Random Facts Not About You

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The Eiffel Tower can be 15 cm taller during the summer, due to thermal expansion meaning the iron heats up, the particles gain kinetic energy and take up more space

 

Pound cake got its name from its original recipe, which called for a pound each of butter, eggs, sugar, and flour.

 

Swedish children only eat sweets on Saturdays:


Swedes eat the most sweets per capita of any nation on Earth, but they don’t have bad teeth. - - -How can this be?
Well, any Swedish kid will tell you the high point of their week is "Lördagsgodis" or "Saturday Sweets".

This tradition was the brainchild of Swedish dentists, who conducted experiments in the 1940s and '50s to prove it was better for your teeth if you consumed your entire weekly allowance of sugar in one go, rather than small amounts over a longer period.

 

Men with shaved heads are perceived as an inch taller and 13% stronger than men with hair

* found on educationworld.in

 

Fact: It takes a drop of water 90 days to travel the entire Mississippi River
Spanning 2,340 miles, the Mississippi River is the third-largest watershed in the world. That’s one long stretch of water. So long, in fact, that it takes one drop of water approximately 90 days to travel its entire length.- Reader's Digest

 

The Mississippi River begins in Itasca State Park, Minnesota. It is possible to hop across the river ..on a few stones as it flows out of lake Itasca to begin it’s journey to the Gulf of Mexico.

 

500 million years ago Scotland was separated from England and Wales by the ancient Lapetus Ocean and for most of the last billion years, Scotland was joined to America and Greenland, separating 60 million years ago when the North Atlantic began to form.- A Moving Story - https://www.nwhgeopark.com

 

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