Fun Facts Collection - 21
Legend has it that the Roman emperor Nero used to send his slaves scurrying to the mountains to collect snow and ice to make flavored ices, the precursors to ice cream, in the first century.
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Due to earth's gravity it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 metres.
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About 42,000 tennis balls are used in the plus-minus 650 matches in the Wimbledon Championship.
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The word malaria comes from the words mal and aria, which means bad air. This derives from the old days when it was thought that all diseases are caused by bad, or dirty air.
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In 1994, Chicago artist Dwight Kalb sent David Letterman a statue of Madonna, made of 180lb of ham.
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