Friday 05/05/17:
The average person takes 183,755,600 steps in a lifetime.
Thursday 05/04/17:
A study found that pizza and compliments motivate employees better than cash. Money fades more quickly than a sense of appreciation.
Tuesday 05/02/17:
Clams can live for more than 400 years.
Monday 05/01/17:
Instagram data shows that Californians post the most driving selfies of any state population, while Mississippians post the least.
Friday 04/28/17:
A newborn baby has about one cup of blood in his body.
Thursday 04/27/17:
There are more life forms living on your skin than there are people on the planet.
Wednesday 04/26/17:
Wealthy ancient Egyptians slept with neck supports rather than pillows to preserve their hairstyles.
Friday 04/21/17:
Hamsters can store half their own weight in food in their cheeks.
Thursday 04/20/17:
Netflix was founded back in 1997 it's been 20 years time flies.
Wednesday 04/19/17:
Small animals such as flies and humming birds experience time in slow motion, which is why they can avoid your newspaper swats.
Monday 04/17/17:
100 million years ago, 6.5m-long primitive crocodiles were good swimmers but were also capable of galloping across the plains.
Thursday 04/13/17:
Airlines sell more seats than they have because only around 90% passengers will show up for a flight.
Wednesday 04/12/17:
In the U.S., if you are delayed by an airline for more than 4 hours for actions within their control (overbooking), you are entitled to 4 times the face vale of the ticket ,capped at $1300.
Tuesday 04/11/17:
America's first female mayor was elected in 1887. A group of men nominated her as a prank, but she won over 60% of the vote.
Monday 04/10/17:
A couple, Octavio Guillen and Adriana Martinez, were engaged for 67 years.
Sunday 04/09/17:
Women have more taste buds than men which causes them to cook better (sometimes) if they're a great cook.
Saturday 04/08/17:
Every minute, more than 100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube.
Friday 04/07/17:
Iceland has Europe's largest banana plantation.
Thursday 04/06/17:
The term "Abracadabra" may have its origin in the Aramaic phrase meaning "I create as I speak."
Wednesday 04/05/17:
A cheetah can go from 0 to 40 mph in three strides.
Wednesday 03/15/17:
Outer space is only an hour's drive away, if you somehow drove your car straight upwards.
Tuesday 03/14/17:
Apple has over 115,000 employees around the world.
Monday 03/13/17:
Pineapples were very expensive in the 1700s, so American colonists would rent a pineapple and carry it around a party to show their wealth.
Friday 03/10/17:
There's a synonym for the word synonym it's poecilonym.
Thursday 03/09/17:
The first female governor of a U.S. state was elected in 1924
Wednesday 03/08/17:
Bill Gates was so addicted to Minesweeper, he used to sneak into a colleague's office after work to play.
Tuesday 03/07/17:
An extra year of education can help a girl earn 20% more as an adult.
Monday 03/06/17:
In 1728, the philosopher Voltaire got rich by outsmarting the lottery. The prize money was larger than the cost of all the tickets combined, so Voltaire and his friend formed a syndicate, bought all the tickets, and won several times.
Sunday 03/05/17:
The iron in our blood and the calcium in our bones come from ancient explosions of giant stars.
Saturday 03/04/17:
Parking in San Francisco is so scarce that the parking spot attached to your property can add up to $100,000 to the property's value.
Friday 03/03/17:
Atari and Chuck E. Cheese's were both founded by the same man, Nolan Bushnell.
THURSDAY 03/02/17:
There's a hotel in Japan staffed by robots. The check-in desk is an animatronic velociraptor.
Wednesday 03/01/17:
About 90% of the world's earthquakes occur along the Ring of Fire, an area in the basin of the Pacific Ocean.
Tuesday 02/28/17:
61% of Americans say they text while driving.
Sunday 02/26/17:
A person from Accident, Maryland is called an "Accidental".
