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A restaurant in New York city serves a dessert costing $25,000. It contains 28 rare cocoas from 14 countries, it's topped with cream and sprinkled with 23-carat edible gold dust and an exotic truffle. You can also take home the gold and diamond goblet that the dessert is served in, the 18-carat gold spoon you eat it with, and a ladies' gold bracelet.

Longest officially recognized place name is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu, has 85 letters. It's the name for a hill, 305 metres (1,000 ft) high, close to Porangahau, New Zealand.

It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human of blood.

If given enough time to adjust, a human can see nearly as well in the dark as an owl.

The human eye can detect around 500 shades/tones of grey.

Did you know Coca-Cola was originally green.
Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation
City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong.
Average number of people airborne over the US at any given hour: 61,000( does this included the people who are jumping?)
Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland/Disney World: 70%(that's just sad)
The youngest pope was 11 years old
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.(bad parenting anyone?)
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
Race car is Race car backwards
When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They
actually pass out from sheer terror.

In 1998, a law passed in the U.S. state of Virginia allows drivers to keep their road kill, as long as they report it within 12 hours

Did you know "Fist Civilized People" were Persian People in Ages Back ?

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year. because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building. ( love that fact heard it a few places still makes me laugh, just imagin the look on there faces when they relized)

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history.
Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great,
Hearts - Charlemagne, and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

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