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It was said that Einstein couldn't speak fluently until he was 9 years old. The validity of this claim is contested, but the medical term for late talkers is still called the Einstein Syndrome. It was coined by social theorist Thomas Sowell to describe children who developed speech later than normal.

There are many words starting in Q that are not followed by a U. In North American Scrabble, acceptable words with a Q and not a U are: qi, qat, qaid, qai, qadi, qoph, qanat, tranq, faqir, sheqel, qabala, qabalah, qindar, qintar, qindarka, mbaqanga, and qwerty. This applies for their plural forms as well.

There’s an island that France and Spain takes turns owning every 6 months. From February till July, the Pheasant Island is under the governance of Spain, while in August to January, it is governed by France.

A chainsmoker voiced E.T. Pat Welsh was an American actress who voiced E.T. The trademark rasp of E.T.’s voice is due to Welsh being a heavy smoker. However, she was uncredited in the film.

In Vermont, there is one cow for every 3.8 people. You may have read that the cow to person ratio in Vermont is 10:1, but it’s actually not true.

The three most popular Western names in China are Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley. What an interesting choice of personalities.

Maps sometimes have fake places to prevent plagiarism. Plagiarism can be hard to avoid for mapmakers. After all, what should they do? Invent new places? You’d be surprised to know some mapmakers do just that. Cartographers can add wrong streets, fake towns, or other landmarks to prove whether a competitor mapmaker is copying their work.

Standard CD’s are always 74 minutes long. Sony and Philips set the standard CD length in 1980 as 74 minutes based on Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. The executives decided that the standard CD should be able to fit the Ninth Symphony, giving it a 74-minute length.

The remote control was invented earlier than the television. 30 years before the first digital television, Nikola Tesla invented a “teleautomaton” that could control certain devices at a distance through radio waves. His first remote-controlled device was a remote-contolled boat in 1898. Since then, people adapted the wired remote for television. However, due to injuries, they developed it further to be a wireless remote.

Pencils are yellow because of Chinese royalty. In the 1800s, the best graphite in the world came from China. The Americans wanted to give a tribute to the Chinese for the graphite used in their pencils. Yellow means royalty and respect in China, which is why the Americans manufactured their pencils in yellow. To this day, the default color for pencils is still yellow.

Before the computer mouse was known as a mouse, it was known as the turtle. Manufacturers of the early versions of the computer mouse called it a turtle, because of its hard shell and moving part underneath.

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

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.

'Grace' is the most popular boat name. Other choices? Feelin Nauti, Aquaholic, Therapy, and Seas The Day.

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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.

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.

"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.

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.

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

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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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.

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.