The average piano has 230 strings.
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On average, we forget 80% of what we learn on any given day.

Albert Einstein didn't speak until he was six years old.
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In the Arctic, the sun sometimes appears to be square.

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• Another word for the human thumb is "pollex."
• "Steatopygia" means an accumulation of fat in the buttocks.
• "Mageiricophobia" is the intense fear of having to cook.
• Another name for your armpit is the "axilla."
• Phagophobia is the fear of swallowing.
• The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
• Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
• The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
• No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
• "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
• "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
• The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
• The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
• The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
• The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
• There are only four words in the English language which end in "- dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

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The expression "to get fired" comes from long, long ago. When clans wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them, they used to burn their houses down.
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Researchers think that there is no evidence that sexual activity shortens life - indeed quite the reverse has been suggested by researchers.     

"We now understand that our cells are not programmed with some unavoidable sell-by date; we are not programmed to die" (Tom kirkwood)

A recent study made at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge, England, shows that sheep have a keen memory for faces. They can distinguish and remember faces of both other sheep and humans.

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The longest earthworm ever found was 22 feet long.

Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms everyday.

A capon is a castrated rooster.
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MAN

All cheerleaders were male in 1898. Now, about three percent are.

An average man on an average day excretes two and a half quarts of sweat.

The average man will spent about 145 days of this life shaving.

Adults average just one nightmare a year.

Nonsmokers dream more than smokers.

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You burn 3.5 calories each time you laugh.

"Steatopygia" means an accumulation of fat in the buttocks.
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Elephants have been known to remain standing after they die.

A recent study made at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge, England, shows that sheep have a keen memory for faces. They can distinguish and remember faces of both other sheep and humans.

A snail can sleep for 3 years.

The praying mantis is the only animal with only one ear.
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TECHNOLOGY

Marco Polo brought fireworks technology from China.


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