The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are radioactive...so much so that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear reactor.
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Rice paper does not have any rice in it!
210
The average office worker spends 50 minutes a day looking for lost files and other items.
290
One in three dog owners say they have talked to their pets on the phone.
427
In 1949, an official boxing match between a bear and a man was held. The bear won.
41
A surprise inspection of a men’s prison in Acapulco unearthed 100 plasma TVs, 2 sacks of marijuana, 2 peacocks, 100 cockerels… and 25 women.
37
The 'Bicycle Tree', found near Brig o' Turk in Scotland, has consumed an entire bike that now hangs out of its bark.
17
Only two in one thousand diamonds are considered truly colorless.
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