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‘Tomato, Tomato”
Humans have caused 322 animal extinctions over the past 500 years.
The world’s most popular fruit is the tomato.
Louis XIX was King ofFrance for just 20 minutes.
The wars between Romans and Persians lasted about 721 years, the longest conflict in human history.
There’s a nude beach under the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
Don’t Worry, Beer Happy
At the World Wife-Carrying Championships in Finland, first prize is the wife’s weight in beer.
There’s a golf club on the border of Sweden and Finland: nine holes are in one country and nine in the other.
The doctor who claimed a link between vaccines and autism, Andrew Wakefield, created fraudulent data for his paper and lost his medical license as a result.
Dinosaurs are not technically extinct, since birds are considered by science as a type of dinosaur.
Africa is larger than China, USA, India, Mexico and a big part of Europe combined.
A Roast To Coffee!
Right-handed people tend to chew food on the right side while the left-handed tend to chew on the left side.
Coffee is one of the world’s most valuable traded commodities, second only to petroleum.
As late as 1985, doctors believed babies didn’t feel pain and conducted infant surgery with no anaesthesia.
There’s only one stop-sign in the entire city of Paris.
Millionaire Harris Rosen adopted an urban neighborhood in Florida, giving all families daycare, boosting the graduation rate by 75%, and cutting the crime rate in half.
Bottoms Up!
In 1994, a 5 stone bag of cocaine fell out of a plane and landed in the middle of a Florida crimewatch meeting.
Chimpanzees can identify each other from pictures of their bums.
People with unfortunate initials, such as PIG or ASS have significant lower life expectancy, due to psychological stress related to childhood bullying.
Although myths and speculation about a “Southern Land” date back to antiquity, Antarctica was only first sighted in 1820 by a Russian expedition.
Cenosillicaphobia is the fear of an empty beer glass.
Donald McDonald?
Your brain keeps developing until your late 40s.
Ronald McDonald is called Donald McDonald in Japan due to there being no clear “r” sound in Japanese.
Every year, Walt Disney World’s “Lost and Found” collects more than 6,000 cell phones, 3,500 digital cameras, and 18,000 hats.
Disney owns 80% of ESPN, the American international basic cable sports channel.
“Happy hours” are banned in Ireland.
That’s Koalaty
The Irish surname prefix “Mac” means “son of”, while “O” means “descendant of”.
Every day, your heart creates enough energy to drive a truck for 20 miles.
Listening to music while working out measurably improves physical performance.
You don’t like the original version of a song because it’s better. You like it because it’s the one you heard first.