Friday 02/24/17:
In 1882 Edison helped form the Edison Electric Illuminating Company of New York, which brought electric light to parts of Manhattan. But progress was slow. Most Americans still lit their homes with gas light and candles for another fifty years. Only in 1925 did half of all homes in the U.S. have electric power.
Thursday 02/23/17:
If it ever went up for sale, the White House would cost anywhere from $90 to $369 million.
Wednesday 02/22/17:
Mageirocophobia is the fear of having to cook.
Tuesday 02/21/17:
38% of children under the age 12 who died in car crashes in 2013 were not wearing seat belts.
Friday 02/17/17:
Saudi Arabia has been ruled by the same family longer than the United States has been a country.
Thursday 02/16/17:
Some firefighters in the U.S. are trained on how to treat aliens in case of a UFO crash or invasion.
Saturday 02/12/17:
Steve Feltham holds the Guinness World Record for the longest Loch Ness Monster search, camping at Loch Ness for 25 years.
Friday 02/10/17:
About one third Americans consider themselves "very happy."
Thursday 02/09/17:
In 2013, a family bought a $3 bowl at a garage sale. It turned out to be an 11th-century Chinese bowl worth $2.2 million.
Wednesday 02/08/17:
Pluto by law, is still a planet in New Mexico.
Tuesday 02/07/17:
Medical bills are the main cause of U.S. bankruptcies.
Monday 02/06/17:
Netflix is around longer than Google.
Saturday 02/04/17:
There is no evidence that cursive has any benefit over other handwriting styles.
Friday 02/03/17:
Rats and mice eat or spoil 20 percent of the world's food supply.
Thursday 02/02/17:
Princess Aiko decided to stay home for a few months in 2010 because to bullying from her classmates.
Wednesday 02/01/17:
The average American normally eats 1 in every 5 meals in the car.
Monday 01/30/17:
In 2013, a scientist injected human brain cells into a mouse brain, which improved the mouse's memory and ability to learn.
Saturday 01/28/17:
The first text message was sent in the year 1992.
Thursday 01/26/17:
Nokia was a popular manufacturer of toilet paper.
Wednesday 01/25/17:
In 16th century Europe, it was believed that eating a tomato could turn you to a werewolf.
Thursday 01/19/17:
Scientists believe there's a ninth planet in our solar system that is 10 times larger than Earth. They haven't been able to locate it, but they know it's there because of its gravitational effects on other objects.
Wednesday 01/18/17:
In the US, 70% of workers are not engaged in work, the cost of is a productivity loss around $500 billion yearly.
Monday 01/15/17:
Many studies show that napping at work can increase your productivity.
Friday 01/13/17:
Falcons are more related to parrots than to hawks and eagles.
Tuesday 01/10/16:
Sunday 01/08/16:
There is an underground vault in Denmark containing every Lego set that was made.
Friday 01/06/16:
Fingernails grow faster in warm weather than in cold weather.
Thursday 01/05/17:
The rainbow eucalyptus tree, in New Guinea, Indonesia and Philippines grows over 200 feet tall.
Wednesday 01/04/17:
10% of British train toilets flush instantly onto the tracks.
Tuesday 01/03/16:
Mice sing like birds, though humans can't hear them.
Friday 12/30/16:
Scientists alive today outnumber all the scientists who lived up to 1980.
Thursday 12/29/16:
India has 122 major languages and 1599 minor languages.
Tuesday 12/27/16:
100 acres of Pizza are served in the U.S. daily.
Monday 12/26/16:
Bees know when it will rain, so they put in extra work the day before.
Sunday 12/25/16:
The big toe carries the most weight of the toes, bearing about 40% of the load.
Saturday 12/24/16:
In 1966, a 26-year-old man fasted for 382 days and lost 276 lb.
Friday 12/23/16:
Pizza Hut uses more than 300 million pounds of cheese yearly, which requires about 170,000 dairy cows.
Thursday 12/22/16:
The highest-value notes by the Bank of England are Giants (£1 million) and Titans (£100 million).
