Ice cream cones were popularized in America during the 1904 World’s Fair in Saint Louis when an ice cream vendor ran out of cups and asked a nearby waffle vendor to roll up his waffles to hold the ice cream.
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Before making Finding Nemo, the animation gurus at Pixar Studios had to take a graduate class in fish biology and oceanography.
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According to scientists, the color of the cup that we're drinking from can alter our perception of the actual taste of the drink.
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In the case of an emergency, a Crayola crayon can be used as a candle and will burn for about 15 minutes.
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Romans used a plant called Silphium as contraception. They had so much sex that they drove it into extinction.
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If NYC were its own country, and the NYPD was its army, it would be the twentieth-best-funded army in the world, just behind Greece and just ahead of North Korea.
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On average, every dollar bill you touch has over 3,000 different types of bacteria.
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When someone looks at a new love, the neural circuits that are usually associated with social judgment are suppressed.
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