The first man to swim the length of Great Britain grew a beard to stop jellyfish stinging his face.
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A person will create enough saliva to fill two average size swimming pools during his lifetime.
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Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.
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Americans will spend more on cat food this year than baby food.
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Every workday, 6.7 million people commute to Manhattan!
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Karl Pillemer, a professor, performed a study on thousands of elderly people and what advice they had about life. On happiness, there was a consensus: “the elders viewed happiness as a choice, not the result of how life treats you.”
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Americans did not commonly use forks until after the Civil War.
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