Wednesday 12/21/16:
The bigger an animal's brain, the longer it'll yawn.
Tuesday 12/20/16:
Yawning and stretching at the same time is said to be "pandiculating."
Saturday 12/17/16:
It would take about 225 million years to walk a light year if somebody tried.
Wednesday 12/16/16:
English words "I", "we", "two" and "three" are the most ancient, from thousands of years.
Thursday 12/15/16:
Marie Curie is the only person to win Nobel prizes in two different areas in science.
Wednesday 12/14/16:
Turning back the giant hand on Big Ben's four clock face takes an incredible 5 hours in total.
Tuesday 12/13/16:
About 10% pimps accept credit or debit cards.
Monday 12/12/16:
The average person spends about 90,000 hours at work over their lifetime
Friday 12/09/16
A company LifeGem creates diamonds from ashes of your loved ones if you request it.
Thursday 12/08/16:
A Dutch auction is the opposite of a traditional one: the auctioneer begins with a high price, which is lowered til the first person decides to buy it.
Wednesday 12/07/16:
Eating pasta that was cooked, cooled, and reheated is healthier than eating it freshly cooked because it turns into “resistant starch,” reducing blood glucose levels.
Tuesday 12/06/16:
Louis Chevrolet, founder of Chevrolet, died bankrupt and poor working as a mechanic for the company he started on his own.
Monday 12/05/16:
Researchers found that optimism is a teachable skill and you can be the one to teach yourself.
Sunday 12/04/16:
The Eiffel Tower is not fully lighted 24/7. Since 2013, it closes off the lights at 1AM to conserve power.
Saturday 12/03/16:
Indonesians are the world's shortest people in height. NOTE: There is no offense intended.
Friday 12/02/16:
160,000 U.S. children miss school every day because fear of bullying.
Wednesday 11/30/16:
When electricity was in the White House, President Benjamin Harrison and his wife were scared to use the light for fear of getting shocked.
Tuesday 11/29/16:
German citizens can travel to 177 territories without a visa or a visa given in arrival, the most in the whole world.
Sunday 11/27/17:
In 2015, a man celebrated his birthday for 46 hours, the longest birthday ever, by traveling across time zones.
Friday 11/25/16:
In 1949, a flock of starlings sat on the minute hand of Big Ben, slowing it by 4.5 minutes.
Thursday 11/24/16:
Spiders can play the strings in their webs to transmit certain messages.
Wednesday 11/23/16:
Phoenix, Arizona, was originally used to be named Pumpkinville.
Tuesday 11/22/16:
Cats are picky eaters because they are naturally known to eat food with a preferred ratio of protein to fat: 1 to 0.4
Sunday 11/20/16:
Many drivers think they are better-than-average driver.
Friday 11/18/16:
The active vocabulary of an grown English adult is around 20,000 words.
Thursday 11/17/16:
A few volcano eruptions are able of making powerful charges that can lead bolts of lightning large as two miles long.
Wednesday 11/16/16:
Hearing is the fastest sense people have. A person can hear a sound in 0.05 seconds.
Tuesday 11/15/16:
When on a table, a U.S. ‘Lincoln Memorial' one-cent coin will come on tails 80% mostly.
Monday 11/13/16:
Amsterdam has 350 outdoor festivals each year.
Sunday 11/12/16:
Chicago Cubs victory parade of 2016 was the seventh largest gathering in history.
Friday 11/11/16:
People are likely to believe in Bigfoot as the Big Bang Theory.
Thursday 11/10/16:
Canada's immigration site crashed on U.S. election day night of 2016.
Wednesday 11/09/16:
White tigers carry a compound that is only present in around 1 in every 10,000 tigers.
Tuesday 11/08/16:
TV remotes are the items with many germs in hotels.
Thursday 11/03/16:
Nikola Tesla wrote a letter to the Red Cross saying he got a message from another planet.
