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    Fun Facts: Part of Canada is ‘missing’ gravity

    Did you know that parts of Canada such as the Hudson Bay area is “missing” gravity, a phenomenon identified in the 1960s. Learn more with today’s fun facts!

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  • The Laurentide Ice Sheet, which once covered much of Canada, caused a large indentation near the Hudson Bay. One theory suggests that the Hudson Bay’s lack of mass has affected its gravity.

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  • Right-handed people tend to live longer than left-handed people by nine years, according to a 1991 study.

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  • NASA is in the process of developing its next generation of spacesuits, which will cost over $1 billion.

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  • The length of an Earth day has been gradually increasing over the planet’s 4.5-billion-year history. This is due to the Moon’s influence in slowing down Earth’s rotation, according to Dr. Rosemary Mardling, a mathematical scientist at Monash University.

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  • From honeycrisp to granny smith, there are 7,500 known varieties of apples in the world.

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  • The word peachtree was deeply rooted in the Georgia city due to an indigenous Muscogee settlement that translated into “Standing Peach Tree.”

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  • In the late 20th century, airlines began reducing cruising speeds in order to save on fuel costs, which spiked dramatically following the 1970s oil crisis.

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  • Because motorists spend a lot of time and gas waiting for left turn signals, UPS drivers usually make only right turns. This strategy also helps curtail accidents at traffic lights.

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  • While American kids make up 3.7% of the world’s children, they have almost half of all toys and children’s books, according to the Los Angeles Times.

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  • A forest area equivalent to the size of Italy was lost that year due to deforestation.

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  • A study into 3,000 sleep-deprived Brits revealed that people were most likely to wake up at 3:44 a.m.

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  • Flamingos typically live near lakes with extremely high salt concentrations, so they often resort to boiling geysers for fresh water.

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  • One jar of Nutella is sold every 2.5 seconds across the globe.

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  • That’s enough to write 45,000-50,000 words or the entirety of “The Great Gatsby.”

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  • The first people to vote from space were two Russian cosmonauts in 1996. NASA astronaut David Wolf became the first American to vote from orbit the following year. 

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  • The word “hello” was previously used to attract attention, such as, “Hello, what do you think you’re doing?”

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  • The original owner of the book, a doctor, sourced the binding from a deceased female patient at a hospital where he worked. According to him, “a book about the human soul deserved to have a human covering.” 

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  • It would require 1.3 million Earths to fill the volume of the Sun. 

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  • The distance between sea level and the edge of space is 62 miles.

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  • Wheels were added to suitcases in 1970, one year after Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the Moon.

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  • His teacher later bumped his grade to an A after the U.S. Congress accepted it as America’s national flag.

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  • People will waste sixth months of their lives waiting for traffic lights to turn green

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  • Humans will start the day just slightly taller

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  • Writers used to use wet bread as erasers until the modern rubber tools were invented around 1770

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  • Many Russians considered beer a soft drink until a decade ago

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  • The Australian marsupials are the only animals known to produce cube-shaped feces

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  • Salivary gland production varies between 2-6 cups per day.

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  • The underwater mailbox was proposed to attract more tourists and divers to Susami Bay

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  • The addictive quality and small packaging of cheese makes the dairy product highly targeted among shoplifters

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  • The 1992 law helps prevent people from spitting gum on the ground

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  • The “immortal jellyfish” can also hit the reset button when it becomes injured or threatened

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  • Birds, monkeys and even snakes have been spotted inside the Vietname cave

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  • An average person in the Western world eats about 70,000 pounds of food in a lifetime

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  • The Eiffel Tower was scheduled to be demolished after 20 years

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  • Lightning also moves about 30,000 times faster than a bullet

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  • Dubai’s Burj Khalifa set the record as the world’s tallest building in 2010 when it first opened

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  • People would spend 5 years of their entire life with their eyes closed solely from blinking. 

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  • Antarctic glaciers contain so much water that they would raise sea levels by 190 feet if they ever completely melted.

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  • A quarter-pound burger requires the equivalent of about 10 bathtubs of water to be created.

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  • Mount Everest could grow 10 inches in the span of a human lifetime.

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  • There are more trees than there are stars in the Milky Way.

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  • Honeybees must visit 2 million flowers to create one pound of honey.

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  • The length of the Great Wall of China equates to more than half the Earth’s circumference.

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  • While it took over a century for the human population to go from one to two billion people, it took just over a decade for seven billion to go to eight billion.

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  • The Eiffel Tower can stretch an extra 6 inches depending on the temperature.

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  • On Venus, a day shockingly lasts longer than a year.

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  • Data equivalent to a quarter-million Libraries of Congress are created every day.

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  • The total length of a human’s blood vessels could circle the earth at least twice.

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  • The total length of a human’s blood vessels could circle the earth at least twice.

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  • There are over 100 strikes per second around the world!

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