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Friday, October 4, 2013

65 Amazing Facts That Will Blow Your Mind

Go to Mental Floss and read the whole thing. As they say, "OK, "blow your mind" is a bit dramatic. But 65 Amazing Facts You'll Probably Enjoy and Likely Consider Mentioning to Your Friends didn't fit."

Here are a few that I found interesting:

In Qaddafi's compound, Libyan rebels found a photo album filled with pictures of Condoleezza Rice.

How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop? The world may never know. But on average, a Licking Machine made at Purdue needed 364.

At one point in the 1990s, 50% of all CDs produced worldwide were for AOL.

New Mexico State's first graduating class in 1893 had only one student—and he was shot and killed before graduation.

Calvin Klein's Obsession for Men is used by researchers to attract animals to cameras in the wilderness.

Sean Connery turned down the Gandalf role in Lord of the Rings. "I read the book. I read the script. I saw the movie. I still don't understand it."

E.B. White of Charlotte's Web fame is the "White" of Strunk and White, who wrote The Elements of Style.

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