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In Japan they have square watermelons.
Shakespeare was the first to use insults about people's mothers.
(Painter: "Y'are a dog."
Apemantus: "Thy mother's of my generation. What's she, if I be a dog?")
The longest English word, at 45 letters, is 'pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis'.
Breathing the air in Mumbai, India for just ONE DAY, is equivalent to smoking 2.5 packs of cigarettes.
Cosmonaut Sergei Avdeyev holds the world record for TIME TRAVEL. He traveled 0.02 seconds into the future.
Make a fist with your left hand, squeeze your left thumb, then put your right index finger down your throat. NO GAG REFLEX.
Phobophobia is the fear of phobias, or the fear of fear. A person with Phobophobia is mortified of developing a phobia.
Dr. Suess coined the word "nerd."
Einstein's final words died with him-the nurse at his bedside didn't speak German!
No word in the English language rhymes with purple, orange, month or silver.
Seth McFarlane, the creator of Family Guy, was supposed to be on one of the planes on 9/11.
Approximately 95% of software in China is pirated.
OUR SUN WILL NEVER EXPLODE. It is far too small to generate enough energy to become a supernova (an exploded star.)
Jellyfish evaporate in the sun. They're 98% water.
In Australia, "Burger King" is "Hungry Jack's".
The Western Lowland Gorilla's scientific name is Gorilla gorilla gorilla.
When you snap a whip, that sound you hear is the whip BREAKING THE SOUND BARRIER.
The smallest human penis ever recorded was only 5/8 of an inch (~1 cm) long.
A Rubik's cube has 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possible configurations.
You actually CAN'T see the Great Wall of China from Space!
In 1518 there was a DANCING PLAGUE in Strasbourg, France. 400 people danced uncontrollably for A MONTH, dozens of lives were lost and NO ONE KNOWS WHY.