10 random fun facts to have on hand at your next dinner party

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  During lock down, we found ourselves engaging in  all  the quizzes. We're talking easy ones, hard ones, family-friendly ones - even dedicated picture rounds and fashion quizzes. But now that restrictions are beginning to ease, we've found ourselves kind of... missing the random knowledge we were gaining from jumping on Zoom with our pals every week. Anyone else? Yes? If you feel the same, maybe you need some random and fun trivia in your lives to fill the quizzing gap. Perfect for pulling out at your next dinner party. 1.Avocados are a fruit, not a vegetable.  They're technically considered a single-seeded berry, believe it or not. 2.The Eiffel Tower can be 15 cm taller during the summer,  due to thermal expansion meaning the iron heats up, the particles gain kinetic energy and take up more space. 3. Trypophobia  is the fear of closely-packed holes.  Or more specifically, "an aversion to the...
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Top 20 Interesting and Weird Fun Facts

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Top 155 Interesting and Weird Fun Facts - Daily Magazines
1. Chewing gum burns about 11 calories per hour.
2. The number of animals killed for meat every hour in the U.S. is 500,000.
3. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
4. Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. It’s the same with apples!
5. More people are allergic to cow’s milk than any other food.
6. Coconut water can be used as blood plasma.
7. Prisoners in Canadian war camps during WWII were treated so well, that a lot of them didn’t’ want to leave when the war was over.
8. In 2006 someone tried to sell New Zealand on eBay. The price got up to $3,000 before eBay shut it down.
9. A man from Britain changed his name to Tim Pppppppppprice to make it harder for telemarketers to pronounce.
10. In Japan, crooked teeth are considered cute and attractive.

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