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* Pogonophobia is the fear of beards.

 

The King of Hearts is the only King in a deck of cards without a moustache.

 

* If you open your eyes in a pitch-black room, the color you’ll see is called “eigengrau.

 

* Salt used to be a currency.

 

* Mulan has the highest kill-count of any Disney character.

 

Hence the word 'salary".
If you are in a pitch black room with a mirror and wintergreen lifesaver, chew it with your mouth open. You'll see sparks!

 

* Jupiter is twice as large as all the other planets combined.

 

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog...
A sentence using every letter in the alphabet.

 

Your body contains about 100,000 miles of blood vessels.
Blood vessels are incredibly small, measuring around five micrometers (for reference, a strand of our hair is about 17 micrometers). However, because we have so many in our body, The Franklin Institute explains that if you laid them out in a single row, a child's blood vessels would stretch more than 60,000 miles, while an adult's would measure around 100,000 miles long.

 

The little dot above a lowercase "i" and "j" has a name.


While many other languages include written accents throughout their alphabets, English only has two letters that include a "diacritic dot," according to Dictionary.com. That small mark you make over a lowercase "i" and a lowercase "j" is called a "tittle." It's likely a combination of the words "tiny" and "little" since it is an itty-bitty dot.

 

Wow. I'm kinda feeling smarter now! Interesting posts and tidbits! (That would be 5 tittles!)

 

* Barbie and Ken broke up in 2004. (Don’t worry. They got back together in 2011.)

 

As the Bible says in Matthew 5:18, not a jot or a tittle will pass from God's word.
Adults spend around 3 hours each week on the toilet

 

* Oreo has made enough cookies to span 5 back and forth trips to the moon

 

All the way up to 999, not one number has an A in it.

 

* Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite

 

Some guy found a way to turn peanut butter into a diamond...don't remember who or how, though.

 

* The opposite sides of a die will always add up to seven

 

Although they have 6 legs, dragonflies can't walk.

 

* Due to a genetic defect, cats can’t taste sweet things.