Stilts were invented by French shepherds who needed a way to get around in wet marshes.
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The small pocket in the larger pocket of your jeans was designed for pocket watches.
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Author J K Rowling wrote the final chapter of the last Harry Potter book in "something like 1990", seven years before the release of the first book.
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The search engine Google got its name from the word 'googol', which refers to the number one with a hundred zeros after it.
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The oldest living person smoked cigarettes from the age of 21 to 117.
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The symbol on the 'pound' key (#) is called an octothorpe.
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Your fingernails grow faster in summer.
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Blue light fends off drowsiness in the middle of the night, which could be useful to people who work at night.
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