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random facts!!
1. a number 2 pencil will draw a line for 35 miles, but a pen will only draw a line for about 5 miles
2. Green Eggs and Ham by Dr.Seuss was inspired by publisher Bennett Cerf who bet him $50 that he couldn't write a book with less than 50 different words
3. Margaret Mitchell was in a car accident when she was younger & read multiple library books while recovering. her husband eventually got tired of going to the library all the time to get her new books, so he suggested she write her own, which was Gone with the Wind
4. the longest word in the english language is Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, which is a type of lung disease caused by inhaling ash and dust
5. a new word is added to the dictionary every two hours
6. the word "swims" is still swims if you turn it upside down
7. all pilots have to identify & speak in english while flying, no matter what their first language is
8. cherophobia is the fear of fun
9. the guy who invented frisbees was cremated and made into frisbees when he died
10. bikinis and tampons were invented by men
11. a baby spider is called a spiderling
12. Hitler's mom was going to get an abortion, but the doctor convinced her not to
13. an octopus is the size of a flea when it's born
14. "do geese see God?" says the same thing backwards
15. Arab women have the right to get a divorce if their husbands don't pour coffee for them
16. Facebook, Skype & Twitter are all banned in China
17. the French have seventeen different words for "surrender"
18. the veins of a blue whale are so big that a small child could swim through them
19. there are 1,665 steps in the Eiffel Tower
20. slugs have four noses
21. panphobia is the fear of everything
22. the voice of Bugs Bunny was allergic to carrots
23. the Bible is the most shoplifted book in the world
24. there are oysters that can climb trees in the Caribbean