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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? Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.

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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? A Mosquito has 47 teeth.

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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? Disappointment Island is an uninhabited island in New Zealand. Over 65,000 pairs of white-capped albatross live there.

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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? Tarantula spiders can survive 2 and a half years without food.

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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? The US Military buys copious amounts of “Liquid Ass” – a terrible smelling fart spray – to train their emergency medics for the stink of the battlefield.

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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? Hedwig, Harry Potter's owl, is named after the patron saint of orphaned and abandoned children.

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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? There is a ‘World Championship Masturbator‘, awarded to Masanobu Sato, who holds the record at 9 hours and 58 minutes.

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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? Feodor Vassilyev and his first wife, whose name is unknown, hold the record for the most children a couple has parented. She gave birth to a total of 69 children – sixteen pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets – between 1725 and 1765, in a total of 27 births.

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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? The longest street in the world is Yonge street in Toronto Canada measuring 1,896 km (1,178 miles).

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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? Every year, nearly 4 million cats are eaten in China as a delicacy.

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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? Originally, the Pokémon Vulpix was going to be called “FoxFire”.

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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? Oysters make pearls so they can feel better. When a grain of sand or debris gets stuck in their bodies, they ease the pain and irritation by coating it with multiple layers of nacre, the mineral that lines the inside of their shells, and pearl begins to form. Basically, pearls are like blisters, only much prettier.

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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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