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Now, a bucketload of facts from me... here we go!
  • The giant panda bear, is actually of the raccoon family, despite its name
  • Other than humans, pigs and walruses can suffer from sunburn.
  • Lobsters have blue blood.
  • A wedding's 'best man' originally got his title for helping the groom to kidnap the bride.
  • The Taj Mahal was originally built as a tomb.
  • New Zealand was the first country to give women the right to vote, in 1893.
  • The "bulge" of Battle Of The Bulge referred to a break in the Allied Lines caused by a German advance.
  • Somalia has the most number of camels.
  • If we get goosebumps all over our bodies, chimpanzees get them on their face.
  • Verkhoyansk, in Russia, has the most diverse temperature range, where it can be a freezing -67°C to a scorching 86°C in a single day.
  • John Adams was the first US president to actually reside in the White House.
  • The “funny bone” takes it name from the humerus bone itself, when one injures his/her elbow (well, get the pun there?)
  • Sunglasses, of all vision aids, were invented long before all others.
  • An octopus has three hearts.
  • A dactylogram is another term for a fingerprint.
  • Ecuador has the widest variety of hummingbirds.
  • People think only Noah himself was on Noah's Ark... there were actually eight people aboard there.
  • The number of the Levi 501 brand of jeans referred to the original number of rivets per pair sold.
  • Crocodile tears, an expression showing false emotion, derives from the fact that crocodiles have no tear ducts.
  • A cricket hears from its knee.
  • If you suffer from optophobia, you are afraid of opening your eyes.
  • The original recipe for toothpaste was human urine and vinegar, as devised by the Romans.
  • Kilts and bagpipes did not originate in Scotland as what people would always assume. In truth, they were from France and Ancient Rome respectively.
  • Left-handed people are forbidden to play polo.
  • The rings that make up the Olympic symbol contain an individual colour that appear in every national flag.
  • Sheep will not drink from a stream if it's running.
  • Women are said to be better dancers than men because of a lower centre of gravity.
  • The Greek mathematician, Archimedes, allegedly ran down the street in his birthday suit shouting “Eureka!” after a great discovery he made.
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Vlad the Impaler was trained as a Jannisary.
Jiro Horikoshi’s children never pursued careers in aircraft engineering.
PS Actually, the giant panda is a bear.
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The letter "T" is the most-used consonant in the English language, and coming before that is "N".

(Funny, I would've thought "S" would be the popular one because, thousands of words begin with it)
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Dasani water is not available in the UK, because of a scandal soon after it was launched here. 

It was discovered that the Dasani water sold in the UK was just re-bottled tap water. This completely destroyed the brand's reputation here, so it was withdrawn altogether and hasn't been brought back since.
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(This post was last modified: 08-18-2018, 05:38 AM by Eremurus.)
  • That little plastic thing at the end of your shoelace? It's called an aglet. 
  • There's a protein named "sonic hedgehog." It is, not surprisingly, encoded by the Sonic Hedgehog gene (I'm guessing whoever discovered it was a Sega fan!). The gene is involved in embryonic development and growth, and there are versions of it found in most animals. http://www.bio.davidson.edu/Courses/Molb...dgehog.htm
  • Snails have teeth
  •  The temperature outside can be determined by counting the chirps made by crickets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket_%28insect%29

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The 2016 remake of Ben-Hur did so poorly at the box office that it actually made less money than the 1959 original - in spite of having over half a century's worth of inflation on its side!
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All those sabers you see depicted in 17th-19th century art? They're influenced by the Tulwar, an Indian sword. Likewise, Eastern Europeans preferred the kilij.
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Dame Vera Lynn (known as "The Forces' Sweetheart" during World War II) topped the UK albums chart in 2009 at the age of 92 - making her the oldest living artist to accomplish this feat.
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Sora Takenouchi becomes a fashion designer.
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Movie trailers used to be shown after the end of a movie, instead of before the beginning (hence the name 'trailer'). 

Easy to see why they were moved to their current location!
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