25 Facts That Will Actually Make You Smarter. Can You Believe 15?
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You might actually find these facts useful in life.
1. Chocolate milk was invented in Ireland.
2. Ketchup was once thought to have medicinal purposes.
3. Coconuts kill more people than sharks every year.
4. Norway once knighted a penguin.
5. Oklahoma's state vegetable is a watermelon.
Um...what?!
6. A day on the planet Venus is longer than a year on the planet Venus.
7. The TI-83 graphing calculator has six times the processing power than the computer on Apollo 11.
8. Albert Woolson, the last veteran of the American Civil War, died in 1956.
That's 91 years after the war ended.
9. There are more ways to shuffle a deck of cards than there are atoms on Earth.
10. Cows have best friends.
11. Popeye has four nephews.
Their names are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye and Poopeye.
12. Lighter roast coffee has more caffeine than dark roast.
Roasting removes caffeine, and since dark coffee is is roasted longer, more caffeine is removed.
13. Pigs have orgasms that last for half an hour.
14. A "butt load" is an actual unit of measurement.
It's equal to 126 gallons.
15. Africa is bigger than the U.S., China, India, Spain, France and many other countries combined.
16. The lint that collects at the bottom of your pocket is called gnurr.
17. Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined.
18. There are more public libraries in the U.S. than McDonald's.
19. Yoda and Miss Piggy were voiced by the same person.
His name is Frank Oz.
20. People still subscribe to AOL dial-up internet.
They earn millions of dollars every few months from these late adopters.
21. Shakespeare and Pocahontas were both alive at the same time.
In fact, Shakespeare appeared in "Pocahontas 2."
22. Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born on the same day.
23. The American Flag we use today was designed by a 17-year-old as a class project.
He originally received just a B- on the project.
24. Wombats poop in squares.
25. Mongolia's navy is seven people and a boat.
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