Top 10 Facts - 13
The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
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Tomatoes were considered poisonous until 1830.
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A hummingbird weighs less than a penny!
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In gambling language, for a gambling house a 'sure-thing' is a wager that a player has little chance of winning; 'easy money' is their profit from an inexperienced bettor, an unlucky player is called a 'stiff.'
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In 1889, Kansas undertaker Almon B. Strowger wanted to prevent telephone operators from advising his rivals of the death of local citizens. So he invented the automatic exchange.
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