Random Unbelievable Facts

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    Bill Morgan
    Bill Morgan
    An Australian man was declared dead for 14 minutes and lived unscathed. To celebrate, he bought a scratch card and won a car worth $27,000. For a news report, he was asked to re-enact winning the scratch card, so he bought another card and won a $250,000 jackpot.
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    McDonald's serves 75 hamburgers every second, according to the company’s Operations and Training Manual.
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    Most Passengers on Airplane
    Most Passengers on Airplane
    The record for most passengers on an airplane was set in 1991 when 1086 Ethiopian Jews were evacuated on a Boeing 747 to Jerusalem. The plane landed with 1088 passengers as two babies were born during the flight.
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    The Sun and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to Earth.
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    A singing birthday card has more computing power than the allied forces in 1945.
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    According to a study by the National Science Foundation, only half of Americans believe in evolution, and one in 4 don't know that the Earth orbits the Sun.
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    In 1799, a boy found a 17lb. rock in a creek in North Carolina and used it as a doorstop. It was actually gold.
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    MDIF, a New York based non-profit organisation, is planning to beam free Wi-Fi to the entire world from space.
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