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1.  The seventeenth president of the United States, Andrew Johnson did not know how to read until he was 17 years old.
2. The sentence “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the english language.
3. The second best selling game of all time is Jenga. Jenga is a Swahili word, meaning “to build.”
4. The Sears Tower in Chicago contains enough steel to build 50,000 automobiles.
5. The Sears Tower consists of nine framed tubes, which connects nine skyscrapers as one building.
6. The search engine Google got its name from the word “googol,” which refers to the number one with a hundred zeros after it.
7. The Sea of Tranquility on the moon is deeper than the highest mountain on Earth.
8. The sea cucumber spills its internal organs out as a defense mechanism.
9. The sap of a banana plant leaves serious stains on hands and clothes that is extremely hard to remove.
10. The Sanskrit word for “war” means “desire for more cows.”
11. The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments
12. The Saguaro Cactus, found in South-western United States does not grow branches until it is 75 years old.
13. The ruby red slippers in the movie “The Wizard of Oz” were sold off at an auction for $660,000.
14. The Romans used to clean themselves with olive oil since they did not have any soap. They would pour the oil on their bodies, and then use a strigil, which is type of blade, to scrape off any dirt along with the oil.
15. The Roman emperor Commodus was at one time going to change the name of Rome to Colonia Commodiana.
16. The risk of cardiovascular disease is twice as high in women that snore regularly compared to women who do not snore.  updated
17. The right lung of a human is larger than the left one. This is because of the space and placement of the heart.
18. The rhinoceros beetle can carry up to 850 times its weight on its back. This is equivalent to a person carrying over 50 mini-vans on their back.
19. The revolving door was invented in 1888, by Theophilus Van Kannel.
20. The revenue that is generated from gambling is more than the revenue that comes from movies, cruise ships, recorded music, theme parks, and spectator sports combined.
21. The Red Cross is called the Red Crescent in Arab countries.
22. The record for the longest Monopoly game played in a bathtub is ninety-nine hours.
23. The reason why your nose gets runny when you are crying is because the tears from the eyes drain into the nose.
24. The reason why the Mexican sombrero hat is so wide is to provide shade for the entire body.
25. The reason why the Canadian Arctic is called the “Land of the Midnight Sun” is because during the summer many communities have light 24 hours of the day. Many people have to cover their windows with tin foil to keep the light out when they sleep.
26. The reason why tattoos do not vanish even though we shed our skin is because the dye is injected deeper into the dermis part of the skin. It is only the epidermis that we shed.
27. The reason why some people get a cowlick is because the growth of their hair is in a spiral pattern, which causes the hair to either stand straight up, or goes to a certain angle.

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