It takes at least eight bees all their life to make one single teaspoonful of honey.
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The word 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
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In 1996, research found that having excessive body hair is linked to higher intelligence.
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The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest is the male sperm.
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Just before the US started bombing Baghdad, nearly $1 billion dollars was stolen from the Central Bank of Iraq and is now the largest bank robbery in history.
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There is a Swedish religion called Kopimism whose sole tenet is that all knowledge should be available to everyone - and thus, using CTRL+C and CTRL+V are sacred acts.
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Japanese engineers were asked to redesign the front end of the Bullet Train because it carried enough speed to create a sonic boom whenever it exited a tunnel. Residents could feel the blast from miles away.
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