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10443. Fact
A Hungarian named Ladislo Biro invented the first ballpoint pen in 1938.
10444. Fact
Roasted coffee beans start to lose small amounts of flavor within two weeks. Ground coffee begins to lose its flavor in one hour. Brewed coffee and espresso begins to lose flavor within minutes.
10445. Fact
Weatherman Willard Scott was the first Ronald McDonald
10446. Fact
The lowest temperature ever recorded in the world was 129 degrees below 0 at Vostok, Antarctica, on July 21, 1983.
10447. Fact
The world's smallest winged insect, the Tanzanian parasitic wasp, is smaller than the eye of a housefly.
10448. Fact
Hundreds of years ago, only the wealthy people used to wear underwear
10450. Fact
In the 1905 football season, 18 men were killed in college games in the United States, and 159 more were permanently injured.
10451. Fact
Steve Fletcher holds the record for the largest gum wrapper collection. His collection has 5300 gum wrappers from all across the world
10452. Fact
The annual Night of the Radishes is held in Oaxaca, Mexico. It's held on December 23rd of every year as part of a pre-Christmas tradition. Farmers carve figures from radishes and display them in the city's main plaza.
10453. Fact
Several buildings in Manhattan, NY have their own zip code. For example the former World Trade Center has several.
10454. Fact
There are about 2 chickens for every human in the world.
10455. Fact
The most senior crayon maker Emerson Moser retired after making 1.4 billion crayons for Crayola. It was then that he revealed that he was actually colorblind
10458. Fact
Unlike other spiders that sit passively in their web, wolf spiders are hunters, actively stalking their prey.
10461. Fact
Laid end-to-end, the arteries, capillaries and veins would stretch for about 60,000 miles in the average child and would be about 100,000 miles in an adult - enough to wrap around the world nearly four times.
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Gender role is the role a person is expected to perform as a result of being male or female in a particular culture.
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