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Did You Know? The color of white wine gets darker as it ages, while red wine gets lighter in color.

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Did You Know? It is estimated that up to 1 million people died while constructing the Great Wall of China.

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Did You Know? The Anglo-Zanzibar war of 1896 is the shortest war on record lasting an exhausting 38 minutes.

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Did You Know? J.K. Rowling was the 1st person to ever become a billionaire by writing books.

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Did You Know? According to studies, you'll be happier spending your money on experiences rather than possessions.

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Did You Know? An apple in the morning will keep you more awake than a cup of coffee.

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Did You Know? To get the most juice from lemons or limes, put them in the microwave for 30 seconds as it will help the citrus juice flow more easily.

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Did You Know? A British Airways flight to Dubai was forced to return to Heathrow Airport because someone took a dump that smelled so bad it was unbearable for passengers.

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Did You Know? Illegal drug possession and trafficking are punished in Singapore with the death penalty.

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Did You Know? All of 'The Simpsons' characters have just 4 fingers on each hand, except for one character with 5 fingers, God.

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Did You Know? The founder of match.com, Gary Kremen, lost his girlfriend to a man she met on match.com.

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Did You Know? Daniel Radcliffe, who played Harry Potter, was allergic to Harry Potter's iconic glasses.

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Did You Know? Frankenstein author Mary Shelley kept her dead husband’s heart and carried it with her for almost 30 years until she died in 1851. It was found in a desk drawer a year later, wrapped in a copy of one of his final poems.

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Did You Know? According to a study, eating an apple before going shopping causes a person to buy 25% more fruits and vegetables.

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Did You Know? Commonly mistaken as an ancient Greek tradition, the Olympics torch relay was actually a Nazi idea.

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Did You Know? In Mexico, artists can pay their taxes with artwork.

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Did You Know? The flag erected on the Moon during the historic Apollo 11 landing was purchased at a local Sears store for $5.50.

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Did You Know? William Shakespeare was born and died on the same day, April 23.

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Did You Know? Bubble wrap was originally designed to be used as a textured wallpaper.

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Did You Know? An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.

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Did You Know? Sound travels 17 times faster through steel than air.

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Did You Know? The Olympic flag has a white background, with five interlaced rings in the centre: blue, yellow, black, green and red. This design is symbolic; it represents the five continents of the world, united by Olympism, while the six colours are those that appear on all the national flags of the world at the present time.

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Did You Know? Coca-Cola was first served in 1886. At that time, only 9 colas were served in an average day, 3,285 a year. Today, 19,400 Coke products are consumed every second.

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Did You Know? There are more volcanoes on Venus than any other planet within our Solar System.

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Did You Know? The diameter of Earth is 12,756 km (7,926 miles).

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Did You Know? Washington Square in New York used to be a cemetery with over 20,000 people buried there.

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Did You Know? Fredric Baur invented the Pringles can. When he passed away in 2008, his ashes were buried in one.

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Did You Know? Neil Armstrong stepped on the Moon with his left foot first.

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Did You Know? Saturn is so big that Earth could fit into it whooping 755 times!

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Did You Know? The Boston Marathon didn’t allow female runners until 1972.

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Did You Know? The speed of light in a vacuum is 186,282 miles per second (299,792 kilometers per second), and in theory nothing can travel faster than light.

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Did You Know? Hummingbirds are the only bird that can fly backwards.

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Did You Know? Summer on Uranus lasts one long day, which is equivalent to 42 Earth years.

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Did You Know? Mulan has the highest kill-count of any Disney character, including villains, and was the first Disney Princess to be shown killing people on-screen.

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Did You Know? If you keep going North, you will eventually go South but, if you keep going East, you will never go West.

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Did You Know? An egg contains every vitamin except Vitamin C

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Did You Know? There are over 10 trillion living cells in the human body

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Did You Know? Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature

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Did You Know? Mobile phone throwing is an international sport that started in Finland in 2000. Participants throw mobile phones and are judged on distance or technique.

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Did You Know? To help panda cubs adapt to living in the wild, researchers at a panda center in China wear panda costumes to work with them.

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Did You Know? According to NASA, Las Vegas is the brightest city on Earth.

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Did You Know? In 1942, there was a man called the Phantom Barber. He would break into people's houses in Mississippi at night and cut their hair.

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Did You Know? Facebook changed their 'feeling fat' emoji to 'feeling stuffed' after thousands of people signed an online petition to protest.

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Did You Know? Trichotillomania is a condition in which people pull their hair out. It may be hair on the head or hair in other places, such as the eyebrows or eyelashes.

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Did You Know? Instant mashed potatoes (dehydrated potato flakes) were invented in Canadian in 1962.

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Did You Know? Not all moons are dry and dusty like ours. Jupiter's Europa has a liquid ocean under an icy crust.

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Did You Know? A 'butt' was a unit of measure for wine in Medieval England.

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Did You Know? It rains diamonds on Saturn and Jupiter.

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Did You Know? Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.

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Did You Know? Until President Kennedy was killed, it wasn‘t a federal crime to assassinate the President.

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