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Did You Know? Cucumber can actually cure bad breath. A slice pressed to the roof of your mouth for 30 seconds with your tongue allows the phytochemicals to kill the problematic bacteria.

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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? The body of the Cowardly Lion costume used in the Wizard of Oz is made of real lion skin and fur, and the mane is made of human hair.

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

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Did You Know? Smoking cigarettes has been linked to developing gray hair before the age of 30.

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Did You Know? The ‘Cobra Effect‘ is where an attempted solution to a problem actually makes the problem worse.

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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? All snakes are carnivorous.

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Did You Know? There are 3000 types of bacteria on your dollar bills.

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Did You Know? There's a species of fish called 'Slippery Dick'.

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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? Originally, the design for the first iPhone was literally the shape of an apple.

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Did You Know? Pluto was named by an 11 year old girl named Venetia Burney.

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Did You Know? ‘Pentheraphobia‘ is a fear of a mother-in-law.

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Did You Know? The military used toilet paper to camouflage their tanks in Saudi Arabia, during the Desert Storm War.

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Did You Know? Miami installed the first bank automated teller machine (ATM) specially designed for rollerbladers.

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Did You Know? Leonardo da Vinci discovered that a tree‘s rings reveal its age.

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Did You Know? The youngest mother ever in recorded medical history was only 5 years old.

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Did You Know? Ed Sheeran bought a ticket to LA with no contacts. He was spotted by Jamie Foxx, who offered him the use of his recording studio and a bed in his Hollywood home for six weeks.

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Did You Know? Sour Patch Kids are from the same manufacturer as Swedish Fish. The red Sour Patch Kids are the same candy as Swedish Fish, but with sour sugar.

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Did You Know? Employees at MillerCoors get three free cases of beer each month, in addition to having access to beer and cider on location after a work day.

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Did You Know? Iceland was chosen as the training ground for Apollo astronauts because it was the most “moonlike” surface.

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Did You Know? The Great Wall of China is 3,728 miles long.

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Did You Know? In 1878 the first telephone book made contained only 50 names.

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Did You Know? An octopus pupil is rectangular.

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Did You Know? Draughts (checkers) is older than Chess.

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Did You Know? On average you blink 25,000 a day.

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Did You Know? The first crossword puzzle appeared in 1913.

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Did You Know? The most abundant metal in the Earth‘s crust is aluminum.

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Did You Know? Gatophobia is the fear of cats.

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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? The tallest woman that ever lived was Zeng Jinlian from China, who was 8 feet 2 inches tall. She died at the age of 17.

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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? Santa Claus was issued a pilot’s license from the U.S. government in 1927. They also gave him airway maps and promised to keep the runway lights on.

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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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Did You Know? Villagers in central China have been using dinosaur bones as medicine. They believed the bones were from dragons and had special healing powers!

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Did You Know? The planet Saturn could float in water because it is mostly made of gas.

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Did You Know? “Rap God” by Eminem packs 1,560 words into a 6 min 4 sec song. It holds the world record for most words in a hit single.

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Did You Know? The largest island in the Mediterranean Sea is Sicily.

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Did You Know? There are more living organisms in a teaspoonful of soil than there are people on the planet.

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Did You Know? Blue whales are so enormous that a small child could swim through its veins.

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