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One car out of every 230 made was stolen last year

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The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is “uncopyrightable”

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Hershey’s Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it’s kissing the conveyor belt

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French astronomer Adrien Auzout had once considered building a telescope that was 1,000 feet long in the 1600s. He thought the manification would be so great, he would see animals on the moon.

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New Jersey has a spoon museum that has over 5,400 spoons from accross the world

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The first jigsaw puzzle was created by map maker John Splisbury who mounted one of his maps on a sheet of hardwood. He proceeded to cut around the borders of each country using a fine saw

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During your lifetime, the average human will grow 591 miles of hair. Unverified But hair does grows about 6 inches per year and the average head has 100,000 hairs. Take an average lifespan of 67.2 years. 6 x 100,000 x 67.2 = 40,320,000 inches = 636 miles. Unfortunately hair growth is not uniform through out your lifespan, I have yet to find a formula for this, but this would be pretty close.

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10 percent of electricity in the US comes from “dismantled nuclear bombs, including Russian ones.”

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Sound doesn’t travel in space.

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Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than Left-handed people do.

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