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Bamboo can grow at a speed of around three feet per day


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Soy milk doesn't need to be refrigerated until after it's opened. Supermarkets sell it out of the refrigerated section to make it seem more like cow milk.


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Soy milk doesn't need to be refrigerated until after it's opened. Supermarkets sell it out of the refrigerated section to make it seem more like cow milk.


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Lycanthropy is a disease in which a man thinks that he's a wolf


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Kellogg's corn flakes and graham crackers were originally developed to curb sexual urges.


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The first archaeological evidence of soup comes from 6000 B.C. and its primary ingredients was hippopotamus.


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The Mall of America, located in Minnesota, is about the size of 78 football fields.


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The cables of the Golden Gate Bridge contain 80,000 miles of steel wire.


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From one giant redwood or sequoia, it would be possible to build 60 average sized houses.


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noreply66 wrote:The most abused drug in the world is caffeine.
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Subway was started by 17-year old, Frank DeLuca who was only looking for a way to pay for medical school.


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In 2001, a cat named Skittles walked 350 miles from Wisconsin to her home in Minnesota after being lost on a family vacation.


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Despite common belief, your heart does not stop when you sneeze.


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noreply66 wrote:From one giant redwood or sequoia, it would be possible to build 60 average sized houses.
Cool stuff. Love those big sequoia's. Beautiful and amazing trees.


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The lethal dose of caffeine for humans is ten grams, or about 100 cups of coffee consumed in four hours.


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In 1830, the average American was consuming 1.7 bottles of hard liquor per week.


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If every star in the Milky Way was a grain of salt, they would fill an Olympic sized swimming pool.


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Everytime you lick a stamp you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.


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67% of dog owners buy holiday gifts for their pets


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Since space is a vacuum the laser beams in Star Wars would not be visible, nor would you be able to hear the explosions.


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