* There are more than 350 dimples on a golf ball.
* Neil Armstrong’s NASA application was a week late. If it weren’t for his friend, Dick Day, secretly slipping it into the pile, he would have been rejected.
* The root of the word "passion" is the Latin word "passio" which means "suffering."
* Tug of war was an Olympic event between 1900 and 1920.
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* The llareta (also known as a yareta) a small flowering plant native to South America, grows just half an inch annually—but can live for up to 3,000 years.
* Google has been buying, on average, more than one company per week since 2010.
* Louis Pasteur, a French microbiologist from the 1800′s, kept a loaded gun in his laboratory while working on a vaccine for rabies; if he or one of his lab assistants got infected, they were to be shot in the head.
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* There's a 52% chance that the things you dream about will actually occur in reality.
* Most of life's important decisions are either made in the shower or late at night when an individual is unable to sleep.
* Before the invention of color television, majority of the people used to dream in black and white.
* Time needed to Attachment a 1 gigabyte file in 1985: 308 days. Time needed to Attachment a 1 gigabyte file in 2013: 1 minute 20 seconds.
* A horse can look forward with one eye and back with the other.
* The hardest working muscles in the human body are in the eyes.
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