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- The average person spends 2 weeks of their life waiting at traffic lights.
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- The Legos produced in 2012 would wrap around the world more than 18 times.
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- Oreos are actually a rip off of the Hydrox cookie.
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- 99% of Earth’s gold is in its core and unobtainable. If we could mine it, we would be able to coat the entire planet in a 1.5 foot layer of gold.
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- Most people know honey is the only food that doesn’t go bad, but did you know that out of the 20,000 species of bees only 4 make honey.
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- It takes 27,000 trees a day to keep up with the world’s toilet paper demands.
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- Revolving doors are much better for energy savings as they exchange 8 times less air with the outside environment than regular doors.
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- Velcro was inspired by the burrs from plants that get stuck to you.
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- A 747 jet would cost you a lot to fill up because it holds over 63,000 gallons of fuel.
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- A baby rabbit is a kitten, not a bunny.
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- Chainsaws were originally invented to help with childbirth.
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- Croissants are originally from Austria, not France.
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- You can’t fold a regular sheet of paper in half more than 7 times. But if you could fold it just 42 times, it would be thick enough to reach the Moon.
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- Chocolate milk was first sold as medicine.
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- Adding salt to pineapples will actually make them sweeter. And this is how they grow.
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- Birth control pills also work when given to chimps.
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- Over 400 million M&Ms are produced everyday.
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- Aglets are those plastic pieces at the end of your shoelaces.
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- A full head of human hair is strong enough to support 12 tons of weight.
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- The signature line on checks is not really a line. It just the words “authorized signature” printed really small.
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- If you stacked every Oreo ever made, they would reach the Moon and back over 5 times.
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- Lighters were invented before matches.
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- Pencils have enough graphite in them to draw a line 35 miles long.
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- Yo-Yos used to be called bandalores.
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- Before rubber, people used bread to erase pencil marks.(Pic relatively unrelated)
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- Nutella was created during WWII when the supply of coca was short and hazelnuts were mixed in to the chocolate so it would last longer.
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- It takes about 850 peanuts to make a jar of peanut butter, and peanuts are actually legumes not nuts.
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- Every time you shuffle of a deck of cards, it’s probably the only time ever that any deck of cards has been in that order. Probably.
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- Silly Putty was originally made to be a rubber substitute during WWII.
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- All of the gold humans have mined would fit into 4 Olympic sized pools.
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- The original name for Q-Tips was Baby Gays.
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- If you wanted to buy the parts to make an iPhone in 1991, it would have cost about $3.5 million.
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- The Japanese company YKK makes over 90% of all the zippers in the world.
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- All of the batteries in the world can only store 10 minutes of the world’s energy needs.
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- Nobody knows exactly who holds the patent for the fire hydrant because the patent office that held the records burned down.
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- Movie trailers used to play after the movie, hence the name.Via Distractify
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