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the
Earl of Sandwich was so busy gambling that he had a small piece of bread
and meat for lunch? This is from where we get the word 'sandwich'!
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it's
so crowded in London that the average speed of a car is only 4mph?
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Hungary
lost only one match in football between 1945-1955?
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the
first sentence in history ever said on a telephone call was, "Come here!
My shirt is covered with acid!"?
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glass
is actually a liquid which doesn't flow?
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there's
a difference between a fluid and a liquid: a fluid is anything which can
flow (that is a liquid or a gas) but not all liquids flow?
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if
you pour a glass of milk in space, nothing will fall because of the absence
of gravity? That means it's difficult to drink or pee in space!
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if
humans manage to invent a car which runs on nuclear power, 2 grams of uranium
will be enough for a car to travel around the world?
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by
the time a human is 70 years old he would have slept for 30 years, worked
for 15 years, watched TV for 20 years, played sports for 2.5 years, studied
for 6 months studying and 2 years doing absolutely nothing?
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there
are no "rings" on a CD but there's one spiral which is 6 km long?
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Isaac
Newton's lectures in Cambridge were so boring that no one attended and
he used to talk to an empty hall for a few hours?
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Michael
Jordan used to earn 400,000 US dollars for every second he spent wearing
Nike shoes in a basketball court?
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the
speed of the fastest cyclist ever, John Howard, is twice as fast as an
average car?
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Pele
scored more than 1000 goals?
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one
of the fifth of the world's energy is used up by America which comprises
only 2% of the world's population?
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most
of the time, water can put off a fire, but water can make some types of
fires (e.g. burning fat or oil) spread and increase in size?
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Louis
Pasteur was so preoccupied with experiments and research that his relatives
went to his laboratory to tell him that his wedding ceremony had already
started?
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Bill
Gates earns more than 4 million dollars every hour?
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