Facts

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Chicken meat is not a main ingredient of chicken nuggets.

The main ingredients for a typical chicken nugget is fat, epithelium, bone, and connective tissue. Sounds appetizing!

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Barbie and Ken broke up in 2004.

However, Mattel announced that they were getting back together on Valentine’s Day 2011. 

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You can see an owl’s eyeball through its ear.

One of the useless facts you’ll want to unsee: The unusually large ear opening of a northern saw-whet owl lets you have a disturbing view of its eyeball. 

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British military tanks are equipped to make tea. 

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You can’t see the Great Wall of China from space.

You may have seen fact sites claiming that the Great Wall is the only man-made structure visible from space, but this is actually not the case. According to the Apollo astronauts, the Great Wall cannot be seen from space. However, city lights at night, roads, and the Pyramids of Giza are said to be visible.

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Ice cream warms the body.

It might make perfect sense to eat ice cream when you’re feeling hot, but it actually does the opposite to our bodies. The high fat content in ice cream warms us up rather than cooling down the body as it metabolizes. 

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The oldest piece of chewing gum is more than 9,000 years old.

The oldest chewing gum ever found was a lump of birch bark tar that dates back to the Stone Age.

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Fritos means “little fried things.”

The name for Fritos Potato Chips comes from the Spanish word fritas, which means “little fried things.” We love a name that’s straight to the point. 

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Pepsi is named after indigestion.

When Caleb Bradham created Pepsi in 1965, he named it after the word “dyspepsia,” or indigestion. Bradham believed that his fizzy drink would help cure indigestion, hence the name, Pepsi. 

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3.6 cans of Spam are consumed each second.

In the U.S., Spam is the number one brand for canned meat with 3.6 cans eaten every second.

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Oreo has made enough cookies to go to the moon and back 5 times.

Since Oreo was introduced to the market in 1912, over 450 billion Oreo cookies have been sold worldwide. 

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Hershey's makes one million miles of Twizzlers every year.

Love ‘em or hate ‘em, there is certainly enough demand for Twizzlers for Hershey’s to create over 1.6 million kilometers of it. Think about that the next time you slander Twizzlers.

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There is a fruit that tastes just like chocolate pudding. It is called Black Sabote. 

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You can live without a stomach

Seahorses and platypuses don't have stomachs either

 

No stomach, no problem ^^

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4 hours ago, Bamm said:

You can live without a stomach

Seahorses and platypuses don't have stomachs either

 

No stomach, no problem ^^

Well shoot. Take mine out already

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The cream in a Twinkie isn’t really cream.

The sweet, buttery filling in Twinkies is actually Crisco – otherwise known as vegetable shortening.

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Soda fountain workers were called soda jerks

The workers were called soda jerks because of the jerking motion used to pump soda water.

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Germans eat twice as much chocolate as Americans.

At 11.3 kg of chocolate consumed each year, Germans eat twice the amount of chocolate that Americans do.

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"Underground" is the only English word that begins and ends with the letters "-und."

There’s another one of the useless facts you can actually use to sound smart. 

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Pennsylvania is misspelled on the Liberty Bell.

On the Liberty Bell, Pennsylvania is misspelled as “Pensylvania.” However, it was an accepted spelling at that time.

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The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head.

Praying mantises are the only known insects able to rotate their heads from side to side.

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You can see four states from Chicago's Willis Tower. 

Formerly known as the Sears Tower. If you go to the top you can see Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, and Wisconsin. 

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'Grace' is the most popular boat name.

Other choices? Feelin Nauti, Aquaholic, Therapy, and Seas The Day.

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The first webcam was invented to monitor a coffee pot.

In 1993, researchers at Cambridge’s computer science department got tired of walking up to an empty coffee machine. So, they wired up a system that would stream images to the Trojan Room that housed the coffee pot. 

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Non-dairy creamer is highly flammable.

Non-dairy creamer powder contains highly flammable ingredients such as sodium aluminosilicate.