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Though the ancient Maya people wrote thousands of books, only 4 of them survived. The Maya had an advanced writing system that recorded their history for more than 800 years back, but all of their texts were burned during the Spanish conquest by priests who thought them to be “lies of the devil.”

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a meter is defined as the distance light travels in a vacuum over 1/299,792,458th of a second.

A crunchy food, like a crispy cracker or chip, makes that "crunch" noise because of the formation of "brittle fractures". It wouldn't make any crunch sound at all if the brittle fractures didn't happen- think of the difference between a stale corn chip and a fresh one- more, louder crunch? More "brittle fractures." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersoni ... prov=sfla1

A brittle fracture is a crack formed at an extremely high rate of speed, always at or exceeding 340m/s, (340 meters per second).

340m/s is the speed of sound.

Every crunch is a tiny sonic boom in your mouth.

The International Space Station is larger than an American football field and can be seen from earth with the naked eye.

It's also the second brightest object in the night sky.

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john mccain was born in the panama canal zone.

The two current senators from Iowa are Joni Ernst and Chuck Grassley.

The Islamic Republic of Iran has more liberal abortion views than Scott Walker.

late king rama IX of thailand was the only monarch to have been born on american soil.

President Obama has had 9 different species named after him in recognition of his focus on the environment and clean energy. He has more animals - which range from a trapdoor spider (Aptostichus barackobamai) to an extinct lizard (Obamadon gracillis) - named for him than any other POTUS in history, though Teddy Roosevelt’s 7 namesakes are a close second.

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ultramarine was originally made from grinding lapis lazuli into a powder.

I'm worried that everyone already knows this but I'll give it a try. Bhutan ranks its success based on gross national happiness and they also paint penises on their building walls to drive away evil spirits.

^ i didn't know that.

one single frame of zootopia could take more than 20 hours to render.

Drew Barrymore got her role in E.T. because she ‘lied her face off’ when she met Steven Spielberg. At an audition for another film, she told him she was not an actress, but was the drummer of the Purple People Eaters, a punk rock band with painted faces that had played to a packed arena the night before. He was so impressed with her imagination that she was the first kid he cast in the film.

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Owls have a tracheal opening underneath their tongue similar to a snake. They can breathe EVEN when they have a prey item blocking their throat.

Rabbits should not be given carrots as part of their regular diet.
Cats should NEVER be given milk
Ducks should NEVER eat bread
Australian Shepards are were not originally bread in Australia
Poodles are are actually German, not French
Great Danes are from Germany, not Denmark
Chihuahuas are thought to be from China, not Mexico
Boston Terriers are not true terriers

The true Siamese cat of Thailand is the Korat.

Sir Roger Bannister, the first man to break the four minute mile, became a neurologist. Now in his 80s, he has Parkinson's Disease.

Denis Istomin and Rafael Nadal are both 30 years old and both have musicians in their families. Rafa's grandfather, also named Rafael, is a symphony conductor and Denis Istomin's uncle, Mikhail, is a cellist.

Denis Istomin was born in Orenburg, Russia, on the border with Kazakhstan, moved to Tashkent, Uzbekistan and now lives in Moscow. He traveled on both sides on the Ural Mountains by the time he was three months old.

The TSA will let you through airport security with more than 3.4 oz of liquid as long as there’s a live fish in it. Large amounts of liquids are banned because they could conceal explosives, but if a liquid did contain explosives, the fish wouldn’t survive. (On that note, who do this, carry a live fish in a bag like that on a plane?)

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