastard'.
In 1634, tulip bulbs were a form of currency in Holland.
Though most think it’s Italian, pepperoni is an American invention. The first use of the word dates back to 1919.
Before mercury, brandy was used to fill thermometers.
The main street in Prishtina, the capital of Kosovo, is called Bill Clinton Boulevard.
Windows + Alt + 5: Open the Xbox Live OneDrive app
The pumpkin is a member of the cucurbit family, which are gourds, such as cucumbers and squashes.
In 2015, Spanish workers destroyed a 6,000-year-old Neolithic tomb, mistaking it for a broken picnic table. They replaced it with a ‘better' picnic table.
Any prime number higher than three, when squared and subtracted by one, will always turn out to be a multiple of 24.