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Earth is no stranger to crazy things. I mean, it’s inhabited by humans, the most bizarre creatures ever, despite how normal we may look! Humans remain mysterious, even though we’ve been studying ourselves and the world for thousands of years.

And it’s not like we haven’t made any progress or found out tons of interesting facts about our planet, of course. It’s just that there are too many things to dive into and explore! Like, did you know that vending machines kill more people than sharks? Or that men have a 1 in 200 chance of being related to Genghis Khan? Or again, that the longest interval between the birth of twins is 87 days?

Yeah, there’s a lot of stuff going on around the globe, and here at Bored Panda we have a weird obsession for learning about insane coincidences and random events happening in this cool, cool world. If you’re like us, you’ll be mesmerized by the amazing facts we’ve collected on this list! Go on, read them and let your brain get tickled for good.

#1

Monty Python and the Holy Grail movie scene A large percentage of the budget for Monty Python and the Holy Grail was donated by members of Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd.

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Pirates of Zen Pants
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Also true: Beatle George Harrison saved "Monty Python's Life of Brian" with an influx of 2 million pounds after the chairman of EMI shut down the project.

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    #3

    Sherlock Holmes movie scene In a 2008 survey, 58% of British teenagers thought Sherlock Holmes was a real person, while 23% thought Winston Churchill was not.

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    Nathaniel
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If Sherlock Holmes wasn't real then who defeated Moriarty? Honestly, some people.....

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    #4

    Michael Jordan playing golf Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

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    #5

    Just before the Nazis invaded Paris, H.A. and Margret Rey fled on bicycles. They were carrying the manuscript for Curious George.

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    #6

    Man Walking and balancing on Train Rail Along with the five traditional senses of sound, sight, touch, smell and taste, humans have 15 “other senses.” These include balance, temperature, pain and time as well as internal senses for suffocation, thirst, and fullness.

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    $cagsy
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    2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There is also a very rare sense which few people seem to possess nowadays: 'Common'.

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    #9

    The "most typical human" is right-handed, makes less than $12,000 per year, has a mobile phone, and doesn't have a bank account.

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    #10

    A TI-83 calculator has six times more processing power than the computer that landed Apollo 11 on the moon.

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    #11

    Lighted Vending Machines on Street Vending machines kill 4 times as many people as sharks per year.

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    #12

    In the mid-1980s, Fergie of The Black Eyed Peas was the voice of Charlie Brown's sister Sally.

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    #13

    Marie Curie portrait Marie Curie is the only person to earn a Nobel prize in two different sciences.

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    Przemek Soroka
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Her name was Skłodowska-Curie, not just Curie. She was born in Warsaw, Poland and lived there until the age of 24, when she moved to Paris to study there.

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    #16

    You replace every particle in your body every seven years. You are literally not the same person you were 7 years ago.

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    #18

    Small kid with mom walking on branch The average four year-old child asks over three hundred questions a day.

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    #20

    Airplane food plater Airplane food isn't very tasty because our sense of smell and taste decrease by around 30 percent during flights.

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    #21

    The delegates who attended the Constitutional Convention spent much of their time getting drunk. One surviving document is a bill for a party on September 15th, 1787, two days before the signing of the Constitution. Items on the bill were: 54 bottles of Madeira, 60 bottles of Claret, 8 bottles of whiskey, 8 bottles of cider, 12 bottles of beer, and 7 bowls of alcoholic punch. All of this for 55 people.

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    Alyn Mann
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And a lot of the U.S.'s "patriotic" songs are old drinking songs. They really set the U.S. up for success, didn't they?

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    #22

    Red and Gray Pagoda Temple in Japan Japan is the world's most earthquake-prone country.

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    Nathaniel
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When you have Godzilla trampling up and down your country you are bound to feel a few earthquakes.

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    #24

    Multiple "Marlboro Men" have died from lung cancer.

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    Pirates of Zen Pants
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    2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Odd fact: 100 years ago, Marlboros were marketed to women. The slogan was "ivory tips protect the lips." Men refused to buy the cigarettes, so the company wooed them back with images of a rugged cowboy alone on the range.

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    #25

    Elmo and Cookie Monster in the street Cookie Monster's real name is Sid.

