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

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

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Did You Know? Gatophobia is the fear of cats.

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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.

  Dec 19, 2018   0   444

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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Did You Know? China has secret military-style boot camps for Internet addicts.

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Did You Know? English has only one word for 'love'. Sanskrit has 96.

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Did You Know? When a giraffe's baby is born, it falls from a height of 6 feet, usually without getting hurt.

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Did You Know? In 2005, a group of women from Kampala, Uganda who make their 1.20 USD per day by breaking rocks into gravel, sent an impressive 900 USD to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

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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? Blood donors in Sweden receive a thank you text when their blood is used.

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Did You Know? The United kingdom eats more cans of baked beans than the rest of the world combined.

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Did You Know? In space, you cannot cry because there is no gravity to make the tears flow.

  Oct 15, 2018   0   356

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

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Did You Know? Peter Dinklage is a very strict vegetarian, and every time you see him eating meat on 'Game of Thrones', he is actually eating tofu.

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Did You Know? Mickey Mouse has a sister named Amelia Fieldmouse.

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Did You Know? Google hired a camel to create the Street View of a desert.

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Did You Know? Nepal was the first country in Asia to introduce gay marriage.

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Did You Know? The first boxes of Crayola crayons were sold door to door for a nickel.

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Did You Know? In Norway, all prisoners have access to the internet, even in their cells.

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Did You Know? In Quebec, Sweden and Norway, advertising to children under the age of 12 is illegal.

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Did You Know? There is a food substitute intended to supply all daily nutritional needs, known as 'Soylent'.

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Did You Know? Despite his profanity-laced songs, Eminem does not allow swearing in his home.

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Did You Know? The world’s oldest surviving bank is “Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena”, which was founded in 1472, and is currently Italy’s 3rd largest bank.

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Did You Know? Daniel Radcliffe's stunt double was paralyzed after an explosion on film set of 'Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows'.

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Did You Know? Sleeping on the job is acceptable in Japan, as it is seen as exhaustion from working too hard.

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Did You Know? Toe wrestling is a national sport in Britain. It involves 2 opponents who lock feet and attempt to pin the other's foot down.

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Did You Know? Psychopaths are more likely to be immune to 'contagious yawning'. Their lack of empathy may make them impervious to our yawns.

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Did You Know? In Japanese, there are at least 20 different ways to say 'sorry'.

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Did You Know? August 13th is celebrated as 'Left-Handers Day' since 1996.

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Did You Know? Play-doh was first manufactured in Cincinnati, Ohio, originally meant to be used as a wallpaper cleaner.

  Sep 27, 2018   0   519

Did You Know? According to the USDA, Super Bowl Sunday is the second highest day of food consumption in the United States, after Thanksgiving.

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