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The Honda Accord has the highest stolen rate in the US according to NCIB.

The earth is not perfectly round. Technically, it's a triaxial ellipsoid, which is to say that it's nearly spherical, but flattened at the top and bottom.

3269. Fact

In the United States only 80 miles separate the highest point of land and the lowest point in the lower 48 states. Mount Whitney on the eastern border of Sequoia National Park in California is 14,496 feet high, and a pool called Badwater in Death Valley is 280 feet below sea level.

3270. Fact

The shallowest sea is the sea of Azov. It is 13 meters at its deepest.

3271. Fact

It snows more in the Grand Canyon than it does in Minnesota.

3272. Fact

Odontophobia is the fear of teeth

3273. Fact

Morphine was given its name in 1803 by the discoverer, a 20 year old German pharmacist named Friedrich Saturner. He named it after Morpheus, the Greek god of dreams.

3274. Fact

Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them

3275. Fact

The actor who played the T-1000 in Terminator 2 (Robert Patrick) and the lead singer of Filter are brothers

3276. Fact

Persia changed its name to Iran in 1935.

3277. Fact

¥ The number of cars on the planet is increasing three times faster than the population growth

3278. Fact

Great Britain was the first country to issue stamps in 1840.

3279. Fact

Every second there are 418 Kit Kat fingers eaten in the world