Useless info you've learned over the years that's slightly cool

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#202
Fact:

Jet lag was once called boat lag before jets even existed.
 
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#203
Mark McGwire's record-setting 70 home runs in the 1998 season traveled a total of 29,598 feet, enough to fly over Mount Everest.
 
#205
#205
Men have more blood than women. Men have 1.5 gallons for men versus 0.875 gallons for women.
 
#207
#207
Fact: the location on Earth with the longest name, is a hill in New Zealand. It's called...

Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturipukakapikimaungahoronukopukaiwhenuakitanatahu.
 
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#208
During his or her lifetime, the average human will grow 590 miles of hair.



Note: Mine is now mostly on my ears... :(
 
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#209
#209
Fact:

Your thumb is the same length as your nose.








You just looked at your thumb, didn't you?
 
#210
#210
Fact:

Hobo is intentionally misleading the fact thread. There are seven words you can type from a keyboard. Such as....

proterotype


Hobo is a fraud!
 
#211
#211
Fact:

The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. Here they are:

"A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful plough man strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."
 
#217
#217
Fact:

Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, not China.
 
#218
#218
Fact:

The Eisenhower innerstate system requires one mile out of every 5 to be straight.

To be used as emergency airstrips
 
#222
#222
Fact:

'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
 
#224
#224
Fact:

In the movie Forrest Gump, if u look closely you'll see that Forrest catches a can of Mello Yello. But Mello Yello was not made during the time that the movie was set in.
 
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