20 Random but Fascinating Facts That Blew Our Mind
There are millions upon millions of facts on the internet, about every different subject. Let's take a look at some of the most random.
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"Play-Doh started out as a wallpaper cleaner before the head of the struggling company realized the non-toxic material made a good modeling clay for children and rebranded it." - u/runningupthatbill
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"The oldest-known living land animal is a tortoise named Jonathan, who is 187 years old. He was born in 1832 and has lived on the island of St. Helena in the Atlantic Ocean since 1882." - u/runningupthatbill
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"The original name for the search engine Google was Backrub. It was renamed Google after the googol, which is the number one followed by 100 zeros." - u/runningupthatbill
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"Tamil is a 5000-year-old language predominantly spoken by the Tamil people of India and Sri Lanka. It appeared in records as early as 3,000 B.C, making it the oldest language still spoken today." - u/classic_manzn
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"If you sneeze too hard you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force they can pop out." - u/classic_manzn
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"From 1979 to 2020, US worker productivity increased by +61.8% while wages only increased by +17.5%. Over the period 1979 to 2019, the top 5% of the workforce saw their wages increase by +160.3% while the bottom 90% saw their wages increase by only 26.0%. For the top 0.1%, the increase was +345.2%." - u/sylsau
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"Koala fingerprints are almost indistinguishable from humans’ — so much so, they can taint crime scenes!" - u/runningupthatbill
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"In Colombia, dried ants replace popcorn as the typical movie theater snack." - u/classic_manzn
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"The first human born on the continent of Antarctica was Emilio Marcos Palma, who was born at the Argentine army's Esperanza Base near the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula on January 7, 1978." - u/GreenKiwe
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"The Disney logo is a combination of Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella's castles." - u/BillyLK
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"One minute of work produces 3,500 times more nails today than at the end of the 17th century." - u/sylsau
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"It costs $1,393 to mine 1 Bitcoin in Kuwait, while the average price to mine 1 Bitcoin in America is $21,089. The differences between US States are huge, from $13,143 in Georgia to $38,095 in Connecticut. The 10 most profitable countries to mine Bitcoin are located in Africa, Middle East and Asia." - u/sylsau
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