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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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4 out of 5 children recognize the Mcdonald's logo at 3 years old. These kids can recognize the golden arches before they even know their own names.
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Junk food is as addictive as drugs. The struggle to quit and the tendency to lose control may sound like a drug problem, but it’s a similar problem for junk food. According to as study, eating junk food has a similar effect on brain activity as narcotics do. This phenomenon is more common with highly-processed food such as fast food and instant food. Isn’t that one of the useless facts you wish you didn’t know?
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Lego bricks can be combined in nearly a billion ways. Six pieces of the standard eight-studded Lego bricks can be combined in 915,103,765 ways.
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"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. “I am,” is a complete sentence because it has a subject (I) and a predicate (am).
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Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!!! I'll have to sleep with one eye open from now on!!!
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Looks good as usual!@ I declare you the main >IDIOT< chef!!
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Have a GREAT birthday!!!
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The average person spends 2 years using their phone. We’ve heard it from adults billions of times: “You spend way too much time on that phone!” However, they may not be exaggerating. So far, the average person spends an entire 2 years on their phones throughout their lifetime.
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About 11,000 Americans injure themselves while trying out weird sexual positions per year. Safe sex doesn’t just mean using contraception, it seems.
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The thumb nail grows the slowest, the middle nail the fastest, nearly 4 times faster than toenails. Fingernails grow about 3.5 millimeters per month while toenails grow 1.6 mm on average.
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Watching TV burns more calories than sleeping. But it’s not by a lot. Watching TV only burns 10% more calories than sleep.
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Oh great - if I can be tongue printed now I have to watch where I put it!!
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Have a GREAT birthday!!!!