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16 Facts To File Away In Your Brain

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The "sweet spot" where populations thrive is between 20 degrees and 40 degrees north.

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In the United States in 2017 69 people died from lawnmowers.

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Called the dog fence, it originally was erected by the Australian government in the 1880s. In the 1980s it was shortened from 5352 miles down to 3488 miles.

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It's true. 37 people were killed by a vending machine from 1978 to 1995, which averages out to 2.18 deaths a year.

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It's true. The Mt. Everest is 29,029 ft above sea level while the Mariana Trench is 35,814 ft deep. What is incorrect is the spelling of Mariana. It's a trench, not a god damn pasta sauce.

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This gender gap was even wider for racial/ethnic minority groups.

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This is true. If you aren't a hockey fan you may not know that players also get points for assists. In fact, Wayne Gretzky has 1,963 assist points, which is 42 points higher than JAROMIR JAGR's total points.

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It's true. In a 52 card deck there are 80,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (67 zeros) ways for a deck to be arranged. On Earth there are only 133,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (48 zeros) atoms.

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The stegosaurus lived during the Jurassic period, between 156 and 144 million years ago, while the T-Rex during the late Cretaceous period, about 67–65 million years ago.

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It's true! F1 drivers lose around 3-5 liters of water during each race.

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That's horrifying (and true). The good news? That's down from 50% in 2013.

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Some reports put the high-end of this number around 10%, but nonetheless, it is true.

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By 1 A.D., the population had reached 300 million.

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That means 13.7 million children and adolescents.

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It's believed that 2/3 of the world's ocean life has yet to be discovered.

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This number may not be EXACTLY right. 377 million birds are killed in Australia by cats, but 61 million of those deaths are attributed to pet cats.

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