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The Snickers chocolate bar was invented in 1930

The word pure appears on the scroll held by the Quaker pictured on the packages of Quaker Oats cereal.

You have no sense of smell when you're sleeping.

A leech will suck blood until it is ten times its original size and can't hold any more. Once it's full, it drops off its victim.

An artist from Chicago named Dwight Kalb created a statue of Madonna made out of 180 pounds of ham

The first personal computer was called the Altair and was made by a company called MITS in 1974. It came in a kit and had to be assembled.

The month of December is the most popular month for weddings in the Philippines

Ten tons of space dust falls on the Earth every day.

There are 315 species of parrot in the world

Singer Paula Abdul used to be a cheerleader for the Los Angeles Lakers

The telescope on Mount Palomar, California, can see a distance of 7,038,835,200,000,000,000,000 miles.

Stewardesses is one of the longest words typed with only the left hand

One beaver can cut down as many as 216 trees per year.

The oldest bird on record was Cocky, a cockatoo, who died in the London Zoo at the age of 82

Some Ribbon worm will eat themselves if they cannot find food. This type of worm can still survive after eating up to 95% of its body weight

Audrey Hepburn's real name was Edda van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston.

The average speed for a migrating duck is fifty miles per hour.

More people are afraid of open spaces (kenophobia) than of tight spaces (claustrophobia).

Sound carries so well in the Arctic that on a calm day, a conversation can be heard from 1.8 miles away.

There are 132 rooms in the US White House.

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