The Band-Aid was originally made for the inventor's wife, who often cut and burned herself while cooking.
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Those things you see in your eyes when you stare into space are called Mouches Voltanes, which are also broadly referenced to as Floaters.
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Each day, more than $40 Trillion Dollars changes hands worldwide.
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In 1976, an underachieving Princeton junior undergraduate wrote a term paper detailing how to make a nuclear bomb. He got an "A", but never got his paper back because it was seized by the FBI.
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An olive tree can live up to 1,500 years!
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Stilts were invented by French shepherds who needed a way to get around in wet marshes.
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Caffeine boosts memory.
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The most children born to one woman was 69, she was a peasant who lived a 40 year life, in which she had 16 twins, 7 triplets, and 4 quadruplets.
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