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We make personalized books packed full of curious facts about the year and day someone was born. In that fashion, we love learning curious facts about the world and the people/animals that live (and have lived) in it.

Scroll through 39 of the best facts we've found. Follow our Facebook page to learn more!

Editor’s note: One incorrect fact was removed from the list and two were clarified with additional information.

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Jonathon Smith
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They benefit from high altitude, a culture which values good runners and an unusually high percentage of their muscle mass is posture muscle (endurance) rather than twitch (strength). Funnily on the west coast of Africa (the ultimate origin of many Jamaicans) the twitch/posture ratio is reversed, which makes for very good sprinters and other sports requiring explosive power.

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Daria B
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

IQ tests are flawed, though. They only adapt to one type of affinities. They're inventing various kinds of IQ tests and IQ groups because of that. And exploring various kinds of ways to measure intelligence.

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

When Jesus was alive, the Stonehenge was already a ruin. It's sometimes hard to grasp where everything is in relation to each other on the historical timeline

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Daria B
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends. Make it last 7 years - friendship never eeeeeehends" ♬♪

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Felix Feline
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Australia's diameter is 600km wider than the moon's. The moon sits at 3400km in diameter, while Australia's diameter from east to west is almost 4000km.

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

A good stance, but difficult to execute due to pressure from the school and classmates, I would assume.

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

Older people should take like Internet safety classes to prevent this from happening.

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Lenka Smetanová
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I once saw a document about sloths. One of them fell in the water, where an aligator was. But He manage to swim away *mindblow*!!!!

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

Her great line on SNL: “If I ever wanted get in touch with old friends, I’d have to use a Ouija board.”

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

In Finland we used to watch a Disney cartoon on Christmas Eve too! At least when I was a kid, don't know about kids today

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

Well that may be, plus cacao’s theobromine (an alkaloid similar to caffeine), but who the hell drinks three cups of pure dark chocolate a day anyway?

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Daria B
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He's still celebrated in Croatia and kids get sweets on his day. They also get presents for Christmas too.

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Jesper Rasmussen
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If Prince the artist had been made a prince in a tribe, would his title then be “Prince Prince”?

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