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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There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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Shirley Henderson, the girl who played Moaning Myrtle (the ghost in the bathroom) was actually 37 years old when she played the character in the Harry Potter series.
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A scorpion can hold its breath for up to 6 days.
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McDonald's serves 75 hamburgers every second, according to the company’s Operations and Training Manual.
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Disney's first choice to play Jack Sparrow was Jim Carrey.
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