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1. There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the known universe.

2. Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

3. It can take a photon 40,000 years to travel from the core of the sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to earth.

4. It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human of blood.

5. Basically anything that melts can be made into glass. You just have to cool off a molten material before its molecules have time to realign into what they were before being melted.

6. A small percentage of the static you see on "dead" tv stations is left over radiation from the Big Bang. You're seeing residual effects of the Universe's creation.

7. Written language was invented independently by the Egyptians, Sumerians, Chinese, and Mayans.

8. If you were to remove all of the empty space from the atoms that make up every human on earth, the entire world population could fit into an apple.

9. Honey does not spoil. You could feasibly eat 3000 year old honey.

10. If you somehow found a way to extract all of the gold from the bubbling core of our lovely little planet, you would be able to cover all of the land in a layer of gold up to your knees.

11. The Spanish national anthem has no words.

12. Dead people can get goose bumps.

13. Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."

14. When possums are playing 'possum', they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.

15. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

16. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants!

17. There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!

18. Over 1000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!

19. In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!

20. Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue!

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