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Random Facts

The Alexandrite is able to change colours under different light conditions

Leeches provide protection and transportation for their young

Honey is the only food made without harming another organism

Chinese dragons have five toes. Japanese dragons have three toes. The Chinese believed that the further the dragon travels, the more toes it loses and may lose too many toes to walk properly. The Japanese believed the opposite: the further the dragon travels, the more toes it grows and may grow too many toes to walk properly.

The top three most common Chinese surnames are the surnames of 40% of the Chinese population worldwide.
 
Albumin is the chief protein in an egg white
Salt, is a preservative
Light, can be bent
 
Chevrolet built 189,108 Caprices for the 1988 model year.

The University of Notre Dame was founded on this day in 1842.

There are 114 prisons in the United States Federal Bureau of Prisons.

Concord Mills Mall attracted 17.6 million visitors in 2005.

The Quality Inn & Suites in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina has a grand total of 103 guest rooms.

Pennsylvania State Highway 274 is 44 miles long.
 
A cockroach can live for up to a week without its head.
Try it sometime, if you are really bored and don't mind being cruel to a roach.

Niku-jaga is inspired from English-style beef stew.
Heck, it was thanks to a certain admiral that we have the awesome dish here.

Specific to Japan: While videogames are being used as scapegoats by the media now, 40 years ago it was adventure novels, and 60 years ago it was baseball.
 
In the Dream Theater song "Misunderstood", John Petrucci plays the guitar solo, then plays the recording backwards. He then learned how to play the solo backwards, recorded it, then reversed that recording so the solo played forward, yet distorted. Amazing!
 
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than
left-handed people do.

The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which
they start.

The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
 
Tertle said:
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than
left-handed people do.

The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which
they start.

The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
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Is that really true? I'm screwed.
 
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