Random Facts - 56
The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
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Jean-Dominique Bauby, a French journalist suffering from 'locked-in' syndrome, wrote the book 'The Driving Bell and the Butterfly' by blinking his left eyelid - the only part of his body that could move.
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If you cut a hailstone in half and count the rings, that information will tell you how many times the hailstone fell and rose within the a thunderstorm's updrafts.
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The very first international rugby match was between England and Scotland.
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The world average of egg consumption per capita is 230.
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