Wednesday 11/02/16:
The invention of Glow sticks was on the work of scientist Edwin Chandross. He didn't know that his work was used for parties until 2013.
Tuesday 11/01/16:
one bat can eat 600 or more mosquitoes in a hour.
Monday 10/31/16:
To find the temperature when both are equal, we use an old algebra trick and just set ºF = ºC and solve one of the equations.
Sunday 10/30/16:
On average, voice actors in video games make just a little over US$800 for a four-hour session.
Saturday 10/29/16:
57 million children around the world are out of school.
Friday 10/28/16:
September is the ninth month and the month with the same number of letters in its name in English as the numbers of the month.
Thursday 10/27/16:
Helium is the only element found in space before found on earth.
Wednesday 10/26/16:
Tiramisu actually means ‘pick me up' in Italian.
Tuesday 10/25/16:
Light travels 18 million times faster than rain falling.
Monday 10/24/16:
Vermont first attempted to be a part of Quebec, but they refused so Vermont joined the United States instead.
Sunday 10/23/16:
There are many statues of lions in the world than there are real lions.
Saturday 10/22/16:
Americans throw away US$62 million amount worth of coins every year.
Friday 10/21/16:
The United Nations is planning to launch its space mission in 2021.
Thursday 10/20/16:
The keyboard contains 3,295 microbes every square inch.
Wednesday 10/19/16:
In the Middle Ages, black pepper was a luxury item expensive that it was used to pay rent and taxes.
Tuesday 10/18/16:
Continents split up as the same speed finger nails grow.
Monday 10/17/16:
Walmart loses US$3 billion every year to theft.
Sunday 10/16/16:
Birds never fly into each other because they always go right, a study found.
Saturday 10/15/16:
The Ancient were the first to make a sweet treat from a marshmallow plant, when they combined its sap with nuts and honey.
Friday 10/14/16:
"Fail" is an actual town in Portugal.
Thursday 10/13/16:
Octopus can change their skin color 177 times an hour.
Wednesday 10/12/16:
5,000 years ago, watermelons were light green also bitter, watermelons were bred to become sweeter, their inside slowly changed to red.
Tuesday 10/11/16:
Only 2.6% of Ants in a colony are active, over 25% are seen to never be working, 71.9% are inactive half of the time.
Monday 10/10/16:
The London Underground was originally intended to end in Paris.
Sunday 10/09/16:
One third of humanity, 60% of Europeans and 80% of North Americans, live in light polluted areas that the Milky Way is not visible.
Saturday 10/08/16:
The founder of Yahoo,Marissa Mayer, was the first female worker at Google, in 1999.
Friday 10/07/16:
Nearly 700 million people in China drink contaminated water.
Thursday 10/06/16:
The biggest dam made by beavers is two times as long as the Hoover Dam.
Wednesday 10/05/16:
Anteaters eat about 35,000 ants and termites daily.
Tuesday 10/04/16:
Breathing 100% oxygen, instead of 21% in our atmosphere is bad.
Monday 10/03/16:
Many people have to walk 3.7 miles to get water.
Sunday 10/02/16:
In 2015, a man was arrested after tying more than 100 balloons to a chair and flying over the city of Calgary.
Saturday 10/01/16:
Kids who grow up learning to speak two languages are good at switching between tasks.
Friday 09/30/16:
A scientist cracked his knuckles on a hand for over 50 years to it doesn't cause Arthritis.
Thursday 09/29/16:
The Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed humans on the Moon
Wednesday 09/28/16:
A ounce of gold can be made into a sheet covering 100 square feet, or drawn out into 50 miles of gold wire.
Tuesday 09/27/16:
Babies cannot recognize themselves in a mirror unless they are 18 months old or older.
Monday 09/26/16:
A toilet uses 1.6 gallons of water in a single flush.
Saturday 09/24/16:
In Italy 17 is considered to be an unlucky number.
Thursday 09/22/16:
Usually people spend 13% of their lives not focusing on anything in particular.
