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1. The phrase “rule of thumb” is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
2. The dot over the letter “i” is called a tittle.
3. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave. Similar to the oceans, bats are affected by the moon. Due to bats hanging upside down, the moon always appears at their feet. When the moon sets in the western hemisphere, this appears on the bat’s left hand side. As a result bats are naturally orientated to their left hand side when they fly out of their cave. Truth.
4. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
5. A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2″ by 3-1/2″.
6. During the chariot scene in “Ben Hur,” a small red car can be seen in the distance (and Heston’s wearing a watch).
7. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily. This explains my current situation.
8. The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
9. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.
10. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
Wait – there’s even MORE: 30 Things You Probably Don’t Know
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Wow – good thing he didn’t sneeze or cough!
An American architect has broken his own Guinness World Record by building the largest house of free-standing playing cards.
Bryan Berg used 218,792 cards to create a replica of the Venetian Macau, which is on display in its namesake luxury hotel and casino.
Berg took 44 days and 4,051 decks of cards to complete his model inside the Venetian, which sits at the heart of Macau’s Cotai Strip, the China-ruled city’s version of Las Vegas’ neon alley.
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