Fun Daily Facts

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This is a new and fun topic where we can all put fun daily facts which help us learn and keep us sane 🙂

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Samsung tests their smartphones' strength using a bum-shaped robot

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A group of butterflies is called a kaleidoscope

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Standing in a power pose can instantly improve your mood

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Psychology is the brain trying to comprehend itself.

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Mister Rogers always mentioned out loud that he was feeding his fish.

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If you have the feeling you’ve experienced an event before in real life, call it déjà vu.

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Queen Elizabeth II was a trained mechanic.

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Wow, that's an inteersting.

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Recycling cardboard only takes 75% of the energy required to make new cardboard

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Around 80% of retailers and grocers recycle cardboard

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Almost half of the food in the U.S. goes to waste—nearly 3,000 pounds per second

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That's cool )

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Each year, 119 billion pounds of food is wasted in the U.S.

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About 30% of food in American grocery stores is thrown away

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2.5 million plastic bottles are thrown away every hour in America

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Recycling plastic takes 88% less energy than making it from raw materials

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Only 12% of disposable water bottles are recycled in the U.S. each year

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Glass can possible take more than 1 million years to break down

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70% of the total waste in offices is paper waste

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Recycling one ton of paper saves 7,000 gallons of water

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It's a good news, well we have a chance

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The average office worker uses 10,000 sheets of paper per year

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U.S. roadways accumulate over 51 billion pieces of litter per year.

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There are an estimated 6,729 pieces of litter per roadway mile.

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Americans throw away 25 billion Styrofoam coffee cups every year

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Interesting!

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Oh my God!

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A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time. It is defined as the time it takes for light to travel one centimeter in a vacuum, approximately 33.3564 picoseconds.

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Great one.

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Did you know that smell is the sense that takes you down memory lane the fastest? So go ahead, brew your favourite coffee, steep that lovely tea, or pour yourself a refreshing juice. Let the aroma whisk you away to your happy place. Have a fantastic week, everyone!

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That's so cool.

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Crocodiles: Can't stick their tongue out

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Hmm, it's an interesting

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Starfish: Don't have a brain

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Avocados are a fruit, not a vegetable. They're technically considered a single-seeded berry, believe it or not.

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'Mellifluous' is a sound that is pleasingly smooth and musical to hear.

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Baby rabbits are called kits. Cute!

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There's an ant species unique to New York City. Called ManhattAnts, biologists found them in a specific 14-block strip of the city.

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There are more than 1,000 types of bananas growing in the world. These can then be divided into 50 categories.

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The letter 'E' is the most popular letter in the alphabet. 'Z' is the least popular.