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The Grammy Awards were introduced to counter the threat of rock music. In the late 1950s, a group of record executives were alarmed by the explosive success of rock ‘n roll, considering it a threat to "quality" music.  

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Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

 

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Walt Disney, the creator of Mickey Mouse, was afraid of mice.  

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In 2003, there were 86 days of below-freezing weather in Hell, Michigan! (That's almost 1/3 of the year!!)

 

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An adult is made up of around 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (7 octillion) atoms.  

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^ Now that is wow!!

A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.

 

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^ it could almost fit me in it's mouth eek (I'm a shorty)

Anatidaephobia is the fear that somewhere in the world there is a duck watching you.  

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There are three golf balls sitting on the moon.  

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Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never called his wife or mother because they were both deaf.  

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The people you see in your dreams are all people and faces that you have seen in real life.

 

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^ that's cool

Astronauts have a strip of velcro in their helmets so that they can scratch their noses.  

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I can beat my brother when we play a sporty videogame, but I can't in real life.


...ah, kind of sad, but it's true ^^"  

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It takes 43 muscles to frown and only 17 to smile so you're better off to smile no matter what, plus even fake smiles release endorphins into your brain so smiling even when sad will literally make you feel happy.  

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While the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport is the fastest production car in the world in terms of top speed, the Pagani Zonda 760RS can run laps much faster than a Veyron on almost any kind of track because of the much lighter weight and therefore, superior traction (Grip) which gives it an advantage on the turns and corners..  

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People who became blind after birth can see images in their dreams. People who are born blind do not see any images in dreams, but have dreams equally vivid involving their other senses of sound, smell, touch and emotion.