Useless Facts

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The original game of "Monopoly" was circular.

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It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.

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One-fourth of the world's population lives on less than $200 a year

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The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.

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Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words

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Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world

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The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night

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More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

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Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

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According to tests made at the Institute for the Study of Animal Problems in Washington, D.C., dogs and cats, like people, are either right-handed or left-handed --- that is, they favor either their right or left paws.

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Crocodiles and alligators are surprisingly fast on land. Although they are rapid, they are not agile; so if you ever find yourself chased by one, run in a zigzag line. You'll lose him or her every time.

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Birds do not sleep in their nests. They may occasionally nap in them, but they actually sleep in other places.

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If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

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# Every night, wasps bite into the stem of a plant, lock their mandibles (jaws) into position, stretch out at right angles to the stem, and, with legs dangling, fall asleep

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Bees have 5 eyes. There are 3 small eyes on the top of a bee's head and 2 larger ones in front.