Let’s start with the basics. What are “fun” facts and what’s so fun about them? The thing with fun facts is that you could continue living your life perfectly well without this information, but knowing it is somehow cool. Usually, they’re not the kind of things you learn at school but more like random facts about life around you, which you find out through experience, hear from someone, or read about in a Bored Panda article.
Did you know that there are apps and websites that will give you daily facts on a variety of topics or on one specific one? Many teachers claim that collecting random cool facts and sharing them with the class often helps them in the study process. Kids love hearing stuff that is not in the textbooks and, as a result, end up with tons of useful knowledge.
But don’t think that this only works for kids. Fun facts for adults are just as entertaining and stimulating. Reading them is a good way to help your brain wake up during your morning coffee or while relaxing on your lunch break. Also, it really is an effective method to learn a lot of interesting facts that could change your perspective on many things.
In this article, we have collected tons of fun facts that you will hopefully enjoy. You’ll probably also discover something new you didn’t know before. What was the most interesting random fact you have ever learned? Share with us in the comments.
#1
Cherophobia is the word for the irrational fear of being happy.
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#2
Apples wake you up more than coffee in the morning.
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#3
The chief translator of the European Parliament speaks 32 languages fluently.
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#4
The Netherlands is so safe, it doesn’t have enough inmates to fill its prisons, so it rents out places to other countries.
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#5
You can survive longer without food than you can without sleep.
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#6
The brain of Einstein was stolen when he died.
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#7
In Switzerland, it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.
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#8
You share your birthday with about 20 million people.
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#9
Queen Elizabeth II trained as a mechanic during WWII.
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#10
The first written use of “OMG” was in a 1917 letter to Winston Churchill.
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#11
Competitive art used to be an Olympic sport.
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#12
Once McDonald’s created broccoli that tastes like bubble gum.
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#13
The Hawaiian alphabet contains only 13 letters.
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#14
In 2014, there was a Tinder match in Antarctica.
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#15
In 1927, Santa Claus received an official pilot’s license.
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#16
It only takes six minutes for alcohol to affect your brain.
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#17
The majority of plant life is located in the ocean.
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#18
The Aztecs invented popcorn.
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#19
Depression is the most common mental illness.
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#20
Apart from Vitamin C, eggs contain every single vitamin.
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#21
Someone tried to sell New Zealand on eBay but was stopped once the bid reached $3,000.
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#22
Cutting down a cactus in Arizona might get you 25 years in prison.
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#23
The actors who voiced Mickey and Minnie mouse got married in real life.
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#24
There was a prehistoric dragonfly that’s wings spanned more than two feet.
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#25
A Brazilian man was killed when a cow fell through the roof and landed on him as he was in bed.
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#26
The winning vehicle’s speed in the first U.S. race was seven miles per hour.
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#27
“Arachibutyrophobia” is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth.
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#28
Once fans cheered so loudly during a Louisiana State University football game that it was registered as an earthquake on a local seismograph.
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#29
There’s a Starbucks cup in every shot in the movie Fight Club.
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#30
Birds in Minnesota get drunk off of berries.
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#31
Daniel Radcliffe went through 160 pairs of glasses and around 70 wands during the making of the Harry Potter movies.
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#32
Three U.S. presidents—Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and Jimmy Carter—have won Grammys.
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#33
It’s against the law to feed pigeons on the streets or sidewalks of San Francisco.
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#34
More than 10% of the world population is left-handed.
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#35
Pandas fake pregnancy for better care.
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#36
Crocodiles are one of the oldest living species, having survived for more than 200 million years.
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#37
Cotton candy was invented by a dentist.
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#38
The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland.
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#39
The 1939 novel Gadsby is the longest book ever published that doesn’t contain the letter ‘e.’
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#40
There is a ninja shortage in Japan.
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#41
Shakespeare invented more than 1,700 words.
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#42
Scientists made a “nanoguitar” which is the size of a human blood cell.
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#43
The urine of all mammals glows under a blacklight, but especially cats.
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#44
The majority of dust found in households is made from dead skin.
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#45
Green diamonds are the rarest type of diamond.
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#46
Charles Darwin’s personal pet tortoise didn’t die until recently.
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#47
The inventor of the frisbee was turned into a frisbee after he died.
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#48
Indians spend 10+ hours a week reading, more than any other country in the world.
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#49
There was a fifth Beatle named Stuart Sutcliffe.
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#50
The largest snowflake on record was 15 inches wide.
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#51
Beauty and the Beast was written to help girls accept arranged marriages.
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#52
The Chupa Chups logo was designed by Salvador Dalí.
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#53
When heated in the microwave, grapes light on fire.
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#54
Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.
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#55
Scientists once gave mice superhero-like night vision using nanoparticles.
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#56
French fries were invented in Belgium.
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#57
Small breeds of dogs live longer than larger breeds.
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#58
The only mammal that can fly are bats.
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#59
Your funny bone is actually a nerve.
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#60
David Bowie helped topple the Berlin Wall.
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#61
You can hear a blue whale’s heartbeat from two miles away.
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#62
The world’s most successful pirate was a woman.
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#63
The Aurora Borealis has a sister phenomenon in the southern hemisphere called the Aurora Australis.
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#64
Scots have more than 400 words for “snow.”
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#65
In the 16th century, poets exchanged rap battle-like stylized insults in an act called “flyting.”
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#66
Brunch was originally invented to cure hangovers.
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#67
A group of frogs is called an army.
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#68
The scientific terminology for brain freeze is “sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia”.
