Now you Know

Underground is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters und.

The act of stretching and yawning is referred to as pandiculation

A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

Stuttering is 4 to 6 times more common in boys than in girls.

Oral-B were the first toothbrushes to go to the moon when they were aboard the Apollo 11 mission

Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses

Our eyes are always the same size from birth but our nose and ears never stop growing.

Annually Americans eat 45 million turkeys at Thanksgiving

Karoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese.

The Eiffel Tower was built for the 1889 World's Fair.

Canadians eat more Kraft Dinner (Macaroni and Cheese) per capita than any other country in the world

In Turkey during the 16th and 17th centuries, anyone caught drinking coffee was put to death.

To tell if a egg is fully cooked or raw, just spin it. If the egg wobbles then it is still raw, and if it easily spins it is fully cooked

Beethoven used to pour cold water over his head to stimulate his brain before sitting down to compose.

Owls are one of the only birds that can see the color blue.

A single drop of water contains one hundred billion billion atoms.

Australia's box jellyfish has toxins more potent than the venom in cobras, and is one of the most dangerous jellyfish in the world.

Before 1859, baseball umpires were seated in padded chairs behind home plate

Bubble gum contains rubber.

The average human has about 20 square feet of skin weighing about 6 pounds

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