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  • The Cincinnati Reds are the oldest professional baseball team.
  • The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
  • The CIA has made a disk camera that is as big as a quarter. This gadget can take many pictures at a time when the disk is opened.
  • The Christmas season begins after sunset on December 24th and lasts until January 5th. This is also known as the Twelve Days of Christmas.
  • The Chinese politician Mao Zedong refused to ever brush his teeth and instead just washed his mouth with tea.
  • The Chihuahua was named after the Mexican state where they were discovered.

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  • The dromedary camel can drink as much as 100 litres of water in just 10 minutes.
  • The driest place on earth is Calama, in the Atacama Desert in Chile.
  • The dragonfly has not changed over the last 300 million years.
  • The dot that appears over the letter “i” is called a tittle.
  • The DNA of humans is closer to a rat than a cat.
  • The difference between horns and antlers is that horns never stop growing and antlers shed and grow every year.
  • The designated instrument for the city of Detroit is the accordion.
  • The desert tortoise can live without having to drink any water. It extracts the water it needs from the vegetation it eats.
  • The deepest underwater penguin dive is 1,772 feet by an Emperor Penguin.
  • The deepest mine in the world is the East Rand mine, which goes to a depth of about 3,585 metres.
  • The deepest cave in the world is the “Lamprechtsofen-Vogelshacht” cave which can be found in Salzburg, Austria. The cave is 5,354 feet deep.
  • The decomposition point of Olive Oil is 220 degrees Celsius.
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  • The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every fivemust be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips intimes ofwar or other emergencies.
  • The eight most popular foods to cause food allergies are: milk, eggs, wheat, peanuts, soy, tree nuts, fish, and shellfish.
  • The Eiffel Tower weight is approximately 9441 tons.
  • The Earth orbits the Sun at a speed of about 108,000 km per hour.
  • The early occurrence of a fetus yawning is at eleven weeks after conception.
  • The earliest known example of an organized market for equities dates from Rome, second century B.C.
  • The Dutch people are known to be the tallest people in Europe.
  • The dumbest dog in the world is the Afghan Hounds.

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  • The eye of a human can distinguish 500 shades of the gray.
  • The external tank on space shuttles is not painted. It is the only part of the shuttle that is lost after launch, so it is not necessary to worry about metal corrosion.
  • The expression cooked “al dente” means “to the tooth.” What this means is that the pasta should be somewhat firm, and offer some resistance to the tooth, but should also be tender.
  • The expression “Tying the Knot” comes from an old Roman custom where the brides clothes were tied up all in knots and the groom was supposed to untie the knots.
  • The elephant is the national animal of Thailand.
  • The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
  • John Wilkes Booth’s brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln’s son.
  • The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.

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