50 Interesting Facts

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The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.

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Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.

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It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.

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The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

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Most soccer players run 7 miles in a game.

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The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.

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Elvis had a twin brother named Aaron, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron: in honor of his brother. It is also misspelled on his tomb stone.

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Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

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More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

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Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."

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 Marilyn Monroe had 6 toes on one foot.

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

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The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.

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The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.

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American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.