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A raisin dropped in a fresh glass of soda will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.
315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
"The sixth sick sheikh's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. (Wonder what it did to his liver?) That researcher also invented microwave popcorn.
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