Less than 5 people were killed at the Boston Massacre.

A school closed in 1962 because of an outbreak of contagious laughter.

Pakistan has the world's largest canal based irrigation system.

Vincent Van Gogh sold only one painting.

A jiffy is an actual unit of time.

An estimated 690 million people live in Africa.

Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy  to run  a TV run for three hours.

Istanbul, Turkey is the only city in the world located on two continents.

Hitler was voted Time Magazine's man of the year in 1938.

Bamboo plants can grow up to 36 inches in a day.

"America" is named for the European explorer "Amerigo Vespucci.

A Chinese Scientist discovered that the Earth is round.

Approximately 34,000 children die daily  from causes that are related to poverty and hunger.

The U.S. paid Russia $7.2 million for Alaska in 1867.

The Apollo 17 crew were the last men on the moon.

The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896.

Parents typically spend about $7,000 in a baby's first year.

Ukrainian monk, Dionysius Exiguus, created the modern day Christian calendar.

The first state to give women the right to vote was Wyoming.

Uranus has 27 moons.

Tropical rainforests cover about 7% of the Earth & receive over 80 inches of rain every year.

The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.

Angel Falls in Venezuela is sixteen times the height of Niagara Falls.

An olive tree can live up to 1500 years. 

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