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11-15-23, 04:37 PM | #3001 |
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Chock Full o' Nuts coffee does not contain nuts. It's named for a chain of nut stores that the founder converted into coffee shops.
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11-16-23, 08:13 AM | #3002 |
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When you light a match in zero gravity, the flame will be round and blue instead of tall and orange.
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11-16-23, 12:58 PM | #3003 |
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Each year, 40,000 tons of space dust settles on the Earth.
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11-16-23, 02:08 PM | #3004 |
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There are poisonous minerals. One of the most poisonous is thallium. It’s often called the “dark twin” of lead. Skin contact can lead to serious illness, loss of hair, and in many cases, death.
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11-17-23, 06:14 AM | #3005 |
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Green eyes are extremely rare: only 2 percent of the population has them, and they’re more common in females than males.
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11-17-23, 06:50 AM | #3006 |
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Scientists guess that there are more than three thousand minerals spreading on the earth. Most of these minerals haven’t been identified yet.
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11-17-23, 07:15 AM | #3007 |
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The longest case of hiccups lasted 68 years.
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11-17-23, 10:40 AM | #3008 |
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The most common mineral found in the earth is quartz.
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11-17-23, 02:56 PM | #3009 |
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Bangladesh has six seasons: Grishmo (summer), Borsha (rainy), Shorot (fall), Hemanta (cool), Sheet (winter), and Boshanto (spring).
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11-18-23, 08:21 AM | #3010 |
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Dry air is only twenty one percent oxygen. The rest is seventy-eight percent nitrogen, and the remaining one percent is a variety of other gases.
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11-18-23, 10:35 AM | #3011 |
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Green Eggs and Ham was banned in China from 1965 to 1991 for its “portrayal of early Marxism.”
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11-18-23, 01:37 PM | #3012 |
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There are three types of solar eclipses: a total solar eclipse, an annular solar eclipse, and a partial solar eclipse.
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11-19-23, 06:02 AM | #3013 |
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The Hass avocado was patented in 1935 by Rudolph Hass, a mailman from California.
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11-19-23, 09:45 AM | #3014 |
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The longest amount of time that a solar eclipse can last is only seven and a half minutes.
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11-20-23, 02:12 PM | #3015 |
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The longest solar eclipse of the century was on July 22 over India, Napal, Bhutan, and China. It lasted six minutes and twenty-seven seconds.
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