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The world record for the largest number ever counted to belongs to Jeremy Harper. He streamed the entire process online and raised money for charity. He reached 1,000,000. It took him 3 months.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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100 pounds of chocolate are eaten in the U.S. every second.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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George Washington was worth US$525 million in his day, when adjusted for inflation.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Of a total of about 7,000 staff at Auschwitz, only 750 were ever punished.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Bolivia was named after Simon Bolivar, a military leader who led Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Panama and Bolivia to independence.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The name "Argentina" comes from the Latin word for silver, argentum. The original European settlers believed the country was full of silver.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Snakes don't have eyelids.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In New York, 6.5 hectares of buildings were directly affected when the Twin Towers collapsed in 9/11.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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About 60 million Reichmarks, equivalent to £125m today, was generated for the Nazi state by slave labour at Auschwitz during the Holocaust.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Tim Harris, the owner of "Tims Place," is the only person with down syndrome to own a restaurant in the U.S.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Abraham Lincoln wore size 14 shoes, the biggest in U.S. president history.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The current library at Alexandria has a copy of all the web pages on every website on the Internet since it started in 1996.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The sport of 'Ultimate Frisbee' is recognised by the International Olympic Committee.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Vultures have stomach acid so corrosive, they can even digest anthrax.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In Islam, a man may divorce his wife three times, taking her back up after the first two times.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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London's Big Ben clock tower is leaning much like the Tower of Pisa.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The Greek language has 4 words for love. Agape: Charitable love; Eros: Sexual love; Philia: Love between friends; and Storge: Family love.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Martin Luther King Jr. required hours of delicate surgery to remove a steel letter opener from his chest in 1958.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Snakes have flexible jaws which allow them to eat prey bigger than their head.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Killing someone to prevent the theft of property is legal in Texas.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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One of the assassins of Archduke Franz Ferdinand threw a grenade but missed the car. He swallowed cyanide and jumped to the River Miljacka. The cyanide was expired and did not work, and the river was only 10cm deep. He was captured seconds later.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Since 2007, an unfinished skyscraper in Caracas, Venezuela, has been re-appropriated by squatters into a vast 'vertical slum' which now includes grocery stores, hairdressers, and an unlicensed dentist.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Steve Jobs did not let his kids use iPads and limited their use of technology to a minimum.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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There is a 6000-year-old tree in South Africa that has a bar inside.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The cost per flight hour for Air Force One is US$206,337.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Harry Potter's author J.K. Rowling lost her billionaire status because she donated so much of her money to charity.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Female elephants have the longest reproductive anatomy of any land mammal: her vagina is located 1.3 meters into her body.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Osama Bin Laden was obsessed with Whitney Houston and wanted to make her one of his wives.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Rio de Janeiro's beaches have 1.7 million times the disease-causing viruses of what would be considered hazardous on a California beach.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The symbol "lb" for pound comes from an abbreviation of the constellation Libra, the scales.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
