Random Facts - 52
A badminton shuttle easily travels 180 km/h (112 mph).
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S.O.S. doesn't stand for 'Save Our Ship' or 'Save Our Souls' -- It was chosen by an 1908 international conference on Morse Code because the letters S and O were easy to remember and just about anyone could key it and read it, S = dot dot dot, O = dash dash dash.
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It takes about 3 months for the transplanted hair to start growing again.
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The world's longest nonfiction work is The Yongle Dadian, a 10,000-volume encyclopaedia produced by 5,000 scholars during the Ming Dynasty in China 500 years ago.
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Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.
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