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    Pirates of Zen Pants
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    2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I didn't know this. Apparently this was revealed in the 2004 song "The First Time Me Eat Cookie," 35 years after the birth of Sesame Street.

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    #26

    Three Prairie Dogs on a Brown Rock Prairie dogs say hello with kisses.

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    Kate
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They also tend to carry bubonic plague (or rather, their fleas do), so please don't go kissing prairie dogs.

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    #28

    Two Women Standing Inside Parking Lot Humans are just one of the estimated 8.7 million species on Earth.

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    #29

    The Simpsons series scene If "The Simpsons" aged normally, Bart would now be older than Marge was in the first season.

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    #30

    Planet Neptune Neptune was the first planet to get its existence predicted by calculations before it was actually seen by a telescope.

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    UpQuarkDownQuark
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    2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Uranus was discovered in 1781, but it’s orbit didn’t make sense, so they started looking for another planet. Neptune was found in 1846, it’s approximate location predicted ahead of time. Fun fact! At the time Neptune was discovered, asteroids Ceres (1801) and Pallas (1802) were considered planets, and were only demoted as the real nature of the asteroid belt because apparent. Pluto is not the first to get the boot.

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    #32

    Pac-Man Protagonists Cutouts While working on Pac-Man, video game designer Toru Iwatani was allegedly inspired by the shape of a pizza with one slice removed.

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    Skara Brae
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sounds like he had an all-nighter at the office. Does anybody know what choices he rejected? And by the way: https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/GameOn/pac-man-10-secrets/story?id=13084900

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    #33

    Person Holding Drinking Glass There are more atoms in a single glass of water than glasses of water in all the oceans of the Earth.

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    #34

    The English word with the most definitions is "set."

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    #35

    Whale's Tail sticking out of the water Whale songs can be used to map out the ocean floor.

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    Nathaniel
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    oooOooOOo wheee OooOO WHEE ooOO! Translates as That's where our Dave lived after he left Phyllis.

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    #36

    Snowy Mount Everest Mount Everest is bigger now than the last time it was measured.

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    Elliot Fowler
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    2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think that is because the Indian subcontinent is still moving and pushing against the rest of Asia. So the mountain is being squeezed upwards as it is located along the intersection between the 2 land masses

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    #37

    New creatures have been found in deep-sea volcanoes.

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    #38

    Person Washing Hands The average adult human has one to three kilograms of bacteria in their body.

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    Sawdust
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But most of that bacteria is good, even vital, for your health!

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    #39

    Abraham Lincoln Statue You're more likely to become the President than you are to win the lottery.

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    StayClassy
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hmm... We've had less than 50 presidents, but at least 3 big loterry winners a year. This "fact" doesn't check out.

    $cagsy
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The reason I don't play the lottery is that you have the same chance of your numbers coming out as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. I just stick to the Women's Institute tombola these days. I'm up by 1 tin of pilchards, an out-of-date box of chocolates and a pair of mens size 16 slippers, which were kindly donated by Pickles, the local clown.

    IamMe
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you're a billionaire, maybe. The rest of us have better chances with the lottery.

    Libstak
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nope that math don't work. In most countries there are several lotteries a week, often multiplied by different states or regions all having additional localised lotteries weekly etc. If you add up the number of presidents in countries who have President, only a portion of total world countries and take note that AT BEST you can average a president changeover every couple of years, there will be a lot less total number of presidents in the world ever than there have been lottery winners.

    Libstak
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you went by the USA only, there have been only 46 presidents in its entire history. The have been thousands of state and national lottery winners.

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    Den Ver
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There is a difference between random probability and selective probability.

    Xan Maranya
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There have been 10+ winners per year since the game was launched. Got it?

    Mick Craig
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How many times in every four years do the hold the lottery? And how many tickets can you buy for each run? Also, and most persuasively, since the introduction of the lottery, how many people have won lottery jackpots, and how many people have become president? B******t statement.

    DetongLhamo
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So that’s how Trump got in. All these years I’ve just thought there were lots of incredibly stupid people in the USA who mistakenly voted them in.

    Ralph Watkins
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why would you say that to someone? Don't you like them? Being president is terrible fate.

