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10679. Fact
The word trivia comes from the Latin trivium which is the place where three roads meet, a public square. People would gather and talk about all sorts of matters, most of which were trivial.
10680. Fact
On a bottle of brandy VSOP stand for Very Special Old Pale.
10682. Fact
The official state mammal of Texas is the armadillo
10683. Fact
A caterpillar grows roughly 27,000 times its size when it first emerges as an egg
10684. Fact
Canada has more inland waters and lakes than any other country in the world
10685. Fact
Each year there are approximately 20 billion coconuts produced worldwide
10687. Fact
The peanut is not a nut, it is actually a legume
10689. Fact
The first pick (by Eagles) in the first NFL draft in 1935, was Jay Berwanger from the University of Chicago. He never played.
10690. Fact
The longest word in the Finnish language, that isn't a compound word, is 'epaejaerjestelmaellistyttaemaettoemyydellaensaekaeaen'. In English it means 'even with their lack of ability to disorganize'.
10694. Fact
The production of toilet paper in China began in 1391, which was used for the Emperors
10695. Fact
Pi has been calculated to over 2,260,321,363 digits.
10696. Fact
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
10697. Fact
There is a certain type of Hawk Moth caterpillar from Brazil that inflates its thorax, which makes its head look like a head of a snake when it feels it is in danger or alarmed
10698. Fact
Taxi is spelled exactly the same in English, French, German, Swedish, Portuguese, and Dutch.
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A meteor has only destroyed one satellite, which was the European Space Agency's Olympus in 1993.
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