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If offered a new pen to write with, 97% of people write their own name first.

Those stars and colours you see when you rub your eyes are called "Phosphenes."

850 peanuts are require to make an 18oz jar of peanut butter.

During the time of Peter the Great, any Russian who had a beard was required to pay a special tax.

It would take around 3,000 years to count all the stars in the galaxy at the rate of one per second.

There are more than 1000 chemicals in a cup of coffee, of these only 26 have been tested and half caused cancer in rats.

The world's largest hovercraft can carry over 400 passengers and 60 cars, and can travel at a speed of 120 km/hr.

All the US President have warm glasses. Some just didn’t like being seen wearing them on in public.

One type of bamboo has been found to grow 100 feet tall!

The Grand Canyon is the most voluminous dry canyon on the earth with a volume of 4, 100, 000, 000 cubic meters (4.4 Tm3).