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Did You Know? The first, and largest, pyramid at Giza was built by the pharaoh Khufu.

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Did You Know? On February 10, 2009, two communications satellites accidentally collided above the Taymyr Peninsula in Siberia.

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Did You Know? First parachute jump is made over Paris

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Did You Know? The Rolling Stones' tongue logo design was inspired by the Indian Hindu goddess Kali The Destroyer.

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Did You Know? Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote 23 original concertos for piano and orchestra.

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Did You Know? New York was once called New Amsterdam.

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Did You Know? The New Zealand Prime Minister, John Key, went to a doctor and a vet to confirm that he is a human being and not a shape shifting lizard from space.

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Did You Know? France was still executing people by guillotine when the first Star Wars movie came out.

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Did You Know? Watching horror movies can burn more calories than any other genre. The increase in heart rates and adrenaline means more calories burned.

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Did You Know? Tom Hanks had an asteroid named after him which was called “12818 tomhanks“.

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Did You Know? Octopuses are older than dinosaurs.

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Did You Know? A study from the University of Chicago suggests that thinking in a foreign language leads to more rational decision making.

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Did You Know? Despite Mercury being the closest planet to the Sun, Venus is the warmest planet.

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Did You Know? William Hill Brown is generally believed to have written the first American novel, "The Power of Sympathy," published in Boston in 1791, which relates a tragic love story.

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Did You Know? When signing up to iTunes, if you accept their Terms & Conditions, you agree to not use it to make nuclear weapons.

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Did You Know? The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

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Did You Know? South African scientists have discovered that 400-year-old tobacco pipes excavated from the garden of William Shakespeare contained cannabis.

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Did You Know? The Catholic Church once exhumed the rotting corpse of a deceased Pope and put him on trial.

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Did You Know? Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.

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Did You Know? On any given day, as many as 10 volcanoes may be spewing ash or lava somewhere on Earth.

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Did You Know? The idea of contact lenses was first introduced by Leonardo da Vinci in 1508.

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Did You Know? There's an alcoholism vaccine that will give drinkers an immediate hangover if they drink even a small amount of alcohol.

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Did You Know? Mastercard was originally called mastercharge

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Did You Know? Army ants are used as natural sutures. Their jaws are so powerful, natives staple wounds by forcing ants to bite them and then break off the body.

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Did You Know? According to the Journal of Experimental Psychology, fooling yourself into thinking you've slept well, even if you haven't, still improves performance.

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Did You Know? The Earth is struck by lightning over 100 times every second.

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Did You Know? The Beatles showed their support for the US civil rights movement by refusing to play in concerts where audiences were segregated.

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Did You Know? Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the construction of the building of the Great Pyramid.

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Did You Know? The English word 'minion' comes from the French word 'mignon', which means 'cute'.

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Did You Know? The world's tallest model Amazon Eve, also known for her role in American Horror Story, was born a male.

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Did You Know? Marcellus Gilmore Edson originally invented peanut butter to be marketed as product for people who had no teeth and could not chew on solid food.

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Did You Know? Because of the dark and intense nature of the film Suicide Squad, director David Ayer hired an on-set therapist for the cast.

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Did You Know? William Shakespeare had a curse engraved on his tombstone to prevent anyone from moving his bones.

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Did You Know? The first rugby club was formed in 1843

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Did You Know? In 1750’s cats came from Europe to America as pest controllers.

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Did You Know? Horses and cows can sleep standing up, but they don‘t experience full REM sleep unless they lie down.

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Did You Know? There's a species of orchid that looks like a monkey's face called 'Dracula simia'.

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Did You Know? Ireland’s oldest pub dates back to the year 900 CE.

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Did You Know? A day on Venus lasts longer than a year. It takes 243 Earth days to rotate once on its axis (sidereal day). The planet's orbit around the Sun takes 225 Earth days.

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Did You Know? Morphine is named after 'Morpheus', the Greek god of dreams.

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Did You Know? 'I Gotta Feeling' by The Black Eyed Peas sold more copies than any Elvis Presley single when it was first released.

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Did You Know? Over 500 meteorites hit the Earth each year.

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Did You Know? Apple have a ‘no smoking’ ban regarding their computers, which means if you smoke while using an Apple computer, you void the warranty.

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Did You Know? Janis Joplin left $2,500 in her will for her friends to "have a ball after I’m gone".

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Did You Know? In 1889, the Queen of Italy, Margherita Savoy, ordered the first pizza delivery.

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Did You Know? At weddings, the bride normally stands to the left of the groom so that his sword hand is free to defend against other suitors.

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Did You Know? Mushrooms are more closely related to humans than they are to plants.

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Did You Know? More people have been to the moon than the bottom of the ocean.

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Did You Know? The largest living thing on earth is a giant sequoia named General Sherman.

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Did You Know? An alleged Virginia bank robber denies robbing a bank because he asked the teller 'politely'.

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