In 1943, a Pan Am Airline chef snuck whiskey into passengers' coffee to warm them up on a winter flight. When asked what kind of coffee they were being served, he improvised "Irish Coffee," creating the now-famous cocktail.
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Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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If you mouth the word "colorful" to someone, it looks like you are saying "I love you".
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Your spit has a painkiller 6 times stronger than morphine. It contains a substance called opiorphin that is stronger than morphine.
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Japan has the most vending machines in the world (5.52 million) which is more than the population of New Zealand.
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Most elephants weigh less than a blue whale's tongue.
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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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The average person in their lifetime will spend an estimated 20,160 minutes kissing!
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