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| Charlie Chaplin won third place in a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest. |
| Guinness Book Of Records holds the record for being the book most stolen from Public Libraries. |
| Whoopi Goldberg was a mortuary cosmetologist and a bricklayer before becoming an actress. |
| Nobel Prize resulted from a late change in the will of Alfred Nobel, who did not want to be remembered as a propagator of violence-he invented dynamite. |
| Onions get their distinctive smell by soaking up sulfur from the soil. |
| Dolphins don't automatically breath; they have to tell themselves to do it. |
| Hair is the fastest growing tissue in the body, second only to bone marrow. |
| 35 meters of hair fiber is produced every day on the average adult scalp. |
| It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body. |
| Every year, the Moon moves a further 3.82cm from the Earth. |
| Eighteen per cent of all global carbon dioxide emissions are from cars. |
| About 8 million blood cells die in the human body every second, and the same number are born each second. |
| In the southern hemisphere, water always swirl anti-clockwise down into a pipe. |
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