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The numbers on a roulette wheel add up to 666 | |
A US penny costs more than 1 cent to mint | |
Monkee Mike Nesmith's mother invented liquid paper | |
Water going down a plughole will go anti-clockwise in the Northern hemisphere, and clockwise in the Southern | |
The Great Wall of China is the only man-made object visible from the moon | |
Baseball's World Series is so named because it was originally sponsored by the New York World newspaper | |
Bugs Bunny voice actor Mel Blanc was allergic to carrots | |
Butterflies taste with their feet | |
The name 'Heroin' was originally a trademark for the drug's legal sale | |
David Bowie's eyes are different colours | |
Just before his death on the HMS Victory, Lord Nelson said to the ship's captain 'Kismet, Hardy', meaning 'fate' | |
Most humans only use about 10% of their brains | |
Baseball's World Series is so named because it was originally sponsored by the New York World newspaper | |
The Great Wall of China is the only man-made object visible from the moon | |
Birmingham (UK) has more canals than Venice | |
Fanta was created during WWII in Nazi Germany | |
Water going down a plughole will go anti-clockwise in the Northern hemisphere, and clockwise in the Southern | |
You can still receive the death penalty in the UK for high treason or piracy | |
Each person swallows, on average, 8 spiders per year | |
A US penny costs more than 1 cent to mint | |
The numbers on a roulette wheel add up to 666 | |
Fashion designer Hugo Boss made uniforms for the Nazis | |
Monkee Mike Nesmith's mother invented liquid paper | |
David Bowie's eyes are different colours | |
Chris De Burgh picked only his own records to take with him to a desert island on radio show 'Desert Island Discs' | |
The name 'Heroin' was originally a trademark for the drug's legal sale | |
Goats have roughly rectangular pupils | |
Bugs Bunny voice actor Mel Blanc was allergic to carrots | |
Butterflies taste with their feet | |
The word golf originated as an acronym for 'Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden' | |
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