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Did You Know? The Flintstones was the most profitable network cartoon franchise for 30 years, that’s before The Simpsons came along.

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Did You Know? Krusty the Clown was originally created to be Homer Simpson's secret identity.

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Did You Know? Satoshi Tajiri, the creator of Pokemon, is autistic.

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Did You Know? The TV sitcom Seinfeld was originally called ‘The Seinfeld Chronicles‘.

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Did You Know? Camels are born without humps.

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Did You Know? When snakes are born with two heads they fight each other for food.

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Did You Know? A donkey named Monika retired from the Mariinsky ballet in St Petersburg, Russia, in 2008 after 19 years in the ballet Don Quixote.

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Did You Know? When a cat blinks slowly at you, it’s a sign of affection referred to as a ‘kitty kiss’.

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Did You Know? Hippos use their sweat as sunscreen.

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Did You Know? The longest time a person has been in a coma is 37 years.

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Did You Know? There‘s a cruise ship named ‘The World‘ where residents permanently live as it travels around the globe.

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Did You Know? India has the most post offices than any other country (over 100,000).

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Did You Know? Pringles were first sold in America in 1968 but were not popular until the mid-1970s.

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Did You Know? The collective name for a group of unicorns is called a blessing.

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Did You Know? On the average, there are 200 tiny seeds on every strawberry.

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Did You Know? Holding hands with someone you love can alleviate physical pain as well as stress and fear.

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Did You Know? Turkey vultures use defensive vomit to get rid of any disturbing animal. They can propel their vomit up to 10 feet.

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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? Catoptrophobia is the fear of mirrors.

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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? 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? 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? 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? The Grand Canyon can hold around 900 trillion footballs.

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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? 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? 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? 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? 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? 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? 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? 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? Arizona driver’s licenses don’t expire until you’re 65. You then have to renew in person every five years.

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Did You Know? A mom from England was so emotionally affected by venephobia, a fear of veins, begged doctor to amputate her legs despite there being nothing wrong with them.

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Did You Know? The very first bottle of Dr Pepper was sold in America on the 12th January, 1885.

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Did You Know? Mastercard was originally called mastercharge

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Did You Know? In 2014, Sony made a cassette tape that can store 185TB of data!

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Did You Know? The sounds made by Ghast from Minecraft are actually C418‘s cat when he bothered it while it was sleeping.

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

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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? Sociologists have found the worse the economy, the longer the women's skirts are and the better economy, the shorter the skirt.

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Did You Know? The inventor of Vaseline, Robert Chesebrough, ate a spoonful of the stuff every single day.

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Did You Know? In 1999, the founders of Google actually tried to sell it to Excite for just US$1 million. Excite turned them down!

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Did You Know? The original meaning of the word ‘silly‘ means ‘blessed‘ or ‘happy‘.

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