- Between 1900 and 1920, Tug of War was an Olympic event.
- Sea otters hold hands when they sleep so they don't drift apart.
- A baby can cost new parents 750 hours of sleep in the first year.
- The Code of Hammurabi decreed that bartenders who watered down beer would be executed.
- Brazil couldn't afford to send its athletes to the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles. So they loaded their ship with coffee and sold it along the way.
- The most shoplifted food item in the U.S. is candy. In Europe, it's cheese.
- Nutella was invented during WWII, when an Italian pastry maker mixed hazelnuts into chocolate to extend his chocolate ration.
- The Pledge of Allegiance was written as part of a plan to sell flags to schools.
- The light emitted by 200,000 galaxies makes our universe a shade of beige. Scientists call the color "cosmic latte."
- The universe is suspected to contain the compound ethyl formate, which is also found in raspberries. So, the universe tastes like raspberries.
- Great white sharks may have an even more delayed adolescence than humans, not reaching sexual maturity until they are in their second and third decades.
- Aldous Huxley (author of Brave New World) was the teacher of George Orwell (author of 1984)
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