Cool Facts!

The consistency of your ear wax is genetic.
 
On July 31, 1790, the first U.S. patent is issued for a process to make potash and pearl ash (potassium carbonate).
 
World Famous Jack Daniels Tennessee Whiskey is made in only one place: the small town of Lynchburg, Tennessee, population 361. Though the town supplies the world with the famous libation, not a drop may be purchased for consumption anywhere in town. Moore County is a "dry" county, meaning that the sale and consumption of alcohol is illegal.
 
92% will not follow this demand: "Believe me and please, do not try to lick your ellbow. It won't work."
 
Brian May, the lead guitarist for Queen, dropped out of a physics PhD at Imperial College London to follow the path to rock stardom. He finally completed his thesis in 2007.
 
The dromedary camel can drink as much as 100 litres of water in just 10 minutes.
 
In 2009, ABC News found 112 different spellings of Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi's name.
 
The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people!
 
The little bump on the front side of your ear is called a tragus.
 
More people watched the episode of I Love Lucy featuring the birth of Little Ricky than the inauguration of President Eisenhower the next day.
 
The longest jellyfish on record measured 160 feet, more than half the length of a football field.
 
Alaska by itself has as much coastline as the rest of the U.S.
 
If the only thing you have to fear is fear itself, you could be suffering from phobophobia: the fear of phobias.
 
In 1759, St. James's Gate Brewery (where they brew Guinness) was leased for to Arthur Guinness for 9,000 years for 45 pounds per year.
 
The popular dice game known as Yahtzee was created by a Canadian couple who played it aboard their yacht — hence the name.
 
The 1984 film Red Dawn was the first to garner a PG-13 rating.
 
In the gyms they called Jennifer Lopez “La Guitarra” because her body curved like a guitar.
 
Montana is the only U.S. state that borders three different Canadian provinces (Alberta, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan).
 
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