"Canada" is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
"Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson was the first video to air on MTV by a black artist.
"Flushable" toilets were in use in ancient Rome.
"Almost" is the longest commonly used word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles per hour.
The state of Florida is bigger than England.
The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old.
There are only thirteen blimps in the world. Nine of them are in the United States.
Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
99% of the solar systems mass is concentrated in the sun.
160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road.
Hartsdale New York has a pet cemetery with more than 12,000 pets buried.
There are 722 miles of subway track in New York city.
A mid-sized car launched today generates only 5% of the pollution which was generated by a car from fifty years ago.
When water freezes it expands by 10%.
Mercury is only one metal which is liquid when it's at room temperature.
Four out of five people over 100 years old are women.
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