20 Insane Facts to Make You Seem Smarter at Parties

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    Photograph - WTF fun fact #8443 Couples who spent less than $1,000 on their weddings were the least likely to divorce.
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    Claw hammer - WTF fun fact #8444 Diamond, despite being the hardest material known, will shatter if hit with a hammer. Hardness means resistance to scratching; toughness is a different property.
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    Hand - WTF fun fact #8445 Peeling an apple will remove 50% of it's total fiber, and around 30% of it's vitamin C.
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    Cartoon - WTF fun fact #8446 In 1386 a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
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    Drink - WTF fun fact #8448 Banana milkshake sweetened with honey is one of the best way to cure a hangover. The banana helps calm the stomach, and with the honey, builds up the depleted blood sugar levels.
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    Album cover - WTF fun fact #8453 Andrew Myrick, a storekeeper on a Minnesota Native American reservation, told starving natives to get grass if they were hungry. He was found dead on the first day of the Dakota War of 1862 with grass stuffed in his mouth
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    Text - WTF fun fact #8449 Drama lowers IQ. Intelligent men and women don't have many friends, they're very selective. They keep a small circle.
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    Fur - WTF fun fact #8450 There are 9 million more women than men in Russia.
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    Text - WTF fun fact #8462 When US president Theodore Roosevelt died in his sleep in 1919, the sitting vice president, Thomas R. Marshall, said: "Death had to take Roosevelt sleeping, for if he had been awake, there would have been a fight."
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    Furniture - WTF fun fact #8452 Game of Clones is a British game show that asks contestants to describe their perfect soulmate's looks, then finds 8 exact matches. After dressing them all identically, the contestant completes a series of games to narrow them down to one true love, because, according to the show, when looks between 8 people are equal, all that's left to go on is personality.
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    Grizzly bear - WTF fun fact #8455 California is the 6th largest economy in the world behind USA, China, Japan, Germany, UK. It's bigger than India, France, Brazil, Italy, Russia, Canada, Spain, Australia, South Korea, Mexico. CALIFORNIA REPUBLIC
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    WTF fun fact #8458 There's a restaurant in New York that doesn't employ chefs; they employ grandmas. Every day, a different grandma from around the world designs her own menu. AS
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    Common chimpanzee - WTF fun fact #8459 A chimpanzee became the 22nd most successful money manager on Wall St after choosing stocks by throwing darts at a board of 133 tech companies
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    Text - WTF fun fact #8460 Cocaine can cause you to forget some of your memories. MEMORIES
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    Watch - WTF fun fact #8456 If an expensive watch ticks loudly, it is most likely a counterfeit. EXR RO suBMARINER SUBMARINER 000-300 ELWO 20
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    Text - WTF fun fact #846 In one of Thomas Jefferson's letters to James Madison in 1789 he stated that the Constitution and laws should expire after 19 years. This was to allow the new generations to learn from the past and change accordingly, it was also to prevent older generations from "binding" subsequent ones. eutardy rhepe basesele a ha , h y nlt ale ha Gtfale a an.pa ban defre ally, vileat abiy e ny taasa fer het e feahs dim am ll be fim nahenA, yet th ntmbead ffhe elaua of pengy et iph ap
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    Headphones - WTF fun fact #8463 If you want to be more productive, listen to a video game soundtrack while you work. People who work in silence are slower and less proficient than those who listen to music, and video game music is specifically designed to keep you motivated and finishing tasks without stealing your focus.
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    Reptile - WTF fun fact #8464 There is a snake in Africa whose venom causes your blood to not only stop clotting but to come running out of every hole in your body. It's called the boomslang snake.
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    Natural landscape - WTF fun fact #8465 Bhutan is the world's only carbon negative country. The constitution demands at least 60% of the country covered in forest, making it a sink of over four million tonnes of CO2 per year.
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    Water - WTF fun fact #8468 There is a volcano in Indonesia that spews blue lava.

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