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Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.

Jacksonville, Florida has the largest total area of any city in the United States. It takes up 460 square miles, almost twice the area of Los Angeles.

10424. Fact

Contrary to popular beliefs, chocolate does not cause acne.

10425. Fact

55,700 people in the US are injured by jewelry each year

10426. Fact

Canadians Scott Abbott and Chris Haney invented Trivial Pursuit. They were planning on playing Scrabble and realized that some of the pieces were missing so they came up with the idea of making their own game; Trivial Pursuit

10427. Fact

The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400.

10428. Fact

The tallest freestanding sculpture in the world is Chief Crazy Horse in South Dakota, USA

10429. Fact

Shirly Temple received 135,000 presents on her 8th birthday.

10430. Fact

There are four main Blood types: A, B, AB and O and each Blood type is either Rh positive or negative. Blood types in the US Type O positive 38.4%, O negative 7.7%, A positive 32.3%, A negative 6.5%, B positive 9.4%, B negative 1.7%, AB positive 3.2%, AB negative 0.7%

10431. Fact

Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime.

10432. Fact

The city of Chicago has the only post office in the world where you can drive your car through

10433. Fact

It takes 12 honeybees to make one teaspoon of honey

10434. Fact

The U.S. Post Office handles 43 percent of the world's mail.

10435. Fact

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave

10436. Fact

A British term for slot machine is fruit machine or one-armed bandit.