    Ange Marsden
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    2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Actually, it technically works in NZ if you assume your chances of being PM are 1 in 5 million (population) and the chances of winning lotto's jackpot are 1 in 36 million

    Ange Marsden
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh, allowing for lottery draws between elections, your chances are 312 in 36 million...of course elections aren't random and not everyone in the country is over 18. TLDR: Spend your lottery money on something you enjoy 😉

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    Ange Marsden
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Americans are more likely to become President than win the US lottery?

    Jennifer Biness
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    (Assuming they mean POTUS) Not if you're between the ages of 18-35

    Willa L
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Idk about the math but you cant just say that everyone has an equal chance of becoming a president even if they arent running? And its not chance that elects a president.

    john cole
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ah hah, president of what though. Cheese society? Guild of wonderful Johns? Does the maths work I wonder? Not convinced. US president, one in 300 million, every 4 years. Powerball one in 300 million, every week. Can buy multiple tickets to infinitesimally increase odds. Easy to go and buy a ticket. Quite hard to idly pop into politics, get backed, succeed. That said, if you are "born into the purple" (rich, connected family) your odds probably are better than lottery.

    Adam Jeff
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If this were true, the jackpot would roll over for more than 4 years before there was a winner. Doesn't anyone think before posting these things?

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    #40

    The longest music piece in the world is being performed in the city of Halberstadt in Germany: John Cage's composition for organ ORGAN2/ASLSP.

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    #41

    If the human brain were a computer, it could perform 38 thousand-trillion operations per second. The world’s most powerful supercomputer, BlueGene, can manage only .002% of that.

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    New Zealanders have more pets per household than any other country.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Most of them are sheep, the USA holds the record for most pet cats per household.

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    Bee hummingbirds are so small they get mistaken for insects.

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    Mia Black
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    2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just red the size from beak (top) to tail (end) of a bee hummingbird is 5-7cm.

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    #46

    Climate change is causing flowers to change color.

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    UpQuarkDownQuark
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    People that think climate change isn’t real because it got extra cold outside yesterday are like those who would insist during the Great Depression that the economy was doing great because that one bakery down the street was doing good business. Talking to you, David.

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    Copenhagen is the most bike-friendly city in the world.

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    Bouche Clay
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    🎶 I want to ride my bicycle. I want to ride my bike. I want to ride my bicycle. I want to ride it where I like. 🎶

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    #48

    Google's founders were willing to sell to Excite for under $1 million in 1999—but Excite turned them down.

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    #49

    "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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    #50

    In New York City, approximately 1,600 people are bitten by other humans annually.

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    #52

    The first person convicted of speeding was going 8 mph. (13 kmh)

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    Bouche Clay
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    One of the American presidents (I think it was Harrison) was ticketed for speeding while in office. When the cop realized whom he had ticketed, he tried to take the ticket back. The president insisted on paying the ticket.

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    #53

    The hottest chili pepper in the world is so hot it could kill you.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Evolution: wiping out people who will put anything in their mouths since 300,000 BCE.

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    #55

    Half of all humans who have ever lived have died from malaria.

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    #57

    Creedence Clearwater Revival has the most No. 2 Billboard hits—without ever hitting No. 1.

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    Bouche Clay
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They did "Proud Mary" first, and even wrote the song, I believe. Once I heard Tina Turner's version, I was like-- CCR who?

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    #58

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

    The American Society of Human Genetics Report

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    Skara Brae
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What is the chance I have ancestors that were murdered by him and his people?

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    #59

    Space smells like seared steak.

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    #61

    Jousting is the official sport of the state of Maryland.

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    #63

    The longest place name on the planet is 169 letters long.

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    Nathaniel
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's not Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, that only has 58 letters.

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    #64

    Water makes different pouring sounds depending on its temperature.

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    #65

    An adult is made up of 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (7 octillion) atoms. For perspective, there’s a ‘measly’ 300,000,000,000 (300 billion) stars in our galaxy.

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    #66

    90% of the world’s population lives in the Northern Hemisphere.

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    Nathaniel
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    5% of the world's population live in the Southern Hemisphere. 5% of the world's population lives in the Inner Earth.

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    #67

    The world's quietest room is located at Microsoft's headquarters in Washington state.

