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Top 50 Random Fun Facts

1.   Bananas are technically berries, strawberries and raspberries are not.

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2.   The oldest living human-planted tree in the world with a known planting date is the sacred fig tree “Java Sri Maha Bodhi” planted in 288 BC found in Mahamewna Gardens, Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka.

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3.   The world's quietest room, located at the Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington, has a background noise level of -20.6 decibels and can cause hallucinations when people spend too much time inside.

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4.   It’s illegal to own pet hamster in Hawaii.

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5.   The human nose can detect over 1 trillion different scents.

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6.   The fairy circles of Namibia are circular barren patches in the grasslands, whose origins remain a mystery to scientists.

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7.   The most expensive chocolate bar sold at auction was a 100-year-old Cadbury's chocolate bar sold for $687.

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8.   About 1 in 1,000 chicken eggs has a double yolk.

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9.   According to a study published in the journal Nature Reviews Cancer, children living in a spotless and clean house can increase their risk of developing acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

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10.   Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their cousins.

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11.   Life expectancy in Ancient Rome was from 20 to 30 years.

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12.   The New York Times once published a one-word article with the title of "When I'm Mistakenly Put on an Email Chain, Should I Hit 'Reply All' Asking to Be Removed?" The entire article: "No."

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13.   In 1999, hackers revealed a significant security flaw in the popular Hotmail email service. For a brief while, you could use the password "eh" to log in to any Hotmail account.

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14.   The first item sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.

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15.   President Theodore Roosevelt officially gave the White House its current name in 1901.

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16.   The deepest point in the ocean is the Mariana Trench, which reaches a depth of about 36,201 feet.

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17.   The word ‘infant’ is from the Latin word infans, means ‘unable to speak.’

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18.   Some plants can grow up to 100 meters tall. The tallest known tree is a coast redwood in California that stands at 379 feet tall. It's hard not to feel small standing next to something so grand.

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19.   Three U.S. presidents died on the 4th of July: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson in 1826, and James Monroe five years later.

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20.   Tarzan's yell is a registered trademark and service mark, owned by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.

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21.   Alaska is one of two US states not bordered by another state; Hawaii is the other.

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22.   Kangaroos can't walk backwards.

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23.   Bats are not blind, they use echolocation as a primary sense to see the world.

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24.   The dragon fruit plant is actually a type of cactus and can grow up to 20 feet tall!

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25.   The longest Book Title contains 1,809 words, achieved by Srijan Timilsina.

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26.   Earth is the only planet not named after a god.

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27.   Foreign accent syndrome is a real condition, although it's extremely rare. It's most often caused by head injury, stroke, or some other type of damage to the brain. People who have this condition starts speaking in their native language with a foreign accent.

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28.   The practise of burying the dead may date back 350,000 years.

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29.   The Philippines has the slowest internet speed in the entire Southeast Asian region with an average speed of 3.54 Mbps.

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30.   Bill Gates bought Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Leicester in 1994 for US $30,802,500 (equivalent to $52,068,300 in 2018).

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31.   Fredric Baur invented the Pringles can. When he passed away in 2008, his ashes were buried in one.

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32.   On August 4, 1914, Great Britain declared war on Germany, bringing Canada into the First World War.

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33.   Wealth psychology is a branch of psychology designed to help the immensely wealthy deal with the issues of being rich. Poor things.

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34.   Bats are not aggressive animals and they don't want to fly into your hair or suck your blood, if you find a bat in your house, please call a wildlife expert to help the bat safely out.

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35.   -40 Celsius and -40 Fahrenheit are the same temperature.

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36.   Elsa Einstein was the second wife and cousin of Albert Einstein.

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37.   Because they are such solitary animals, there is no collective noun for snow leopards (Panthera uncia).

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38.   Roughly 725 species of venomous snakes worldwide, only 250 can kill a human with one bite.

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39.   The world's oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9,000 years old!

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40.   Misery is a village in France.

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41.   There is an eighth continent called Zealandia, but 94% of it remains submerged beneath the Pacific Ocean.

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42.   Every year, we remove 170 billion pounds of fish from the ocean.

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43.   Seventy-five percent of all gold in circulation has been extracted since 1910.

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44.   Abraham Lincoln is the only U.S. president to have obtained a patent.

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45.   Sloths only defecate once a week, and when they do, they climb down from their trees to do it on the ground. This is the only time they leave the safety of the trees.

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46.   Mahatma Gandhi, the Indian political leader, was a lawyer by profession.

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47.   The Baatara Gorge Waterfall in Lebanon flows through a limestone cave and descends into a sinkhole, dropping 255 meters (837 feet) into the cavern below.

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48.   Graham crackers were originally intended to help people cut down on their sexual urges.

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49.   Before you get frostbite, you will get frostnip.

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50.   The Glasswinged Butterfly, native to Central and South America, has transparent wings, allowing it to camouflage itself among flowers and foliage.

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