Wednesday 09/21/16:
There are about 169 volcanoes in the United States that scientists believe are active.
Tuesday 09/20/16:
A few million years ago, rats in South America were as big as hippos.
Monday 09/19/16:
When a bald eagle loses a feather on one wing, it'll shed a corresponding feather on the other to have it balanced.
Saturday 09/17/16:
In 2013, after more than 20 years of soda being America's favorite drink, water has taken over as Americans' favorite drink.
Friday 09/16/16:
Google's Artificial-Intelligence robot says the reason of living is 'to live forever
Thursday 09/15/16:
The world's lightest metal was made by Boeing. It's called Microlattice and 99.99% air.
Wednesday 09/14/16:
A predator of the Moose is a Killer Whale. They are known to prey on moose swimming around America's Northwest Coast.
Tuesday 09/13/16:
Google's internet services run on 2 billion lines of code 5000 times as many lines as the Space Shuttle.
Monday 09/12/16:
The UPS trucks get around 15,000 parking tickets a month in New York City.
Sunday 09/11/16:
Search Engines can only access 0.03% of the web The rest is known as "deep web."
Saturday 09/10/16:
London attracted over 16 million visitors in 2014, making it the world's most visited city.
Friday 09/09/16:
Octopus blood is said to be blue.
Thursday 09/08/16:
Elephants are the only land mammals that aren't able to jump.
Wednesday 09/07/16:
The common ocean depth is 2.5 miles (4 km).
Tuesday 09/06/16:
You can see the Grand Canyon using Google Street View.
Monday 09/05/16:
Liars blink less than normal during a lie, and then speed up to around eight times faster than usual afterwards.
Saturday 09/03/16:
Texting while driving increases the chances of an accident by 23 times.
Friday 09/02/16:
The experience of arriving somewhere only to realize you've forgotten what you went there to do is called "doorway effect."
Thursday 09/01/16:
3 AM is when many Americans are sleeping (95.1%).And, 6 PM is when most Americans are awake (97.5%).
Wednesday 08/31/16:
Most flight delays in the U.S. are caused by mechanical problems.
Tuesday 08/30/16:
In 1987, a man convinced 2.8 million people to give him a penny each for his college education.
Monday 08/29/16:
If you cool liquid helium just a few degrees below its boiling point, it can climb walls and refuse gravity.
Sunday 08/28/16:
Saturn's rings are younger than dinosaurs, they were likely formed 100 million years ago.
Saturday 08/17/16:
There is such thing as a hedgehog cuddling cafe in Tokyo.
Friday 08/26/16:
Wolverines are trained to rescue avalanche survivors, because they are inclined to sniff out animals 20 feet below snow and eat them.
Thursday 08/25/16:
30 years ago, you had about 17 minutes to escape a house fire,now it's down to 3 to 4 minutes because newer homes and the furniture inside them burn faster.
Wednesday 08/24/16:
The top speed at the world's first automobile race in 1895 was just 15 mph.
Tuesday 08/23/16:
It took Quebec until 2006 to pay off its debt from hosting the 1976 Olympics.
Friday 08/19/16:
Around the age of 20, a native English-speaking American knows about 42,000 dictionary words.
Wednesday 08/17/16:
A five-year-old boy passed an Microsoft exam to become the youngest person to be a Microsoft Certified Professional.
Monday 08/15/16:
Arab numerals,the ones we use today in English, were actually invented by Indians.
Sunday 08/14/16:
Tigers will wait until dark to hunt ,their night vision is six times better than of humans.
Saturday 08/13/16:
Stonehenge was built at least 300 years before the Egyptian pyramids were made.
Friday 08/12/16:
Alaska has a larger coastline than all the other U.S. states combined.
Thursday 08/011/16:
The original name of Liberty Island home of the Statue of Liberty, was named Bedloe's Island.
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Tuesday 08/09/16:Pokemon Go has earned an estimated US $200 million in its first month.
