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The world is getting brighter.
Little girls start being mean to one another in preschool.
The plural of "octopus" is "octopodes."
You are more likely to be killed by a falling coconut than by a shark.
Laughing out loud for 10-15 minutes a day burns 10-40 calories.
Taking regular showers can cause brain damage.
Peas are fruit.
Some fish hum.
The Scrubbing Bubbles are a more popular fictional bathroom character among males than the Ty-D-Bowl man.
George Washington never had wooden teeth He did, however, own false teeth made from walrus tusks, hippo's teeth and even his own fallen-out molars, but they fit so poorly that he often drooled while wearing them.
9 million people worldwide share your birthday.
Archaeologists have been able to pop 1,000-year-old popcorn.
Queen Elizabeth owns a salt shaker that weighs 14 pounds.
Geckos' feet are self-cleaning.
Comets aren't hot.
Edmund Hillary, the New Zealander who climbed Mount Everest in 1953, was a beekeeper.
Mount Everest is two inches northeast of where it was a year ago.
The longest hiccuping attack lasted 65 years.
The longest sneezing fit lasted 978 days.
The longest yawning ordeal lasted five weeks.
Chickens are the closest living relative of the T. rex.
