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1. During World War II, a German U-boat was sunk by a truck. The U-boat in question attacked a convoy in the Atlantic and then rose to see the effect. The merchant ship it sank had material strapped to its deck including a fleet of trucks, one of which was thrown in the air by the explosion, landing on the U-boat and breaking its back
2. Jeremy Bentham, a British philosopher who died in 1832,left his entire estate to the London Hospital provided that his body be allowed to preside over its board meetings. His skeleton was clothed and fitted with a wax mask of his face. It was present at the meeting for 92 years.
3. Diet Coke was only invented in 1982.
4. Methane gas can often be seen bubbling up from the bottom of ponds. It is produced by the decomposition of dead plants and animals in the mud.
There are more than 1,700 references to gems and precious stones in the King James translation of the Bible.
5. The E. Coli bacterium propels itself with a ‘motor’ only one-millionth of an inch in diameter, a thousand times smaller than the tiniest motors built to date by man. The rotation of the bacterial motor comes from a current of protons. The efficiency of the motor approaches 100 per cent.
6. Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry.
7. At – 40 degrees Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.
8. Pet superstores now sell about 40 percent of all pet food
9. One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
10. In 1933, Mickey Mouse, an animated cartoon character, received 800,000 fan letters.
11. There are only four words in the English language which end in ‘-dous’: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
12. If you attempted to count to stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.
13. Less than 3% of Nestlé’s sales are for chocolate.
14. The average person will spend two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change
15. More than 2500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products

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