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Strange but true / Trivia test

STRANGE BUT TRUE

• It was inventor Thomas Edison who made the following sage observation: “We don’t know a millionth of 1 percent about anything.”

• Those who study such things say that chewing gum will reduce your recall ability by 10 percent.

• As ostrich can run just as fast as a racehorse.

• In 1972, an extraordinary birth occurred. On July 22 of that year, a woman in Rome gave birth a whopping 15 babies — five boys and 10 girls. The siblings were quindecaplets, though, obviously, that term doesn’t see much use.

• You probably know that J. Edgar Hoover was the first director of the FBI, he...

 

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