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did you know?

11/1/2017

 
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By Gabriel Benjamin and Ishaan Bhattacharya
  1. On the back of the U.S. $5 bill, you can find the number 172 in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
  2. Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.
  3. In Japanese, karaoke  means “empty orchestra”.
  4. Your hair keeps on growing for a few months after you die .
  5. 16 to 18 hours per day is the average cat’s amount of sleep.
  6. On Heinz ketchup bottles, the number 57 represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
  7. In an auction, the most money ever paid for a cow was $1.3 million!
  8. The brain of a Neanderthal was bigger than yours!
  9. In the movie E.T., the sound of the alien E.T. walking was made by someone squishing their hands in jelly.
  10. The only 10 human body parts that are only three letters long are eye, hip, arm, leg, jaw, lip, gum, toe, ear, and the rib.
  11. In Antarctica, the dialing number is 672.
  12. Car horns in America beep in the tone of F.
  13. The patron saint of bricklayers is St. Stephen.
  14. In the springtime, children grow faster.
  15. The only mammals unable to jump are elephants!
  16. Mohammed is the most common name in the world!
Source: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bingbin/


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