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Trivia

Fredric Baur invented the Pringles can.
When he passed away in 2008, his ashes were buried in one.

Only female mosquitoes will bite you.

Coca-Cola originally contained cocaine

The $ sign was introduced in 1788

Sir Isaac Newton was 23 when he discovered the law of gravity

Shakespeare invented the words 'lackluster' and ‘green-eyed’ implying jealousy.'

It took Leonardo Da Vinci 10 years to paint Mona Lisa

The Unicorn is the National animal of Scotland.

You can hear a Blue Whale’s heartbeat more than 2 miles away.
The world's largest animal's heart weighs about 400 pounds approximately the size of a small piano.

The odds of getting a royal flush at cards which is 10 J Q K A all of the same suit are exactly 1 in 649,740.

A baby Puffin is called a Puffling.

The speed of a computer mouse is measured in Mickeys per second.

About 700 grapes go into a bottle of wine, that’s about 2.6 pounds.

The fear of the number 13 is called triskaidekaphobia.

The Crown Jewels contain the two biggest cut diamonds on Earth.
They both came from the Cullinan Diamond, a 3,106-carat gem found in South Africa in 1905.
The largest stone, called the Great Star of Africa, is in the Sovereign's Sceptre, while the second largest is mounted in the Imperial State Crown.

The hashtag symbol is technically called an octothorpe.

King Henry VIII had a “Groom of the Stool”, whose job was to monitor and assist in the King’s bowel motions.
The role remained in existence until King Edward VII abolished it in 1901.

A group of flamingos is called a “flamboyance”.