Approximately 350 slices of pizza are eaten each second in the U.S. alone.
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Queen's Crazy Little Thing Called Love took Freddie Mercury 10 minutes to write while taking a bath.
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Cyprus was supposed to host the first particle accelerator in the Middle East, but ministers chose to spend this money hosting the Miss Universe pageant instead.
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Nordlingen is a German town that was built inside a 14 million-year-old meteor crater.
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The Soviet Union still holds the record for most Olympic gold medals in wrestling.
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The Krabby Patty is actually a veggie burger. The series creator, Stephen Hillenburg, has stated that the patties don't contain any meat.
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Polar bears are classified as marine mammals because they spend the majority of their lives on sea ice.
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Most movie theater chairs are red because red is the first color the human eye loses sight of when lights dim, enhancing our viewing experience.
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In 2017, a plastic bag was found by researchers at the bottom of Challenger Deep, which is the deepest part of the ocean.
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Tigers are nearly invisible to their prey because their prey sees the color orange as green. Therefore, tigers blend into their surroundings.
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The mineral element Promethium is so rare that it's estimated there are only 500-600 grams of it in the Earth's crust.
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Hedgehogs used to be called urchins until around the 15th century. Sea urchins got their name from this old term, basically as the hedgehogs of the ocean.
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In 1985, two Irish boys (ages 13 and 10) snuck from Dublin New York without being caught during travel. The boys snuck onto a train and ferry in Dublin, a train to Heathrow, and a flight to JFK.
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It took four people only four days to replicate a typical 2.5-ton block of The Great Pyramid using the same tools found in an ancient quarry including copper chisels and wooden mallets.
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The Netherlands gifts Canada 20,000 tulips every single year as a thank you for protecting the Dutch Royal Family during World War II.
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Cigarette filters were originally designed with color-changing chemicals that would make people think it filtered out toxins. The filters actually have little to no health benefits.
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The longest surgery ever performed took 103 hours and 20 doctors to complete back in 2001.
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There's a herd of wild zebras in California that drivers can see off Route 1 near San Simeon.
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Vermont ambulances have maple syrup stocked inside them for 'oral glucose' administration.
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In the original ending of Pretty Woman, Richard Gere throws Julia Roberts out of his limo into an alley and tosses $3,000 at her.
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Tug of war used to be an Olympic sport, for which Britain holds five gold medals.
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Vampires were not originally inspired by bats. Vampires first appear in stories around the 12th century, while blood-sucking bats weren't discovered until the 16th century.
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Guava is the fruit with the highest amount of protein with 2.55 grams per 100 grams.