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Tuesday 08/09/16:Legends say China began in a huge flood 4,000 years ago. Scientists found geological evidence that the flood was real.
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Friday 08/05/16:The human brain can't actually feel pain despite its billions of neurons.
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Friday 08/05/16:A bolt of lightning can contain enough energy to toast 160,000 pieces of bread.
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Thursday 08/04/16:The average human will spend about 180 days of their life exercising.
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Thursday 08/04/16:The Shenandoah salamander doesn't have lungs it breathes through its skin.
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Wednesday 08/03/16:World's largest underwater volcano,Tamu Massif, is the size of New Mexico.
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Wednesday 08/03/16:The Australian Plate is moving about 2.8 inches northwards each year.
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Tuesday 08/02/16:Scientists have created a functioning guitar the size of a person's blood cell.
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Tuesday 08/02/16:Microwave ovens were invented by an accident.
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Monday 08/01/16:Astronomers estimate that the observable universe could have more than 100 billion galaxies.
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Monday 08/01/16:US Postal Service handles 47% of the entire world's mail.
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Saturday 07/30/16:35 percent of all adults have 20/20 vision without glasses.
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Saturday 07/30/16:Venus has the highest average temperatures of any planet.
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Friday 07/29/16:To popular belief, Kansas is not the flattest state in the U.S. Florida is.
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Friday 07/29/16:Monkeys could be Machiavellian.
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Thursday 07/28/16:New York City, at 8.4 million has a higher population than 39 of the 50 U.S. States.
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Thursday 07/28/16:Neither one of George W. Bush's daughters are Republican.
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Wednesday 07/27/16:There's up to $60 billion in sunken treasure sitting at the bottom of the world's oceans.
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Wednesday 07/27/16:One group of cockroaches is called an intrusion.
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Tuesday 07/26/16:Starting in 2017, San Francisco might have new buildings to have solar panels.
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Tuesday 07/26/16:Russia is shown to be bigger than Pluto.
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Monday 07/25/16:A tomato plant was found on a volcanic island.
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Monday 07/25/16:The more money you make, the less time you spend on the internet, a study found.
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Sunday 07/24/16:A man got a personalized license plate that said "No Plate" and received more than 2500 parking tickets.
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Sunday 07/24/16:Research shows that
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Saturday 07/23/16:Bread is unhealthy for ducks.
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Saturday 07/23/16:The average American adult reads 5 books per year.
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Friday 07/22/16:A day on Venus is longer than a year (in Venus).
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Friday 07/22/16:An 11-year-old girl gave the planet Pluto its name.
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Thursday 07/21/16:Earth is the only place in the solar system where a full solar eclipse can happen.
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Thursday 07/21/16:The roar of a lion can be heard from 5.0 miles away in the wild.
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Wednesday 07/20/16:Switzerland has the second highest life expectancy in the whole world with 83.4 years.
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Wednesday 07/20/16:If Texas were a nation, it would be the world's 7th largest oil producer not first but 7th.
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Tuesday 07/19/16:Living in the sight of water can make you calmer, happier and more creative, a study has found.
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Tuesday 07/19/16:Summer in Uranus is 42 years.
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Monday 07/18/16:Scientists can reduce the fat in chocolate by 20% for passing it through an electric field.
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Monday 07/18/16:You can tell the age of a whale by counting the rings in his/her earwax.
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Sunday 07/17/16:In Hawaii it is illegal to own a hamster.
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Sunday 07/17/16:It could take 2,700 liters of water to make the cotton to make a single T-shirt.
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Saturday 07/16/16:Between 10 and 20 volcanoes are erupting on Earth every day.
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Saturday 07/16/16:A single group of zebras is called a "dazzle".
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Friday 07/15/16:The First Disneyland Admission Ticket sold was purchased for US$1 in 1955.
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Friday 07/15/16:Tokyo Disneyland was the first Disney theme park outside of the United States, opened in April 1983.
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