~Top facts you should know about~

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1. Thirty-five percent of people are born without wisdom teeth.
2. If you open your eyes in a pitch-black room, the color you'll see is called eigengrau.
3. The oldest star is nicknamed Methuselah. It's 13.8 billion years old.
4. In Japan, letting a sumo wrestler make your baby cry is considered good luck.
5. McDonald's once made bubblegum-flavored broccoli.
6. The longest English word is 189,819 letters long.
7. Octopuses lay 56,000 eggs at a time.
8. That tiny pocket in jeans was designed to store pocket watches.
9. Most Disney characters wear gloves to keep animation simple
10. The man with the world's deepest voice can make sounds humans can't hear.
11. The current American flag was designed by a high school student.
12. Cows don't have upper front teeth
13. Thanks to 3D printing, NASA can basically "email" tools to astronauts.
14. Bananas grow upside-down.
15. There were active volcanoes on the moon when dinosaurs were alive.
16. Dogs sniff good smells with their left nostril.
17.  Avocados were named after reproductive organs.
18. You only have two body parts that never stop growing.
19. Mercedes invented a car controlled by joystick.
20. The U.S. government saved every public tweet from 2006 through 2017.
21. The CIA headquarters has its own Starbucks, but baristas don't write names on the cups.
22. Giraffe tongues can be 20 inches long.
23. There's only one U.S. state capital without a McDonald's.
24. Europeans were scared of eating tomatoes when they were introduced.
25. Humans aren't the only animals that dream.
26. The inventor of the microwave appliance only received $2 for his discovery.
26. Glitter was made on a ranch.
27. Sloths have more neck bones than giraffes.
28. Bees can fly higher than Mount Everest.
29. Abraham Lincoln was a bartende.
30. Japan released sushi-inspired KitKats.
31. An espresso maker was sent into space in 2015.
32. An employee at Pixar accidentally deleted a sequence of Toy Story 2 during production.
33. Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ron Wayne started Apple Inc. on April Fools' Day.
34. The inventor of the tricycle personally delivered two to Queen Victoria.
35. A waffle iron inspired one of the first pairs of Nikes.
35. The first commercial passenger flight lasted only 23 minutes.
36. A woman called the police when her ice cream didn't have enough sprinkles.
37. The British Empire was the largest empire in world history.
38.  The first stroller was pulled by a goat.
39. Bees can make colored honey.
40.  Albert Einstein's eyeballs are in New York City.
41.  A one-armed player scored the winning goal in the first World Cup.
42. It can take a photon 40,000 years to travel from the core of the sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to earth.
43. It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human of blood. .
44. A small percentage of the static you see on "dead" tv stations is left over radiation from the Big Bang. You're seeing residual effects of the Universe's creation.
45. If you were to remove all of the empty space from the atoms that make up every human on earth, the entire world population could fit into an apple.
46. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
47. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row on the keyboard.
48. The blood of mammals is red, the blood of insects is yellow in colour, and the blood of lobster is blue.
49. . The fastest bird is the Peregrine falcon, clocked at speeds of up to 240 miles per hour.
50. Hearing is the fastest human sense. a person can recognize a sound in as little as 0.05 seconds.
51. The entire world's population could fit inside Los Angeles.
52. The  hottest chili pepper in the world is so hot it could kill you.
53. More people visit France than any other country
54. More people visit France than any other country.
55. Indonesia is home to some of the shortest people in the world.
56. The world's quietest room is located at Microsoft's headquarters in Washington state.
57. The longest place name on the planet is 85 letters long.
58. The coldest temperature ever recorded was -144 degrees Fahrenheit.
59. People who are currently alive represent about 7 percent of the total number of people who have ever lived.
60. Only two countries use purple in their national flags.

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