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You Ain’t Gonna Believe This!

Fun facts that'll blow your mind!
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  • Caffeine increases the power of aspirin and other painkillers; that’s why it is found in some medicines.
  • A housefly cruises at an average of 8kph and hums in the middle octave key of E.
  • If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
  • The shoe lace was invented in England in 1790. Before that, shoes had buckles. 
  • When Leo Tolstoy and his brother were children, they created a club with a rather odd initiation ceremony. In order to become a member, you had to stand in a corner for a half an hour and not think of anything white. 
  • You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
  • Thousands of hours are wasted each day by people running their fingers along the outside of a roll of tape until they stumble upon the edge where the tape begins.
  • Due to earth’s gravity, it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 meters.
  • 23% of people who read this list will try floating a raisin next time they have a glass of bubbly. 

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