Facts and Knowledge

Welcome to Facts and Knowledge where we aim to broaden your intellect, one follower at a time. DMS open.

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Facts and Knowledge
-Posting random facts and statistics
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"Rain of fish" is an annual weather event in which hundreds of fish rain from the sky onto the Honduran city of Yoro

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You have a 1 in 200 chance of being related to Genghis Khan

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Seahorses or monogamous life mates and travel in pairs, holding each other's tails.

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The population of Ireland is still 2 million less than it was before the potato famine, 160 years ago.

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Janis Joplin left $2500 in her will for her friends to have a ball after she dies

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In a 2008 survey, 58% of British teenagers thought Sherlock Holmes was real, while 20% thought Winston Churchill was not.

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The average adult human has two to nine pounds of bacteria in his or her body

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More than 2,500 left-handed people are killed each year from using equipment meant for right-handed people

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Humans shed 40 pounds of skin in their lifetime, completely replacing their outer skin every month.

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A Ti-83 calculator has six times more processing power than the computer that helped land Apollo 11 on the moon

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The average four year old asks over four hundred questions a day.

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Psychology is the brain trying to comprehend itself.

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Frednic Baur invented the Pringles can. When he passed away in 2008, his ashes were buried in one.

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Only 4 people were killed by shark attacks in 2016 while we kill an average of 100 million sharks per year.

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Vending machines kill 4 times as many people as sharks per year

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Facts and Knowledge
-Posting random facts and statistics
-Spontaneous Book Suggestions
-Random topics
-RT to spread the word

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There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower

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Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the US. Affection 40 million adults age 18 and up.

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Adontophobia is the fear of teeth

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Earth is the only planet not named after a roman god or goddess.