Daily Curious Fact Content Archive

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  1. Your banana is a berry. Your strawberry isn't.
  2. The first computer mouse was a wooden box.
  3. That tiny hole in an airplane window is there on purpose.
  4. Popcorn is a tiny pressure cooker.
  5. Cleopatra lived closer to the Moon landing than to the Great Pyramid.
  6. The first webcam watched a coffee pot.
  7. The Eiffel Tower gets taller in summer.
  8. The word robot began with forced labour.
  9. Metal feels colder than wood - even at the same temperature
  10. Sealed honey does not spoil.
  11. A day on Venus lasts longer than a year.
  12. Why toast lands butter-side down.
  13. A melted chocolate bar helped invent the microwave.
  14. Why a straw looks bent in water
  15. The shortest recorded war lasted about 38 minutes
  16. The first computer bug was a real moth
  17. Rain does not smell like rain
  18. Why fingers wrinkle in water
  19. Why do onions make you cry?
  20. A cloud can weigh 1.1 million pounds. So why doesn't it fall?
  21. The oldest written customer complaint? Bad copper.

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