1) English sailors came to be called Limeys after using lime juice to combat scurvy.
2) The most popupated city in the world is Tokyo, with 30 million residents.
3) The largest bat has almost a 6 foot wing span.
4) The official beverage of Ohio is tomato juice.
5) The internet slang AFAICT means "as far as I can tell".
6) Adjusting for inflation, Cleopatra, 1963, is the most expensive movie ever made to date (mid 2002). Its budget of $44 million is equivalent to 280 million 2002 dollars.
7) A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
8) 1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire are strung across the United State of America.
9) Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system.
10) Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower', because in the time when al original print had to be set in individual letters, the 'upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case stored.
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