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Aircraft id mark :
Singapore : 9v

Americans write approximately 50 billion checks a year making it the second most frequent payment method used after cash

A small drip from a faucet can waste up to 50 gallons of water daily, which is enough water to run a dishwasher twice on a full cycle

Warren G. Harding was the first American President to visit Canada. He stopped in Vancouver, British Columbia while he was on his way to Alaska.

There are about 5,000,000,000 years of sunlight left

Most people move about forty times in their sleep during the night.

It takes a ton of water to make a pound of refined sugar.

William Shakespeare used a vocabulary of 29,066 different words. By way of comparison, the average person uses about 8,000 different words.

The all-time most nominated Grammy artist with 77 nominations is Quincy Jones

Any free-moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere, because of it's surface tension.

Stag beetles have stronger mandibles than humans.

The aorta, which is largest artery located in the body, is about the diameter of a garden hose

Fortune cookies were actually invented in America (not China), in 1918, by Charles Jung

It would take 11 Empire State Buildings, stacked one on top of the other, to measure the Gulf of Mexico at its deepest point.

Rutgers beat Princeton 6-4 in the first ever college football game. At the time, a touchdown was worth only two points.

Roosters have to extend their necks in order to crow

The thickness of the Arctic ice sheet is on average 10 feet. There are some areas that are thick as 65 feet

Serving ice cream on cherry pie was once illegal in Kansas

Pregnant female polar bears will not eat for several months while resting in her den under the snow.

Orca (killer) whales can grow to 30ft long.

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