You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than a poisonous spider!
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Stilts were invented by French shepherds who needed a way to get around in wet marshes.
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At the time of your birth, you were, for a few seconds, the youngest person on the planet.
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A million dollars weighs about a metric ton. Hence the expression "a ton of money."
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When withdrawing money from an ATM, the 'whirring' sound before your money pops out is actually a recording. The actual mechanism is so far back that you can't hear it.
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The mile is Latin for 1,000. The number of paces it took the average Roman!
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The odds of being killed by falling out of bed are one in two million.
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You can actually sharpen the blades on a pencil sharpener by wrapping your pencils in aluminum foil before inserting them.
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