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    Kelly Radcliffe
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And yet, a guinea pig placed in the room will still imagine it hears a salad bag opening.

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    #68

    It's estimated that Sweden has more islands than any other country.

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    #69

    The dot over the lower case "i" or "j" is known as a "tittle."

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    #70

    There is a garbage swirl in the Pacific Ocean twice the size of Texas.

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    Elliot Fowler
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A company called Ocean Cleanup is doing a great job developing technology to clean plastic from the ocean

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    #72

    Muhammad is thought to be the most popular name in the world.

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    $cagsy
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Are we counting all of the different spellings of Mohammed as the same?

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    The global adult literacy rate is around 86%.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not so as you would notice reading BP and watching the news...

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    #74

    Interpol was founded in 1914 when legal professionals from 24 countries got together to discuss catching fugitives.

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    #77

    Human fingers are so sensitive that if your fingers were the size of Earth, you could feel the difference between a house and a car.

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    #78

    A Blue Whale's heart is the size of a VW Beetle and large enough that you could swim through it's arteries.

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    #80

    The wood frog can hold its pee for up to eight months.

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    #81

    Abraham Lincoln's bodyguard left his post at Ford's Theatre to go for a drink.

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    Pirates of Zen Pants
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    2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh, please. He was just scoping out the perimeter. Next he was going to scope out the perimeter at the nearby whorehouse.

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    #82

    For 100 years, maps have shown an island that doesn't exist.

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    #84

    Dolphins have names for each other and can call out for each other specifically.

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    #85

    Cleopatra lived closer in time to the first Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.

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    Fred L.
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Meanwhile she could touch the pyramids and couldn´t land on the moon.

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    #87

    The Earth's ozone layer will make a full recovery in 50 years.

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    #88

    People who are currently alive represent about 7% of the total number of people who have ever lived.

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    Fred L.
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Which means we have way too many people currently alive.

    #90

    The severed head of a sea slug can grow a whole new body.

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    Virginie Michaud
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What about squished? So many of those gross invasive leopard slugs... 🤢

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    #93

    Koalas have fingerprints.

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    Samantha
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wonder how many Koalas have committed murder and framed people for it. 🤔

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    #94

    Riding a roller coaster could help you pass a kidney stone.

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    Bouche Clay
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If I were on a roller coaster, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't need help passing anything.

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    #95

    Facebook engineers originally wanted to call the "Like" button the "Awesome" button.

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    Kharyss
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And they still think we’re too fragile for a “dislike” button 🙄

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    #98

    The first iPhone wasn't made by Apple.

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    Peign Gaming
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    2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It was made by InfoGear in the late 90s and was a landline phone.

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    #99

    Two-thirds of Africa is in the Northern Hemisphere.

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    #100

    The entire world's population could fit inside Los Angeles.

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    #102

    Only two countries use purple in their national flags.

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    Pirates of Zen Pants
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Dominica and Nicaragua. This is because purple dye used to be so expensive in the past.

    #103

    Africa and Asia are home to nearly 90 percent of the world's rural population.

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    #104

    There are 41 countries that recognize sign language as an official language.

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    #105

    "New car smell" is the scent of dozens of chemicals.

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    #108

    Pigeons can tell the difference between a painting by Monet and Picasso.

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    #109

    A dozen bodies were once found in Benjamin Franklin's basement.

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    #110

    There's a giant fish with a transparent head.

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    Kylie Mountain
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think this refers to the Barrel-Eye fish, which is freaky as heck.

    #112

    A tick bite can make you allergic to red meat.

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    Kylie Mountain
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Lone Star ticks carrying a certain disease, yes. Deer ticks give you Lyme disease, not meat allergies.

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    #113

    There's a basketball court above the Supreme Court. It's known as the Highest Court in the Land.

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    #115

    The coldest temperature ever recorded was -144 degrees Fahrenheit. (-98 degrees Celsius)

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    #116

    The most expensive coin in the world was sold for more than $7 million.

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    #117

    A record-breaking 92 countries competed in the 2018 Winter Olympics.

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    #118

    The world’s oldest wooden wheel has been around for more than 5,000 years.

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    #119

    Many feet bones don't harden until you're an adult.

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    #120

    Some sea snakes can breathe through their skin.

