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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? 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? 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? Tom Hanks had an asteroid named after him which was called “12818 tomhanks“.

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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? Mastercard was originally called mastercharge

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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? Morphine is named after 'Morpheus', the Greek god of dreams.

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Did You Know? 'I Gotta Feeling' by The Black Eyed Peas sold more copies than any Elvis Presley single when it was first released.

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Did You Know? The 1831 London Bridge was sold in 1962 when it needed to be replaced. It was bought by Lake Havasu City, Arizona, to help tourism.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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? “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? A heartbroken Argentinian farmer in the town of General Levalle spent decades cultivating the guitar-shaped forest that he created to honor his late wife.

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Did You Know? The King James Bible has inspired the lyrics of more pop songs than any other book.

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Did You Know? Several global surveys suggest that half of all women who die from homicide are killed by their current or former husbands or partners.

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Did You Know? It's not illegal to go topless in New York City.

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Did You Know? Many expensive perfumes contain sperm whale feces known as 'Ambergris'.

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Did You Know? Leonardo Da Vinci was the first to explain why the sky is blue.

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Did You Know? The word 'bride' comes from an old Proto-Germanic word meaning 'to cook'.

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Did You Know? Residents of Churchill, Canada leave their cars unlocked to offer an escape for pedestrians who might encounter polar bears.

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