Stilts were invented by French shepherds who needed a way to get around in wet marshes.
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Your fingernails grow faster in summer.
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It takes 492 seconds for sunlight to reach the Earth!
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Every year around 1 billion Valentine cards are sent. After Christmas it's a single largest seasonal card-sending occasion.
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Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant called Diamond Star.
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Wearing yellow makes you look bigger on camera; green, smaller.
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The average person eats almost 1500 pounds of food a year.
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A typical full-time worker in the US with a four-year college degree earns about $50,000. This is 62% more than a worker with only a high-school diploma.
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