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    #121

    Only two mammals like spicy food: humans and the tree shrew.

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    Elliot Fowler
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wonder what a tree shrew tastes like. Imagine an animal that comes readily seasoned

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    #123

    Children's medicine once contained morphine.

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    Hugh Cookson
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Although, back in the day, pretty much every medicine contained some sort of opiate, or mercury or strychnine .....

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    #124

    There are fossilized plants in Greenland under 1.4 km of ice.

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    #126

    There are around 4 quadrillion quadrillion bacteria on Earth.

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    #127

    People 60 years and older make up 12.3% of the global population.

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    Bouche Clay
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They're only making it up because they're getting older and can't remember so well any more.

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    #129

    The feeling of getting lost inside a mall is known as the Gruen transfer.

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    #133

    There's a country (Benin) where twins are most likely to be born.

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    Hugh Cookson
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ah, unless you are an old acquaintance of mine who was French and adopted, who got married to a girl from St Helena (look it up) who had twins in her families make up ; turns out, as he found out later, both of HIS natural parents had a high instance of twins - and multiple births - So, long story short, the first pregnancy ended up with twins, the second one she gave birth just short of 10 months after the first was twins again (at this point most of us would've had a vasectomy or at least been careful), his wife was pregnant within 6 weeks of giving birth to the second set of twins and 9 months after that, pushed out TRIPLETS !!! I have never seen a more broken man in my entire life - he was 25 ..... They are still together as far as I know 20 years later.

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    #134

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

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    #135

    The Dancing Plague of 1518 was a case of dancing mania that occurred in Germany, where people danced without rest for a month straight.

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    #136

    The Paris Agreement on climate change was signed by the largest number of countries ever in one day.

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    #137

    The world's largest man-made oyster reef was created in Maryland.

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    #139

    Hair and nails grow faster during pregnancy.

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    #140

    Goosebumps are meant to ward off predators.

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    #141

    Humans are the only animals that blush.

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    #142

    Our European ancestors were cannibals.

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    IamMe
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    At some point in time, every continent had people who ate other people. There was a lot of starving going on in ancient times.

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    #143

    Sea lions can dance to a beat.

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    #144

    North Korea and Cuba are the only places you can't buy Coca-Cola.

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    #147

    More people speak Mandarin Chinese than any other language.

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    #150

    California is home to the "Artichoke Capital of the World."

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    #151

    There are only two countries with names that begin with "The."

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    Nathaniel
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've got four. The Bahamas and the Maldives. The Gambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The United States. The Netherlands

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    #153

    The Comic Sans font came from an actual comic book.

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    #154

    There are more twins now than ever before.

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    #155

    There's only two countries in the world that doesn't use the metric system.

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    Nikki Sevven
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The lack of subject-verb agreement in this sentence caused me to have a stroke.

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    #157

    The longest wedding veil was the same length as 63.5 football fields.

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    3 Owls In A Coat
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    5.8 kms long. Huh. Not sure what the point of that is, I’d have stopped after the first km :p

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    #158

    "E" is the most common letter and appears in 11 percent of all english words.

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    #159

    Pringles aren't actually potato chips.

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    Benita Valdez
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They're compressed "chips/crisp" made from a variety of flours and starch which includes potato but they are not potato chips/crisps. It's about 40% potato per basically every site that pops up on Google.

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    #160

    Facebook has more users than the population of the U.S., China, and Brazil combined.

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    #161

    The world's smallest reptile was first reported in 2021.

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    Josephine
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wait... what? We did not have a smallest reptile before 2021? ;)

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    #162

    A chef's toque contains 100 folds.

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    Mike1228
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yup. Supposed to represent all the different ways to cook an egg.

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    #163

    The hottest spot on the planet is in Libya.

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    #165

    Your nostrils work one at a time.

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    Ace
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not quite. At any given point one of them will be more open than the other, but usually breath is being drawn through both.

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    #166

    Dentistry is the oldest profession in the world.

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    David Smith
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's a new term for the world's oldest profession that I haven't heard before.

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    #167

    The first computer was invented in the 1940s.

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    Peign Gaming
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is false. The first computer was the Babbage difference engine in 1822. It was mechanical. The ABC, the first electric computer, was 1942.

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