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Your fingernails can turn yellow from wearing nail polish and from the sun.

Texas was one of the first states to adopt capital punishment by lethal injection -in 1977.

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

Approximately one-third of the population can't snap their fingers.

"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."

Over 600,000 people died as a result of the Spanish influenza epidemic

Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, with a population of 1000 and a size 108.7 acres

At the end of WWII the Germans had more planes than the start of the war.

If you yelled for 8 years 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

Baby whales grow at an average rate of 10lbs per hour.

Wasps that feed on ferment occasionally get drunk and pass out

Every day is about 55 billionths of a second longer than the day before it

According to Gaming Law, casinos have to stock enough cash to cover all the chips on the 'floor'.

One tonne of uranium produces the same amount of energy as 30,000 tonnes of coal.

Tohru Iwatani, the inventor of the video game Pac-Man, came up with the idea when he saw a pizza with a slice missing at a dinner party

In Kentucky, 50% of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.

Of the 3,000 islands in the Bahama chain in the Caribbean, only 20 are inhabited.

The turkey was once nominated to be the official bird of the United States

A can of SPAM opened every four seconds.

The music for The Star Spangled Banner comes from a British drinking song named Anacreon.

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