1000 LittleKnown Facts

1. If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, its color will fade.

2. In 2010 alone, the global cucumber production reached 57.5 million tons, of which 40.7 million tons came from China for production and export.

3. When tea leaves were first sold in tea bags, the initial idea was for buyers to open the tea bags and take out the tea leaves, but they found it more convenient to put the tea bags directly into cups to brew.

4. If voters in the Holy Roman Empire did not vote within 30 days, they were only allowed to eat bread and water and were forbidden from leaving the city.

5. A woman once tried to commit suicide by jumping off the Empire State Building. She jumped from the 86th floor, but a gust of wind blew her back to the 85th floor.

6. The first American flag was sewn by Mary Pickersgill and her daughter on the floor of a brewery in Baltimore in 1813.

7. Cucumbers can treat bad breath. Press a slice of cucumber against your palate with your tongue for 30 seconds to allow the phytochemicals in the cucumber to kill the bacteria that cause the bad breath.

8. Wonder Woman has a Black sister named Nubia. However, Nubia was sculpted from black clay, while Diana was made from white clay.

9. Dartmouth College's unofficial mascot is a beer barrel named "Keggy the Keg." Created in 2013, it was initially controversial but has now become part of Dartmouth culture.

10. Every day, 27,000 trees are felled worldwide to make toilet paper.

11. According to scientists, the average weight of cumulus clouds is 1.1 million pounds.

12. Egg yolks are one of the few foods that naturally contain vitamin D.

13. The first band to perform live on all seven continents was Metallica.

14. November 17th is "Friendship Ending Day." On this day, you should delete any friends you don't know well or don't contact often.

15. A 2017 survey found that Paraguay was voted the happiest country in the world for the second consecutive year.

16. In some Appalachian forests, fireflies glow blue, not yellow.

17. The spacesuit took 5,000 hours to make, cost $1 million, weighed about 110 pounds, and had 11 layers of material.

18. There are more than 70 varieties of mushrooms that grow in the dark.

19. The Guinness World Record for the longest time to establish an official government was set by Belgium.

20. Dylan Dauzat's fans call themselves "Dylanator".

21. Some species of butterflies fly very fast. For example, the Skipper Butterfly can fly faster than a horse.

22. Canadian law requires citizens to answer a math question before a lottery draw. This is to make the competition seem a bit more skillful.

23. The Empire State Building was built in just 410 days, 12 days ahead of schedule.

24. Neptune was the first planet to be discovered through mathematical prediction.

25. Foxes have whiskers on their legs, which helps them orient themselves in the dark.

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