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#69
Leonardo DiCaprio improvised his famous Titanic quote, “I’m the king of the world.”
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#70
Google images was literally created after Jennifer Lopez wore that infamous dress at the 2000 Grammys.
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#71
Spaghetto, confetto, and graffito are the singular forms of spaghetti, confetti, and graffiti.
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#72
There’s a toilet museum.
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#73
Rabbits eat their feces.
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#74
A cat spends most of its life sleeping.
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#75
Koalas can sleep for up to 20 hours a day.
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#76
Cows do not have upper front teeth.
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#77
A person will sleep an average of 25 years in their lifetime.
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#78
Monopoly is the most played board game in the world.
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#79
Women buy 96% of candles produced.
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#80
You only get bitten by female mosquitoes.
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#81
Camels are not born with humps.
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#82
NASCAR drivers can lose up to 10 pounds in sweat due to high temperatures during races.
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#83
The IKEA catalog is the most widely printed book in history.
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#84
The cracking sound your joints make is the sound of gases being released.
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#85
In the ’90s, North Korean teachers were required to play the accordion.
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#86
The world’s first cosmonaut was a dog named Laika.
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#87
Vikings discovered Russia.
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#88
The smallest bones in your body are found in the ear.
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#89
The world’s longest walking distance is 14,000 miles.
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#90
Vatican City is the smallest country in the world.
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#91
The average household in U.S. has 300,000 things in it.
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#92
A broken laser pointer was the first item to be sold on eBay.
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#93
In Antarctica, the ice sheet averages just over 7,000 feet thick, but is more than twice that thick in places.
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#94
There’s a Guinness World Record for the stretchiest skin.
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#95
Extreme ironing is an actual sport.
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#96
The shoe size of Lady Liberty is 879.
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#97
The U.S. Supreme Court building has a basketball court.
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#98
Wombat feces is cube-shaped.
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#99
Cheesemakers are studying whether music can change the taste of cheese.
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#100
Shark attacks threaten the internet.
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#101
You can get your eyeballs tattooed.
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#102
Honey never spoils.
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#103
White is considered the safest color for a car.
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#104
Instant coffee was made in 1901.
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#105
The staple food of 50% of the world population is rice.
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#106
70% of the world’s toys are made in China.
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#107
There are more chickens in the world than there are people.
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#108
Humans have just 1 bone fewer than horses.
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#109
The Dead Sea is an inland lake.
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#110
President Lyndon B. Johnson owned a water-surfing car.
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#111
Male students at Brigham Young University in Utah need special permission to grow a beard.
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#112
The average mammal empties its bladder in 21 seconds.
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#113
Chewing gum is banned in Singapore.
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#114
Lobsters have clear blood.
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#115
One of the largest pyramids in the world is a Bass Pro Shops in Memphis, Tennessee.
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#116
Almost half the world’s population watched both the 2010 and 2014 FIFA World Cup games.
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#117
There’s a planet that’s shaped like a potato.
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#118
“Strengths” is the longest word in the English language with one vowel.
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#119
It would cost $18.3 million to make a replica Darth Vader suit.
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#120
The human brain is about 78% water.
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#121
Gold never erodes.
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#122
There is no sound in space, at least not the way we experience it on Earth.
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#123
There are 1,665 steps on the Eiffel Tower.
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#124
China is bordered by 14 countries.
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#125
The most popular sport in the world is soccer.
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#126
Research shows that all blue-eyed people may be related.
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#127
The average person will spend six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.
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#128
There’s a bridge exclusively for squirrels.
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#129
Instead of saying “cheese” before taking a picture, Victorians said “prunes.”
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#130
It is proven, that we can smell rain.
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#131
Dolphins have actual names.
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#132
South Koreans are four centimeters taller than North Koreans.
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#133
Apple briefly had its own clothing and lifestyle line in 1986.
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#134
Trypophobia is the strong fear or disgust of closely-packed holes.
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#135
The Spice Girls were originally a band called Touch.
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#136
Baby rabbits are called kits, kittens, or kitties.
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#137
Pigeons can tell the difference between Picasso and Monet.
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#138
The real name for a hashtag is an octothorpe.
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#139
The longest name of any place in the world is 169 letters long.
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#140
One time, a single watermelon was sold for $6,125.
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#141
Flamingos eat with their heads turned upside down.
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#142
Cold water is just as cleansing as hot water.
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#143
American Airlines saved a boatload by removing a single olive from meals.
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#144
Avocados are a fruit, not a vegetable.
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#145
People are more creative in the shower.
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#146
The Spanish national anthem has no words.
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#147
In the morning of the Titanic tragedy, a lifeboat drill was canceled.
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#148
There are 118 ridges on the side of a dime.
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#149
Coins in the Trevi Fountain are collected and given to charity.
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#150
The Titanic was made in Belfast, Ireland.
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#151
You can actually fold a piece of paper more than 7 times.
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#152
The most requested funeral song in England is by Monty Python.
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#153
Nearly 30,000 rubber ducks were lost at sea in 1992 and are still being discovered today.
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#154
Animal shelters are slammed on July 5.
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#155
A sea lion once saved a man.
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#156
Barbie’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
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#157
Freddie Mercury was born in Africa.
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#158
The first airplane flew on December 17, 1903.
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#159
There are almost 8 million possible seven-digit phone numbers per area code.
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#160
London cabbies have to memorize literally everything.
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#161
Medicine bottle foil seals exists because of poison.
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#162
Kim Kardashian has a ‘glam’ clause in her will.
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