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Did You Know? Popcorn was the first food cooked in a microwave. The second food was an egg, which exploded in the face of one of the experimenters.

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Did You Know? Aeschylus, the Greek poet and dramatist, was killed when an eagle flying overhead dropped a turtle on his head.

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Did You Know? ‘Anuptaphobia‘ is the fear of staying single.

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Did You Know? After Disney‘s ‘Princess and the Frog‘ movie came out in 2009, over 50 children were hospitalized with salmonella from kissing frogs.

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Did You Know? In Kentucky, the law mandates that people must take a bath once a year.

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Did You Know? Until 2007, slavery was legal in Mauritania. Even still, 1-4% of the population is still living as slaves.

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Did You Know? The Lion King was originally called “King of the Jungle” before they realized that lions don’t actually live in jungles.

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Did You Know? Suriphobia is the fear of mice.

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Did You Know? The last picture taken of John Lennon while he was alive had his killer in the frame.

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Did You Know? Catoptrophobia is the fear of mirrors.

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Did You Know? If you Google search 'askew', the content will tilt slightly to the right.

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Did You Know? People decide whether you’re smart, likeable, extroverted, adventurous, successful, or trustworthy within just 3 seconds of meeting you.

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Did You Know? Most cows produce more milk when they listen to music.

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

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Did You Know? In 2009, Nigerian Police detained a goat on suspicion of attempted armed robbery.

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Did You Know? The Grand Canyon can hold around 900 trillion footballs.

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Did You Know? Ancient Romans celebrated 'Saturnalia', a festival in which slaves were treated as equals and are allowed to wear their masters' clothing.

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Did You Know? The little piece of paper sticking out of a Hershey’s Kiss is called a Niggly Wiggly.

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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? Sonic the Hedgehog’s full name is actually Ogilvie Maurice Hedgehog.

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Did You Know? Ablutophobia is the fear of bathing

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Did You Know? Amathophobia is the fear of dust.

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Did You Know? There is a punctuation mark used to signify irony or sarcasm that looks like a backwards question mark ⸮

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Did You Know? First parachute jump is made over Paris

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Did You Know? Amazon.com was previously known as Cadabra.com.

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Did You Know? The word ‘quarantine’ derives from the Venetian dialect of Italian and the words ‘quaranta giorni’, meaning ‘forty days’. This is because when it was discovered that ships were infested with plague-carrying rats they were made to sit at anchor outside Venice’s city walls for forty days before coming ashore.

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Did You Know? Before 1850 golf balls were made of leather and were stuffed with feathers

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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? In Japan, letting a sumo wrestler make your baby cry is said to bring good health as well as warding off evil spirits.

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Did You Know? Dartmouth’s unofficial mascot is a beer keg called “Keggy the Keg”. Created in 2003, it was initially controversial but is now part of the Dartmouth culture.

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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? The voice actor of SpongeBob and the voice actor of Karen, Plankton’s computer wife, have been married since 1995.

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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? Ralph Lauren’s real name was Ralph Lifshitz.

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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? You burn more calories sleeping than watching TV.

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Did You Know? William Hung, made famous for his appearance on American Idol singing “She Bangs“, is a 73rd generation descendant of Confucius.

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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? For the same mass, lemons contain more sugar than strawberries.

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

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