1. Thirty-five percent of people are born without wisdom teeth.
2.In the 1870s, a Belgian village attempted to train a fleet of 37 official mail cats to deliver letters.
It didn't work.
3. Twelve percent of sleepers dream in black and white.
4. The light emitted by 200,000 galaxies makes our universe a shade of beige.
5. The oldest star is nicknamed Methuselah. It's 13.8 billion years old.
6. Today, baby carrots are a $1 billion business.
7. Oreos are a knock-off of Hydrox cookies, which came out four years earlier (in 1908).
8. In the original stage version of The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy's companion isn't Toto, but a cow named Imogene.
9. The most shoplifted food item in the U.S. is candy.
10. The electronic game Simon, where players repeat the sequence of lit-up colored panels, debuted at Studio 54.
11. Sea otters hold hands when they sleep so they don't drift apart.
12. German chocolate cake isn't German. It's named for Sam German, an American baker.
13. In 2006, an Australian man tried to sell New Zealand on eBay. The price rose to $3,000 before eBay shut it down.
14. Winston Churchill's mother was born in Brooklyn.
15. A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
16. A rhinoceros' horn is made of hair.
17. The heart of a shrimp is located in its head.
18. It is possible to hypnotize a frog by placing it on its back and gently stroking its stomach.
19. It takes a sloth two weeks to digest its food.
20. Nearly three percent of the ice in Antarctic glaciers is penguin urine.
21. A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in a lifetime.
22. Water can boil and freeze at the same time.
23. In 1976 the BBC made an April fools hoax, that the planets in our sun system are located in a special constellation so that the gravity is decreased. This resulted in more than one thousand calls, confirming that one actually can feel the effect.
That's all for this chapter, and I really hope you enjoyed it.
Please comment and tell me what you would like facts about next.
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